International Festival of Modern Choreography IFMC 2016

The 29th installment of the International Festival of Modern Choreography IFMC 2016 in Vitebsk brought together leading Belarusian and foreign dance companies from Russia, Czechia, France and Norway. The festival opened with the Giselle premiere by the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of Belarus produced by famous Ukrainian choreographer Radu Poklitaru. He worked in the Bolshoi Theater of Belarus in the 1990s and then graduated from the choreography department of the Belarusian State Academy of Music.

The playbill of the festival also featured “She” and the premiere “Son of Mr Piero from Vinci/Mona Lisa” by Evgeny Panfilov Ballet Theater from Perm, “AkhmatModi” by Autre Compagnie MiNa, “There” from Jo Stromgren company (Norway) and “Devoid” by NANOHACH company (Czechiac). At the close of the event the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of the Republic of Belarus showed the Six Dances and La Petite Mort ballets.

On photo: premiere of Jiri Kylian’s ballet Six Dances by the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of Belarus