ARTEM
HORDIEIEV

Dance about who we truly are

Choreographer / Artistic Director

Works

Each production explores what we are when the masks come off.

Artem Hordieiev

Ukrainian choreographer, founder of Newspaper Birds Production.

Creates contemporary productions in which musical structure meets the truth of the human body — the ballet body. Works at the crossroads of the powerful Ukrainian choreographic school and the European stage, with a bold visual language of his own.

Founder of Newspaper Birds Production — a contemporary ballet production company based in France that brings international artists and organisations together in collaboration and co-production.

UKRAINE – UNITED STATES COLLABORATION

Dwight Rhoden · Desmond Richardson

Mentors and teachers. Complexions Contemporary Ballet, New York. A key collaboration.

Guest artist on a project of New York's Complexions Contemporary Ballet.

Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson — former principal dancers of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, founders of Complexions Contemporary Ballet (1994) and creators of the technique that bears its name. Their school is the foundation of Artem Hordieiev’s choreographic style.

Out of this meeting of the American and Ukrainian schools came The Great Gatsby, after F. Scott Fitzgerald: an international cast with stars of the Mariinsky Theatre. Created in Kyiv, then performed in Berlin, Paris and Geneva, and toured to major European cities.

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