Somу highlights from Alla Sigalova’s Biography:

 

 

Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 1978, under the tutelage of N. Dudinskaya.

 

1987-1989 – choreographer in the “Satirikon” Theatre.  Choreographed the following productions:

 

J. Genet's “The Maids”,  F. Durrenmatt's “Hercules and the Augean Stables”.

 

1989-2000 – director of “Alla Sigalova’s Independent Dance Company”.  Productions: “Playing Hide and Seek with Loneliness”-  music by Messiaen , Mahler, Gershwin; “Othello” - music by Verdi; “Queen of Spades” - music by Schnittke, “Salome” - music by Szymanowski, Chausson; “The Sculptor of Masks” by F. Crommelynck; “La Divina”; “The Cynics” by A. Mariengof.

 

Choreographed the following productions for other theatres:

 

“Diary of an Ordinary Girl” by N Kosterina;  “The Bedbug” - music by  Dashkevich and Kim based on Mayakovsky's play – Mayakovsky Theatre 

 

 “Overstocked Packaging Barrels” by V. Aksyonov, “Passion according to Bumbarash” music by Dashkevich and Kim – Theatre under the leadership of O. Tabakov

 

“Banana” by S. Mrozek  - Mossovet theatre

 

“Yvonne, the Princess of Burgundy” by W. Gombrowicz - Theatre of Lower Saxony

 

“Money-bank” by Labiche – Nuremberg Theatre

 

 “Nutcracker” - music by Tchaikovsky -  Ekaterinburg City Ballet

 

“Duets”, “Yellow Tango” - music by Piazzolla;  “Bolero” – Latvian National Opera

 

“Visions of Ivan the Terrible” - music by Slonimsky – Samara Theatre of Opera and Ballet

 

“Traviata” - music by Verdi – “New Opera” Theatre

 

“Sketches to the Sunset” - music by Desyatnikov – joint project between Lithuanian and Latvian Opera and Ballet Theatres and Moscow Musicians' Union

 

“Seven Deadly Sins” - music by Weill and Brecht – Lithuanian Opera and Ballet Theatre

 

“Dreams of Love” – Theatre of Popular Genre 

 

“Romeo and Juliet”, “Djan” – Pushkin Theatre

 

Directed her own productions at the Pushkin Theatre: “Nights of Cabiria”, “Madame Bovary” by Flaubert

 

“Carmen. Etudes” – Moscow Chekhov Theatre

And other productions...

 

Professor at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, where she taught Stage Dance at the Faculty of Directing from 1982 to 2004. Professor, Head of the Department of Movement at the Moscow Art Theatre School from 2004.

 

In 2008 – received the “Golden Mask” National Theatre Award  “for the fruitful synthesis of drama theatre and choreography”