In the new season Rossiya-Kultura TV’s project Grand Ballet will feature two couples from the Mariinsky Theatre – Nadezhda Batoeva and Ernest Latypov and Renata Shakirova and Kimin Kim will meet with colleagues from other Russian theatres at the competition.
In 2012 the first-ever Russian TV dance competition Grand Ballet proved a remarkable event in ballet: there were new dancers, new productions by highly diverse choreographers, comments by an authoritative jury and the filming process not just of the dancers’ final results but also a look behind the scenes at the preparation of their repertoire with the lively and heartfelt emotions of the participants. Three years ago at this forum the Mariinsky Theatre presented one couple – Viktoria Tereshkina (not competing) and Andrei Yermakov. Kristina Shapran, today a Mariinsky Theatre soloist and at the time of filming a soloist with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Musical Theatre, won the Audience Award at the time.
Next season, the project will see performances by fourteen dancers from six Russian ballet companies. As on previous occasions, the professional jury this season will feature people from St Petersburg: the competitors’ performances will be assessed by Svetlana Zakharova, Yevgenia Obraztsova and Farukh Ruzimatov, all former Mariinsky Theatre soloists. The jury will also include Vladimir Vasiliev, Natalia Osipova, Thomas Edur, Brigitte Lefèvre and Professor Xiao Suhua from the Beijing Dance Academy. The programme will be introduced by Ilze Liepa and Andrejs Žagars.
Filming will take place from 28 July to 6 August, and the premiere of the new Grand Ballet will be televised in the autumn of 2015. Meanwhile, Nadezhda Batoeva and Ernest Latypov, who this season significantly expanded their solo repertoires, Renata Shakirova who joined the company just half a month ago but who has already danced numerous roles at the Mariinsky Theatre and Kimin Kim, recently promoted to the rank of Principal, under the guidance of Yuri Fateyev and his coaches will be rehearsing their concert repertoires, which will feature both classical dance and contemporary choreography.
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