The journey of the legendary ensemble goes back to 1969 and is tied to the name of a talented choreographer and dance director Gennady Petukhov, who was the first to single-handedly create a dancing routine for a collective of gifted students from the Siberian State Institute of Technology.
Gennady Petukhov was a member of the Krasnoyarsk State Academic Dance Ensemble of Siberia under the direction of Mikhail Godenko, the famous dance choreographer, for many years. This professional experience ensured steady creative growth of his own dance company. Talented, dancing-wise gifted youth always reached out to make the team itself, so in the year 1973 the ensemble was already recognised with the prestigious «People’s» title.
During his lifetime, Gennady Petukhov received such honorary titles, as Honoured Cultural Worker of the RSFSR (1976) and Honoured Art Worker of the RSFSR (1980), and is remembered by the generations of Siberia and Krasnoyarsk residents as an outstanding master of Siberian choreography.
Over the years of constant performing, Yeniseiskie Zori has evolved into the professional dance company from an amateur group of college kids. During international tours, the ensemble members were regarded and rated as professionals. Oftentimes, the public would not believe these were young students dancing.
For both the high performance and idea- and thematically-oriented culture, repertoire diversity and the great work on developing creative arts the ensemble was awarded the title of the Lenin Komsomol Prize Laureate of Krasnoyarsk Region (1976).
In July 1995, by the Decree of the Krasnoyarsk city administration, the dance ensemble Yeniseiskie Zori was registered as a Municipal Budgetary Institution of Culture. In March 1996, the dance company was named after Gennady Mikhailovich Petukhov.
Yeniseiskie Zori has repeatedly performed on the stage of the State Kremlin Palace, participated in the opening and closing ceremonies of the V and VI Winter Spartakiades of Peoples of the USSR, the XXII Olympic Winter Games, and the XII World Festival of Youth and Students.
The sheer mastery of the talented Siberians has already left audiences from Hungary, Romania, Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, the USA, Vietnam, Korea, the Philippines, Mongolia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, India, Austria, Italy, China, Japan and other countries absolutely thrilled.
In 2001, the soloist of the Mikhail Godenko Krasnoyarsk State Academic Dance Ensemble of Siberia, Honoured Artist of Russia Igor Victorovich Gorlov and People's Artist of the Russian Federation Lydia Dziobak became the artistic director and choreographer-stage director of the ensemble respectively.
Today, the dance company carefully preserves the traditions of folk dance and creates new choreography routines. The examples of said traditional folk culture are the productions Golden Russia, Farewell to Winter, The Maiden Ornaments, the one-act ballet Sayan Legend, Siberian Play, suites Krasny Yar and Domes of Russia.
More than fifty years of the ensemble’s creative growth and enthusiasm have been accompanied by the love of the audience and the devotion of Krasnoyarsk to the unique Siberian dance, which has become a national heritage.
The journey of the legendary ensemble goes back to 1969 and is tied to the name of a talented choreographer and dance director Gennady Petukhov, who was the first to single-handedly create a dancing routine for a collective of gifted students from the Siberian State Institute of Technology.
Gennady Petukhov was a member of the Krasnoyarsk State Academic Dance Ensemble of Siberia under the direction of Mikhail Godenko, the famous dance choreographer, for many years. This professional experience ensured steady creative growth of his own dance company. Talented, dancing-wise gifted youth always reached out to make the team itself, so in the year 1973 the ensemble was already recognised with the prestigious «People’s» title.
During his lifetime, Gennady Petukhov received such honorary titles, as Honoured Cultural Worker of the RSFSR (1976) and Honoured Art Worker of the RSFSR (1980), and is remembered by the generations of Siberia and Krasnoyarsk residents as an outstanding master of Siberian choreography.
Over the years of constant performing, Yeniseiskie Zori has evolved into the professional dance company from an amateur group of college kids. During international tours, the ensemble members were regarded and rated as professionals. Oftentimes, the public would not believe these were young students dancing.
For both the high performance and idea- and thematically-oriented culture, repertoire diversity and the great work on developing creative arts the ensemble was awarded the title of the Lenin Komsomol Prize Laureate of Krasnoyarsk Region (1976).
In July 1995, by the Decree of the Krasnoyarsk city administration, the dance ensemble Yeniseiskie Zori was registered as a Municipal Budgetary Institution of Culture. In March 1996, the dance company was named after Gennady Mikhailovich Petukhov.
Yeniseiskie Zori has repeatedly performed on the stage of the State Kremlin Palace, participated in the opening and closing ceremonies of the V and VI Winter Spartakiades of Peoples of the USSR, the XXII Olympic Winter Games, and the XII World Festival of Youth and Students.
The sheer mastery of the talented Siberians has already left audiences from Hungary, Romania, Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, the USA, Vietnam, Korea, the Philippines, Mongolia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, India, Austria, Italy, China, Japan and other countries absolutely thrilled.
In 2001, the soloist of the Mikhail Godenko Krasnoyarsk State Academic Dance Ensemble of Siberia, Honoured Artist of Russia Igor Victorovich Gorlov and People's Artist of the Russian Federation Lydia Dziobak became the artistic director and choreographer-stage director of the ensemble respectively.
Today, the dance company carefully preserves the traditions of folk dance and creates new choreography routines. The examples of said traditional folk culture are the productions Golden Russia, Farewell to Winter, The Maiden Ornaments, the one-act ballet Sayan Legend, Siberian Play, suites Krasny Yar and Domes of Russia.
More than fifty years of the ensemble’s creative growth and enthusiasm have been accompanied by the love of the audience and the devotion of Krasnoyarsk to the unique Siberian dance, which has become a national heritage.
