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Home Theaters Saint Petersburg Russian State Pushkin Academy Drama Theater (Alexandrinsky Theatre) (established 1756) 22 May 2018, 20:00 - Modern Dance Ballet of Boris Eifman.Red Giselle.
22May
20:00
2018 | Tuesday
Classical ballet
Russian State Pushkin Academy Drama Theater (Alexandrinsky Theatre) (established 1756), Saint Petersburg
Duration: 2 hours 00 minutes
World premiere: The Alexandrinsky Theater

  • Ballet of Boris Eifmanto the music of PI Tchaikovsky, A. Schnittke, J. Bizet
  • Artist: Vyacheslav Okunev
  • Light: Boris Eifman


The choreographic fantasy of Boris Eifman perpetuated the story of the great Russian ballerina Olga Spesivtseva, who fell into the maelstrom of the events of the era of revolutionary terror. Forced emigration and personal dramas exacerbated the emotional torments of the heroine, which led to a tragic ending. Extremely expressive choreography, inexhaustible director's fantasy, a great stage decision attract new spectators to this performance. The choreographer himself notes that "Red Giselle" is one of the most important steps in his creative ascent.
Boris Eifman: "Our performance is dedicated to Olga Spesivtseva, one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century. I was shocked to learn the details of her life: a unique actress, praised by fame, idolized by fans and critics, spent 20 years in a clinic for the mentally ill under New York, being absolutely lonely and disenfranchised! And those tragic emotions that I experienced, became an impetus for the creation of the play. This is not an illustration of the biography of Spesivtseva, but an attempt to generalize her fate and the fate of many talents forced to leave Russia and survived the tragic outcome. Spesivtseva was a genius Giselle. The ballerina was so deeply immersed in the world of her character that she no longer had the strength to return back to real life: Giselle's fate became her destiny. But the fateful role in Spesivtseva's life was played by the fact that, being a prima ballerina, she was involved in the bloody events of revolutionary Petrograd, and this red sign, as a sign of fate, pursued and tormented her. Emigration brought not only disappointments - both creative and personal - but also filled Spesivtsev's life with even greater tragedies, which ultimately led to disaster. In creating this play, we wanted the ballet theater to pay tribute to Olga Spesivtseva - a great ballerina with a tragic fate. "

LIBRETTO

ACT ONE
Revolutionary Petrograd. In a ballet studio at a former imperial theatre, a lesson in classical dance is in progress. Among the dancers the harsh and meticulous Teacher chooses the one, whose perfect dance and a slightly mysterious image embody his ideal of the beauty.

A shiny gilt-decorated auditorium. Ballerina's performance wins general applause. Among her admirers is a representative of the new authorities, Checkist . He is attracted to Ballerina not only by her exquisite art. Chekist’s harsh attack and powerful embraces suppress Ballerina’s will.

Chekist brings Ballerina to his world, unknown to her, where the wild rampage of the revolutionary mob turns into a mad carnival of annihilation. She reigns over this carnival, having forgotten, for a moment, the behests of the Teacher. However, the spiritual values he had instilled in her prove to be stronger than the intoxication of the annihilation. Ballerina returns to the ballet studio, to the Teacher. A new, cruel, and aggressive regime now reigns in the theater; it crushes everything standing in its path. White ballerinas are to become the obedient instrument of the red ideology. The Teacher is in despair. The reality is unbearable, but he is unable to change anything.

Ballerina and Chekist are bound by a complex relationship. There is attraction and repulsion, passion and non-understanding. Chekist allows Ballerina to join the emigres who are leaving Russia forever.

ACT TWO

Ballet class at the Grand Opera in Paris. A famous dancer and choreographer conducts the rehearsal. The dancing technique that he shows is unfamiliar to Ballerina, but his creative inspirational talent captivates her. The dancer becomes her Partner, and they share a triumphant success. >Ballerina’s growing feelings for her Partner are not reciprocated. The unrequited love and loneliness in the world that is alien to her aggravate her mental state and push her toward a nervous breakdown.Ballerina tries to lose herself in the merriment of Paris. But the phantoms of the past haunt there as well.

The red flashbacks of the Revolution do not leave her in peace. Chekist appears to her in a nightmarish hallucination.Nor can Ballerina forget herself in her favorite role of Giselle, in which she used to amaze the audience and won the world fame. She is sentenced to Giselle's fate— to the betrayal of her beloved and the eventual madness. Mirrors refract the morbid consciousness of the great Ballerina. Madness appears as the salvation, or the departure into the flickering world of ‘the other side of the mirror glass.’

Casts & Credits

Composer: Georges Bizet
Costume Designer: Vyacheslav Okunev
Composer: Georges Bizet
Costume Designer: Vyacheslav Okunev