Eifman Ballet will present the literary and choreographic tetralogy Another Realm for the Word in Siberia

In the second half of April, Eifman Ballet will go on a tour in Siberia with world-famous productions Anna Karenina, Eugene Onegin, Beyond Sin and The Seagull. A Ballet Story. Based on the great works of Russian classical literature, these ballets form a unique tetralogy Another Realm for the Word.

The Company will visit the largest cities of Siberia: Krasnoyarsk (April 19, 20, 21 and 22), Novosibirsk (April 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30), Omsk (May 2, 3 and 4), Tyumen (May 6). The playbill of the tour in Krasnoyarsk and Omsk includes the ballets Anna Karenina and Eugene Onegin. It should be noted that the Omsk audience will have a chance to see these productions for the first time. The spectators in Krasnoyarsk, in turn, did not see the choreographic interpretation of Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece staged by Boris Eifman. The ballet based on the novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin will be brought to Tyumen. And all four productions of the tetralogy will be presented in Novosibirsk. Eifman Ballet has never performed ballets Eugene Onegin and The Seagull. A Ballet Story there.

The leading venues will host the performances of the Company: Krasnoyarsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre, Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Omsk State Musical Theatre, Tyumen Philharmonic.

The appeal to great literature is a significant feature of the creative method of Boris Eifman. The choreographer himself emphasizes that he is interested not in a mechanical narration of the plot of books, but in the experience of discovering “what is hidden between the lines and can be comprehended and expressed only by means of the language of dance” in well-known texts.

“The ballets based on works of Russian classical literature presented in the program are a breakthrough into another space, into that transcendental area where not words, but ideas, not texts, but the infinities of inner worlds are embodied,” writes the acknowledged literary critic Tatiana Boborykina about the productions of the tetralogy.