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World Premiere
SYMPHONIC DANCES
Choreographer: Edwaard Liang
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov
Conductor: Martin West
Maria Kochetkova*, Vitor Luiz*

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Maria Kochetkova - Official Facebook Page:
The quick link for Facebook users is
http://www.facebook....mariakochetkova

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Maria Kochetkova in "Gisel"on may in Ekaterinburg state academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.  Russia.
Artistic director - Slava Samodurov
http://www.uralopera...uals.php?id=123

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Almost two weeks until Maria Kochetkova will be performing at the Bolshoi with @sfballet
http://instagr.am/p/L0gvg1kUeW/

http://www.bolshoi.ru/en/

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In Hamburg
June  26, 27 and July 1, 2012

Maria Kochetkova will guest at Hamburg Ballet with SF Ballet on June 26 and 27, perform a mixed-bill program that includes Tomasson’s 7 for Eight with Joan Boada  and Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour.   Will also perform on Hamburg Ballet’s Nijinsky Gala XXXVIII on July 1.

Hamburg ballet Gala 1 Juli 2012

from GHOST
Music: C.F. Kip Winger
Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon

Maria Kochetkova, Joan Boada
San Francisco Ballet

http://www.hamburgba...t.de/e/gala.htm

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Maria Kochetkova @balletrusse @RobertoBolle & Friends gala tonight at the Arena di Verona http://instagr.am/p/NaYEImEUe6/ 23.07.2012

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Evan McKie`s article-interview for new @Dance_Magazine ft. @balletrusse@aliciaamatriain Julie Kent Xiao Nan Yu Aurélie Dupond -http://bit.ly/T2dsyT

http://national.ball..._August2012.pdf

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THE ROMANCE OF PERFECTION

A Photographic Exhibition by James Ostrer

Merchant Archive 19 Kensington Park Road, W11 2EU
13 Sep – Jan 2013
Private View 12 Sep 7pm-10pm
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm;
Sun 12noon-5pm
Tel 020-7229 9006

Merchant Archive presents a series of atmospheric photographs by renowned artist James Ostrer of San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Maria Kochetkova dressed in Merchant Archive’s vintage clothing.

The exhibition celebrates her appearance with the ballet at Sadler’s Wells, EC1, 14-23 September.

James has been photographing Maria for 10 years and is inspired by her obsession with perfection and quirky passion for fashion. He uses his photographs as a canvas to symbolise and hint at hidden aspects of her character. As he says, “There is a containment of physical pain and control in ballet which is tightly interwoven with its grace and beauty. I wanted to suggest this through the images of birdcages and her being bound by vintage ribbons.”

JAMES OSTRER
James Ostrer is an artist using Neo Baroque techniques within the mediums of photography and film to examine the common thread of discomfort that underlines western culture. His first solo exhibition, “Death, Sex and Re-birth”, in 2009 explored themes such as gluttony, sexual compulsion and addiction.

In “Journey”, curated by actor Emma Thompson and activist Sam Roddick in a campaign against sex- trafficking, his work was seen alongside that of leading international artists such as Anish Kapoor and Anthony Micallef as well as Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell and art director Michael Howells. This ambitious exhibition toured New York, Vienna, Madrid and The Hague from 2009-2011.

Nominated as curator’s choice for the Taylor Wessing awards at the National Portrait Gallery, James’s 2010 portrait of “Nicky Haslam in Lucian Freud’s chair” explored the intimate relationship between the ‘socialite’ and the ‘artist’. This year he has participated in the Bloom Festival Public Art Event in Verona. One of 40 international artists invited to convert political billboards into exhibition spaces, his photograph was selected to promote the event.

MARIA KOCHETKOVA
Moscow-born Maria Kochetkova joined San Francisco Ballet in 2007 as principal dancer after training at the Bolshoi ballet school and dancing with the Royal Ballet and English National Ballet. Kochetkova also won the American TV series ‘Superstars of Dance’ in January 2009 on NBC and performs internationally as a guest artist with the Bolshoi and Stanislavsky Theatres in Moscow, the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St Petersburg and the Tokyo Ballet in Japan.
Maria will be performing with San Francisco Ballet when they present three eclectic programmes at London’s Sadler’s Wells over two weeks from 14 September.

MERCHANT ARCHIVE

Merchant Archive is a curated vintage and contemporary store located in London’s Notting Hill that has become firmly established in the little black books of designers, stylists and celebrities worldwide.

www.merchantarchive.com/boutique
For press enquiries, images and further information please contact Teri Grenert at tgrenert@gmail.com or telephone 07957 298276

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Photos of Maria Kochetkova by James Ostrer. Visit the exhibit at Merchant Archive in London (19 Kensington Park Road) Sep13-Jan 2013
http://www.complex.c...chive-in-london

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lion, on 07 September 2012 - 09:26 PM, said:

Photos of Maria Kochetkova by James Ostrer. Visit the exhibit at Merchant Archive in London (19 Kensington Park Road) Sep13-Jan 2013
http://www.complex.c...chive-in-london

Good heavens....I clicked on this link and the photo there looks like she's dead! Definitely a coffin theme there.....

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Time Out says
http://www.timeout.c...e-of-perfection

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Maria Kochetkova – San Francisco Ballet – Principal

By Aimee Tsao on September 10, 2012 in Interviews · 0 Comments
Whenever I see Maria Kochetkova off-stage I am always surprised by how diminutive she is, so sparrow-boned and delicate that she could be a Dresden porcelain figurine.
http://www.dancetabs...llet-principal/

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The Romance of Perfection

— September 10, 2012 —

Text by Edwina Langley

http://www.anotherma...e_of_Perfection
"Ostrer shot Kochetkova in a series of poses which suggest vulnerability, playfulness, rebellion; characteristics repressed daily by the requirements of her trade."

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"vulnerability, playfulness, rebellion; characteristics repressed daily by the requirements of her trade."


Those characteristics didn't seem terribly repressed when MK danced in Giselle, Emeralds and Rubies.

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That is a rather bizarre blanket statement of ballet. Methinks the source of the quote is none too familiar with the art. Still, love that shoot and hope to have a chance to see Kochetkova some day, either live or in a live-in-cinema situation.