Centre
Материал из HEPTACHOR.
HEPTACHOR: The Stefanida Rudneva Centre for Development Through Music and Movement
The Centre was founded in 2004 on the basis of Heptachor, the Studio of Musical Movement and Improvisation, with an aim of preserving and institutionalising a century-long tradition of Musical Movement and free dance in Russia. Its founder and director, Aïda Ailamazian, received her PhD in psychology; she is both a university teacher and a practitioner of musical movement with rich experience in working with both children and adults.
The Centre's most important recent productions are the performance of C.-W. Gluck's opera, Orfeo ed Euridice and a large-scale festival, Moskovskoe deistvo-2005, which brought together 26 groups and individual performers from 16 countries and attracted about 10,000 visitors. Two other interantional festivals of free dance and musical movement were organised in the Crimea, Ukraine, in 2007 and 2008. One of the venues was the ancient Greek amphitheatre in Chersonesos Taurica. The Centre's ambitions is to make the festival regular.
One of the Centre's major committments is psychological work with children and adults. Free dance and musical movement possess enormous potential for personal growth and therapy. The Centre's specialists have decades of experience in helping people to recover and enhance their psychological well-being and maintain healthy life.
The Centre is open to cooperation with other groups or individual artists as well as art scholars.
- Our partners:
- Vocal Studio of Maria Ganeshina
- Ludmila Alexeeva’s School of Movement, the Studio at the Central Academic Club in Moscow headed by Inessa Kulagina
Video with fragments from Orfeo ed Euridice, 2005-2007, by Boris Morgunov
