This year, the famous choreographer celebrates several important dates at once. Twenty years ago, the first dance school studio Todes opened, and five years of the Assue Todes Dance Theater.
- Alla, your dance theater for five years. Is it a lot or a little?
- On the one hand, we are still very small. On the other hand, for these five years a lot has been done. In the repertoire of the theater, seven performances are already, two of which are children's fairy tales, which is not bad for five years. The repertoire is replenished and will be replenished. On Sundays, we have mandatory theater evenings, as we call them, for our studiors and schools. Every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday there are performances for adults and children. We believed in success, because the tour activity of the ballet "Todes" as an independent creative unit successfully lasts for twenty years. And in our country, and around the world, with a huge success. I, in fact, did not doubt that the theater will have the same fate.
- How today we take children to our studios - you probably have accumulated a great experience, and there are schools not only in Russia, but also for its borders?
- In the studio we take absolutely everyone, if there are places, of course. Let's give a chance to everyone. School comes for various reasons. Do not everyone want to get the profession of a dancer. Someone wants to learn to dance, move. Someone - lose weight. Children are simply for general development - both physical, and spiritual, and social. There are more capable, there is less, but it does not say anything. Sometimes just able to give odds to those who have talent, because they work and want to achieve heights. Accordingly, from the best children, we formed groups in which they are already represented than they will be engaged in the future. From these groups we have professional dancers and grow up.
Alla Duhova still spends almost every day in the dance studio
- In early March, the Kremlin Palace was held by the "Big Concert" Todes "dedicated to the 20th anniversary of school studios. How did everything go?
- Oh, wonderful! We came to congratulate our friends-stars. Our absolute champions performed on the Kremlin scene with their numbers. Opened and closed the concert. Stars sang. Our entire professional troupe prepared for this holiday. The concert was wonderful. It will definitely show on the air of the first channel. This is a powerful and spectacular action.
"Alla, you brought up so many professional dancers, and you have continuity of generations?"
- Yes, of course, of course. (Smiles.) We have a lot of married couples. Weddings are quite frequent. Very many children of Todesovsky were already born. I have a junior, Kostik, goes to school studio, dancing with great pleasure. Just lives it. He knows the entire repertoire by heart. In general, he loves Todes very much.
- How does your granddaughter refer to dancing?
- also dances. Only hear: "Grandma, look, grandmother, look!" And shows how it does it. Very musical. What will dance is for sure. (Laughs.) I do not know if she wants to do this professionally, but the fact that she loves it very much - a fact.
- She calls you that grandmother? How do you feel about this?
- Oh, I feel great for this. I even always comes to ask her: "Sonya, do not call me a grandmother, call by name." I understand some purely psychologically cannot accept it. But it is not about me. We somehow naturally have a grandmother and grandmother. Of course, she is my granddaughter, and I am her grandmother. (Laughs.)
Alla Dukhova with sons Vladimir and Konstantin and granddaughter Sofia
- And how is the beautiful, successful, famous woman belongs to their age?
- To age? There is no time to think about it. Therefore, somehow you do not notice the age. All the time you are among young people around the children. Feel yourself too young. In addition, choreography is this such profession, pay attention, everyone who is engaged in, hold down by the soul and body. Sometimes just thinking: "God, so that with health it was normal, more forces." There used to be forces more. (Smiles.) There have grabbed three hours of sleep, now you need to get enough sleep.
- How is your day usually built today?
- Nothing changed. I get up in the morning. If there is time, I will talk with children. Then I go into the woods on the class of Scandinavian walking. Shower - and forth. If you are lucky, I will return to eleven in the evening. This means that there is time for communicating with relatives. But more often no. Usually deeply for midnight come back. Especially during the places. And the programs are constantly. Recently released a new performance "before meeting in a fairy tale" for theater, they were preparing for a great concert in the Kremlin.
- What see yourself today in the future?
- I see the same. (Laughs.) We will work on creating new performances, prepare for new events. By the end of the year, touring both in Russia and abroad. Constantly open new schools. Our future plans are always unchanged: we try to do what there was not in our creative life.