VALERIA URALSKAYA |
| professor, editor-in-chief of the
“Ballet” magazine, Russia |
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Vitebsk has always had a special
atmosphere of creativity that makes it open to challenge
and experiment it arts. That is namely what our needs
most of all
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| BENJAMIN FELIKSDAL |
| choreographer, teacher, one of the founders
of modern european Jazz-dance technique, Netherlands |
I believe that all I could
see here in Vitebsk is a true and creative reflection
of inner features of your people's mentality, culture
traditions and today's life
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| XIAO
SUHUA |
| professor of Beijing Choreographic Institute,
China. |
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I was pleasantly surprised with a very high level
of choreography and absolutely professional, really perfect
organization of Vitebsk festival.
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| KENJI
USUI |
| art historian, critic, professor and director
of the Russian ballet Academy in Tokyo, Japan. |
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Neither I nor anyone of my collegues in the West
has had any idea about such powerful process of development
of contemporary dance in your country. I'll do my best
to attract attention of the world to this stunning phenomenon.
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| NICKOLAY
OGRYKOV |
| Art director and manager of the “Free Ballet”
studio, Russia. |
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Every year I willingly accept the IFMC invitation
because I believe that Vitebsk festival has a sort of
creative credo, which is very close to that of my own.
I just feel the energy of creative work and enjoy it here
very much.
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| CHRISTIN
BRUNEL |
| choreographer, teacher, manager dance
theater “Tanztheater Christin Brunel”, Germany |
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I'm invited to Vitebsk as a guest-teacher and I want
to tell you that I'm happy to realize that my plastic
language is understandable to the young dancers in this
country
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| VALENTINE
YELIZARIEV |
| Professor, Academician, artistic director
and chief choreographer of the National Academic Bolshoy
Theatre Ballet of Belarus, the Jury chairman |
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... Nowadays the IFMC is considered an outstanding
cultural event not only in Belarus but in Russia, Europe
and Asia as well. Its significance is based on the creative
energy and professional competence of its creators. The
main mission of the organizers is to create preconditions
for development of new forms of dance so that ballet wouldn't
cease being art of high spirit and thought. The competition
that is held in Vitebsk is unique because a choreographic
work is estimated here as a whole i.e. as a joint creativity
of a choreographer and performers. As far as I know there
is no competition of that kind throughout the world.
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| LARISA
BARYKINA |
| ballet critic, art historian, Russia |
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This small Belarusian town with great and brilliant
history has seriously claimed its rights to be among world
centres where modern tendencies in choreographic art are
formed and seen
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| Dr.JULIA
TCHOURKO |
| Art historian, professor, Belarus |
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I'm firmly convinced that Vitebsk festival is worthy
of highest appreciation due to both creative and organizational
levels. The choreographers from the former USSR modern
choreography as a whole should be grateful to its founders
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| PASCALIN
VERRIER |
| dancer, choreographer, teacher, France
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I felt light and happy working on this stage because
an audience turned out to be very profound, friendly and
especially tactful when they could hardly understand me
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| ALEN
BERNARD |
| The president of the Swiss association
of the actors of ballet (Switzerland) |
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I feel here absolutely at home among close friends.
Perhaps wherever the artist lives he is uneasy, sad or
happy with the some kind of things
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| LARISA
KUZNETSOVA |
| - director of the Belarusian-Germany joint
Company Belwest, the general |
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IFMC is rather prestigious festival, which is among
few cultural events in our country, dealing with serious
art being affectionate to my town and its history I'm
really pleasant that. Vitebsk hosts such a significant
International competition. I feel proud that Belwest is
able to support the IFMC.
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