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Thousands of children from all over Russia were able to see the incredible spectacle. The festival was held in Moscow for the 10th time rhythmic gymnastics Alina. He has long since outgrown his rank sporting event, and became a real holiday for children and adults. Every year in the arena they not only perform and show their skills, but put on an entire performance. The future queens of sports are also ready for bold experiments - for example, combining elements of gymnastics and ballet.

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The current festival was held at one of the best venues in Moscow for “Sports and Cultural” events - the VTB Ice Palace.

A concert stage with a gymnastic carpet was built directly above the Ice Arena. Modern technologies make it possible to preserve the hockey field and the gymnasts and spectators without freezing!
90 thousand spectators and 12 thousand gymnasts have taken part in the Alina Rhythmic Gymnastics Festival over the past 10 years! The whole “Sports Generation”! And the television broadcasts of this show were seen by tens of millions of sports fans.

“We are really no one here, we are just organizers! And this holiday is made by children for children! And I always tell them: children, you perform not for adults, but for the children who will come! And they do it with pleasure, they tried their best today They always try!"- says Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva.

If you want maximum results, delve into everything! There are no villages in achieving success! Kabaeva knows this better than anyone else! From economic issues to creative decisions at this festival, everything is under her personal control!

The Alina festival has been in fact international for a long time! Beginning gymnasts from all over the world dream of performing on this mat. Experts note that this is where future “worthy rivals” for our athletes are formed. Without “strong competitors” there are no “worthy winners”!

“Representatives from our near abroad and beyond - everyone came. Because Alina is the person thanks to whom rhythmic gymnastics has become so popular. Now she is in third place in terms of attendance at Olympic Games! Gymnasts from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, South Ossetia, Bulgaria, Israel, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Monaco, Japan and Italy came to Moscow for the 10th anniversary festival," - President of the All-Russian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics,"- President of the All-Russian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics Irina Viner-Usmanova.

“It is a great honor for us to take part in such a festival, taking place in Russia, the birthplace of rhythmic gymnastics. And we are inspired by the mood and energy of the sport that reigns here!”,- two-time world champion in rhythmic gymnastics Alessia Maurelli shares her impressions.

By the way, it is no coincidence that Italian athletes are at this festival. Last year, in Milan, Alina Kabaeva, receiving an award for the development of rhythmic gymnastics, personally invited the “local team” to come to Moscow.

“An invitation from Alina Kabaeva, the standard of rhythmic gymnastics, is a special privilege. She instills confidence and strength in athletes not only in Russia, but throughout the world,”- says Franco Askani, President of the International Federation of Sports Film and Television.

People's Artist of Russia, Rector of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet Nikolai Tsiskaridze staged a piece for the festival in St. Petersburg. He assures that ballerinas have a lot to learn from gymnasts.

“We must focus on sports! Sports, of course, are ahead of us. They have competitions every year - they stimulate us to move forward! Achievements are constantly increasing! They cannot turn into a museum!”,- said the rector of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet Nikolai Tsiskaridze.

Music by Camille Saint-Saëns on the gymnastics mat, young gymnast Polina Shmatko and the best representatives of the Vaganova School.

"It turns out perfectly" the new kind art" when gymnastics is combined with ballet and something new comes out!"- says Sofya Khoreva, a student of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.

Tickets for this “festival of sports, art and beauty” cannot be purchased. They are free. Thousands of children with “disabilities” and children from orphanages were the first to receive invitations to the festival. They have a place in the front row! For example, these guys came from Yakutia and the Kemerovo Region.

“Sport is a pyramid; millions are involved in it, but only a few reach the top! But the merit of this festival is that it gives all children the confidence that they can reach the top not only in sports, but also in life,”- said the President of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) Morinari Watanabe.

The main themes of the current festival are faith in yourself, in your strengths, in friendship, which works wonders and helps you overcome any difficulties. Without which there are no victories, no successes!

On June 2, the State Central Concert Hall "Russia" hosted VIII Charity Festival of Rhythmic Gymnastics "ALINA-2016", dedicated to Children's Day. More than 5 thousand people took part in the festival, including more than 500 gymnasts from all over our country, as well as from foreign countries, including Cuba, Japan, and Bulgaria. The best music and dance groups of Russia, pop, theater and film stars are involved in preparing the festival program.





Alina Kabaeva with participants of the rhythmic gymnastics festival

Almost 500 boys and girls from all over Russia, as well as from foreign countries, including Cuba, Japan, and Bulgaria, took part in the grand festival of music and sports. The event is becoming more vibrant and larger-scale every year - now in the program you can see not only the little stars of rhythmic gymnastics, but also acrobats, trapeze artists and dance groups.

"Alina-2016" pleased with surprises, including performances by popular groups and performers. That evening, Grigory Leps, Dima Bilan, Valeria and Anna Shulgina performed for the guests, and Yana Rudkovskaya and Evgeni Plushenko, Philip Kirkorov and other celebrities were seen among the audience. An unforgettable show, popular tunes, talented numbers, elegant costumes and genuine emotions of the little participants will not leave anyone indifferent.





Alina Kabaeva with festival guests


Irakli Pirtskhalava with participants of the Alina festival

Spectators, including patients of oncology centers, children from orphanages and children with disabilities, will retain impressions of this magical holiday for a long time. And for someone, perhaps, the festival will help them find themselves in sports, believe in themselves and make their dreams come true, as Alina Kabaeva, the organizer and inspirer of the event, did. All of them were able to enjoy the performances of young athletes from different cities of Russia, who demonstrated their skills in rhythmic gymnastics.




Traditionally, athletes from different cities of Russia took part in the festival, one of whom was Yana Kudryavtseva, the youngest gymnast to become absolute champion world at the age of 15

Not only did she come to support Kabaeva her mother, but also Irina Viner, President of the All-Russian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics and coach, under whose leadership Alina achieved her brilliant results, writing her name in history.


Alina Kabaeva's mother, Irina Viner, Alina Kabaeva, Roza Syabitova

On Monday, the 10th anniversary of the Alina rhythmic gymnastics festival will take place in Moscow, which is held with the support of the Charitable Foundation. SE correspondents attended the rehearsal of this long-awaited event.

Natalya MARYANCHIK
from Moscow

GYMNASTICS AND HOCKEY

The anniversary festival "Alina" surprises from the very threshold. This time it is held not at the Rossiya State Central Concert Hall, as usual, but at the VTB Ice Palace. Behind the scenes - hockey goals, heavy protective equipment, sticks... And on stage - graceful young gymnasts. Some of them even look up at the clubs.

Everything is mixed here, just like in life: smiles and hard work, love and perseverance. It is not customary to waste time here, even when minutes count. Young athletes who are not involved in staging the performance practice new movements right under the stage. Moreover, there is no need to force anyone; on the contrary, the coach advises to rest. But the older ones teach the little ones, and they try to repeat...

Alice, if your leg hurts, do everything half-heartedly! - the mentor shouts.

But little Alice just shakes her head and continues to pirouette with her leg raised high. It’s impossible to do otherwise when she’s watching you from the audience Alina Kabaeva.

Rehearsal of the festival "Alina"-2018. Photo by Daria ISAEVA, "SE"

REHEARSAL ONLINE

Girls, look at each other when you throw the ribbon! - Kabaeva commands.

During all three days of rehearsals, she hardly leaves the stage and is directly involved in the preparation of the performances. One or two apt words from Olympic champion- and the little gymnasts begin to catch the object over and over again, which until then mostly fell on the carpet.

It’s really amazing how they manage to organize such different children into one performance. Let's say that one performance involves gymnasts, young dancers of the Todes show ballet and acrobatic track specialists. All of different ages, professional level and even from different cities. They met for the first time only in Moscow, and before that they rehearsed their parts at home and sent videos.

All three days before the festival, young artists rehearse from morning until late evening. In the end, the result will be even more than a show: the elements should form a single plot, a beautiful children's story. Travel, accommodation and meals in the capital for all 600 festival participants were paid for by the Alina Kabaeva Charitable Foundation. And even the stunningly beautiful suits for each were made to order, individually.

Alina KABAEVA: "OUR SHOW HAS NO ANALOGUES IN THE WORLD"

- This year the Alina festival is the tenth anniversary. How was the preparation different?- a question to the main organizer Alina Kabaeva.

We do not attach much importance to numbers and treat each of our festivals with the same reverence, regardless of its number. Competitions are competitions, but such a show, especially in children’s and youth sports, has no analogues anywhere in the world. This year we will have an international composition of participants, teams from Italy, Belarus, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan have arrived. I am very grateful that they found the time, even though the European Championship starts in a week.

- Every year the Alina festival tells a story from the stage. What will the plot be about this time?

Over time, we really realized that we could not only put on a beautiful performance on stage, but also give it a rather serious meaning. The festival is traditionally dedicated to Children's Day on June 1, so the story will be about what we all come from childhood. We will show you how important it is to meet the right mentor, someone who will help you find your unique path in life.

- To what extent do you personally participate in the preparation of the festival?

In the fullest and at all stages, starting from developing the concept and determining the composition of the participants. Sometimes we argue and disagree with each other, but it is in discussion that the truth is born. Makes work very easy modern technologies: now teams from the regions send us videos of their performances, and we can monitor their preparations virtually online. Although it is, of course, impossible to install the program over the Internet. To do this, our choreographers fly all over the country, from St. Petersburg to Yakutia. The difficulty also lies in the fact that all our participants, even the smallest ones, are professional athletes. They are not theater performers, they have their own schedule of competitions and training. And we must take this schedule into account.

- Why this year the festival moved from the Rossiya State Central Concert Hall to Ice Palace? Does this have anything to do with the World Cup?

No, absolutely not related. It’s just an old site, unfortunately, not being developed yet. And we came to a new hall, where there are more technical capabilities to put on a beautiful show. The footballers did not interfere with us in any way, and I would like to take this opportunity to wish them great luck at the World Cup. We really believe in them and hope for a good result!

WHAT IS THE ALINA FESTIVAL 2018

Where: Moscow, VTB Ice Palace.

Year of foundation: 2009.

Organizer: Alina Kabaeva Charitable Foundation.

Participants: more than 6,000 people, including titled athletes of the Russian national team, national teams of Italy, Bulgaria, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Azerbaijan, gymnasts from the national teams of Israel, Kazakhstan and Japan, children's teams from the cities of Russia, South Ossetia and Kazakhstan, children's music and dance groups, stars variety artists, winners of music competitions, world champions in acrobatics, trampoline jumping and aerialists.

Public: The bulk of the audience traditionally consists of children from orphanages and disadvantaged families, cancer centers and children with disabilities. All invitation tickets to the Alina festival are distributed free of charge.

Beautiful princesses, heroes and firebirds - the 9th charity festival of rhythmic gymnastics "Alina" took place in Moscow. Half a thousand young athletes gathered for the festival of sports and art.

This year's festival program was dedicated to fairy tales. Most of the spectators in the hall are traditionally children from orphanages and teenagers with disabilities. Journalists talked to the young participants and their idol, the famous Alina Kabaeva. REN TV.

“We were born to make a fairy tale come true” is the motto of the current, 9th Alina rhythmic gymnastics festival. The possibilities of this sport and the abilities of gymnasts turned out to be truly limitless. And faith in one’s own strength is all-conquering. These girls have proven that they can cope not only with artistic and sports tasks, but also with dramatic ones. The Alina festival is no longer so much a show as a real performance, where the coach turns into a director, and the gymnasts into actresses.

Performance at the festival of the Russian rhythmic gymnastics team - clear example what aspiring gymnasts should strive for.

“If you don’t cry, always try, you will always succeed! Here!” – says six-year-old gymnast from Chelyabinsk Marianna Krasnopevtseva.

And the highlight of the program was “Firebird”. More precisely, two gymnasts: twin sisters Dina and Arina Averina in ballet tutus, to the music of Stravinsky, on the gymnastic mat were no less convincing than ballet primas on the theater stage.

“We worked a lot on the hands! To show the image, to make wings out of the hands - so that everything would be beautiful and harmonious with the music,” - 9-year-old Alina shares.

“We must prove with our movements that we are birds,” Arina explains.

This unique performance was staged by Honored Master of Sports Irina Zenovka. And the costumes were designed by the best “sports” fashion designers.

“The athlete, working in this costume, catches the ball with her head, presses it with her foot and passes it over her back - this is originally the work of the artist and choreographer,”– says tailoring master Natalya Zelenskaya.

In total, they made about five hundred original costumes. The same number of young athletes are involved in this celebration of sports and art. As always, aspiring gymnasts came from all over Russia to the Alina festival. And almost everyone had the opportunity to receive a personal master class from the Olympic champion.

"Have fun! I'll be watching you!" – Alina Kabaeva mentors girls.

Being the organizer of the festival, I literally lived in this hall for the last four days. Personally adjusting each act, checking sound, lighting and stage designs. She admits that she herself dreamed of such a holiday as a child. More precisely, then I couldn’t even dream of it.

“When I arrived in Moscow in 1995, rhythmic gymnastics was only in Moscow,” recalls Alina Kabaeva. – And now - in different regions. Children came to us from Yakutia. They flew for 10 hours. Imagine what kind of country we have! Well, how are you, how did you get there? Everything is fine? And I’m happy that in Yakutia there is good schools and gorgeous children."

Yakut athletes turned out to be especially convincing in “The Winter's Tale.” They assure: their national dances and character have a lot in common with rhythmic gymnastics.

"Here is the spirit of childhood, here is the spirit of beauty, purity, love,– Irina Viner-Usmanova, President of the All-Russian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics, admires. – And here the children are not yet infected with the thirst for success, the thirst for victory. They are infected with a thirst for love for rhythmic gymnastics. And I’m happy that Alina has been finding, bringing, organizing and showing these children for 9 years in a row.”

This year at the Alina festival, children not only sang and danced, but also read the best Russian fairy tales. And artists Dmitry Pevtsov, Marina Alexandrova, singers Nikolai Baskov and Dmitry Bilan helped make fairy-tale characters recognizable, understandable and modern.

“The children made a wonderful fairy tale,” concludes Alina Kabaeva. – They must create their own fairy tale and be the heroes in this fairy tale, and if they still find their path through life, then everything will work out for them.”

Today the tenth anniversary rhythmic gymnastics festival “Alina” started in Moscow, which is held with the support of the charitable foundation of Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva. The famous athlete, after whom this festival is named, personally supervised the preparations for the opening and was present at all rehearsals, observing the participants. Photos and videos of 35-year-old Kabaeva with her young fans flooded the network.

Before the opening of the festival, the athlete managed to talk a little with journalists:

You know, my whole life has been spent in this sport, in rhythmic gymnastics. I became a champion - the path was not easy, I became a popular person in rhythmic gymnastics. And, to be honest, I didn’t want to lose my name. For many little girls, I am probably an idol. And to keep this going, we decided to call the festival “Alina”,

— she said in an interview with the Mir TV channel.

The festival is large-scale - there are more than six thousand participants from different cities of Russia (and not only). Everyone’s level of training is different, because here there are professional athletes and pop groups. But children in short time we have to learn to work together, because the disparate acts should eventually turn into one show.

The first photos are from blogger boo_10.