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Moscow State academic E. Vakhtangov theatre

DANCE PERFORMANCE BY JOHN ADAMS AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS MUSIC.

Director-choreographer – Anželika Cholina.

Set designer – Marijus Jacovskis.

Costume designer – Marija Danilova.

Light designer - Tadas Valeika.

 

SOLOISTS

Otello - Grigorij Antipenko.

Desdemona - Olga Lerman.

Iago - Viktor Dobronravov, Anton Siomkin.

 

Duration – 2 h. 20 min. with a break.

Premiere – November 9th, 2013

The Performance

Anželika Cholina always chooses to work with pieces that have become literary and dramatic benchmarks, full of dramatic collisions, distinct characters and poignant plot, that requires not just precise choreography but also mental strength and powerful energy. 

She is a choreographer so it is only natural she stays away from traditional rendering of works. Instead she weaves the web of relationships (jealousy, love, betrayal) and then she rolls out the ball of peripeteias revealing the tragically innocent truth obscured by jealousy and lies as well as delicate and pure destiny of the victim. 

 

Awards

In 2014 during gala ceremony Anželika Cholina’s performance “Othello” was awarded The Star of the Theater-goer’ Award in the category “Best Musical of the Year”.

 

 

ANŽELIKA CHOLINA

“I want to talk about love, relationships and peoples’ fates on stage therefore I chose Shakespeare’s “Othello” - the tale of striking and gruesome tragedy of a man that killed his most treasured soul and so lost any purpose of life.

I want to awaken the feeling of terror when facing the ghastly mistake, the crime of the honorable, gullible and kind person blinded by jealousy. I want to showcase the person of a pure soul tangled in defamation snare - a person that kills his innocent and loving wife in attempts to fight for spiritual purity and this way punishes himself for succumbing to madness.”

Performance repertoire

Repertoire of this performance is on www.vakhtangov.ru

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