Adaptation of the content of A. Pushkin’s poem The Сopper Horseman in the literary and plastic play of the same name by P. Safonov – Yu. Petukhov

Abstract

The article is devoted to the artistic and figurative idea of the poem The Copper Horseman and its implementation in the literary and plastic performance of the same name. The director of the production was Pavel Safonov, the choreographer was Yuri Petukhov, the performers were students of the Boris Shchukin Theater Institute and students of the Department of Choreography Education of the Vaganova Ballet Academy. Based on the analysis of the main thematic motifs of Alexander Pushkin’s text, an attempt is made to identify the originality of the director’s decision and the role of plastic scenes in it. With the expansion of the figurative-associative series of the «Petersburg story» by including fragments from other works of the poet, its main theme — the collision of the course of history and the personality of a person — is leveled in the dramatic part and transferred to the choreographic action.