Approaches to Professionlizing the Ballet Art in Plovdiv (A Documental Chronicle from the National Revival to the End of the Second World War) Cover Image
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Подстъпи към професионализацията на балетното изкуство в Пловдив (Документална хроника от Възраждането до края на Втората световна война)
Approaches to Professionlizing the Ballet Art in Plovdiv (A Documental Chronicle from the National Revival to the End of the Second World War)

Author(s): Penka Taneva-Yaneva
Subject(s): Music
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките

Summary/Abstract: The article traces separate stages in the popularization of the art of dancing in Plovdiv. The first stage is considerably longer as it presupposes a slow and gradual adoption of the European dances and their inclusion in various forms of social and home entertainments. It lasted from the start of the National Revival to the mid-twenties of the XX c. The second stage comprises the period from the beginning of the XX century to the middle of the 20s when dances turned from a way of entertainment at dancing parties, school celebrations and balls into a stage art -included in children’s operetta and opera performances. The dance found its place in the newly established opera group -of Alexander Kraev, of Angel Bukoreshtliev and other stage events. The third stage started in the 20s and continued until the end of World War Two. Guest-performances of famous Bulgarian and foreign actors were of decisive importance for increasing the interest in ballet art. But although the Plovdiv public first got acquainted with the opera art through the guest performances of foreign opera groups, in the case of ballet it was just the opposite -the concerts of Bulgarian artists (educated mainly in Vienna and Berlin) imposed the idea of professional ballet art in Plovdiv and after that the Russian guest performers. Thus the public opinion and interest in ballet art in Plovdiv was formed, which provoked the organizing at the newly opened Plovdiv Opera of a ballet group consisting of 18 people with Anna Vorobiova as a choreographer and Anastasia Voinikova as a pedagogue.

  • Issue Year: 2003
  • Issue No: 2-3
  • Page Range: 195-214
  • Page Count: 20