Ballet

Kirill Simonov, Lev N. Tolstoi, Rodion Shchedrin: ANNA KARENINA

The world-famous story of Anna Karenina reaps successes around the world in various productions. Through it, film or theater directors explore society with a look at human relationships and the interior of man himself. The young Russian director and choreographer Kirill Simonov also chose Anna Karenina exclusively for the Košice ballet to reveal the variability of man, the desire for happiness and the pursuit of moral self-improvement. As the main characters take on a process of self-awareness, we will witness their failure, which leads them to life's maturity and wisdom. By the overall tragic tuning of the ballet drama, which can provoke anxiety and unrest, Tolstoy himself already expressed his disagreement with Russia's bourgeois development. The ballet drama Anna Karenina depicts the type of "unfaithful woman", not too romantically tuned, respecting moral values and as a loving mother. In extramarital relationships, Anna is not looking for a missing romance, but only a single love for a fateful man.

Kirill Simonov was born in Russian city Petrozavodsk in 1975. He studied choreography at the famous Vagan Academy of Russian Ballet in St. Petersburg. He has won several prestigious choreographic awards for his neoclassical work, and his leading works include The Nutcracker at the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theater, where he collaborated with world designer Mikhail Chemiakin, Madame Lionelli premiered at the Albert Hall in London, and the ballet Pulcinella at the Novosibirsk Opera.