To the attention of all those who care about the Academy of Russian Ballet; An unfortunate, unpredictable and unspeakable event has happened in the Academy on October 28th by the decision of the Ministry of Culture; the artistic director Altynai Asylmuratova and the president of the Academy Vera Dorofeeva were fired. A new president of the Academy was pointed out, his name is Nikolay Tsiskaridze and he is an ex-principle dancer of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre. Mr. Tiskaridze does not have the pedagogical experience nor does he have the required experience in keeping the maintenance of the building housing the Academy of Russian Ballet in Saint Petersburg. Mr. Tsiskaridze has a reputation of a scandalous man. Thus being the reason why his contract was not prolonged with the Bolshoi Theatre and because of his scandalous nature, he was not able to find any job position that he wanted for himself, (which is a top job at the top theatre or a school in Russia’s two capitals which are Moscow and Saint Petersburg). Most of the professional staff of the Academy are not accepting such a candidate. The Academy that was so successful, with a great professional staff, wonderful students that dance all over the world in world’s major ballet companies are now suffering and hurting by this decision of the Ministry of Culture. Not to mention, that the true legend of the Kirov Ballet Altynai Asylmuratova is treated extremely unfairly in this situation. Next year the president’s and the artistic director elections should take place in the academy, but because of the pressure and the atmosphere of fear that was created by the Ministry of Culture and Mr. Tsiskaridze’s all mighty supporters, the mass media are spreading false accusations and allegations about the previous administration. Government officials come to the Academy with warrants to do the search and the investigation. By threats and intimidation the new administration under the leadership of Nikolay Tsiskaridze are trying to put pressure in all the staff of the Academy in order for them to cooperate. The situation in the Academy is very, very tense, to say the very least. We think that it would be wise to propose our candidates for the spots of the Artistic director and the President of the Academy and those chosen by the staff members of the Academy until the new election takes place; to place someone neutral and well respected by all staff members of the Academy in the position of the President of the Academy. We are sure that this would stabilize the situation and stay the crisis allowing the Academy do what it does best; producing great ballet dancers.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 00:09:44 +0000
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