Six years ago choreographer Viacheslav Samodurov, who had successfully performed in St. Petersburg, Amsterdam and London, unexpectedly for everyone went to Ekaterinburg to become a leader of the ballet troupe. Now Moscow experts are rushing to the Urals to see every premiere, calling the troupe a part of the “Ural ballet abnormality” (referring also to the neighboring Perm). Samodurov today is one of the key figures of the Russian ballet.
At his meeting with the audience of the Dance Open Festival, the leader of the Ekaterinburg Ballet talked about the experience of working in different countries, about the peculiarities and differences in performing processes that happen behind the scene and things what you will not read in any media.