On 20 April, Arts Square Gallery introduced a long-awaited meeting with one of the leading Russian choreographers Alexey Miroshnichenko.

The ballet master was always notable for his ambitious approach, recognizable style and incredible potential to interpret a broad range of choreographic languages. He collaborated with the Bolshoi and Mariinsky ballet, the Novosibirsk ballet company and New York City Ballet. The world’s leading stages waited for him, but in 2009 Miroshnichenko moved to the banks of the Kama River to head the Perm ballet. The decision supported by his entire professional surrounding (Makhar Vaziev, Leonid Desyatnikov, Polina Osetinskaya, Pavel Gershenzon and Alexei Goribol) was not occasional for Miroshnichenko. Later he remembered: «Probably, it’s my fate. Since the beginning of my studies in the Vaganova Academy, I often heard the name „Perm“. Our veterans remembered the years of evacuation, our ballet masters gave regular master classes in the Perm ballet school, and many graduate students of this school danced on the Mariinsky stage».

Among many outstanding productions created in collaboration with the Perm ballet there are such ballets as Swan Lake, Conditionally killed, Chout, The Fountain of Bakhchisarai, evenings of ballets Winter Dreams and See the music, ballets The Second Detail, The Wedding, Firebird, Cinderella, Nutcracker ballets, and also the groundbreaking project Romeo and Juliet in collaboration with the Kenneth MacMillan’s Foundation.

Under direction of Miroshnichenko, the Perm ballet turned into a worldwide famous national dance brand which attracts balletomanes from all over the world.

What the audience would like to ask Alexey Miroshnichenko? Why the author’s versions of classical eternal stories are so attractive and relevant today? Why the Nutcracker? How is it possible to add so many new meanings and new significances to so well-known tales? And how the master succeeds to turn 2D text into 3D reality? How masterpieces are born? And what does it require? It’s difficult to predict all the questions.

The moderator Veronika Kulagina, an editor-in-chief of the «PRO Tanez» magazine, has prepared exciting questions to discuss everything and not to miss the most essential.