Nikolai Nikolaevich Boyarchikov — ballet conscience

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the great choreographer Nikolai Boyarchikov, who left this world in March 2020. With his departure, an entire epoch in the Russian choreographic art, which was consecrated by his name, came to an end. A unique choreographer, a unique personality, he embodied the most subtle spiritual movements of a person in the form of sharp dramatic collisions. Boyarchikov transformed the Perm ballet, the Maly Opera ballet, and performances. By muffling the sensuous beginning of the dance, it highlighted the intellectual nature of movement and plasticity. Boyarchikov, who studied under such giants as Lopukhov and Belsky and continued their line of succession. The article analyzes the creative path of the choreographer, as well as determines his leading place in the domestic choreographic art.