2020

VIDEOPROJECT

Ballerina

Choreographer

Director

DIANA VISHNEVA

PAVEL GLUKHOV

KATYA TELEGINA

CONTEXT. DIANA VISHNEVA

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ASAP AGENCY & PRODUCTION
K O S M O S Architects

2020. Emptiness or Freedom? Vacuum or infinity? Total nulling or a starting point? The end or a new beginning? This year posed questions that have not yet been answered. It taught us to be flexible and not be afraid to live by different rules.It made us take the path of transformation and made it possible to find a new, strong self. It spontaneously launched and rapidly accelerated long-term evolutionary processes.

A compelled personal transformation became both an internal and an external process. The process of searching for new meanings, self-exploration and internal dialogue became primary, the basic task and a way out of internal isolation even within the external global one.

Video project "2020" is an experiment at the intersection of genres. It attempts to understand and feel what is happening. Prima ballerina Diana Vishneva plunges into the exploration of new forms, uniting in one project a group of young professionals - choreographer Pavel Glukhov, director Katya Telegina and composer Anton Silaev. The project was started as a reflection on personal experiences associated with new reality and grew into a message to all meant for the end of this difficult year. For all participants, it became a creative laboratory and the first experience of such work. The project was initiated by the Context festival of Diana Vishneva, whose main mission is to support young Russian choreographers, artists and painters.

DIANA VISHNEVA

This project is an emotional, artistic, performative response to what happened to us during the pandemic. It was conceived as a sample, a laboratory, which eventually resulted in a video project of such scale. The circumstances of modern times dictate the need for such synthesis of arts, for the search for new creative and bold forms of self-expression. We tried to comprehend, analyze what we experienced this year, our condition during this time, all that accumulated in us when we were involuntarily locked up, how we changed. The film is permeated with metaphors, symbols and in general, I wouldn’t say it is only about my personal experiences, it is about each one of us.

KATYA TELEGINA

I got involved in the work of Diana and Pasha at the point when the choreography had already been created, and my task was to embody it and present it on video. We actively exchanged ideas, and new meanings emerged in discussions. This year’s problems inevitably made way into our conversations. We tried to feel this time, what we experienced during and after the lockdown, the tension, the uncertainty of the present and the future. These themes just vibrated in the air, and at the venue they were accumulated. In the process of work, I began to develop the theme of transformation - how the space would be transformed by the dance, and the dance would be changed by the space. The longer we worked on the project, the clearer it became that this interesting and strange year had penetrated the project and our video piece turned out to be about it.

PAVEL GLUKHOV

Choreography is based on the transformation of one image into another. In the first image, I wanted to get closer to the more human, precise, microscopic look of the heroine Diana towards herself and her body. Choreography-wise the image has no answer, no parallel, no completeness. Because for me a complete metamorphosis has not happened yet, we are just beginning to change. Yes, Diana's heroine changed both on the outside and obviously the inside - she has different awareness, a different take on reality. But physically he did not find a movement that would express this. Therefore I feel there is an ellipsis in the finale.

ballerina

director

choreographer

DIANA VISHNEVA

PAVEL GLUKHOV

KATYA TELEGINA

ANTON SILAEV

ALEXEY KUPRIYANOV

ASAP
agency & production

KOSMOS Architects

People's artist of the Russian Federation, prima ballerina of the Mariinsky theater, guest ballerina of the American ballet theater (2005-2017), Creator and inspirer of the Context. Diana Vishneva festival. Born in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg). In 1995, she graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian ballet. As a student, she became a trainee at the Mariinsky theatre, and in 1996 made her debut at the Bolshoi theatre of Russia.
Diana Vishneva's repertoire includes works by the most important contemporary choreographers: John Neumeier, Mauro Bigonzetti, mats Ek, Hans van Manen, Jean-Christophe Maillot, Carolyn Carlson, Ohad Naarin, Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon, Martha Graham, and others. Three solo programs of modern choreography: "Beauty in motion", "Dialogues", "Facets". In 2010, on her initiative, The Foundation for promoting the development of ballet was established. Diana Vishneva is a winner of the State prize of Russia, the prize for the best dancer in Europe, six Golden mask awards, the divine prize, Benois de la danse, Ballerina of the decade, and many other awards.

Choreographer. Winner of the first prize Of the international competition "Arabesque". Glukhov's performances were repeatedly included in the long list of the Golden mask theater award. Participant of many festivals and laboratories: Dance-platform, Open Look, "on the edge", Re: FORM of DANCE, etc. Winner of the audience award at the Context. Diana Vishneva-2016 contest for young choreographers.

Director, producer, teacher at the WORDSHOP Academy of communications. A graduate of the VGIK. The winner of the Russian festival of short films. Curator of laboratories short film "Culture". Member of the "Open word" New Russian Directors program. She made feature films, music videos, and commercials. In her work, she pays special attention to the art direction, so her projects have a strong visual component.

Modern composer, musician. He writes music for Russian films and TV series. Recent works include music for the films "Man from the future" (dir. – Roman Artemyev), " the Groom "(dir. – Alexander Nezlobin)," Kitchen in Paris "(dir. – Dmitry Dyachenko), documentaries" Eastern front "(dir. – Andrey Osipov), " fast and furious. Return" (dir. – Natalia Gugueva), TV series "Awakening", "secrets of Mrs. Kirsanova", "Anna detective", etc. Winner of the Mikael Tariverdiev prize for best film music ("Yar") at the Kinotavr festival (2007).

Operator. He makes videos and films of various genres, from music videos to full-length films. From recent film projects: Last Quest (dir. - Pyotr Fedorov), " Little people "(dir. - Oleg Asadulin)," Just not them "(dir. - Alexander Boikov)," Night guards " (dir. - Emilis Velivis). Worked on music videos for Egor creed, Elena Temnikova, Basta & Zivert, Burito, commercials for Gazprombank, Yandex, OZON, Okko, TSUM, etc.

An office that brings together partners from Zurich, Moscow, Graz, and new York. Develops projects of all types and scales: from the door handle to the city, from real architecture to art installations. The Bureau combines creativity and technology, world experience with local specifics, theoretical research and practical architecture. We have implemented and are working on projects in Russia, Switzerland, France, Italy, USA, Czech Republic and Hungary. The Bureau's work has received international recognition and awards. These include the Prix de Geneve for experimental architecture (Geneva, Switzerland, 2019), Archmarathon, Prize for the best sports building (Milan, Italy, 2018), ProRus, Prize for the best public building (Moscow, Russia, 2018), Bauwelt, nomination “most promising young Bureau " (Berlin, Germany, 2016), Archiwood, Prize for the best wooden building (Moscow, Russia, 2012), etc.

ASAP AGENCY & PRODUCTION is a creative studio with a focus on video. The agency's portfolio includes large advertising campaigns, educational and content platforms, documentaries and youtube series. Among the works, you can also find independent projects and fashion videos: the studio collaborated with the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, a dance video was created together with the director Katya Telegina to support the release of the new Kenzo World fragrance. This work won a special prize at the Berlin Fashion Film Festival.

Producer
JULIA KUZKINA

Curator
ASYA KOTELNIKOVA

Artistic director
MAXIM KUZMIN

Decoration concept
Architectural bureau K O S M O S

Composer
ANTON SILAEV

Operator
ALEXEY KUPRIYANOV

Costume Designer
OKSANA MARKINA

Producer
JULIA BOGDANOVICH

Line producer
DMITRY DIMCHEVSKY

Production Assistant
ALENA YURIEVA

Director
MIKHAIL GOGLOV

Steadicam operator
Anatoly Simchenko

Gafer
Vyacheslav Timonin

Lighting crew
Alexander Batetnikov, Alexander Korsakov,
Denis Bondarenko, Anton Petrik,
Anton Solonitsyn, Evgeny Kozlov, Y
uri Andreeyantsev, Dmitry Bogatkov,
Grigor Grigoryan, Igor Malenok

Focus Puller
Anton Ionov

Camera mechanic
Sergei Starostin

Sound
Alexey Limonov

Post-production producer
Alim Unagasov

Editing director
Oleg Korneev

Colorist
Evgeny Gvozdev

Designer
Maxim Nikanorov
CG clean up Galactica VFX

Administrators
MARK PRIVALOV
SERGEY POYARKOV

Second director
MARIO KIM

Artist
DENIS NIKOLAENKO

Costumes
Otocyon,
OLYA KOSTERINA

Kryginastudio make-up artist
POLINA VAZHENINA

Hair stylist
Kryginastudio VIOLA PYAK

Sound engineer
ALEXANDER PERFILYEV

Organ
MARINA OMELCHENKO

Violins
MARIA AMBARTSUMYAN
SVETLANA ZHEMCHUZHINA

Organ recording
DMITRY ZIMIN

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