Diaghilev to the Symbolists
Diaghilev
Who is the Founder of Ballet Russes
Impressario of Russian Ballet
Started "The World of Art" Magazine?
Materlinck
Who is the most successful author of full-length symbolist plays
Belgin
Won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911
The Blue Bird
Futurism
What is Art movement - Man vs Machine?
Anatoly Lunacharsky
First People's Commissar of Public Enlightenment
Set up theatre section - to guide content to serve the Bolsheviks
Meyerhold
Outstanding director of the 20h Century
began his theatre work along with Stanislavski in the Moscow Art Theatre.
Directed premiers of Mayakovsky's 3 major plays
He created oversized, highly theatrical and symbolic scenography.
Artistic Director of New Theatre Company
Also worked under the stage name Dr. Dapperutto
Leon Bakst
Who is the most celebrated Russian easel painter
Set and costume Designer
Co founder of "The World of Art" magazine
Designed costumes for Firebird at Theatre de Opera in Paris?
Alexander Blok
Who is the leading symbolist poet & playwright of the Silver Age of Russian Literature
His recurring symbol was "the beautiful lady" - A mythical obsession with the ideal of the eternal feminine.
Wrote The Puppet Show (Little Fair Ground Booth) and The Unknown Woman
Russian Cubo-Futurism
Led by Mayakovsky
Using bold colors/rhythms in paintings & theatrical events
Trying to capture several moments at the same time
Kinetic Motion
Agit-Prop
referring to plays with a strong social or political agenda
posted on trains and ships
passing as art but was propaganda to get behind the Bolsheviks in power
Biomechanics
focusing on the actor's movements and awareness of self -- Actors trained as athletes dancers, acrobats
Created by Meyerhold
Nijinsky
Who is the star male dancer of Ballets Russes
Known for his leaps that made him look like he was flying
Choreographed Afternoon of a Faun -- Danced the title role
Choreographed Rite of Spring caused a riot?
Zinaida Gippius
Who is the mystical Christian who saw art as a vehicle for religious transport?
Wrote Sacred Blood
Victory Over the Sun
Futurist opera written first performed in St. Petersburg
Plot follows characters attempting to overthrow the sun.
Use of geometric forms and cubist-style costumes.
Costumes by painter Kasimir Malevich
Proletkult movement
Theater that replaced bourgeois art with art created by workers (factory theatre clubs)
Constructivism
Sets with ladders, swings, trampolines, etc
Igor Stravinsky
Who is the composer of modernist opera and ballet scores
Composed Firebird
Composed Rite of Spring
Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev
Who wrote He Who Gets Slapped
Into Color photography
Vladimir Tatlin
Father of Constructivism
Designed the stage for Valdimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy
Had a 1920's project - a monument that was supposed to be taller than the Eiffel Tower. The tower was never created
Mass Spectacles
Public events that re-stage local revolutionary events
Formalism
Form over content
Style over shadows the meaning of the play
Russian Symbolism
What is Silver Age of Russian Literature
Emphasis on poetry & lyricism
Suggestion rather than literal depiction
Evocation of soul-states
Simplification of effects/ fewer elements
Atmosphere, mystery, unexplained
Unhappy endings?
Influenced by Richard Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, Charles Baudelaire and Maurice Maeterlinck (
Vera Nikolai Evreinov
Who is the Director - in - Chief of the Storming of the Winter Palace reenactment
Lenin
Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR
Established the New Economic Party (NEP)
Storming of the Winter Palace
Reenactment of the events of the October Revolution
Commemorated 3d anniversary of the October Revolution
8,000 performers
100,000 spectators
Evreinov Director in Chief
Mayakovsky
young Russian Poet; combined "futurist" art with social revolution to create "Ode to Revolution"
Futurist before there was Futurism
3 full length plays: The Bathhouse, The Bed Bug, Vladimir Mayakovsky: A tragedy
Committed suicide because of the pressure and bad reviews