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AIDA CHERNOVA

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE THEATRE

1989 - 2012.

Pasternak's letter, 1957.

Her creative activity started in 1964.
The destiny made her a gift - Taganka Theatre
to which she devoted the bigger part of her creative life.

Taganka of the 70s: Y.Lyubimov, V.Vysotsky,
V.Voznesensky, E.Evtushenko, B.Okudzhava
and a brilliant assemblage of young then
and now well-known artists.

The beginning of her creative upsurge:
“The Flame of Freedom”
in “Ten Days That Shook the World”,
“Striptease” in “Antiworlds”,
pantomimes in the following performances:
“The Fallen and the Living”, “Hamlet”,
“Save Your Faces”, “Work is Work”
- solo pantomimic performance with the songs of
Bulat Okudzhava, that held in ecstatic tension
all the audience every evening during 8 years.

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The philological faculty of the Moscow State University,
faculty of producing of the State Institute of Dramatic Art,
the title of a Laureat of the International Competition of
Pantomime in Berlin. She gained recognition in Moscow
and during the tours in France, Austria, Great Britain,
New Zealand, Scandinavia, America.
The foreign press calls her “an outstanding actress
of modern dance” and “the antique goddess”.
She found her way of communication with spectators - she
sings,shouts,cries and laughs on the stage - and all this is mute!
"Strength and passion, spirituality and originality
of the talent of this fragile woman shake the audience…"

Vladimir Vysotsky

dedicated his song to Aida Chernova

"She was in Paris" !

The great French mime Marcel Marceau, having attended the performance of Aida Chernova and Yuri Medvedev,
told them that he expected to see students, but saw established masters
of his original direction in art!

The foreign press called her “an outstanding actress of modern dance” and “an ancient goddess.”
"...The strength and passion, spirituality and uniqueness
of the talent of this fragile woman amaze the viewer..."
The foreign press wrote about her.

Recognition has come in Russia, France, Austria, England,
New Zealand, Scandinavia, America, ...

Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, directing department of GITIS,
title of laureate of the International Pantomime Competition in Berlin.
"She found her own language of communication with the audience -
- she sings, screams, cries and laughs on stage -
- and all this without words!..."

The departure of Y. Lyubimov from the country and her quitting of Taganka.
It seemed that everything was lost!

Suddenly a new turn of destiny -
she met a talented artist Sergey Staroohin,
her real partner.
It was the beginning of a completely new,
difficult but interesting work. They created
their Theatre that is not similar to any other,
combining modern ballet, pantomime,
stage movement and actor’s dramatic skill -
- a theatre with new trend -
musical and plastic art.

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Aida Chernova and Sergey Staroohin have created a unique repertoire of performances
that have no analogues in the world, that are full of light and harmony,
on the musical works of
J.S.Bach, G.F.Ghendel, W.A.Mozart, K.Penderetsky, Evstigney Fomin, Viacheslav Artemov.

They are the first on the theatrical stage who dance the music
of Alfred Shnittke - “Concert for Viola and Orchestra” and
“Old Style Dance Suite” in dramatic ballet “Man and Woman”
and plastic ballet “The Music of the Spreading-over Time”.
No wonder that all these performances radiate love.
"Love" - as Aida Chernova affirms -
- the main sense of human existence,
and revival of spirit probably only through
love and compassion.
Love is a lively light, and while he burns,
life is more than a short episode,
she gets sense, as a part of the eternal.

Catalogue “Famous Women of Russia” 1995.