Century Diaghilev's ballet seasons

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Century Diaghilev's ballet seasons, which were a great success for Europe, said Russia and France, exhibitions and theatrical productions.

As told RIA Novosti artist Oleg Kulik, known worldwide for its shares in the form of man-dog, on Saturday at the stage of the Paris Chatelet Theater will premiere its production "Vespers of the Virgin Mary."

Proposal to staging at the same stage, where in 1909 were Russian ballet seasons, caught him during a trip to Tibet, where the artist went traveling, tired of the image of man, dogs, bulls and a worm. "

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Getting Started as a recognized artist, was marked by some confusion - for example, he thought that the Chatelet - a small theater, and he was "like our Big or Mariinsky, with luxury boxes, a grand chandelier and room for 2,5 thousand places.

In addition, several scenarios developed or approved at the presentations, but Conductor Jean-Christophe Spinosi said, "Vespers of the Virgin Mary" should listen in the dark and nothing else.

"Then I forgot about myself as an artist, had forgotten about their experiences, came to the theater and sat there in complete darkness, followed by their feelings until they started to see images of the future of the liturgy," - he said.

According to Kulik, his main task as director was to organize a kind of "sacred act" to include the audience to experience "unprecedented emotions until fainting.

Another project is dedicated to the centenary of Diaghilev anterprizy, sell Maris Liepa Foundation and the company Sav Entertainment. "Russian Seasons XXI century", according to the organizers include the modern ballet, drama and opera performances and exhibitions.

The first premiere will be held at the project stage of the Kremlin Palace, February 1 - viewers can see the ballet Nikolai Tcherepnin's "Hall of Artemis", which involved the Bolshoi prima ballerina Maria Alexandrova, the first dancer of the Mariinsky Theater and the actors Michael Lobukhin Theater Kremlevskyi Ballet. In addition, the public will be presented to the ballet by Maurice Ravel's "Bolero", already shown in many countries.

It is planned that in June ballet "Russian Seasons XXI Century" will be shown at the Paris Theater Champs-Elysees.

In the autumn of Monaco will visit Moscow-scale exhibition devoted to Sergei Diaghilev.

According to Deputy Director of the Tretyakov Gallery Lydia Iovleva it - the most important and anticipated project next year, which brings together museums of America, France, Britain and Russia.

The exhibition will showcase the work of Bakst, Benois, Goncharova, Larionov, Roerich, de Chirico and Picasso's sketches of scenery and costumes for ballets, as well as the costumes themselves.

The sensation of the exhibition promises to be preserved curtain for the ballet "Parade", executed by a sketch by Picasso from the collection of the London Museum Victoria and Albert. "

"Russian Seasons" Sergei Diaghilev enjoyed tremendous success in Europe, especially France and Britain. Then Europe embraced the fashion for everything Russian, even in the clothes began to appear the elements of national costume or costumes from the productions.

Above productions for Diaghilev worked Alexandre Benois, Leon Bakst, Mikhail Vrubel, Mikhail Larionov, Valentin Serov, Sergey Rachmaninov, Igor Stravinsky, Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky, as well as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau and many other great artists.

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artist Oleg Kulik, known worldwide for its shares in the form of man-dog, on Saturday at the stage of the Paris Chatelet Theater will premiere its production "Vespers of the Virgin Mary".

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And being here at all the dog-man and a talented Diaghilev, eh?
Perhaps it has something to do with the orientation of the color of the sky? : D

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Monograph " Century" Rite of Spring "- a century of modernism ", dedicated to the fate of the outstanding works of Igor Stravinsky in the context of art XX century and 100 years of ballet masterpiece, presented at the Bolshoi Theatre on Friday - the edition prepared for the eponymous international festival, which these days is on the New Stage Bolshoi.

 Circulation monograph - a thousand copies. The preparation of the publication took six months.
The project had been thrown the best intellectual forces led by the ballet critic Pavel Gershenzon. They were assisted by photo agencies, galleries, museums, libraries and theaters around the world, who opened their archives.
In the book - everything that has to do with the creation of "The Rite of Spring." Correspondence with Roerich Stravinsky and Nijinsky.
Memories not only of the first scandalous premiere in Paris in 1913, and no less controversial speech by Leonard Bernstein in 1959 with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Soviet Union. When a musician for the first time in thirty years, not only played the forbidden in the USSR "The Rite of Spring," but also said that there was not a revolution in 1917, and four years before. For which he had been subjected to attacks by the Soviet press. >

The book includes photos of ballet version of "Spring" - and there were more than fifty. These include performances staged by Maurice Bejart and Pina Bausch (first fundamental text in Russian about the legendary German dancer and choreographer), shown at the festival in Moscow.

 At the presentation repeatedly sounded the wish that this unique book should be required to translate into English.

" Paphos this publication is to gather Russian authors, Russian intellectual thought, skontsentirovat in one area of ​​the book and give impetus to the life of this komozitora us all ", - the author of the project Pavel Gershenzon.

The monograph will be sold in two buildings of the Bolshoi Theatre.
And this very large-scale festival "Century" Rite of Spring "- a century modernism" held at the New Stage of the Bolshoi Theater on March 28 and will last until April 21.
As part of the show the audience the opportunity to see the most famous version of the ballet, created by renowned choreographers.



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