Lina Kushch

The names of the winners of the 7th Serge Lifar International Ballet Competition were announced in Donetsk. The grand prix went to the soloist of the National Opera of Ukraine, 25-year-old Andrii Pysariev, together with 20,000 dollars — an unprecedented sum for ballet competitions. The...

Donetsk – Vadym PYSARIEV, famous dancer and artistic director of the Donetsk-based Solovianenko Theater of Opera and Ballet tells The Day about the new choreography school that has been launched in Ivano-Frankivsk, why the Serge Lifar International Ballet Competition has moved to Donetsk,...

Vadym Pysariev, art director of the Solovianenko Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Donetsk, informed The Day about the competition’s revival, and that the Serge Lifar International Ballet Competition will take place on March 27 – April 2, 2011 in Donetsk. We remind our readers that the...

The Solovianenko National Opera and Ballet Theater of Donetsk started working on a ballet based on Lesia Ukrainka’s title drama in verse in June this year. The choreographer and stage director, Yevhenia Khasianova, also acted as a costume designer. She found samples of folk attire...

Every feast of classical dance in the miner’s capital is an extraordinary cultural event, but this one stood out more than usual. Both the participants and the audience described it as breathtaking. The legendary dancer Vladimir Vasiliev wrote verse and drew landscapes of the miners’...