“And maybe the wound from that knife will never completely, totally heal, I can’t know. “But as long as this - the war - goes on, my wife and me, we are totally a freelance couple. I love my Russia, want to see my family, the city, it’s there, a part of me,” Livoy said. Petersburg someday, and how it would feel, he is again subdued. But thoughts of larger concerns remain.Īsked if he thinks of a return to St. He is finding satisfaction in the opportunity. Here Jivoy will dance a solo from his recently choreographed piece, “BA//CH Solo.” Set to music by Bach, the ballet was warmly received at a festival in Switzerland. But it is copyrighted … how dare they do that? I sent an official request to the company, but silence. “Of course, I’m not the most famous choreographer.
But who created the dance? Now, nobody!”Īsked how being culturally canceled feels, he paused. “It shows the costume designer, the lighting designer. Displayed among the 50-plus ballets, including “Swan Lake,” in the company’s active repertoire is Jivoy’s full-length work “The Four Seasons.” Recently, his wife was looking at the Mariinsky’s web site. “I did a few statements against the aggression and the pressure on my colleagues in the arts,” he said.
He and his wife, who is half-Ukrainian, with family in an area of Ukraine near the war front, immediately departed.Īs he describes in the “Reunited in Dance” program: “We had to leave everything, our families, our jobs, our apartment, friends, we simply packed up anything we could take and left.”Įarly on in the conflict, Jivoy also spoke out publicly.
“This theater, this city, this, these people … it was all my home,” said Jivoy in an interview this week.īut everything changed when the “aggression,” as Jivoy quietly describes Russia’s actions. His choreographic promise even won him an award, “The Hope of Russia.” In addition to dancing, Jivoy has created both story-length ballets and smaller pieces. He appeared in the company’s production of “Swan Lake” at Segerstrom Hall in 2012. Jivoy was hired by the fabled Mariinsky Ballet, located literally a block away. Petersburg and trained at the city’s prestigious Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, founded in 1738.
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