GAYANE (1972), A MASTERPIECE OF THE SOVIET BALLET



In 1972, a young choreographer (still unknown to the dance world) arrived in Riga to create a brand new ballet Gayané (his first full length ballet): a production which became one of “the staples of the Soviet and Eastern European ballet repertory” in the words of Anna Kisselgoff, the iconic New York Times dance critic. An undoubtedly, positioned the Riga Ballet on top of the Soviet ballet, until becoming the third most important institution in the former Soviet Union, after the Bolshoi in Moscow and the Mariinsky (Kirov) in Saint Petersburg. Nowadays, after the fall of the USSR, this institution (renamed as the Latvian National Ballet) continues to maintain its high artistic level, mainly due to its rich and fruitful history, since Nicholas Sergeyev (the author of the Sergeyev Collection: the precious annotations of the productions of Marius Petipa that have been able to keep classical ballet alive in the last 150 years) became its first director in 1922. Meanwhile, after creating his own company (1977) has become the undisputed benchmark of contemporary Russian ballet. A more than profitable combination that gave rise to a masterpiece of the Soviet ballet.

PAVARE


Comentarios

Entradas populares de este blog

CUANDO EL CINE NO ES EL PROTAGONISTA DE LOS ÓSCAR

LOS GOYA RECUPERAN SU BRILLO EN VALENCIA

EL ARTISTA RICKY VAN BROEKHOVEN HACE BAILAR EL SONIDO