« S. Diaghilev and his innovators of arts. »

1. «S. Diaghilev and his innovators of arts.» Student of the 6th form Sonya Baklanova Adviser: Chernikova Galina Georgievna

2. What is the ballet? According to the dictionary It’s kind of stage performance as an art; it is a dramatic performance by a group of dancers without a dialogue or singing, illustrating a story. • The current paper deals with S. Diaghilev’s companions mostly A. Benois and L. Bakst with their certain achievements in the development of Ballet Art. • The main subject of this paper is the importance of a painter-designer in collaboration with a choreographer and composer as a new intensity of S. Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes appeared in Russia for the 20 years of his life. • The sub question can be creative ways of some S. Diaghilev’s companions given in their development.

3. Many Britannian experts are coming to believe that S. Diaghilev possessed great talent as an impresario. He strongly believed with a composer. • From the music followed the choreography. Then, Alexander Benois, who was a scenic designer, introduced Michel Fokine to the ballet group – A. Benois had been affected by Fokine. This young choreographer modernized old-fashioned ideals to ballet with rules of mime and movement. Together with the a plan setting out in detail Fokine’s rules for reform of ballet were: “In the ballet the whole meaning of story can be expressed by the dance.”

4. Alexander Benois • Alexander Benois, a Russian theatre art director, painter and ballet librettist, together with Leon Bakst and Sergey Diaghilev set up the influential «World of Art» Journal. Benois grew up in an atmosphere of love and respect for the arts. Moreover, Benois’s collaboration with Stravinsky and Michel Fokine presented some of the greatest dance drama in history and helped found modern ballet.

5. Nikolai Roerich • Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich is known for his historical sets and stage design. Besides, Roerich made a great contribution to Russian culture. As a stage designer he worked for such directors as Nikolai Yevrenov, Konstantin Stanislavsky and Sergey Diaghilev. However, Nikolai Roerich wasn’t only a scenic designer for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes.

6. Leon Bakst • Lev Samoylovich Rosenberg, known as Bakst, revolutionized theatrical design both in scenery and in costume. In 1900 he began to design first at Hermitage court theatre and then at imperial theatres. Appart from, Bakst’s sets and costumes, in which he combined bold designs and rich colors.

7. Henri Matisse • Henri Matisse was a French artist, noted for his use of color and his fluid, brilliant and original draftsmanship. As a draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse – is one of the best-known artists of the twentieth century.

8. Mikhail Larionov • Mikhail Larionov – is a famous painter and Russian decorator, who obtained French nationality. His cultural life was very active. Larionov was a graphic artist. Larionov’s startling costumes always caused an uproar. The historic role of Rayism was recognize at the exhibition “Cubism and Abstract Art” in New York in 1936.

9. To conclude, we are pleased with the fact that S. Diaghilev’s life is closely connected with some cities of the world, but it was Perm, which influenced his formation as a man of arts. • We’d like to underline that S. Diaghilev, who never choreographed a ballet himself, possessed a singular flair for bringing the right people together and again coming back to the great impresario. Besides, S. Diaghilev first of all created the climate and the conditions, in which the artist around him could work. • No living person could remember ballets of such quality. The art of theatre, however also depends very much upon luck, and S. Diaghilev was lucky in group of people gathered around him.

10. Thank you!