van Hoecke, Derevianko: “Love for Russia, a land always present in his shows”

“Micha had the soul of a child, always ready to get excited about a discovery, to experiment, to get back on the game. He was an imaginative creator with extraordinary choreographic ease. He loved Russia and we often spoke in our mother tongue. But he was a Russia translated by the memories, the memories, the stories of the family, yet always present in its shows. A land ‘lived’, however, with detachment, not the Soviet one that unfortunately I met “. It is the memory of Micha van Hoecke that the Russian star, former star of the Moscow Bolshoi, Vladimir Derevianko, entrusts to Adnkronos before attending today the funeral of the great choreographer and director who died in Massa on Saturday night.