“Tuktamysheva’s program of loneliness is broken down into movements for her to communicate with an imaginary partner” – Mishin team ballet teacher

In an interview with , choreographer Elizaveta Navislavskaya, who works as a ballet teacher in the team of Alexei Mishin, spoke about the importance of such a partnership concept in singles programs.

In the free program “Loneliness” under the work of the same name by Igor Krutoy Elizaveta Tuktamysheva appears as a blind girl who is cured during the story.

At the Russian Championship in Krasnoyarsk, Tuktamysheva won bronze.

– Explain to us using the examples of your student skaters how to train the emotions so that a person frees himself and transmits the full range of feelings.

— Oh, for that, you have to read a whole course (laughs). There are four fundamental themes in plastic expressiveness, on which everything depends.

First, the instinctive perception of sound: sound generates sensation, the intonation of sound generates the intonation of movement. For example, Misha Kolyada perfectly hears music and knows how to get into it himself. Matvey [Ветлугин] and Lisa [Туктамышева] they are also musical – they just need to be directed in time, and they themselves will interpret everything exactly with musical accents.

The second is psychophysical openness, that is, freedom. It is very clearly visible on Zhenya [Семененко]: infinite freedom on the ice (in terms of expressiveness). Remember how he lay on his back at the end of the trial skates, but kept the image in the nature of the music? It’s the freedom to misbehave, to provoke – when a skater can do whatever they want on the ice.

The third theme is partnership. An artist never performs alone. Even though he’s the only one on stage (ice) now, he’s still interacting with a fictional character. For example, Lisa’s loneliness program is broken down into movements for her to communicate with an imaginary partner, each movement is a thought.

Finally, the laws of scenic existence. How do you get the viewer to see everything? Everything is short and inside every block there are a million tricks and nuances, Navislavskaya told .

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