opportunity for Simkin to explore every aspect of the creative process, as well as executive production and fundraising. Intensio, 2015, co-production with the Joyce Theater in New York. Repertory: Gregory Dolbashian's Welcome a Stranger, Jorma Elo's Nocturne/Etude/Prelude, Alexander Ekman's biographical Simkin and the Stage, and Anna Lopez Ochoa's Islands of Memories, the first ballet ever to be performed using real-time generated, video projections that are responsive to the dance. It premiered at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in July 2015, toured to Houston and Buenos Aires in November 2015, and ran at the Joyce for a week in January 2016. Dancers at the New York debut included Isabella Boylston, Alexandre Hammoudi, Blaine Hoven, Calvin Royal III, Hee Seo, Cassandra Trenary, James Whiteside, and Céline Cassone. Falls the Shadow, 2017, co-production with the Guggenheim Museum, New York; a multi-disciplinary dance installation. Choreography by Alejandro Cerrudo. Video designer, Dmitrij Simkin in partnership with interactive media designer Arístides Job García Hernández. Costumes by Dior. "With the added layer of the architecture up the Guggenheims’ rotunda, the choreography took on new dimensions" (The New York Times). Diorama, 2020, co-production with Staatsballett Berlin, was a dance film conceived at the height of the pandemic with long-time partner Maria Kochetkova. Choreography by Sebastian Kloborg. Music by the Kronos Quartet. As Dance described: "Diorama is dark, and strange—a surreal and bizarre chase." The film received an award for "best screendance film under 10 minutes" at the 2021 San Francisco Dance Film Festival. Studio Simkin In 2021, Simkin founded the production company Studio Simkin to explore and develop dance opportunities for the next era with the highest production value and artistic standard, encouraging ballet to evolve within a digital environment and for new forums. While these productions aim to promote dance as an art form, they are also geared toward collaboration and experiment. Drawing on the German concept of the "Gesamtkunstwerk," he aims to create a unique range of possibilities for dance. Media projects Diorama Dance-Masterclass - Daniil Simkin Dance-Masterclass - Interview with Silvie Guillem (co-produced by Simkin) Lenski Variation - Daniil Simkin Daniil Simkin and Maria Kochetkova in Don Quixote Simkin and the City Simkin and the Quarantine aROUND - Olga Aleksandrova and Daniil Simkin Simkin vs. Simkin - Dmitrij and Daniil Simkin Selected repertoire American Ballet Theatre Afterite, Wayne McGregor, Leading Role Allegro Brillante, George Balanchine, Leading Role La Bayadère, Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa, Bronze Idol