Konstantin Grouss
Twenty-three years of independent press, in one place — including nine items that no longer exist anywhere on the internet.
Press
Fifty-four notices, reviews, interviews and profiles, 2003–2026, in four languages — from a Vedomosti review of a Cage concert in 2004 to a Snob retrospective in 2025. Fourteen of them cannot be reached anywhere online, and the eleven that can be reproduced are published here in full.
Nine pieces across twenty-one years. Quotations are in the language they were written in.
Vedomosti
«…с участием бригады настоящих ударников и группы танцоров из пластического театра ZERO»
‘…with a brigade of real percussionists and a group of dancers from the plastic theatre ZERO’
The earliest independent press notice of the company that exists — a national daily, reviewing the opening night of Alexei Lubimov’s sixtieth-birthday festival.
Moskauer Deutsche Zeitung
«Ganz in Schwarz gehüllte Frauen, die in 150 Metern über der Stadt tanzen oder zwischen den Büsten antiker Feldherren wandeln»
‘Women wrapped entirely in black, dancing 150 metres above the city or walking among the busts of ancient generals’
A full profile, in German, in Moscow. The most biographically informative article ever written about him.
not online
«Заполярный Вестник», Norilsk
«энергетика, которая исходила от главного героя, передавалась его партнёршам и всему зрительному залу»
‘the energy coming from the protagonist was passed to his partners and to the whole auditorium’
The Russian premiere of Cage for Air, reviewed — and the printed confirmation that the Prokhorov Foundation supported it.
Vremya Novostey
«С этой задачей фестиваль не то чтобы героически, но легко и элегантно справился»
‘The festival met that task — not heroically, but lightly and elegantly’
No Translations, reviewed by one of the country’s serious art critics. The newspaper has since closed.
not online
«Театральный МИР» №11
«он, конечно, не революционер… он скорее математик-философ… Не архитектура тела, но архитектура души»
‘he is certainly not a revolutionary… rather a mathematician-philosopher… Not the architecture of the body, but the architecture of the soul’
The best description of the work anyone outside it has written.
not online
Kommersant Weekend
«выходят в этом соединении далековатых вещей на новый уровень»
‘they seem to take this joining of far-apart things to a new level’
Code of the Epoch at the All-Russian Museum of Decorative and Folk Art. The most authoritative critical assessment any project received.
not online
Moskovskie Novosti
«Танец Гроусса впечатляет. В нем действительно важна энергия, которая становится вторым главным действующим лицом номера»
‘Grouss’s dance is striking. Energy really does matter in it, becoming the second protagonist of the piece’
The fullest published description of him dancing. The outlet is gone.
not online
Il Tirreno, Pisa
«Il corpo nella corrente di informazioni prende una forma dopo l’altra»
‘The body, within the current of information, takes one form after another’
NavigArte. The same thesis he first wrote down in 2003, in a third language, thirteen years on.
Snob
«Первые кураторы — Константин Гроусс и Дмитрий Алексеев — задали мощный старт»
‘The first curators — Konstantin Grouss and Dmitry Alekseev — set a powerful start’
Fifteen years on, a national outlet writing the festival’s own history still opens it with his name.
Five items, four languages, three countries, thirteen years apart.
Moskauer Deutsche Zeitung
«Tanz zwischen Caesar und Perikles». A full profile in German.
The Irish Times
‘The Space Programme has lift-off’. Named in the participant list for the Performance Corporation residency at Castletown House.
Irish Independent
‘Lifting the curtain on Castletown’. ‘A Russian choreographer, a French scenographer, Irish designers and performers and a Danish director…’
sdarch.it · salab.org
The Balancing Pavilion / Pinecone Pavilion competition result, listed internationally.
Fifty-four items, 2003–2026. Outlet, author, date, headline. Click a year to open it.
Links go to the publications where they still exist. Items marked ‘not online’ appeared in print or on sites that have since disappeared, and are gathered below.
Eleven articles that exist nowhere else. Two of the publications have closed; four domains stopped resolving while this archive was being assembled. Each is reproduced here with its scan, its transcribed text and its original citation.
Vremya Novostey
The earliest press notice by name. Hostile — and kept for exactly that reason.
The Irish Times · Irish Independent
Two national dailies of the same country, on the same Saturday.
These texts are reproduced as archival documentation. Rights remain with the authors and publishers — write, and any item will be taken down. Photographs in the scans belong to the photographers who took them and are credited by name.