Rashida Akhmedova biography

Rashid Akhmedov - 30 years on stage, the creator of the theater studio, the chamber ballet of Baku "Torc Chore" celebrates the anniversary of his activities by the creative path of the famous Baku choreographer, the playwright of the ballet theater and dancer Rashid Akhmedov began with the director of the balletmaster, director of the ballet, returned to his native Baku.

Behind the young specialist was studying at the Baku Choreographic School, at the Department of Musical Directory of the Leningrad Conservatory named after Rimsky-Korsakov, military service. According to the family legend, he began to dance earlier than saying, while most of his peers only took the first steps, but he went to the ballet scene as a leading dancer at 40 years old when all other ballet dancers were already retired.

There are many similar paradoxes in his life. Here is another. Being a professional choreographer, a dancer and ballet critic, Rashid Akhmedov from his youth, with the fervor of a genuine researcher and a zealous collector, collects and studies the full meetings of the operas of almost all prominent composers, in particular, R. Strauss, J. Rossini, J. By the way, this hobby was useful to the choreographer when he was offered to put several opera projects at the Baku Music Academy: “Crown and Chaban” by S.

Gajibekov, “The Tale of the Stupid Mouse” by R. Shafag, “Little Muk” A. Dadashev and others.

Also repeatedly, like a regular choreographer Opera studio named after Mamedova, I had the opportunity to participate in the production of such performances as the "Traviat" by J. Verdi, "Bastien and Bastienna" by V. Mozart, "Alekho" S. Rachmaninov, "Arshin Mal Alan" of the Uz. The top of this line was the production of dancing at Evgenia Onegin P. Tchaikovsky at the Opera and Ballet Theater in creative cooperation with the director of the Bolshoi Theater of the city of Baletmeister, not counting his student works on the stage of the opera studio of the Leningrad Conservatory, began in the year of the Musical Comedy Theater named after Kurbanova, in which a young specialist worked for three seasons, combining the position of choreographer and a reciter teacher.

During this time, he staged dancing in several performances of this team, among which the "bat" I. Strauss, “Canary Power” by R. Akhmedzade, Pulchinella ballet I. After the transition to the opera studio, his pedagogical practice began at the Department of Opera Training of the Baku Music Academy, where he worked for more than 20 years. Among his students are many wonderful performers who successfully shine on the scenes of theaters of many countries, including the Bolshoi Theater.

From the first years of his artistic career, Rashid Akhmedov began to cooperate fruitfully with many media, in which he published near articles, made an interview and his choreographic miniatures and one -act ballets on almost all channels of local TV. The performing practice of the choreographer also has its own characteristics. From his youth, he represents the choreography exclusively his own essay, and in adulthood his creative evenings the actor timed to the premieres of his ballets, going out in them in central parties.

Thus, Rashid Akhmedov created a whole gallery of peculiar characters on the Baku ballet scene - this is Don Quixote from the same ballet to the music of K. Hindemita, Manfred from the Memoirs of Manfred, J. Brahms and evil from the “Good and Evil” by T. Bakikhanov, an artist from the “Ballad of the Wind” by I. Kafarov and Leo from the “Carnival of Animals” by K. among his other acting works, his images are markedly distinguished by his images as the Lord of P.

Hindemit and the magician in the “Versenny The bells "Schlagobers R. Strauss, a protagonist in" Princess Greze "F. Pulenka, the elements in the" Seasons "by A. Glazunov, the oracle in" Orpheus - Apollo "I. Stravinsky and others. But the main brainchild of Rashid Akhmedov, of course, should be considered an institution for him in the year of the Theater Studio Chamber Ballet Baku "Terpsychor".

It should be emphasized that this entreprise is not a stationary theater with a stable repertoire and a constant number of performers, but a fruitfully working creative workshop, which annually shows the viewer his new productions. After two or three premieres, the troupe spreads to the next dramatic project of the choreographer. At first, it was an initiative group of enthusiasts that helped the choreographer to carry out his diploma performance on the stage of the Central House of Officers.

It included young artists of the ballet of the opera theater and students of the choreographic school. Then, continuing his experiments, Rashid Akhmedov went with them on republican television, periodically receiving a “residence permit” at various city committees of the Komsomol. At that time, talented youth from other musical groups of Baku - Az Concert, the Song Theater named after Beibutov and the Museum of Music Complex.

In these things, in addition to adult performers, pupils of senior classes of the choreographic school also began to manifest themselves.Subsequently, he created the company of the same name for the financial support of his pilot projects and original plans. Rashid Akhmedov himself acquired the official status of the director, moreover, confirming the manager with a diploma.

At that time, the production base and office of the companies from time to time moved to different rental premises. A solid “institute” of sponsors arose - from embassies of several states to an impressive series of oil companies and funds allocating grants for its performances. And since then, the chamber ballet Baku was determined in the rank of NGO - a non -governmental organization in which there is no permanent staff of employees, and all its participants work as volunteers, that is, free of charge.

Rashid Akhmedov himself is constantly carried out by all the productions of this public theater-studio, and they are embodied according to his original dramatic developments to music, which never sounded on the domestic ballet scene. They, reflecting the credo of the choreographer, are based on the works of outstanding composers of the twentieth century. Often, paying tribute to the name of the troupe and the number of participants in its prime minister, Rashid Akhmedov prefers to choose chamber works of wonderful authors.

The performances and presentations of the company usually take place on the stage of the opera studio or theater of the young spectator with the participation of the prefabricated composition of the performers: nowhere to work professionals and. During the existence of the organization, more than one generation of young and novice dancers grew up here, who, thanks to the Baku's chamber ballet, managed to vigorously declare themselves, to identify their creative potential.

From its very source, the TerShor Studio was a tribune of young people for young people. And today, after more than 20 years, the theater continues to work initiatively, creating new performances and growing fresh performing forces in the field of ballet art of the Republic of Azerbaijan.