The importance of Fedor Vasilyevich Lopukhov’s theoretical legacy nowadays

Abstract

In this article, the main provisions and provisions on Russian ballet art of the first half of the 20th century are analyzed in detail, choreographers and teachers Fedor Lopukhov are presented in the books The Ways of the Choreographer and Choreographic frankness. A brief history of the creation of these works is given, representing a unique fusion of analytical art criticism and ballet-critical literature. The inextricable link between the formation and development of ballet art and the history of the life of the Russian state is underscored. It is shown how the creative worldview of F.V. Lopukhov from the beginning of the Soviet era and towards the end of the sixties of the twentieth century, during his stay in his homeland in ballet, in returning to the stage and preserving the classical heritage of outstanding masters of the past, enabling ballet art to develop harmoniously, proving once for its viability. That the books Ways of the Choreographer and Choreographic frankness are neither manuals nor literature on choreography. In both books, much attention is paid to different choreographic works, including working pupils and followers who have made this analysis so professionally and in detail that its content is now of undoubted value not only for ballet experts and choreographers, but for the entire community of lovers of the And Connoisseurs of choreographic art.