Founder of Soviet ballet studies, Yuri I. Slonimsky

Abstract

The article describes the activities of the largest historian, theorist and screenwriter of the Soviet ballet theater, Yuri I. Slonimsky, also known as the author of some fundamental monographs about great choreographers of the 19^th century and theatrical performances, including La Sylphide and Giselle romantic ballets. The author considers Slonimsky related to the emergence of choreographic education in Leningrad Choreographic School and in The Russian University of Theatre Arts (GITIS), where he taught drama in ballet. Slonimsky’s book called The Soviet Ballet. Materials for the History of the Soviet Ballet (1950) which was the first review of the first three decades of Soviet ballet history is newly valued in the article.