Ball "The Nutcracker" in Edition of V. Vainonen: Genesis and Composition Cover Image

Балет «Лускунчик» редакції В. Вайнонена: генезис та композиція
Ball "The Nutcracker" in Edition of V. Vainonen: Genesis and Composition

Author(s): Hanna Oleksiyivna Perova
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Cultural history, Music, Recent History (1900 till today), History of Art
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: The Nutcracker ballet; Vasily Vainonen; ballet editorial; ballet theater; ballet master; choreography; dance;

Summary/Abstract: Purpose of the article – to trace the genesis and reveal the peculiarities of the composition of V. Vainonen's editors Ballet P. Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. Мethodology. Analysis of the scientific literature and sources, systematization, application of the chronological principle allowed to conduct a scientifically objective study. Scientific novelty. The prerequisites for the creation, the basics of the ballet master method, and the compositional features of the editors of The Nutcracker by V. Vainonen are revealed. Conclusions. The impetus for the incarnation of V. Vronsky's version of the Nutcracker ballet by P. Tchaikovsky-L. Ivanov became sociocultural (changing the policy of state bodies in relation to classical ballet from categorical denial to recognizing its importance in cultural construction) and art (appearing in the first years after the October 1917 coup of a number of avant-garde performances based on classical heritage figurative music and ideas ballet) factors. The performance has a tendency to return to classical dance in the editorial in accordance with the modern development of dance vocabulary, performing technique of ballet dancers. The ballet master updated the score, the scenario solution, provided the images with a new meaning. The source of figurativeness for V. Vainonen was the music of P. Tchaikovsky, which caused a combination of external structural orderliness and internal mood in the dance, preservation of strict classical forms. The main feature of the poetic generalization of the choreographer, realized in The Nutcracker, is the authenticity of events and characters, and despite the realistic interpretation of the approach to the aesthetics of a children's play, taking into account the peculiarities of the perception of the children's audience.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 41
  • Page Range: 186-192
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Ukrainian