Lecture by Leyla Guchmazova "THIS SIDE"

On April 18, at 19.00, a dance critic, columnist for Rossiyskaya Gazeta, an expert and a jury member of the Golden Mask national theater award Leyla Guchmazova, invites everyone to join the unusual Square lecture, a reflection, in the Arts Square Gallery.

“The beautiful art of dance acts with the body. Which does not prevent him from talking through the bodies of specific people of specific forms about the high and transmit the elusive. However, becoming scenic (that is, getting smarter), the dance quickly realized: telling anything he can is not a question, but it is better to unreal stories. For example, myths. Or fairy tales. Or dreams. Or, if everything is down to earth and the peasants drink beer, then at least let Fairy Sylphide in to them so that they stay in good shape.

Classical tradition has given us a ton of examples. Quite concrete peasant and count met for a short time in the afterlife. The English warrior fell asleep and saw the daughter of Pharaoh. The minion-prince shot on the lake, and there the swans…

In such friendships with the unreal, the dance was so successful that it forgot about boundaries: you can decompose the story and fiction into two acts (“Giselle”), you can insert a dream scene into a worldly action (“Don Quixote”), or you can generally shake reality with fantasy )"The Nutcracker") and the whole performance do not regain consciousness.

Academic ballet inherited from dance performances the habit of mixing sleep with reality. Dance Open keeps abreast, and this year’s poster, three out of five performances - The Nutcracker, Alice and Coppelia - are examples of this trend. We’ll talk about this new and old meanings, about the fine line between ordinary life and the world “beyond”, in this lecture. ”

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