Diploma project of the first graduate of “The Governorate Ballet School” Dance College affiliated with the National Ballet “Kostroma” “THE WORLD CALLED THE ART OF DANCE” in Concert and Exhibition Centre “Gubernsky”.

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER students of the FOLK department of the Dance College present a new exclusive version of CLASSIC ballet “Romeo and Juliet”.

Music edition and staging by Maksim Vasilyev.

The fencing scenes are done by Nikolai Laktionov, the Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR, Honoured Art Worker.

The author and the Art Director of the classic dance course is Natalya Voskresenskaya, Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation.

Art Director is Boris Golodnitsky, the Laureate of the State Prize of the Mari-El Republic.

§   Brilliant, captivating music by S. Prokofyev

§   Classic but nevertheless permanently contemporary plot of the great Shakespearian tragedy

§   Multi-genre performance

What can be more beautiful than such a synergy of the art dance, theatre and music for the young artists, graduates of “The Governorate Ballet School” Dance College, to express themselves?

There has been a lot of serious and interesting work done, to be more exact:

§   The synthesis of highly skilled acting and gripping fighting scenes helps to depict a real world of tragedy so that nobody can doubt its authenticity.

§   Sincerity and inner monologue band all the performance scenes together.

§   The students’ youth, beauty, professionalism and dedication helped to create a harmonic fascinating ballet which has became an unexpected turn in their professional life.

Cast of characters – the fifth-year students:

• Romeo – Denis Obuhov
• Mercutio (Romeo’s friend) – Ivan Tsarenko
• Juliet – Lubava Demina
• Juliet's father (the Capulet clan) – Aleksei Yakovlev
• Juliet’s mother (the Capulet clan) – Veronika Gorbunova
• Tybalt (Juliet’s brother) – Dmitri Komlev
• The guests at the Capulets' ball – the fifth and second year students

Romantic scenes of Romeo and Juliet’s meetings are based on duet dance and performed by Denis Obuhov and Lubava Demina.

Tybalt and Mercutio’s choreography (Dmitri Komlev and Ivan Tsarenko respectively) is based on the emphatic lexis of classic dance with powerful fight scenes where the characters skillfully demonstrate the basics of fencing.

The ball scenes in the Capulets’ house were inspired by “Pavana” and reflect the manner and some elements of historical dance. Its strict nature is interrupted by a whirlwind of temperamental “Tarantella" which is a folk and academic dance.

Students made an ample use of Stanislavsky’s system the basics of which were taught at acting skills classes.

And they created vivid, bright and individual characters which live on stage and make us believe.

The performance captures your imagination and makes you feel, sympathize, love and cry.

THE SECOND PART OF THE CONCERT

Concert class of “The Governorate Ballet School” Dance College graduates trained in the sphere of choreography art (code 070302) with qualifications of a ballet artist.

The teachers are the soloists of the National Ballet “Kostroma”

ALEKSEI RUBTSOV and IRINA RUBTSOVA

To show the best there was in the five-year long education program for teaching folk dance is the main goal which the teachers, Irina and Aleksei Rubtsov, aim to achieve together with their students.

Kostroma audience has seen some highly professional dance turns of the National Ballet “Kostroma: and “The Governorate Ballet School” before.

The diploma project will for the first time ever show the artistic process and tremendous everyday efforts which create the beautiful world of dance.

The concert class is a graduation exam in folk stage dance presented for the audience to judge. The concert class preserves the sequence of the class:

1.  Excercice at the bar done in a manner of different nations;

2.  Dance compositions in parterre;

3.  Stunts;

4.  Sketches and dance turns of different world nations staged by the College teachers Irina and Aleksei Rybtsov and by such high profile choreographers as Igor Moiseev, V. Madzalevsky and G. Vlasenko.

The concert also included some turns performed by the second-year students of the College, those were "Spring Lyrical”, “Caucasian sketch" and “Russian Lyrical Sketch”.

The “Children Dance School” affiliated with the College is going to close the concert as an obvious symbol of intergenerational continuity and the union of two origins of choreography – classical and folk.

“The Governorate Ballet School” Dance College graduates will begin their concert class as fifth-year students but they are going to accept the congratulations being.

PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS OF A FOLK DANCE COMPANY!