Project "Russian Seasons XXI"
Ballets: “Tamar”, “Bolero”
Artistic Heads:
people’s Artist of Russia Andris Liepa
people’s Artist of Russia Andrey Petrov
people’s Artist of Russia Andris Liepa
people’s Artist of Russia Andrey Petrov
Project “Russian Seasons XXI”
Special number of the night performed by the People's Artist of Russia Farukh Ruzimatov.
Artistic Heads of the regenerated project “Russian Seasons XXI” are:
People’s Artist of Russia Andris Liepa
People’s Artist of Russia Andrey Petrov
Artist of the Project – Anna and Anatoly Nezhny
In the reduced ballets the brilliant artist, stars of the Kremlin Ballet, the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres dance.
Dear guests!
Amazing productions from the golden collection of the “Russian Seasons XXI: “Tamar” and “Bolero”, involving the centennial antiquity and modern technologies, will be presented on the Belarussian stage.
We invite you to enjoy the elegant of the ballet in the performance of the remarkable dancers of the modernity and to immerse in the atmosphere of the sweet languor on sight of the decorations and costumes of that time, and feel how all that could be then.
“Bolero”
Music - Moris Ravel
Director of the Production – People’s Artist of Russia Andris Liepa
Choreography – Bronislava Nizhinskaya
Choreographers-Coaches - Hilary Mitchell (USA), Svetlana Romanova (Russia, the “Kremlin Ballet” theatre)
Decorations and costumes – Aleksandra Benua
Renewal of the costumes and decorations – Anna Nezhnaya
Performer of the part of the Dancer – People’s Artist of Russia, laureate of State Prise Ilse Liepa
Ballet Troupe of the “Kremlin Ballet” theatre under the head of the A.B. Petrov
“Tamar”
Music – Mily Balakirev
Choreography - Yurius Smoriginas
Original choreography by Michel Fokine from 1912 was lost.
Director of the Production – People’s Artist of Russia Andris Liepa
Decorations and costumes – Lev Bakst
Renewal of the costumes and decorations – Anna Nezhnaya
Special number of the night performed by the People's Artist of Russia Farukh Ruzimatov.
“Russian Seasons” of the great impresario SERGEI DIAGHILEV are called the main cultural event of the beginning of the XX century that influenced the world culture and the development of the Russian Art of that epoch. 100 years ago S. Diaghilev’s “Russian seasons” brought fame to the Russian National Art in all the largest European capitals. Each event of the “Russian Seasons”, either an exhibition, performance or a concert, wrote in a new page in the chronicles of the world art. In different times the greatest art workers participated in the “Russian Seasons”: Bakst, Vrubel, Larionov, Serov, Chaliapin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Fokin, Stravinsky etc.
Artistic Heads of the regenerated project “Russian Seasons XXI” are:
People’s Artist of Russia Andris Liepa
People’s Artist of Russia Andrey Petrov
Artist of the Project – Anna and Anatoly Nezhny
In the reduced ballets the brilliant artist, stars of the Kremlin Ballet, the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres dance.
Dear guests!
Amazing productions from the golden collection of the “Russian Seasons XXI: “Tamar” and “Bolero”, involving the centennial antiquity and modern technologies, will be presented on the Belarussian stage.
We invite you to enjoy the elegant of the ballet in the performance of the remarkable dancers of the modernity and to immerse in the atmosphere of the sweet languor on sight of the decorations and costumes of that time, and feel how all that could be then.
“Bolero”
Music - Moris Ravel
Director of the Production – People’s Artist of Russia Andris Liepa
Choreography – Bronislava Nizhinskaya
Choreographers-Coaches - Hilary Mitchell (USA), Svetlana Romanova (Russia, the “Kremlin Ballet” theatre)
Decorations and costumes – Aleksandra Benua
Renewal of the costumes and decorations – Anna Nezhnaya
Performer of the part of the Dancer – People’s Artist of Russia, laureate of State Prise Ilse Liepa
Ballet Troupe of the “Kremlin Ballet” theatre under the head of the A.B. Petrov
“Bolero” was written by Moris Ravel commissioned by Ida Rubinstein for her just organized ballet troupe and was performed simultaneously with his “La valse” in the premiere night on November 22, 1928. Choreography and idea of the production belong to the first woman-ballet master Bronislava Nizhinskaya, and decorations to Aleksandr Benua. The stage looked like one of the cheap taverns of Barcelona, where a woman danced on a huge table (Ida Rubinstein), and around her crowded men, seized with passion.
“Tamar”
Music – Mily Balakirev
Choreography - Yurius Smoriginas
Original choreography by Michel Fokine from 1912 was lost.
Director of the Production – People’s Artist of Russia Andris Liepa
Decorations and costumes – Lev Bakst
Renewal of the costumes and decorations – Anna Nezhnaya
From old-times there is the Russian legend about the story of the cruel Tamar that lived in the 12 century in the solitary castle in the mountains of Georgia, washed by the stormy waters of the river Terek. They say that Tamar had the face of the angel and the heart of the demon. Tamar, upon the pretext of hospitality enticed to her castle the travelers that went by the desert way. Having charmed the unhappy by her evil beauty, she killed them, and the bodies were thrown from the rock.
