The Farukh Ruzimatov Foundation declares the end of the project of the year 2008 «International ballet master class» in St. Petersburg. We thank all the participants, guests and partners of the project.
Launched in 2007, the project was carried out with the participation of Centre de Danse de Paris Goube and the Mikhailovsky Theater (St. Petersburg). Within the framework of the project master-classes were given by Aidar Akhmetov and Natalia Vyskubenko (Bolshoi Theater, Moscow), Cyril Atanassoff, Stephen Prince, Gilbert Mayer, Jean-Guillaume Bart and Jenifer Goube (Opera National de Paris), Natalia Makarova (the USA) (for more details please refer to the «Foundation Projects» section).
By now the program is fulfilled. The Foundation expresses sincere appreciation to the Mikhailovsky Theater and personally to Mr. Vladimir Kehman and Ms. Tatiana Arkhipova for organizational and friendly support, to Vaganova Ballet Academy and personally to Ms. Altynay Asylmuratova for provided opportunity of carrying out open master-classes in the Academy rehearsal rooms, to the «Russky Mir» insurance company and personally to Mr. Pavel Zubrilin for participation in the project financing, to Ms. Daria Kim for the time and efforts spent in the project, and also to everybody who participated, assisted or showed interest in our project.
The project will be continued by the Mikhailovsky Theater under the guidance of Farukh Ruzimatov, the Art Director of the Mikhailovsky Theater ballet.
February 21, 11:00 a.m. – an open master-class is given by the famous French ballet dancer and teacher Francesca Zumbo in the Mikhailovsky Theater.
Since 1985 Francesca Zumbo is a teacher of the Opera National de Paris ballet school. She works with undergraduate students, trying her best to help the young dances to reach real perfection.
Francesca Zumbo has danced in the Grand Opera since 1963. With the Paris troupe she not once visited Kiev, Moscow and Leningrad. Many people remember her triumphal appearance in Moscow, in the 1st International Ballet Competition of 1969, together with the excellent performance of young Mikhail Baryshnikov. At that competition Francesca Zumbo and her partner Patrice Bart were awarded a golden medal. Their pas de deux from ballet «Bakhti» (choreography of Maurice Bejart) became a real sensation for Moscow public.
Francesca worked with such choreographers as George Balanchine, Maurice Bejart, Kenneth McMillan, Harald Lander, Roland Petit, Pierre Lakotte. A separate chapter in her life is work with Rudolf Nuriev who highly appreciated the young ballet dancer. The master-classes of Francesca Zumbo are carried out in France, England and China.
