The features of T. P. Krasavina’s methodology: “Classical ballet: the flow of movement”
This article considers a little-known work of T.P. Krasavina entitled “Classical ballet: the flow of movement”, which is dedicated to the ethodologi-cal problems from the perspective of her dancing experience. For the frist time, Russian readers have a change to get acquainted with the methodological heritage of the famous ballet ...
George Balanchine, a teacher (1904—1983)
George Balanchine is a Russian-US dancer and choreographer who was invited to the USA in 1933 by Lincoln Kirstein's. Balanchine founded the School of American Ballet following the Russian ballet tradition. The author focuses his attention on several movements of classical dance as interpreted by Balanchine.
1. Суриц Е. Балет и танец в Америке. Очерки истории. Екатеринбург,...
Reminiscences of Russian culture in A. S. Byatt’s novel The Children’s Book
... culture do not so much support the national myth as they reveal the state of European culture on the eve of the First World War. The author focuses on the references to the Russian tomb (Raca or reliquary) at the beginning of the novel and Diaghilev’s ballet “Petrushka” in the last part. These reminiscences are closely related to Europe (England — Gloucester candelabrum, Germany — music by Richard Wagner, puppet theater). Therefore, raca (reliquary) is only supposedly called “Russian,” ...