\"Russian Ballet and the East

January 5, 2018 | Author: Anonymous | Category: History, World History
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Russian Ballet Русский балет и дилемма: Восток-Запад Simone Baron Dobro Slovo

Pre-Soviet (Imperial) Ballet  Царский блет Mariinsky Ballet/Kirov Ballet (1740s) in St. Petersburg

Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St. P (1738) by

Empress Anna Bolshoi Ballet (1773) in Moscow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQZME7Us_DE

Marius Petipa Мариус Пятипа “Father of Classical Ballet” –originally from France Worked with the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatre: Revised

ballets for future generations (ie: Swan Lake, Giselle) Rose with dancers such as Anna Parlova Brought first real wave of fame to Russian ballet

Classicism integrated with purity of French and Italian

virtuosity

Michel Fokine Михаил Фокин Started at the Vaganova Ballet Academy Debuted at Mariinsky Ballet, Petipa’s Paquita

Stereotypical ballet traditions (Virtuoso ballet) were outdated No more miming, outdated costumes Pointe shoes, arm/torso experimentation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMEBFhVMZpU

Soviet Ballet  Советский балет Truly repressed: the Soviet Regime closed down or

renamed many of the theaters and academies

Example: Bright Stream (Shostakovich; Lopukhov 1935) How this affected composers, choreographers, ballerinas

Bolshoi became a state-subsidized company – just like the

renamed Kirov.

Soviet Ballet  Советский балет и Сталин Took the art out, rather used for propaganda Similar to other forms of art (ex: architecture)

Stalin in the eyes of the arts “The proletariat needs ornament, decoration, adornment.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VhQLld8oSs

Olga Lepishinskaya Ольга Лепесчинская Stalin’s favorite ballerina One of the most revered dancers of the Bolshoi Always danced for the Red Army Known as and elected as a member of the Communist Party All aspects of Soviet artistic culture integrated into the

Soviet regime

Post-Soviet (Russian) Ballet  Россия сегодня Globalized integration of choreography and technique

Now, American and Russian ballerinas can explore each

other’s methods of dance without the restrictions of government The art form is independent of political influence

Mikhail Baryshnikov Михаил Барышников While still in Russia, most celebrated dancer worldwide While in Canada, request political asylum, never to return to

USSR Moved to United States in 1974

Worked with Balanchine in New York City Ballet Artistic director of American Ballet Theater (1980) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8__iRsxG_A

George Balanchine  Георгий Баланчин 1934: Arrived in the United States New York City School of American Ballet Serenade His company (American Ballet, became the house company for the

Met) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nRmRTBaypo

Bibliography Библиография http://www.yonkershistory.org/fokine.html http://www.abt.org/education/archive/choreographers/petipa

_m.html http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/arts/dance/22lepeshi nskaya.html http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675037970_Stalin_Balle t_watching-a-performance_dignitaries-arrive http://www.unz.org/Pub/LiteraryDigest-1932dec17-00014

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