History

Grand Finale by Hofesh Shechter’s dance company, a performance of Equal Elevations by La Veronal given at the State Pushkin Museum and the Fabergé Museum, the launch of Context Open – a contest for completed works in choreography, the Russian premiere of Alla Kovgan’s film Cunningham. Kirill Radev is the competition’s winner.

The pandemic: the online premieres of Alexei Miroshnichenko's ballet Schaherezade and Pavel Glukhov and Diana Vishneva’s 2020 video-project, master-classes from the Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal, and a public talk on the prospective existence of dance in the age of the Internet. Ernest Nurgali is the competition’s winner.

The long-awaited premiere of Schaherezade in Moscow, Pavel Glukhov’s one-man show The Paper Man performed at the State Pushkin Museum and the State Hermitage Museum, an Evening of Contemporary Choreography, La Veronal’s Pasionaria, and the first book released by the festival’s publishing program.