“BE LIKE GOD AND CREATE SOMETHING GOD DIDN’T WANT TO OR DIDN’T HAVE TIME TO DO.” LETTERS FROM KASYAN GOLEYZOVSKY TO BORIS ZAGURSKY

Abstract

The article focuses on a joint project between the Leningrad Academic Maly Opera Theatre (MALEGOT) represented by the director Boris Zagursky and the renewed choreographer Kasyan Goleyzovsky in late 1950s - early 1960s. Letters of Kasyan Goleyzovsky to Boris Zagursky which are archival materials from the Manuscript Collection of the Russian National Library (St Petersburg) are published for the first time. They shed light on a little known period of the choreographer’s career as well as on the MALEGOT ballet company’s repertoire search.