Ballet: To the problem of classical heritage

Abstract

The fundamental problem of saving and studying of classical heritage not only guaranteed existence of old ballets in reality of new lives, but also provides insight into perspectives of development of choreography arts in future as assumed by the author of presented article. For understanding of accumulated experience in this area and developing acceptable benchmarks only repeating returns and multifaceted discussions provides success. In presented article the results of the discussion of this problem at the 1979 meeting of the Department of Culture of the Leningrad City Executive Committee were analyzed. Latter outlined the principal positions of the participants and their general confusion in understanding of current situation. For ensuring the productivity of the polemic the returning to the initial positions and specifying the terms in order to clarify them were proposed by the author.