Dance Laboratory
The Festival "Context. Diana Vishneva" closed on November 29th in Moscow. For five days Moscow was immersed in the world of dance in its various manifestations. The audience watched performances and documentaries, and participated in a public talk.
The closing programme for the event included an evening of ballet at the Mossoviet Theatre and a gala dinner at the Metropol Moscow Hotel, in partnership with the Legendary Armenian Brandy ARARAT.
Some of the guests of honour present at the event included Roman Abramovich, Sergey Kapkov, Sophia Gudkova, Natalia Timakova and her husband Alexander Budberg, Jurate Gurauskaite, Alexander Klyachin, Vyacheslav Murugov, the of the "Context" Festival and Artistic Director of the Rotterdam Dance Academy — Samuel Wuersten, and many others.
According to Diana Vishneva, the Festival "Context" is "a laboratory where Russian and foreign choreographers can share their creative style and work methods with each other, and also with dancers and students — and of course, with the highly sophisticated Moscow public".