Selected choreographic works and documentation.
Video embeds are excerpts from performances and artistic experiments, not commercial releases.

2025

Le spectre du temps (2025) Choreographic work created for Mina Emge. Documentation of performance below explores perception of time and the human experience in movement.

I Love You, Tchaikovsky! (2022) Choreography: Olga Stoehr Solo work created in 2022. The piece reflects on the emotional dimension of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s marriage and explores themes of devotion, longing, and unreciprocated love. Through an intimate physical language, the choreography investigates the tension between personal identity and societal expectations, focusing on the inner emotional landscape shaped by silence and restraint. Music used within the original production: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Abandoned (2025) Choreography: Olga Stoehr Performed by: Lia Rerich Originally created in 2023 for another dancer and later re-staged for Lia Rerich. The solo was presented at the International Dance Competition Applaus, where it was awarded First Prize. Abandoned deliberately resists a fixed narrative. The choreography opens space for multiple interpretations: departure from a place once called home, the experience of being left behind, or the quiet act of releasing the past. Through restrained physical expression and emotional tension, the work explores transition, separation, and the fragile moment between attachment and independence.

2024

Choreography: Olga Stoehr Performed by: Mina Emge One of the early performances of this production, presented at YAGP. The work explores the perception of time and its fluidity, illustrating how an individual, constrained by daily routines, can become absorbed in the flow of time and lose awareness of life passing by. Through subtle movement and spatial dynamics, the choreography investigates the interplay between personal temporality and lived experience.

2018

Zoyka's Apartment (2018) Choreography: Olga Stoehr Performed by: Students of the Choreography Department and theatre dancers Excerpts from this full-length ballet (1h 20m), based on the play by M. A. Bulgakov. The production was created as part of the exam in The Art of the Ballet Master. The work explores character dynamics, narrative tension, and the interaction between theatrical and choreographic elements. Through ensemble movement, it examines social roles, interpersonal relationships, and the poetic rhythm of everyday life as portrayed on stage.

Visiting Sinners (Graduation Performance) – Trailer (Year: 2018) Choreography & Artistic Direction: Olga Stoehr Performed by: Students of the Choreography Department, dancers of the Opera and Ballet Theater, and the Theater of Contemporary Dance of Chelyabinsk Voice-over: Olga Zavyalkova Trailer for the graduation performance based on M. A. Bulgakov’s play Zoyka’s Apartment. The work presents a choreographic interpretation of character dynamics, social interaction, and narrative tension, exploring the rhythm of theatrical storytelling through dance. The production reflects an integrated approach, where choreography, stage lighting, and performance elements are conceived and executed by the choreographer.

2017

And You Do It in a Doggy Style? (Year: 2017) Choreography: Olga Stoehr Performed by: Students of the Choreography Department, professional artists, and a dog. Mini-performance created for a creative competition of the choreography department. Winner of First Prize; an article about the production was published in the press. The work explores different facets of love through absurd drama. Scenes depict devotion, desire, and human connection, showing how relationships form under varied circumstances. The choreography deliberately uses non-linear structure and unexpected interactions to highlight the comic and absurd aspects of emotional life, offering both humorous and reflective moments.The idea and the title show the different facets of love: a dog is the most devoted creature, who loves unconditionally. A dog can be devoted to its friend, but as an animal, a dog is always looking for a pair for mating. The little stories we showed on stage tell about how one can love, how we fall into the hands of our soul mates. A confluence of circumstances brought together four couples, in which the relationships are built in completely different ways. Some moments will seem illogical, but the genre in which we moved is called "comedy of the absurd". What is the absurdity? In the non-linear construction of events, in the fact that the exposition shows an event that could not have happened without the second part of the production, but the event that foreshadows the third part (the third duet) happens in this same exposition. Yes, it is a little difficult, if you think about it, but also interesting

A choreographic story about a narcissistic man who is confronted with a woman whose inner strength he cannot overcome. He knows that a relationship with a strong-willed woman is beyond his capacity. When he returns to the life he knew before her, surrounded by the same friends and familiar routines, he tries to hold on to the image of himself he has always believed in beautiful, admired, and untouchable. But she has seen through him. For the first time, she begins to understand what freedom feels like. Until then, she had never known anything else. It is like being born in a place where the air is polluted and never realizing that breathing could feel different. Once she escapes into clean air, she can no longer return to the life that confined her. She becomes free without him and, perhaps, a little too proud of that freedom. Their paths will never cross again. He cannot bear the humiliation of knowing that the woman he underestimated was stronger than he was. She, having finally discovered her own strength, no longer needs to look back. Yet he continues living in the past, surrounded by his old friends and the familiar image of himself, unable to let go of the belief that he is exceptional. She did not destroy his illusion. She simply held up a mirror. And for the first time, he was forced to see that much of the life he had built around himself was nothing more than a carefully performed fiction.

Larisa (Monologue Before Death) A choreographic work created in 2017 during my third year of training, as part of an examination in acting for dancers. The piece is conceived as a choreographic monologue of Larisa Ogudalova, the protagonist of Alexander Ostrovsky’s Without a Dowry, in the final moments before her death. Rather than retelling the story, the work focuses on Larisa’s inner state - her vulnerability, despair and emotional isolation. Through movement and physical expression, the scene explores the character’s final confrontation with herself and the world around her.

The piece explores an encounter between a young woman who has never had the opportunity to discover her own strength and a man who is accustomed to seeing women as something he can control. What begins as an unequal relationship gradually turns into a confrontation in which she discovers her own power and realizes how easily she can challenge the ego of someone who seemed invulnerable. By the end, both characters return to their lives changed. Their encounter becomes a turning point: he discovers that not every woman can be controlled, while she discovers a new sense of herself, her strength and her possibilities. They may return to where they came from, but they can no longer see themselves or the world in quite the same way.

This choreographic scene was created as part of my examination in The Art of Ballet Choreography during the 6th semester of my studies at the Chelyabinsk State Institute of Culture. The task was to create a scene for a future ballet that did not yet exist, to choose a literary work and develop an original choreographic interpretation of one of its episodes. I chose Mikhail Bulgakov’s Zoyka’s Apartment, a play set in Moscow in the 1920s, exploring themes of double lives, addiction, love, money, and the desire to escape reality. The scene depicts Manyushka alone, the arrival of Portupeya, and the subsequent appearance of Obolyaninov.

2016

Who Would I Like to Play With? (Year: 2017) Choreography: Olga Stoehr Performed by: Dancers of the Opera and Ballet Theater Created as part of the Art of Choreography exam, this production explores the dynamics of play, interaction, and collaborative movement. Through ensemble work, the choreography investigates relationships between performers, the dialogue of movement, and the poetic potential of shared physical space.

A Choreographic Study: Canario (Year: 2016) Choreography: Olga Stoehr Performed by students of the Faculty of Choreography. The work was created as an examination piece for the Historical and Social Dance course, as part of the second-year Choreographer’s Art program. The production presents the historical dance Canario, a dance of Spanish origin that has been known since the 16th century.

An examination piece in Ballroom Dance - a tango I created as part of my choreography studies. Music: “Magnolia” Tango

2015

A world where everyone expects to be seen, admired and obeyed. What happens when those who are used to controlling others meet their equals? The piece explores the tension, competition and fragile power dynamics that emerge when no one is willing to take the subordinate role. Unfortunately, no high-quality recording of the original performance has survived. I have nevertheless chosen to share this fragment, as the work remains one of my significant choreographic pieces and was awarded 2nd place in a choreography competition.

A choreographic study created during my second year of training in choreography, as part of an examination in choreographic art. The scene was conceived as a fragment from an imagined ballet based on Nikolai Gogol’s The Overcoat, depicting the moment when Akaky Akakievich enters a dreamlike reality. For the music, I chose Alfred Schnittke’s Gogol Suite, whose contrasting atmosphere, grotesque elements and underlying sense of tragedy closely resonated with Gogol’s world. Rather than illustrating the story literally, I used the music and the dream sequence as a starting point to explore the character’s inner world through movement, atmosphere and theatrical imagery. The scene was created as an independent choreographic fragment, imagining how Gogol’s literary world could be translated into the language of ballet.

2014

Towards the Light (Year: 2014) Choreography: Olga Stoehr Created for admission to the specialty Art of the Ballet Master, this work explores the journey of a person seeking light as a metaphorical way out of challenging circumstances. Through movement, the choreography investigates the interplay between struggle, hope, and transformation, emphasizing the inner process of searching for clarity and resolution.

Endless Yesterday (2014) Choreography: Olga Stoehr Performed by: Daria Kazadayeva, Alisa Khrulkova, Anastasia Chernykh, Vera Prokhorova, Anastasia Gladko, Anastasia Dovzhenko, Valeria Cherepanova, Alena Gizatulina Institution: Chelyabinsk State Institute of Culture and Arts Inspired by the song "Girl from the Tavern" (Yuta), this work explores the enduring feeling of unrequited love. The choreography reflects on how past emotional experiences linger in the present, creating a sense of living in an endless yesterday. The piece was presented at the 12th Russian Competition of Ballet Masters, earning recognition in the nomination Best Composition. Music used within the original production: Yuta – "The Girl from the Tavern".

Bitter Share (Year: 2014) Choreography: Olga Stoehr Performed by: Five dancers Inspired by Zoshchenko’s Bitter Share, this satirical miniature explores social behaviors and human frailty. The choreography divides the narrative into five letters, each performed by a different dancer, illustrating Anna’s changing relationships and shifting identities. Through playful yet precise movement, the work examines how adopting another’s worldview transforms the self, and how fleeting attachments can lead to inevitable disappointment.

2013

The Last Bus (Year: 2013) Choreography: Olga Stoehr Supervision: Irina Panova Performed by: Dance group (students) Created while Olga Stoehr was a 10th-grade student, this production follows the journey of The Last Bus through expressive ensemble movement. The choreography highlights narrative clarity, group dynamics, and the performers’ interpretive abilities. The work was presented at multiple competitions, demonstrating early choreographic skill and collaborative direction.

All works presented here are part of my artistic portfolio. Videos document live performances and are embedded via YouTube for presentation only.