Alexander Demidov: Not like others

Abstract

The article is devoted to the life and work of Alexander Pavlovich Demidov (1944-1990), a Soviet ballet expert and theater critic, as well as a director whose activities were associated with various publications: the Theater magazine, after leaving which he continued to publish critical articles in the magazines “Musical Life” and “Theater Life”. The article examines the problem of transformation of a creative personality, in which direction displaced criticism, and a critic could dismember  someone  else’s  performance  into  its  components,  revealing  the secret mechanics of art.