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The ballets of Mikhail Fokin: Petrouchka. Sheherazade. The Firebird

        
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"Petroushka"


CREDITS


Music by Igor Stravinsky
Choreography by Michel Fokine
Libretto, scenery and costumes by Alexander Benois
Musical Director: Valery Gergiev
Director: Gary Crist
Lighting designer: Vladimir Lukasevich


SYNOPSIS


During the Shrovetide festivities, a show is given in the show. Three dolls - Arap, Ballerina and Petrushka - dance at first for the audience, and then among the audience. A ballerina, an empty coquette, dances with one or the other.
The wretched, lonely Petrushka is in love with the Ballerina and is jealous of her towards the narcissistic and stupid Arap. The ballerina is indifferent to Petrushka. A magician is cruel to him. Parsley tries to prevent the ballerina from flirting with Arap, but Arap drives him away.
Pursuing Petrushka, he bursts out of the booth and in the eyes of a walking crowd kills an unfortunate rival. His name is the keeper. But the Magician appears and explains to the crowd that it is only the death of a doll, no more. He shows the body of Petrushka stuffed with sawdust. Everyone diverge. Suddenly there is a shrill cry in the silence. Illuminated by the moon, Petrushka appears on the roof of the booth, which threatens his punishers with fists.


World premiere: June 13, 1911, Diaghilev's Russian Ballet, Chatelet Theater, Paris
Premiere of the performance on the stage of the Mariinsky Theater: February 6, 2010


Running time: 40 minutes


"The Firebird"


Russian fairytale in two scenes 

Music: Igor Stravinsky
Choreography: Michel Fokine (1910)
Libretto: Michel Fokine
Reconstruction: Isabelle Fokine, Andris Liepa
Set and costume design: Anna and Anatoly Nezhny
after original sketches: Alexander Golovin, Leon Bakst and Michel Fokine 

World premiere: 25 June 1910, Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilev, Theatre de l?Opera, Paris
In the repertoire of the Mariinsky Theatre since May 26, 1994

Running time: 50 minutes


ABOUT THE PRODUCTION








I have staged many ballets, but neither with Stravinsky nor with any other composer have I worked so hand-in-glove as on this occasion. (...) I wasn't expecting the composer to bring me the completed music. Stravinsky came to me with the initial sketches and basic ideas. He performed them for me. I mimed the scenes for him. At my request he broke up his own and the folk themes into short musical phrases, in accordance with individual moments of the scene, individual gestures and poses. I remember how he brought me the beautiful Russian melody for the entrance of Ivan Tsarevich and how I asked him not to have the entire melody at once, but when Ivan appears at the wall, when he gazes upon the wonders of the magic garden, when he jumps down from the wall... just a hint at the theme, some individual notes. Stravinsky played it. I depicted the Tsarevich. The piano acted as my wall. I leaped over the piano, jumped off it, strolled about, anxiously looking around my study... Stravinsky followed me and repeated to me fragments of the Tsarevich's melody to a background of quivering dance reflecting the garden of the evil King Kashchei. Then I was a tsarevna, I timidly accepted a golden apple from the imaginary tsarevich's hands. Then I was Kashchei, his infernal retinue and so on and so forth. All of this was very picturesquely reflected in the sounds of the piano being performed by the fingers of Stravinsky, who was also absorbed by this interesting work. (...)
The ballet The Firebird is dear to me not just because the music was written to my plot and that it was an exceptional success and remained in the repertoire of Diaghilev's company as long as it existed. But most of all because it embodied my ideal of combining a choreographic work with a musical opus, and it is also dear to me for the memories of those anxieties and joys that the composer and I felt together. (...)
When staging the dances I used three principles that are utterly different in terms of character and technique in this ballet. 
I created the evil kingdom using grotesque, angular and sometimes freakish and sometimes amusing movements. The monsters moved on all fours, jumped like frogs, did different "tricks" with their legs, sitting and lying on the stage, their hands like fish fins, at times under the elbows, at times under the ears, the arms were entwined, they moved from one side to the other, squatting and so on, in a word they did everything that twenty years later began to be known as modern dance and what at the time seemed to me to be the most suitable means of expressing a nightmare, horror and ugliness. Virtuoso leaps and frivolity were also used. 
The Tsarevnas danced with bare feet. They were natural, gracious and soft movements with a certain nuance of Russian folk dance. 
I constructed the theme of the Firebird herself en pointe and on leaps, more so on the leaps. The dances are virtuoso, albeit without entrechats, battements, ronds de jambe, of course without turn-out or any preparations whatsoever. The arms at times flew out like wings, at others they held the body and the head in defiance of all ballet positions. In the ornamentation of the Firebird's arms, as in the movements of Kashchei's minions, there was a certain element of the Orient. (...)
To express the plot I absolutely rejected the conditional speech of the arms and ballet gestures, and I expressed it through the action and the dances. 
Michel Fokine. Extracts from the book Against the Current


"Scheherazade"


CREDITS


Music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scenario by Léon Bakst and Michel Fokine after Arabian Nights fairytales
Choreography by Michel Fokine (1910)
Reconstruction by Isabelle Fokine, Andris Liepa
Set and costume design by Anna Nezhnaya, Anatoly Nezhny after original sketches: Léon Bakst


SYNOPSIS


Shahryar is angry because his brother Shakhezman has suggested that his wives are unfaithful to him. To test the harem Shahryar goes off on a hunting expedition. 


Almost as soon as the court has departed the wives adorn themselves in jewels and bribe the Chief Eunuch to open the three doors which lead to the quarters where the male slaves live. Two doors are opened and the Chief Eunuch is about to leave when Zobeide, Shahryar’s favourite wife, demands that the third door also be opened. The Eunuch warns her against this, but with further bribes and pleas she insists. The door is opened and the Golden Slave leaps through it to Zobeide’s side. They fall entwined upon the divan. 


Food is brought in to musical accompaniment. Dancing begins, led by the Golden Slave, and Zobeide joins it. But Shahryar has returned unannounced and bursts in upon the orgy. Slaughter follows and the revellers are indiscriminately cut down. Shahryar kills Zobeide’s lover with his own hands. Only Zobeide remains. Preferring death to dishonour she faces the Shah and then, with a dagger she grabs from him, she takes her own life.


World premiere: 4 June 1910, Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilev, Théâtre de l´Opéra, Paris


Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: 26 May 1994


Running time: 45 minutes





Casts & Credits
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Choreography: Michel Fokine
Ballet company: Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet
Lighting Designer: Vladimir Lukasevich
Musical Director: Maestro Valery Gergiev
Revival Designer: Batozhan Dashitsyrenov
Stage Director: Andrei Petrov
        

    

    

                
    
                    

        

            

                            

            

                            

        

    

	

        
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Choreography: Michel Fokine
Ballet company: Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet
Lighting Designer: Vladimir Lukasevich
Musical Director: Maestro Valery Gergiev
Revival Designer: Batozhan Dashitsyrenov
Stage Director: Andrei Petrov
    

    

			

		





	


	

	

		


			

				

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