In Moscow, presented three ballets by Jerome Robbins – Russian newspaper

The American classic by Jerome Robbins is much closer to the world than the usual choreographer.

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It was he who put the Broadway musicals “Peter Pan” and “Fiddler on the Roof”, and in 1957 – “West Side Story” and later which became famous film with his dancing. Over the ocean, the son of immigrants from the Russian Empire Rabinovich long occupied the second place in the pantheon of great choreographers after another son of our motherland generous George Balanchine. Maybe it was “number two,” explains Robbins ballets rare on the Russian space when balanchinizatsiya whole country has somehow occurred. Is that the Perm Opera and Ballet pleased cheerful “Concert”, and the Mariinsky in 1992 – triptych “In the Night” with the young and beautiful Diana Cherry Ulyana Lopatkina. Now Robbins works will be performed by personal efforts Ballet artistic director of the Moscow Academic Music Theatre. KS Stanislavsky and Vl. Nemirovich-Danchenko Igor Zelensky, at the peak of a career to dance in New York opus of the great old man, and the American Embassy, ​​supported the glorious initiative.

The three gathered in the evening of ballet made on the music of Chopin. Sarcastic Maurice Bejart had noticed that plays Chopin dancer akin to sunset on the postcard – so beautiful that everybody likes. Robbins, however, failed in its plotless miniatures “In the Night” on a collection Nocturnes lay the characters and relationships with a touch of elegy. Of these, it turns any boring herbarium, a wonderful collection of exquisite dance – it depends on the artists. In the already aforementioned old version Mariinsky “In the Night” I looked plaintive cry in the current version of Mamta – dryish to boredom. The most humane restraint will explain heroes and heroines especially premiere excitement and you should look behind the scenes choreographed transfer of Ben Hughes, Isabelle Guerin-Frolish and Kipling Houston storing patented style of Jerome Robbins.

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“Other Dances” was the only Russian premiere of the evening, though with great cultural loop . Jerome Robbins put it on the famous ballet fugitives Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Misha & amp; Natasha triumphantly danced the premiere 9 May 1976 on the stage of Lincoln Center. Mamta treasure entrusted to their guest soloist, the world’s newest stars, and the fugitives time to Natalia Osipova and Sergei Polunin, who escaped from the Great through St. Michael’s in Covent Garden (in the first case) and the “Covent Garden” – in Mamta (in the second). With the duo duo went wrong. Nearly flawless Osipova fluttered in the waltz, the evil one in the mazurkas and get stability in support of the missing exclusively on its own because of its decent partner, unlike the legendary Misha, this time loudly landed on the “wrong” foot and was mainly engaged in them. However, the “Other Dances” – in good legs, and stellar pro will have many chances to perform their best.

laid up to the final “concert” and even depart from the “sunset on the card,” can not not like it . It is rare in the world of ballet with the precise nature of the sketch and place for acting achievement. For a concert pianist drained public, and in fact has long been known that normal people do not go to the theater. Sensitive girl stuck to the piano, not noticing that from under it removed the chair. Auntie blue stockings worn out on the kind of beauty, a walk in the theater with a long-term view. Poor-husband tolerate cultural leisure, almost stabs despot-wife. Nowhere on the scene takes off six corps de ballet virgins, confusing the order pa. Everybody was running to the right – the left one, all are drawn up – two down, and when and where to put your hands do not really know anybody. The apotheosis of the ballet turns former dope music lovers in butterflies and beetles, and ends with the outbreak of the pianist, drove fauna butterfly net.

The audience happy. Chopin and Robbins Moscow mastered. For happiness in the summer evening nothing more is needed.

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