IVAN ESTEGNEEV
choreographer, performer

Ivan Estegneev is a renowned choreographer and the artistic director of Dialogue Dance School and Company, which he co-founded in 2002 with his partner Evgeny Kulagin. Dialogue Dance has since become an important center for contemporary dance in Russia and has received three National Theater Awards, the “Golden Mask,” for its performances. The company has collaborated with major companies and choreographers from Russia, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Austria, and South Africa. Since 2012, Ivan has worked as a resident choreographer at the Gogol Center in Moscow, where he created several performances with Kirill Serebrennikov, including two productions for the main program of the Avignon Festival. Since 2016, he has collaborated with Polish director Grzegorz Jarzyna (TR Warsaw) on five different productions in Poland, Russia, and China. Estegneev has taught stage movement and cinema dance for acting faculty at the Moscow Film School 2015-2022. Since 2022, he has been a choreographer-in-residence at Thalia Theater, where he has created the following productions: Black Monk, Viy, The Bat, Barocco, Behind the Closed Door, Legende. In 2024 in Hamburg Ivan premiered his solo performance Demon's Sorrow in collaboration with Russian and German artists.