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New Year Greetings and A Present
We are happy to announce that the conference volume, FREE VERSE AND FREE DANCE: EMBODIED SENSE IN MOTION, is now published on a nice CD, by the "Smysl" Press. Let the Year 2012 bring us all more freedom, verse and dance!
Music&Movement Seminar
The Music&Movement Seminar continued by a session on 3 December. Aida Ailamazian, PhD, presented her paper, "Olga Popova on Musical Movement". O.K. Popova (1928-2009) studied Musical Movement with one of the Heptachor's founders, Stefanida Rudneva, after the Second World War. She developed further the method of teaching Musical Movement, especially to children.
Heptachor at the Fulbright Summer School in Moscow
On the 4th of June Heptachor took part at the Summer School "Generation of Communities through Word and Image" organised by the Moscow State Universty (Depts. of Philology and Philosophy), with support from the Fulbright Foundation [1]. After Irina Sirotkina's talk on "Heptachor - Free Dance Community", Aida Ailamazian gave an open class of musical movement followed by a short performance by Heptachor ("Caucasian" Programm, music by A.Khachaturian).
Heptachor Research Seminar
Sat 7 May at 18:00 -- Moscow University, Dept. Of Psychology (Mokhovaia 11/5):Anton Pushin (RGGU) Dance Agon, Or the Winner Gets It All: Criteria of Judgment in a Dance Competition
17 APRIL: HEPTACHOR AT CONCERT
The Centre, Heptachor, and Maria Ganeshina’s Vocal Studio showed compositions to the music by Stravinsky (The Right of Spring), Gluck (Orfeo ed Euridice), and Khachaturian (Gayane). The concert took place in the Prechistenka-32 Concert hall, famous for its sound and decoration as well as its history. Between 1868 and 1915, the building hosted one of the best Moscow high schools, L.Polivanov’s Gymnasium, from which graduated poets and philosophers including Vladimir Soloviev, Andrey Bely, Valerii Briusov and Maximilian Voloshin. In the 1920s, it was the home of the Russian Academy of Art Sciences, with its Choreological Laboratory for studying dance and artistic movement.
FREE POETRY AND FREE DANCE: EMBODIED SENSE IN MOTION
Departments of Philology, Psychology, and of the Arts, Moscow State University organised 1-3 October, 2010 an international conference, "FREE POETRY AND FREE DANCE: EMBODIED SENSE IN MOTION". In addition to paper sessions and thematic round-table discussions, the conference featured master classes in free dance & musical movement training, sessions of vers libres, sound poetry, dance and contact improvisation, and site-specific performances. The conference venue were be the buildings of Moscow State University, located at the historical sites of the city.
- CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
- PHOTOS Фото с конференции
- VIDEO CLIP [2]
TERPSICHORE IN TAURIS-III
Following two very successfull Musical Movement and Free Dance Festivals - Terpsichore in Tauris-2007 and Terpsichore in Tauris-2008 - the Center "Heptachor", with the support from the Department for Culture and Tourism of the City Government of Sevastopol and Directorate of the National preserve Chersonesos Taurica, organised the Third Festival, "Terpsichore in Tauris-II", in the legendary Chersonesos Taurica on 1-5 September 2010. This year's theme is "Chersonesos: A Meeting Place of Cultures". Master-classes in Musical Movement, Duncan dance and Alekseeva's Artistic Gymnastics were followed by gala-concerts at the Greek amphitheater built in IVth century, B.C., and reconstructed for theatre activities.
- Review of the Festival by Roger Smith
- Photos by Pavel Kuznetsov Фото Павла Кузнецова
- Film by the TV Channel, "Krym" ("Crimea") [3]
