The Red Poppy — The Red East (to the 95th anniversary of the production of The Red Poppy ballet)
Abstract
The event performance The Red Poppy is almost a hundred years old. The title of the article introduces the antithesis of the speech “red” and “East”. It is implied that red is a period of time (the revolutionary era of the 1927–1930’s) and red is the dominant color of the Soviet worldview. Red East is the name of a printing company in Baku that released a brochure of the libretto The Red Poppy for the 1928 season (the first touring season of the Bolshoi Academic Moscow Opera and Ballet Theater after the premiere of R. M. Glier in 1927 in Moscow) and the definition of Oriental culture in the focus of the artistic vision of the European viewer.
Attention is drawn to the tasks of the director’s vision and the audience’s reaction in displaying the themes of the East, which did not always coincide, leaving space for dialogue and the search for mutual understanding.
The novelty of the article lies in the reference to the history of criticism of the ballet The Red Poppy. Musicologists and theater critics actively reviewed the stage productions of the ballet to the music of R. M. Gliere. Programs from the pre-war fund of the National Library of Russia (1928–1933), published by various printing houses (Moscow, Leningrad, Baku, Vladivostok, Perm), contain reviews of The Red Poppy ballet. The texts of theater critics and servants (I. I. Sollertinsky, V. M. Bogdanov-Berezovsky, K. S. Faybushevich) preserved the style of ballet perception and reflected educational rhetoric. The corpus of theatrical brochures is united by the heading «To help the viewer». The article contains an analysis of the aesthetic didactics of popularizing forms of communication with the audience, and provides information from the archives of the Urals and the Far East.
The purpose of the article is to present a chronological systematic review of the performances of the ballet The Red Poppy (1927–1933), including in regional theaters, which makes it possible to highlight the stage impact of the ballet on the audience, to understand the search for a new plastic language of choreography.
About the Author
O. A. Tuminskaya
State Russian Museum
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Tuminskaya O. A. — Dr. Habil. (Art History), Head of the Aesthetic Education Sector of the Methodological Department
4 Engineering Street, St. Petersburg, 191186
Researcher ID: P-5399-2016
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Tuminskaya O.A. The Red Poppy — The Red East (to the 95th anniversary of the production of The Red Poppy ballet). Bulletin of Vaganova Ballet Academy. 2024;(1):21-37. (In Russ.)
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