i heard such a phrase from one beautiful ballerina, who said, i was greedy for ballet. then i re- er myself, translated it and changed it to the point of being able to dance. i mean, let's dance for every opportunity, and i thought i think that's how life works out for me. i work at the mariinsky theatre. i have, uh, two courses at the conservatory. i am apart from everything else. uh agreed to do the first issue in the history of the dance academy of boris echinon, and i'm doing some projects at an art festival. i understand that probably, here it is, greed for the realization of oneself, she creates. this is precisely the definition that i was greedy for the possibility of it. i'm afraid. i miss something. well, not because it really wants not to be everywhere. and i have more interests here, in which i want to check.

journalists themselves call him the knight of dance, the prince from pinsk and the pride of the belarusian ballet, his life, literally, is woven of accidents and fateful signs. but as they say, nothing happens by accident. today my guest is the chief to be mister of the bolshoi theater of belarus honored artist of russia igorkov. igor good morning. good morning. i'm sure you get asked this question a lot, but still. where did you get such an unusual surname, in fact. i got it from my parents. she was a double, i found out a little later that call was a posidite. it seemed to me that it was very beautiful and theatrical, especially when i still had

nothing to do with my current path and well , after a while i realized that this was just a designation of the place call-rural, that is, i had something to do with strength and since the village my parents and in general the line of my father, uh, is called pillars in full, because only flasks lived there in this way. it has become like this for me. eh, well, not a banner, of course, but some kind of guiding guiding thread. and even more so when, after some time, i realized that the literary celebration of the bloc took place every august in this village. it was such a big holiday, they came there and the village fairs are gone now, that's all. i'm talking about my childhood. eh, and flask. block, on the contrary, of course, i somehow inspired that i have a relationship with the great poet. it is true that you saw your ballet future in a dream, but it was not a ballet future then. it was just a dream. uh, when the boy stands on the stage of the white sorcerer i

heard that in the pinsk choreographic college. you invented quite by accident that this story was brought to me by a friend who brought me around the yard, and she said she didn’t want to go for the company. well, go for the company. it was very inconvenient. we needed to drive early. i studied second shift. uh, only by 9:00. i am i remember very well how you ride the bus in the dark early winter morning. and all this somehow makes you want to sleep and you are being taken somewhere. well, it so happened that somehow i was somehow brought to this truth by some means. but what feelings did you have when you crossed the threshold of this institution. now i remember with gratitude, because even then both solfeggio and a musical instrument were all serious, that is, there really was a good education. if i had stayed there and such a move had not happened, because i am musical tools and analysis of the chariographic forms, which surprised me, that is, for very

young children, that we had to stage and even remember it’s very good that we staged a group and some number, so it was all laid down then in pinsk why do i appreciate it now these moments, they are so key and those very notches from i must say that you entered the choreographic college very successfully, you met people, er, who are, well, teachers, who determined your future fate. and these meetings were also cases. first of all, i don't thought it was a success. for me. it was a stressful move and in minsk it was very hard. and i sobbed and i walked in e. every day i called long-distance telephones to the international telephone booth . well, international. probably then, too, it was the name of his home and said. get me out of here and i don't want anything. i don't need anything, and this went on for a long time. i wanted to go home. what didn't you like? everything, everything,

absolutely everything, because you got used to the fact that you thought you were sleeping in your bed. you watch tv as much as you parents allow, a rigid schedule was very difficult to get used to the fact that it is a discipline. well, in ballet. well, i think that in any other profession it will not take place, how parents reacted in general. here, uh, to such a pirouette of your fate. suddenly the choreography appeared in any way. uh, it was ordered to call in the evening, his mother called two teachers in the hotel in the evening, in some room i don’t remember, in some room i was in the hotel, i don’t remember, and uh, somehow everything started spinning rapidly . that is, it was not somehow, as it seems to me, conscious, rather i was conscious at the moment when i was already so tired of giving birth to my parents with my prayers. and when they returned, they came and said that it would be good if we went to the director of the school now. if he says that you are so mediocre, then we will take you away

and it will already be uh. well, that's it, we'll solve the problem. and i remember myself very well, i was sitting in the car, opposite the school. and they're leaving. i also opened the window. do not forget to say that my legs are crooked, i had it. such, well, as it were, the decisive moment that here they are not discerned, but you must admit that there are a lot of such fateful accidents in your life. so, for example, yuri antonovich troyan took exams at the choreographic college, and it will take 33 years. and you will continue his work as the chief choreographer of the bolshoi theater, er, after the appointment, you cannot meet. you won’t believe that today, after our meeting, i have appointments, so we will meet today, and it’s very important for me to be grateful, because literally five years ago, when i came to minsk, i approached anton still issued a question. how did you finish

and dance, that is, it was important to me. and what is most surprising, he told me that, well, first of all. why ask well in the form. i say, well, i'm already, as it were, preparing myself for the fact that something is well, it will end sometime. he said until you have a specific location. where you go, dance to the last, which is the most amazing, who would have thought. well, then, 33 years ago, it was yuri troyan who accepted you into the choreographic school without an exam. was it luck or is it there was a holding, most likely, it was a necessity, because, as we know, guys

rarely go and i was that very specimen, because there weren’t enough guys, at that time it was a great idea to travel around the cities to select and invite for admission, but in in my case, for some reason it turned out without hesitation with what was said, they brought me and that's how i got there. i do not think that i antonovich remembers this moment, as i probably was very, very much and i will even say more. well, just like that somehow it happened in the exams. you are something should have shown nothing at all. they brought me to undress to shorts, they divided me to shorts and at home and pressed the twine. i sat on the twine. there the frog was pressed , it happened, that is, natural data. i had another thing that i needed to work on, as it were, in order for it to happen next. without leaving

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school teacher alexander ivanovich peredenko. uh sure led to what we are must prepare the sign of the competition and in the second year of college. i was taken or i saw petersburg, i saw white nights and that's it. the rest became soft. i didn't make any plans. i didn't see this perspective or either i saw it or i didn't have it. here, i'm sorry i did not consider it. i totally understood what i was doing . with ballet only after the competition, which i got into, because i saw that you need how others work, what they do. how does it happen? all my life in minsk, it was like a little. with me, but not with me, that is, i do something and there were always people nearby who controlled the process, that is, that i was not independent, they constantly answered for me. you moved, as irinka would have perceived. it was love at first sight. or you had to stubbornly seek to enter the stage for a long time, firstly,

nobody is waiting for anyone anywhere, let's start with this and you need to clearly understand this for yourself, and it so happened that everything is in my face. i was honest, and there were plans for the leadership for me, and it so happened that i quickly enough began to invest my way and literally for 1 season. i had three premier parties. well , there was no need to despair. it was only necessary to work. and what did she do, but your career was developing perfectly, leading the party on world tours. well, even a meeting with the queen of england what is it worth as it was? it was unexpected because. i'm not a man of tricks. i don't really like big noisy companies, i rarely go to parties. and i had the right, since i was an artist, to go to some receptions. i didn't have a suit or a tuxedo nothing hmm and when my teacher is absolutely

wonderful, who made an artist out of me i and i always say that i was born in pinsk studied in minsk became an artist in st. petersburg e he told me such a thing, you are an artist and now everything is possible and how- then at first i doubted, and then i realized that it really was, maybe i went. in what was, after all, the instructions were a, but the behavior at the time and well, it so happened that when that evening i performed the vision of a rose and valery wrote georgiev introduced igor to the club and today it is a whole day of roses. and i came up and when the queen is somewhere you know i remember so well how i did it in the donkeys of life. and i'm in that. uh, since we know that fokin created this miniature for him for the russian seasons and somehow it dissolved me so much at that moment that i, uh, not that i was transferred to that era and could not understand, here it is in front of me for me, not feminine this

story is that i reached out for a hand and a hand. although it was strictly forbidden, in no case should it be approached. she ate in her chair, but it happened anyway. to me no one was arrested. in 2019, you announced the end of your artistic career, but then changed your mind and realized that it was not too early. it so happened that in our life and in the world and for each individual person , covid made adjustments, thereby shifting certain plans. i really planned the end of the season and there was a date for my benefit performance at the mariinsky theater with the participation of my students from the

boris eifon dance academy. well, adjustments were made, and i was in such a moment of confusion. being in my village under novgorod. to be honest, i didn’t understand how events would develop further, how far we all left, how far we sat down in russia uh , do it anyway. uh performances. at first, these were concerts in the season began so somehow very anxious, like everyone else. eh, how something will happen next and the idea itself. she faded into the background for me. that is, here is some specific desire to say goodbye to the stage. she, well dissolved and dissolved and even now leaving. uh, i didn't feel like saying goodbye in any particular way. and because i realized

that i do not say goodbye. and i continue you stayed in the theater. eh, all in all, you did great . you, uh, had a theatre. uh, the dance academy of boris aga is a family home. well, it would seem that, well, the situation, again repeated itself then many years ago, when you practically had everything and suddenly 26 years later you accepted the invitation, and, uh, became the main minister of the bolshoi theater, which influenced your choice? i don't know me seriously, i don't know, i'm like that for me. i had two offers. i rushed about for a very long time, and they are very good one from the bolshoi theater of belarus and there was another one and really worthy and it created such torment in my soul and even when i arrived in minsk i still doubted, firstly, i have a

certain amount experience in all areas. maybe somehow something moves me in terms of the fact that i have not done something yet. although it's not accurate, but uh so. probably still the main one, i will define. this the moment that i was born in pinsk brought me up. uh, asked and laid in me here, maybe it's time. we need, well , something to give you worried about how the staff of the bolshoi theater will perceive i know everyone in the staff of the bolshoi theater and for me it was. well, it's not that interesting for me. such a continuation continuation i know the problems. i know uh how to uh get out of this situation and while i am in in this way in direction. how can i solve some of the questions. i hope i succeed. if i fail, then it will be. well i am

a bad manager as i am very much at msu and am nearing the end of my session. uh, so i'll be a bad manager, if they don't find a solution in the theatrical field, then what is expected of me now, usually from new leaders, they expect some kind of change. you already have some idea of ​​what you will change, of course you do, and i had a long list of questions. both to himself and to the general directors of ekaterina nedulova from her. this was an offer. it was initiated by valentin nikolaevich without a hitch and before uh? and even start to think that this is possible, of course, i sat down and wrote, first of all, questions to myself. they were very important to me, and then some of these questions. i crossed out, i found a solution, how it is possible and what can be offered a car from the second part of the questions. i flew to minsk to talk with

ekaterina nikolaevna and already specifically asked. e. is it possible after i got a clear answer. and yes, this is a possible decision and i was supported then. so i have already begun to think about the subject that, well, probably, yes. uh, now you're taking over get acquainted with the pipe with the repertoire. or have you already started? and i started rehearsals for everything literally from the first day from 8:30 in the morning to 22:00 in the evening. i am in the theater for the first 2 weeks. i actually didn't go outside and it was important for me, because the door of my office is open, in principle. i wanted to talk openly with everyone to determine a number of issues that need to be worked on as soon as possible, because i started not so long ago, and our season ends on july 4th. i had to make it clear to myself that she, too, cannot be made before july 4, and in connection with this, uh, everything that is possible and everything that is impossible, and

even the performance of giselle, which came to me in advance. that is, this is not my repertoire planning. he was in the plans, and i'm doing it, and we're already doing it all together now, because the premiere is after the holidays. and i would like to do the preparatory work as much as possible in order to start, er, indeed, such a serious process from the end of august. their task is not to succumb to provocation boldly

move forward. we gathered at the table. i am of course, i do not support you in this, but i wish you good luck. well, i remember it very well. it is, of course, with me and still lives. there may be some resentment. this is how he reacts. and what? and what are you in the forest, and what are you doing there, and what, and how, and you walk with an ax, they chose a non-standard occupation for themselves, and therefore they are often in the spotlight with men, they will listen to me, they won’t be like that, what oh. no those men will not go. what will my husband say? well, that is the feeling that i'm not doing a pedicure, something else before, i was very shy in general and walking back and forth and communicating with people, but i have to fight with my complexes. in fact, in order for me well, i believe

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morning. i have some kind of cream that the body needs curds in the morning, look tv channel belarus 24 and cook with us. with the move to minsk, how has your family's lifestyle changed, and the family in st. petersburg although literally not so long ago my wife was here and plans to come. uh. children, me adult sons. he is 19 years old in august will be 20 with a girl. eh, and so far so, because each of us has our own direction of the path. with the fact that we are together and at one moment change. i am not a supporter of any such, of course, abrupt movements, and yes, and there is no need. well , given that, uh, your wife galina yablonskaya

she is a ballet dancer. by the way, this is your decision to move. down somehow affected her career. uh, not at the moment, but everyone decided that for some reason we have to sit down together and leave. i don't know why, in what way, when it came to the theater, the mariinsky theatre, information came, it didn't come from me about what had happened. meaning, i did n’t talk at all about where i plan, how i plan, well, this information came from outside, which, uh, made them immediately think that somehow we will now sit down with and we'll see, but since i've never done anything like that, it's not that sharp, since we've already talked about the continuation. yes, i am considering depending on the quality of my path here and further family relations. that is, it is fundamentally important that you met your wife, ballerina galina yablonskaya , in the theater, as it was, firstly. uh, my

wife laughs very loudly and for any reason. and there is i more unambiguously personality. me very rarely. you can laugh the first thing i heard was laughter on the air and through for some time. naturally, we stood to communicate, because you are very often, and i well, it so happened that we began to communicate a little more and created such some fragmentary moments, well, relationships that, after some time, grew into a family and enough . i'd say even, probably not long even though it's a funny moment. e, i e addressed by name, patronymic later it became that we named our son in honor of his grandfather nester. well, when your son nestor was still very young. you said in one of your interviews that you don't give it away to hurts, because ballet

is not a man's business. we didn't plan it in any capacity. uh, in general, uh, we used the maximum opportunities where it was possible to send the child at the age at which he would be interested, and that was all and jumping on the drawing trampoline, and we even took him away to eat the most beautiful group of petersburg souvenirs. we passed the test and he was chosen and the teachers from there called us and said. bring the child and several categorically said no. it so happened to me that, in in principle, his fate was predetermined so that he had nothing to do with the theatrical sphere. but when i passed the exam and when it was hard, he asked the question, why didn’t you send me to ballet, and then we had a specific answer, that here, please, everything was said on you, but we received a clear answer no, but that no less. he is studying now for pr active pr does not

help in my affairs. and even in your studies, refute your quote that ballet is not a man's business. and what do you think now ballet is a male profession. i am i think that regardless of a male profession or a non-male profession in life, it is important to find your own. this is, firstly, and secondly, to find the strength in yourself so that you can be identified, that is, it means to find your face, so here, uh, uh, masculine and not masculine, it is important to remain a man to behave like a man. it's more important not to regret. choice of profession. our program is called the meaning of life for you. what is the meaning of life for me ? the meaning of life is in unification and reunification, and i understood this literally. really not like that a long time ago, when i was invited to the anniversary of the very school from which they

took me, and i thought then that i was coming to pinsk, i don’t have parents there. but there are, and no, parents, who, by the way, dad never saw me on stage, mom saw me, but it was an unsuccessful performance at which i was injured and then my mother stopped, and then i thought that contrary to everyone needs to come to pinsk because my parents are from there. i am and there is a small number of people who know me from childhood, who know somewhere there somewhere that he has something there and when everyone gathered for the concert, when everyone came to my dressing room. eh, i managed to breathe. i don’t know how else to call it, but here i was looking at all those people who remained, then what i consist of, i realized that

here is a reunion. and all this is the meaning of life, regardless. the family profession here at this stage in my profession is the reunion of all those uh skills of knowledge that have been obtained to the maximum to invest in what i am doing now and then maybe i i will not be so useless in general in life, because it’s very scary to miss an opportunity, it ’s very scary and not to realize it, so for me the meaning of life is that there will always be someone to connect or go circumstances who can destroy, well, it’s very difficult to build it. just capacious complex processes. thanks a lot. thank you and see you. this was the meaning of life for igor kolb.