Ballet in Moscow - exquisite pleasure

The art of ballet is one of the most harmonious andspectacular art forms. For many people, ballet is a bright holiday for the soul, hearing, eyes and the highest pleasure. But also the ballet is the greatest mystery for intellectuals and, of course, a fairy tale from which one does not want to return.

The most famous major theaters of Russian ballet are in Moscow and St. Petersburg. They represent high-class performances, including those from the point of view of modern design technologies.

Ballet as an art form: from inception to ...

Ballet as an art form can be associated withthe mythology of ancient Greece, despite the fact that this direction is quite young. After all, the ballet was born as a synthetic kind based on three arts - music, drama (theater), plastic (dance), and later added the art of painting. But the basis of the ballet performance is still dance. And the patroness of the dance in Greek mythology was the muse of Terpsichore. The patroness of the tragedy was the muse of Melpomene, and tragedy often becomes the basis of the scenes of ballet performances.

The preconditions for the birth of ballet as a syntheticart forms are still in primitive society, or rather in its ritual ceremonies, where the ceremonial drama, solo plastic of a shaman or priest, a massive dance of tribesmen and accompaniment on primitive "musical instruments", most often noise and percussion, and later wind instruments, were combined together. The development of the plot plastic to the music was received in the era of ancient civilizations. In the medieval era mammals became masters of the art of pantomime, or ghastriones - roving universal actors.

Since the Renaissance, especially in the Newtime in the countries of Western Europe the development ballet in the royal palaces was developed - one of the popular entertainments of the aristocracy of that time. True, the development of the plot in these performances you would not have seen, and the dance was more like a ceremony of changing beautiful poses to music. But gradually, in a ceremonial ballet, changes began to occur. For the first time a special role was taken by the Venetians, and then by the French, or rather by Italian dancers, who moved to France and promoted this new art form.

Ballet in Russia: the origins

In Russia, the ballet came from Italy in the era of governmentAnna Ioannovna, who loved entertainment and invited foreign theater companies to Petersburg on a contractual basis. Among them was the Italian, who introduced the St. Petersburg aristocracy to a new kind of art.

And when the Winter Palace was even opened danceschool, which was headed by the French dancer and choreographer Jacques Lande. Later, already in the XIX century, in the history of Russian ballet left their mark on Gertrude Rossi and Jean Lepic. But the formation and rise of ballet art came about thanks to the patriarch of the Russian ballet Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographer Marius Petipa. In the late XIX and early XX century, Sergei Diaghilev, who organized the Russian Seasons in Paris, contributed to the development and popularization of Russian ballet in Europe and the world.

Moscow ballet: yesterday and today

Thanks to Marius Petipa's production of musicTchaikovsky still does not descend from the stage ballet performances, which have already become a classic of Russian ballet. In Moscow, ballet is associated, above all, with such a theater as Bolshoi. It was formed on the basis of its predecessor - the Petrovsky Theater and until the middle of the XIX century it demonstrated only dramatic performances. But in the second half of the century, opera and ballet performances began to appear more often on his stage.

But in the capital there is not one scene where you canto see ballet performances. Ballet in Moscow often goes to the Concert Hall of the Cosmos Hotel, the Kremlin Palace and the New Opera Theater. In recent years, besides classical ballets, the audience began to present ballets to the audience for music and staging of contemporary masters. They are sometimes quite controversial, but many are very successful. Although not every adherent of the classical ballet can appreciate them.

Ballet Theater in Moscow: show ballet "Kostroma"

There was also a new type of ballet artthe theater of ballet. Among them are the following theaters: the name of I. Moiseyev, "Ballet Moscow", the name of the ballet by B. Eifman and the show ballets "Gzhel" and "Kostroma". But this is by no means all collectives specializing in modern ballet concept. The Russian national ballet "Kostroma" originated in the early 90s of the XX century, thanks to the idea and creative burning of Elena and Yuri Tsarenko. He continued his development and achieved worldwide fame thanks to their son - Ivan Tsarenko.

Originating in Kostroma and having absorbed its most ancienttraditions that permeate all the ballet work of the collective, the theater has become a visiting card not only of its homeland, but of the whole country. Russian national ballet "Kostroma" annually represents Russia on world venues and, of course, more time performs in its capital.