RESTORATION OF NINETEENTH CENTURY BALLETS AS A TREND

Abstract

Restoration of ballets of the 19th century is one of the trends in the ballet theater of the late ХХ th and early ХХІ st centuries. Among modern theorists and practitioners of ballet, polar opinions have formed about the benefits and prospects of restorations and the level of the balletmasters' creative work of restorers. Leading choreographers-restorers of the late XX – early XXI century. – M. Hodson, S. Vikharev, A. Ratmansky, U. Burlaka. The main problems turned out to be: the difficulty of reproducing the dance style of the ballet of the 19th century, due to the compulsion of artists, especially soloists, to abandon their previous performing experience; the mismatch of pantomimic elements to the modern lexical tempo; the scale of scenographic design, which was natural for the 19th century, distracts attention directly from the dance. The main achievements of the reconstruction are the restoration of the lost movements of classical dance, the opening of notes.