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Heptachor - from the Greek, επτά + χορόσ, the dance of seven - stands for:
- S.D. Rudneva Centre for Development Through Music and Movement and the
- Studio of Musical Movement and Improvisation
- "A movement, justified by music, is beautiful." - Stefanida Rudneva
Musical Movement is a unique Russian tradition of free dance and musical education. It was initially inspired by the art of Isadora Duncan, who performed in Russia at the dawn of the twentieth century. About the same time, Stefanida Rudneva (1890-1989) and six other young women created their own technique of free dance. It has been preserved and developed through the hardship of the Soviet years and into the present by four generations of dancers and music teachers.
- "Isadora’s dance was only one of Heptachor’s sources. The members of the group possessed a solid, almost professional knowledge of antiquity, especially of sculpture; they studied folklore, music, psychology and systems of physical training." - Aida Ailamazyan
In Musical Movement, we move and improvise to classical and folk music pieces always played live. Unlike other kinds of dance, free dance requires neither an excruciating bodily training, nor memorizing complicated steps. What is valued, is the ability to move freely in the music and enjoy both the music and the movement. The technique, which helps discover musicality of the body, harmonise breathing, movement and emotions, has proved highly successful in teaching dancers, singers and in offering to everybody a feeling of well-being and happiness.
- "What is the most important? For Heptachor, it is the process of experiencing, understanding music. And then comes a direct motor response to music; it gives the foundation on which it is possible to build everything else. This response needs to be transformed into a fully-fledged process of experiencing music, that is, into musical movement." - Aida Ailamazyan
- Having visited several Heptachor's classes and rehearsals, the journalist Alastair Gee contributed an article to the major independent English-language newspaper in Russia, The Moscow Times
- Reviews of the festivals Terpsichore in Tauris-2007 and Terpsichore in Tauris-2008, by Roger Smith
- You are welcome to our regular Classes and Performances
