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Founder · Artistic Director

Radu
Paklitaru

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2006
Founded the theatre
40+
Productions
10
Countries toured
Kyiv Modern Ballet is vivid, daring, unlike any other theatre. It is alive.

Radu Poklitaru

Radu Poklitaru

Principal Ballet Master

Academic theatre "KYIV MODERN-BALLET"

Producer, Honoured Arts Figure of Ukraine, Laureate of Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine, People's Artist of Moldova, laureate of international competitions

 

 

"Let's found a theatre!" The exact words of philanthropist Volodymyr Filippov, said in 2005, became the seed from which KYIV MODERN-BALLET Theatre actually sprouted. I was 33 years old, staged ballet performances in different theatres but it was an offer one simply could not reject!"

 

 

Radu Poklitaru

Honoured Arts Figure of Ukraine

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Biography

Radu Poklitaru, was born in Chișinău to the family of ballet dancers.

He graduated from the State Choreographic School in Perm (1991) and Belorussian State Academy of Music, majoring as choreographer (ballet master) under Professor Valentin Yelizaryev, People's Artist of the USSR (1999).

In 1991 - 2001 was a ballet dancer of the National Academic Bolshoi Theatre in the Belorussia Republic.

In 2001 - 2002 was principle choreographer of the National Opera in Moldova.

 

Academic theatre "KYIV MODERN-BALLET"

In 2006, on the initiative and financial support of the Ukrainian philanthropist
V. Philippova Radu Poklitaru created his own author's theater "KYIV MODERN-BALLET"

 

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"I am happy, I have my own creative home. I am grateful to my fate - I have a family. My family are the artists who make my innermost thoughts reach the heart of the audience in a desperately bright and unashamedly talented way, my family are the people who invisibly and absolutely honestly help in the daily, hourly work of the complex mechanism of contemporary theatre.

Today, KYIV MODERN-BALLET is a bright, daring theatre unlike any other. It is alive! And what about perfection? I think it's just boring... "

Radu Poklitaru

Honoured Arts Figure of Ukraine

 

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Recognition & awards

2012-2013
2013 Radu Poklitaru was artistic director of Kyiv Opera Theatre (Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre for Children and Youth).
2016
Radu Poklitaru received Shevchenko National Prize in "Performing Arts" nomination - the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts.
2016
Received the rank of "People's Artist of Moldova".
2017
Received the rank of " Honoured Arts Figure of Ukraine "
2018
Principal Ballet Master of the Academic Theater "KYIV MODERN-BALLET".
2018
Winner of 22 national prizes "Person of the Year-2017" in the nomination "The Artist of the Year".
Repertoire

La Traviata
Premiere

La Traviata

12+ 1 hr 12 min

La Traviata, staged by Radu Poklitaru, is first and foremost a performance imbued with profound love for its great source – the eponymous opera by Giuseppe Verdi. Soaked in the beauty of Italian bel canto, the story of Violetta tragic love…

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The Beautiful Blue Danube

The Beautiful Blue Danube

12+ 60 min

The ballet On the Beautiful Blue Danube, set to the music of Johann Strauss, transports the audience to the dazzling world of 19th-century Vienna – with its opulent balls, glittering masquerades, and unceasing spirit of celebration. In…

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Friends

Friends

12+ 35 min

FRIENDS is a one-act ballet set to music by P. Vasks. It took sixteen years for choreographer Radu Poklitaru to decide to tackle the work of composer Peteris Vasks again, but this time he chose his cello concerto. The sound of the cello,…

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Carmen.TV

 

"Carmen.TV" is the first production of «KYIV MODERN-BALLET» Theatre. Why, actually, Carmen? The history of the European theatre does not know many mythologemes as popular as this one. Mérimée, who wrote the short novel about a Seville gypsy, could hardly ever realize that in the 21st century there would be a human being in the whole Western cultural world, who has never heard of Carmen. Georges Bizet in his immortal opera tremendously romanticized her image - Mérimée's gypsy is in fact a lot simpler and more prosaic.

Besides the tough story by Prosper Mérimée, Georges Bizet's music made the basis of our production. One of the leading characters of the ballet is Michaela, who lost the status of Jose's fiancée but who became the moving force of the stage action. Her presence on the stage gives the explanation for the two letters "TV" in the title of the play and its format - the two-episode ballet. The words I have put into Michaela's mouth are the only fragment I found appropriate to fit in the leaflet of the play: "When there is nobody beside, love overwhelms me and makes me see, desire, and kill the non-existing characters of the never-filmed movies. The screen flickering talks to me in the language of passion. Am I lonely?... No!"

 

Radu Poklitaru

Honoured Arts Figure of Ukraine

World stage

10 countries

The choreographer is currently the author of more than forty one-act and full-length performances staged on various platforms: Moldova, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Serbia and Ukraine among others.

Radu Poklitaru's ballet productions were presented at international musical festivals and tours in Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, the United States, Japan, China, Poland, Estonia, Thailand, Spain and other countries.

Each of Radu Poklitaru's projects is a challenging experiment and a daring quest that unveils the complex world of human personality and attracts with its unconventional reading of world-known theatrical plots, as well as its renewing and enriching form and vocabulary of modern dancing.

Great BritainFranceNetherlandsUnited StatesJapanChinaPolandEstoniaThailandSpain
Repertoire

Full repertoire
Friends

Friends

music by P.Vasks

12+ 35 min ballet in one act
Tomorrow

Tomorrow

music by F.Chopin

12+ 24 min ballet in one act
Nine dates

Nine dates

music by F.Chopin

12+ 30 min ballet in one act
The Little Prince

The Little Prince

to the music of V.А. Mozart and the Ukrainian lullabies

6+ 60 min ballet in two acts
Viy

Viy

12+ 60 min ballet in two acts
Up the river

Up the river

music by Olexander Rodin

12+ 0:27 ballet in one act
Giselle

Giselle

12+ 1 hr 20 min ballet in two acts
Our team

Our team