History Flashcards
Where was the Imperial Ballet?
St. Petersburg
Moscow Ballet- who started it? What type of ballet?
Alexander Gorsky-INOVATOR
New Ballet
Who revived ballet?
Sergei Diaghilev
Who started Ballet Russes? What year?
Sergei Diaghilev
1909
Nijinsky training
Trained at Imperial Ballet
Joined the company
DISMISSED
1911 joined the Ballet Russes
Who was Enrico Cecchetti?
Italian dancer and master
Where did Enrico teach? Year?
Imperial school
1890
What did Enrico become in 1902?
Director of Imperial School (in 1902)
What did Enrico do during 1909-1918?
Instructed at the Diaghilev Ballet
Who were Cecchetti’s students?
Paulova and Nijinsky
When and where was the Cecchetti Method established?
1922, London
When was the Bolshevik Revolution?
1917
When were theaters nationalized?
1919- by Marxists
Who developed Machine Ballet?
Nikolai Foregger
When was the ballet The Dance of The Machines created?
1923- BAD REVIEWS FOR MACHINE BALLET
When and where was The Red Poppy debuted?
1927- Bolshoi Theater, Moscow
What did The Red Poppy mark the beginning of?
Authentic Soviet style, showed repressed Chinese workers
Where did Vaganova teach?
Taught in Russian Imperial Ballet School
Who codified Vaganova system?
Stalin
What was the most successful Russian Ballet?
Romeo and Juliet
Who produced art exhibitions?
Sergei Diagheliv
What was the Marxist view?
No creative freedom
