White Nights Ballet

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WHITE NIGHTS BALLET

Project by

the "White Nights Artistic Society"

About "White Nights Ballet"

White Nights Ballet is a ballet project represented by the non-profit organization “White Nights Artistic Society” and established by former Mariinsky Theatre soloists Alina Krasovskaya and Alexander Romanchikov.

We invite talented, bright, exciting, knowledge-hungry artists to make a great team and share and explore the world of dance together.

MISSION and VISION
We see the future of our project in creating unusual, bright, and memorable collaborations between two young female choreographers and young talented composers. We believe that sincerity, honesty, and talent are the essential tools for true art. Looking at the modern world, we want to reflect in our works the most relevant issues of our time. We try not to divide everything into good and bad, right and wrong, but to show all the versatility and complexity of a human and the situations in which he could find himself. We avoid using clichés while remaining open to all viewers' understanding. We also think that in a period of global upheaval, when many people are losing their life guidelines and the ground under their feet, it is especially important to make the audience feel, experience, and revive the best human senses.
Collaboration between choreographers and composers opens up avenues for creativity and adds a unique touch to our work. The classical ballet training of choreographers and dancers provides us with a diverse range of movement exploration. Most significantly, everyone involved in our project has an unwavering passion for creating, transforming ideas into art, and sharing our discoveries with the audience.

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ALINA KRASOVSKAYA (CHOREOGRAPHER, DANCER, BALLET TEACHER)

Alina was born in St Petersburg. At the age of 10, she joined the prestigious Vaganova Ballet Academy. After graduating in 2013 she was invited to join the Mariinsky Ballet company. In 2016 Alina was promoted to the rank of Character dance soloist. During her work in the theater, Alina was involved in many performances, productions, and festivals, and worked with different modern choreographers. In 2020 Alina received a master’s degree as a choreographer at the Vaganova Ballet Academy. The same year she participated in the «The Workshop of young choreographers» which was part of the “Mariinsky” festival. She represented her work “The elusive light”. Alina has toured with the troupe the USA, Japan, China, Germany, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Brasil, etc. In 2022 moved to California.

ALEXANDER ROMANCHIKOV (BALLET DANCER, BALLET TEACHER)

Alexander was born in Krasnodar, Russia. In 2006 graduated from the prestigious Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, and that same year was invited to continue his career with the Mariinsky Ballet Company. In 2008 was promoted to the rank of Soloist. Since 2006 Alexander has been a regular participant in such festivals as "White Nights”, "Mariinsky" and "Easter Festival". In his theater’s repertoire lots of classical, character, and dramatic roles in ballets such as Swan Lake, La Bayadere, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, Stone Flower, and many others, as well as works by Preljocaj, Balanchine, Gusev, Lavrovsky, Ashton, and Fokine. Alexander has toured the USA, Japan, China, Germany, Great Britain, Austria, France, Brasil, and others. In 2020 Alexander graduated as a ballet master at St.Petersburg Conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov. In 2022 moved to California.

OUR PROJECTS
2024

CROSSROADS
An exceptional night of contemporary music and choreography

Our «Crossroads» program is a unique blend of Beautiful and distinct music by talented modern composers and exciting choreographic experiments by modern female choreographers. The evening has a special feature where composers and choreographers will perform and showcase their work, allowing the audience to grasp the essence of their creations truly. Our creative team aims to showcase the profound and fascinating works of Contemporary authors who delve into the most relevant issues of our time and culture. Through their writing, we hope to help the audience reconnect with their sense of humanity and experience various emotions.

In the first part of the show, we will be presenting the musical compositions of two outstanding composers, Polina Krasovskaya and Arseniy Gusev. In the show's second part, you will have the opportunity to witness the daring and innovative works of the female choreographers - Alina Krasovskaya, Amanda de Oliveira, Masha Cherezova, Isabella Caso and Yulia Ermakova. Most of their works have been created in collaboration with the same composers, resulting in a truly harmonious dance and music experience.

Performers and authors:

Polina Krasovskaya

Arseniy Gusev

Alina Krasovskaya

Alexander Romanchikov

Amanda de Oliveira

Masha Cherezova

Isabella Caso

Yulia Ermakova

Isabeballa Kouznetsova

Diana Kouznetsova

Giselle Devey

Polina Krasovskaya

POLINA KRASOVSKAYA (COMPOSER, VIOLINIST, PIANIST) Polina graduated from the Saint-Petersburg state conservatory named afterN.A.Rimsky-Korsakov as a violinist. In 2020 she also graduated from the composition`s faculty in the Moscow state conservatory named after P. Tchaikovsky. Her music is performing in different concert programs by herself and other musicians and orchestras. Also, Polina writes music for ballet, drama productions and short films. Polina is a winner and diplomat of different international violin competitions and competitions of chamber music. She has many performances in Russia (in the Mariinsky theatre, in state Philharmonic hall, in Moscow conservatory hall, Kazan philharmonic and on other stages). Every year Polina gives several recitals in Irvine, San Diego (California) and in Bozeman (Montana) the Yellowstone international art festival as well as in Europe (during International musical fests in Hamburg, Amsterdam, Utrecht) as a violinist, composer and collaborative pianist. Since January of 2022 Polina is a member of piano trio Anima and has a lot of recitals with chamber music repertoire. Polina is currently teaching violin and orchestration class at the college of the Saint-Petersburg state conservatory named after N.A.Rimsky-Korsakov, also she is permanent guest artist in the St.Petersburg state philharmonic orchestra. In her free time, Polina is actively involved in volunteer activities, participating in educational charitable programs that help children from orphanages.

Alina Krasovskaya

Alina was born in St. Petersburg and at the age of 10, she enrolled in the prestigious Vaganova Ballet Academy. After graduating in 2013, she was invited to join the Mariinsky Ballet company where she was promoted to the rank of Character Dance Soloist in 2016. During her work in the theater, she participated in many performances, productions, and festivals and worked with different modern choreographers. In 2020, Alina received a master’s degree in choreography from the Vaganova Ballet Academy. The same year, she represented her work "The Elusive Light" in "The Workshop of Young Choreographers" which was part of the Mariinsky Festival. Alina has toured with the troupe to the USA, Japan, China, Germany, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Brazil, and other countries. In 2022, she moved to California.

Arseniy Gusev

Arseniy Gusev, a young pianist and composer, was born in St. Petersburg in 1998 and have been studying music since the age of five. In 2015, he went to the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. In 2017, he graduated with honors from the Specialized Music School of the St. Petersburg Rimsky- Korsakov State Conservatory, in 2017-2018 studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Moved to the US In 2022, he received his bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and now continues his studies at Yale University. Among his teachers are Sergei Babayan, Keith Fitch, Chris Theofanidis, and David Lang. He actively performs in the US and abroad, has given solo concerts in Austria, Belgium, Italy, Slovakia, Russia and Germany. His compositions are performed in Mariinsky Theater, Carnegie Hall, Konzerthaus Dortmund, St. Petersburg Philharmonic and other major venues. He collaborated with such conductors as Arkady Steinluht, Dmitry Vasiliev, Robert Carter Austin, Alexander Titov, Ilya Derbilov, Mikhail Golikov, Mikhail Mosenkov, and performed together with such musicians as Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, Olga Kaler, Anthony Roth Costanzo. Arseniy participated in master classes of Garrick Ohlsson, Samuel Adler, Andrew Norman, Joan Tower, Dmitry Bashkirov, Grigory Gruzman, Jerome Rose, Alexander Mndoyants, Nina Lelchuk, and others. Arseniy is a laureate of many prestigious competitions, such as the Dorothy McKenzie Artist Award, Cleveland Piano Virtu(al)oso Competition, Singapore International Piano Competition, Three Arts Piano Competition, Cleveland Composers Guild Contest, “Another Space” Composition Competition, International Gavrilin Competition, International Competition "Performer-Composer", and others.

Amanda de Oliveira

Amanda De Oliveira is a Brazilian-American dance artist, choreographer and educator. She trained at ABT's JKO school on a full merit scholarship. Upon graduating in 2011, she was offered 5 professional contracts before accepting her position with ABT. While at ABT she was awarded the Marjorie Isaacs Dancer Award. She has performed with ABT and NYCB in Lincoln Center in NY and the Kennedy Center in DC, and as a principal guest artist in countries including England, France, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Lebanon and all over the United States. She has taught master classes for top universities such as Yale, Stanford and Princeton. And has choreographed for Columbia University MFA program, Westchester Ballet Company, DKCBA and YAGP (where her work has been awarded top prizes).

ALEXANDER ROMANCHIKOV

Alexander was born in Krasnodar, Russia. In 2006 graduated from the prestigious Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, and that same year was invited to continue his career with the Mariinsky Ballet company. In 2008 was promoted to the rank of Soloist. Since 2006 Alexander has been a regular participant in such festivals as "White nights”, "Mariinsky" and "Easter Festival". In his theater’s repertoire lots of classical, character, and dramatic roles in ballets such as Swan Lake, La Bayadere, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, Stone Flower, and many others, as well as works by Preljocaj, Balanchine, Gusev, Lavrovsky, Ashton, and Fokine. Alexander has toured the USA, Japan, China, Germany, Great Britain, Austria, France, Brasil, and others. In 2020 Alexander graduated as a ballet master at St.Petersburg Conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov. In 2022 moved to California.

Masha Cherezova

Masha Cherezova is a dancer and choreographer born in Columbus, Ohio and raised in Southern California. In 2019, she left the United States to pursue her professional career as a ballet dancer in Russia. From 2019 to 2022, Masha performed the full extent of the corps de ballet repertoire of the Novosibirsk Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet as well as the Astrakhan Theatre of Opera and Ballet. Currently, Masha is a student at the University of Southern California studying Business Administration and independently choreographing. Some of her recent works include a compositional piece involving lanterns as unconventional lighting (We All Fall Down), a vignette on sisterhood (Two by Two), and a one-act ballet created for the students of V&T Dance Academy (Lemons?), and others.

Isabella Caso

Isabella grew up in Los Angeles, California and started dancing at the age of 2. She danced at Debbie Allen Dance Academy, Marat Daukayev School of Ballet, as well as graduated from LACHSA for dance.After graduating high school, Isabella moved to New York City to be a trainee with Complexions Contemporary Ballet from 2017-2018. During her time with the company she performed Dwight Rhoden's "Ballad Unto," "Stardust," "Gutter Glitter," and "Duo.She graduated from the Glorya Kaufman School of Dance with a B.F.A in Dance and a minor from the Marshall School of Business. During her senior year, Isabella apprenticed with Jacob Jonas The Company in their Los Angeles season called Activate LA. Through school she has performed Balanchine pieces "Allegro Brillante" and "Sonatine" as well as William Forsythe's "Second Detail" and "Vile Parody of Address." Additionally she has performed the principal role in Justin Peck's Rodeo as well as Ohad Naharin's Minus 16. She has also performed Paul Taylor's "Esplanade," Barak Marshal's "Wonderland," a Cunningham "Minevent," a world premier "Whelm" by Brett Easterling, a world premier "I See Them Falling" by Doug Varone, a world premier "Prelude" by Dwight Rhoden, a world premier "Deep Sleep" by Saleemah E. Knight. Isabella Caso is currently dancing with Jacob Jonas The Company and outside of dance, she is a Certified GYROTONIC® trainer and is currently working on her GYROKINESIS® certification.

Our Projects
2023

CONTINUUM
Ballet through the Centuries: from Classic to Contemporary

CONTINUUM is about continuing to save ballet traditions and explore new dance languages and forms, about continuing motion as a symbol of our life. We also continue to unite many talented artists of different nationalities at the same stage, which makes our project more diverse and bright!

The program of the concert will be incredibly varied: excerpts from world-famous classical masterpieces in the first part, and world premieres of contemporary works in the second part. The concert will feature both professional ballet soloists with great experience in famous companies such as Mariinsky Ballet, ABT, and Los Angeles Ballet, and young dancers who graduate from the best ballet schools. The biggest intrigue of the evening will be the collaboration of two young female choreographers Alina Krasovskaya and Amanda De Oliveira!

Performers and authors:

Alina Krasovskaya

Amanda de Oliveira

Maire E.New

Matisse Love

Aimee Cho

Alexander Romanchikov

Aaron Smyth

Jacob Ray

Matthew Schroeder

and other

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Alina Krasovskaya

Alina was born in St. Petersburg and at the age of 10, she enrolled in the prestigious Vaganova Ballet Academy. After graduating in 2013, she was invited to join the Mariinsky Ballet company where she was promoted to the rank of Character Dance Soloist in 2016. During her work in the theater, she participated in many performances, productions, and festivals and worked with different modern choreographers. In 2020, Alina received a master’s degree in choreography from the Vaganova Ballet Academy. The same year, she represented her work "The Elusive Light" in "The Workshop of Young Choreographers" which was part of the Mariinsky Festival. Alina has toured with the troupe to the USA, Japan, China, Germany, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Brazil, and other countries. In 2022, she moved to California.

ALEXANDER ROMANCHIKOV

Alexander was born in Krasnodar, Russia. In 2006 graduated from the prestigious Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, and that same year was invited to continue his career with the Mariinsky Ballet company. In 2008 was promoted to the rank of Soloist. Since 2006 Alexander has been a regular participant in such festivals as "White nights”, "Mariinsky" and "Easter Festival". In his theater’s repertoire lots of classical, character, and dramatic roles in ballets such as Swan Lake, La Bayadere, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, Stone Flower, and many others, as well as works by Preljocaj, Balanchine, Gusev, Lavrovsky, Ashton, and Fokine. Alexander has toured the USA, Japan, China, Germany, Great Britain, Austria, France, Brasil, and others. In 2020 Alexander graduated as a ballet master at St.Petersburg Conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov. In 2022 moved to California.

Masha Cherezova

Masha Cherezova is a dancer and choreographer born in Columbus, Ohio and raised in Southern California. In 2019, she left the United States to pursue her professional career as a ballet dancer in Russia. From 2019 to 2022, Masha performed the full extent of the corps de ballet repertoire of the Novosibirsk Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet as well as the Astrakhan Theatre of Opera and Ballet. Currently, Masha is a student at the University of Southern California studying Business Administration and independently choreographing. Some of her recent works include a compositional piece involving lanterns as unconventional lighting (We All Fall Down), a vignette on sisterhood (Two by Two), and a one-act ballet created for the students of V&T Dance Academy (Lemons?), and others.

Aaron Smyth

At 17, he left home in Australia to chase his dream to be a professional ballet dancer. Since then, he has been a company member with the American Ballet Theatre II In New York, The Royal Ballet in London and The Joffrey Ballet in Chicago as well as being an original cast member in London's West End production of An American In Paris choreographed and directed by Christopher Wheeldon. He has danced for royalty, the Obamas and beautiful people like you as he now travels the globe as a guest principal artist. He's also danced on TV, appearing on two series of the Got Talent franchise, coming third in Australia and making the quarter finals in America. He is also featured on the ballet documentary “First Position”. He won the Gold Medal and audience choice award at the prestigious Genee International Ballet Competition and have won 5 X medals at other International Ballet Competitions. He recently received the Special Jury prize for Best Performer at the Shanghai International Ballet Competition. He played the role of the Snow Cavalier in Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms feature film dancing with Misty Copeland and recently played the role of Older Billy in Billy Elliot the musical in the 10th anniversary tour of Australia. Aaron is currently performing as a principal guest artist and teacher around the world.

Matisse Love

Matisse Love is a professional Ballerina and Actress. Matisse began her ballet career at age 7 under the direction of the Kirov Ballet Soloist Marat Daukayev in Los Angeles. At 12 she was cast as “Matisse” as a series regular on ABC Family’s TV show Bunheads created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, creator of Gilmore Girls and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. At 14 she co-starred in the Academy Award nominated Documentary Getting to the Nutcracker, created by Serene Meshel-Dillman. At 16 Matisse was cast as the Cinderella ballet model for Mariinsky’s Production of Cinderella at the Dorothy Chandler Music Pavilion appearing in several Billboards throughout Los Angeles, and was the official a ballet model for The Pointe Shop stores in CA. At 16 Matisse won a ballet scholarship to train at Juilliard in New York with the Bolshoi Ballet Academy. There, she won 1st Place in the Bolshoi Ballet Academy’s summer competition and was then offered to study at the world renowned Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, Russia. She studied and trained in the highest Russian class, graduated in 1.5 years and achieved the highest grades. She speaks fluent Russian. Matisse went on to compete in national and international ballet competitions, winning 1st and 2nd place awards. She was named “Laureate” after winning 2nd place at the Azerbaijan International Competition in Baku and was the only American to compete. Upon graduating from the Bolshoi, Matisse was offered to dance professionally with the Russian State Ballet Theater in Moscow under artistic director Vyacheslav Gordeev. She became the first American Soloist within 2 years and performed in over 250 cities with the Theatre.

Matthew Evan Schroeder

Matthew Schroeder, originally from Chicago, Illinois, is a New York City & Los Angeles based dancer, choreographer, and teacher who fuses various styles, techniques, and experiences in his work. Matthew received his BFA in Dance Performance from Chapman University in Orange, California with a minor in Leadership Studies. Matthew has trained and studied under notable teachers and choreographers such as Ido Tadmor, Jennifer Backhaus, Julianne O'Brien, Charles Maple, and Lawrence Rosenberg. He has freelanced throughout Southern California, the Midwest, and the east coast performing with dance companies, dancing in music videos, fashion films, dance films, and live dance concerts & galas. Matthew has been featured in works for choreographers such as Ido Tadmor, Desmond Richardson, Dwight Rhoden, Igal Perry, Jessica Lang, Mats Ek & Talia Paz, Lula Washington, and Julianne O’Brien. He is also a freelance choreographer and has set multiple works at Chapman University and locally. Previously, Matthew was an apprentice with Backhaus Contemporary Dance, directed by Jennifer Backhaus and is currently a company member for Peridance Contemporary Dance Company in NYC under the direction of Igal Perry. Matthew is signed with Go 2 Talent Agency and is grateful to be doing what he loves each and every day.

Amanda de Oliveira

Amanda De Oliveira is a Brazilian-American dance artist, choreographer and educator. She trained at ABT's JKO school on a full merit scholarship. Upon graduating in 2011, she was offered 5 professional contracts before accepting her position with ABT. While at ABT she was awarded the Marjorie Isaacs Dancer Award. She has performed with ABT and NYCB in Lincoln Center in NY and the Kennedy Center in DC, and as a principal guest artist in countries including England, France, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Lebanon and all over the United States. She has taught master classes for top universities such as Yale, Stanford and Princeton. And has choreographed for Columbia University MFA program, Westchester Ballet Company, DKCBA and YAGP (where her work has been awarded top prizes).

Jacob Ray

Jacob Ray is a professional ballet dancer with the Los Angeles Ballet. Jacob was born on May 30th 2000 in Irvine, CA before moving to Portage Michigan two years later. Jacob began his classical ballet training at the Grand Rapids Ballet under the artistic direction of Patricia Barker and his teacher Attila Mosolygo. Two years later, Jacob returned to California where he continued his classical ballet training with Dmitri Kulev. In 2019, Jacob joined the Colorado Ballet studio company and was promoted to Apprentice by Gil Boggs. Jacob joined the Los Angeles Ballet, under the artistic direction of Melissa Barak.

Aimee Cho

Aimee Cho is a junior at Crean Lutheran High School. She trains under the direction of Mr. Dmitri and Ms. Jennifer Kulev at Dmitri Kulev Classical Ballet Academy. Aimee received a full scholarship to San Francisco Ballet for this summer (2023). She also attended the American Ballet Theatre JKO SI in New York City last summer (2022), and received a full short-term and summer program scholarship to Houston Ballet (2022). Aimee has been the recipient of Laguna Dance Festival’s Young Artist Scholarship and has performed her solos in Laguna Dance Festival’s galas from 2017-2022. She has also been accepted to numerous ballet summer programs including The Royal Ballet School and the Juilliard School. Aimee has worked with choreographers Andrew Winghart (music video ‘Hear This’ 2017) and Will Loftis (CBS TV show ‘WorldsBest’ 2019).

Lost Letters of Love

"Lost Letters of Love" is a unique project, a collaboration of original modern choreography, live music, graphics, and poetry in one performance.

Every day we write letters and send countless messages to each other. Sometimes it is just meaningless chatter or correspondence at work, and sometimes one notification, one line of a message, that appears on the phone screen can turn into an epigraph to the most important love story or rewrite the whole chapter of our lives.

Our project Lost letters is about dialogues and silence, endless love and a cold wall of misunderstanding, fears, and pain hidden deep inside, and tenderness and loneliness. About everything that we can find in lost and unsent letters to ourselves, to our loved ones, or to eternity.

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