Debut in the big movie of the French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj

ST. PETERSBURG. At the VII festival "Diaghilev. P. S ”the Russian premiere of the film“ Polina, dance your life ”.

Attempts by filmmakers to “play on a foreign field” and to create ballets are extremely rare. The success of the premiere of "The Hero of Our Time" to the music of Ilya Demutsky in the Bolshoi is the exception more than last year. The cinema version of the play, created by Kirill Serebrennikov in tandem with choreographer Yuri Posokhov, will be released in 2017. Examples of the work of famous choreographers in big cinema are much more. The student Sulamith Messerer, ballet dancer Natalya Ryzhenko, in collaboration with choreographer Viktor Smirnov, transferred to the screen “Mischievous Chastises” by Rodion Shchedrin, the overture-fantasy of Pyotr Tchaikovsky “Romeo and Juliet”, “Trapeze” by Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Bejart made several films with the participation of the outstanding dancer Jorge Donn, the most famous of which is Je suis né à Venise (“I was born in Venice”) in 1977.

Polina. Danser sa vie - directorial debut of Angelin Preljocaj. Once a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, a laureate of the Benois de la dance award, a famous French choreographer preferred to dance with modern dance, skillfully writing innovative techniques in the classical scheme. The story of the young Polina, whose image was embodied by the ballerina from the Mariinsky Anastasia Shevtsova, in many respects echoes the biography of Preljocage himself.

The stage of the Bolshoi Theater, which the gifted dancer so dreamed about, does not bring her happiness. The road of painful searches and doubts eventually leads her to modern choreography. To understand her basics and achieve great success, she is helped by a wonderful teacher, in the role of which Juliette Binoche starred. In the film adaptation of the comic strip Bastien Vives (BastienVives) Preljokaju was helped by his wife - director Valerie Muller (Valéria Muller). Will the development of the cinematic career of the French choreographer, it will become clear a little later. In the meantime, he successfully works in the theater. In autumn 2010, the Bolshoi Theater hosted the world premiere of the ballet to the music of Laurent Garnier, “And then - the millennium of peace. Creation 2010 ”, which was attended by the actors of his own troupe.

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru