About

 

Ilya Jivoy. Choreographer, Dancer, Director
ILYA JIVOY

Ilya graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet specializing in ballet. Later he obtained a master’s degree in choreography from the Vaganova Ballet Academy. He joined the Mariinsky Ballet in 2008.
He has a huge background in performing classical and modern choreography and has appeared in ballets by William Forsythe, Angelin Preljocaj, Paul Lightfoot and Sol León, Dwight Roden, Hans van Manen, and Alexei Ratmansky.
He has been working as a choreographer and stage director since 2013 when he presented his first ballet, miniature “E2”, at the Creative Workshop of Young Choreographers at the Mariinsky Theater.
In 2016 Jivoy staged one-act ballet “Seasons” to the music of Max Richter (Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi The Four Seasons). The ballet was a part of the Creative Workshop of Young Choreographers that year and was a great success. After this the Mariinsky Theater signed a contract with the choreographer to create a two-act ballet to the full score. The resulting ballet “Four Seasons” went on to receive wide recognition and won Russia’s Golden Soffit Award, as well as four nominations for the prestigious Golden Mask Awards (the most prestigious theater award in Russia).
Now the Mariinsky’s repertoire includes five ballets by Ilya Jivoy which are “Four Seasons” to the music of Max Richter, “Jeu de Cartes” and “Pulcinella” both to the music of Igor Stravinsky, “I’m not Scared” to the music of Ezio Bosso, “Sous la Coupole” to the music of Gustav Mahler, “The Snow Maiden” (opera) and “Christmas Eve” (opera) to the music of Nikolai Rimsky- Korsakov. 
 
Ilya Jivoy is one of the most in demand Russian choreographers of our time with his works being staged in Germany, Switzerland, Japan, England, Spain & Croatia. As a choreographer and stage director he collaborates with the Mariinsky Theater (Russia), Origen Festival Cultural (Switzerland), Teatrum Vitae (England), Alye Parusa (Scarlet Sails- festival in St Petersburg, Russia).
 
Jivoy creates vibrant, dynamic and incredibly emotional performances, works in various choreographic styles and applies outstanding directorial techniques.
Ilia possesses a truly unique vision and his works can be easily recognized by the elegant realization of this vision in his creations by the virtuous choreography coupled with the aesthetics of the Russian ballet school which greatly distinguishes his works from others.

Since 2013 Ilya Jivoy has worked as a choreographer:
E2 to music by Antonin Dvorak (Mariinsky theatre, Russia, 2013)
N.M.H.A to music by Sigur Ros (Bolshoi theatre, Russia, 2013)
Adulte to music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Mariinsky theatre, Russia, 2014)
Connections to music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Mariinsky theatre, Russia, 2015)
SeasonS to music by Max Richter (Mariinsky theatre, Russia, 2016)
The Dreamers to music of Duft Punk (Mariinsky theatre, Russia, 2017)
An Awesome wave to music by Alt-j (VKIBC, New-York, USA, 2017)
The Four Seasons to music by Max Richter (Mariinsky theatre, Russia, 2017)
A Flashback to music by Arvo Pärt (London Coliseum, UK, 2018)
Pulcinella to music by Igor Stravinsky (Mariinsky theatre, Russia, 2018)
I’m not scared to music by Ezio Bosso (Juliertheatre, Switzerland, 2018)
Jeu de cartes to music by Igor Stravinsky (Mariinsky theatre, Russia, 2019)
House of memories to music by Max Richter (Juliertheatre, Switzerland, 2019)
The Journey to music by Max Richter (M. Dzhalil Academic State Opera and Ballet Theatre Kazan, Russia, 2019)
Sous la Coupole to music by Gustav Mahler (Munich Philharmonic, Germany, 2020)
Touch the light to music by Philip Glass (Mariinsky theatre, Russia, 2020)
Two Rooms to music by Max Richter (“Grand ballet” TV show, Russia, 2020)
Adulte to music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (TanzTeatr Ekaterinburg, Russia, 2020)
The Snow Maiden (opera) to music by Nikolai Rimsky- Korsakov (Mariinsky theatre, Russia, 2020)
Christmas Eve (opera) to music by Nikolai Rimsky- Korsakov (Mariinsky theatre, Russia, 2020)

In 2018, Ilya Jivoy’s production of The Four Seasons ballet was nominated for 4 Golden Mask Awards in Russia.

In 2018,  his  production of The Four Seasons ballet was honored  with St. Petersburg Higher Theatre Award Golden Sofit as the “Best performance of the Year”.

Tours:
The Four Seasons
2018- Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, Vladivostok, Russia
2018- Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Germany
2019- Zaryadye Hall Moscow, Russia
2019- Granada International Festival of music and dance, Festival Castell de Peralada, Spain
2019- Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Croatia

A Flashback
2018- Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Japan
2019- Mariinsky Theatre, Russia
2019- Alexandrinsky Theatre, Russia
2019- Zaryadye Hall Moscow, Russia
2020- Munich Philharmonic, Germany

I’m not scared
2019- Origen Cultural Festival , Juliertheatre, Switzerland
2019- Mariinsky Theatre, Russia
2019- Zaryadye Hall Moscow, Russia