DANCERS OF THE LENINGRAD BALLET IN THE FAR EAST IN THE 1920TH – THE 1930TH YEARS

Abstract

Article is devoted to history of tours and stay in the Far East of dancers of the Leningrad ballet. The unknown materials of the Far East periodical press which have imprinted arrival to Khabarovsk and Vladivostok of mobile ballet collective under the leadership of I. F. Kshesinsky are introduced for scientific use. The ballet collective brings the best samples of the classical ballet and the first Soviet ballet performance “Red Poppy” to the Russian Far East, acquainting with them the Far East public. Withdrawals of the local periodical press imprint stages of the ballet of the period, difficult for art, - the statement of his place in the Soviet theater and the births of the new modern repertoire. The author believes that similar polemic in the press united center and distant suburbs of
the country in uniform cultural space.
The dancers of the Leningrad ensemble, F. Shevlyugin and A. Rogovskaya who have remained in Vladivostok, having opened a ballet class at music school of Vladivostok, promoted formation in the region of professional choreographic education. Their pedagogical activity was based on the leading tendency in a technique of domestic ballet school – communication with a scene in training of the young actor. Activity of dancers in China has coincided with blossoming of school of the domestic ballet in this country.