Подстъпи към формиране на балетна трупа в Стара Загора
Steps to Forming a Ballet Company in the City of Stara Zagora

Summary/Abstract: The article reviews the formation of interest to opera and ballet dancing arts in the city of Stara Zagora on the basis of educational activities of three organizations – the musical association „Kaval”, the cultural-educational association „Theatre” and the children’s musical school „Native Sounds”. Their activities are analysed in the light of preconditioning the creation of theatre performances with ballet dancing included, performing children’s operetas and individual ballet dancing numbers. The activities of Yossif Stoilov, teacher of gymnastics and master ballet dancer, are milestone in this respect. He staged the dances, together with his students, in the first oper performed in Stara Zagora, the opera “Gergana” by Maestro Georgi Atanassov (1925). The article presents scarce facts for the ballet dancing guest-performances in Stara Zagora, which give insights to the citizens of the real ballet art, primarily a classical dance. This presents both Russian performers, like Ms. Strukova, and Bulgarian performers educated abroad, like Margarita Tsoneva, Nadya Vinarova and the little, nine-year-old Clio Stassie, born in Stara Zagora and educated in ballet dancing in Germany and Austria. The article traces also the dance performances in the opera repertoire, performed by students of Yossif Stoilov, up to the time of organizing the first contest for full-time ballet dancers. After assigning Anna Vorobyova for a pedagogue and choreographer, the city of Stara Zagora witnesses the first independent ballet performance – „The Doll Fairie” by Beyer (1949).

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