The art of dance in any direction is always moving beauty. Its origins lie deep in history. Any ceremony, holiday, farewell to the war in the ancient world was accompanied by various dances, individual elements of which are still found in one direction or another. Ballet is not only no exception, but is the clearest confirmation of this rule. What is ballet is known to everyone on this planet. Even children like to watch the unreal plasticity of the lightest hovering figures on the stage.
History of ballet
The emergence of ballet in its infancy dates back to the 8th-9th centuries, when Komorokhi dancers appeared in Kievan Rus. Their difference was that they were already trained dance professionals. After Moscow became the capital of Russia, women also appeared in dances. Masked musical performances amazed the imagination of all travelers coming to Russia.
Over time, closer to the 17th century, the dance became the final act in each performance. The first separate ballet performance is considered to be "Orpheus", in which all the dances were learned by specially selected teenagers, who made up the first troupe of the royal ballet. In the Kremlin Theater, where the first performance was given, the first ballet theater appeared.
Thanks to the efforts of Peter I, dance became a mandatory science for the Russian elite, and professional dancers were respected and were very popular. All courtiers had to know what ballet was, every self-respecting intellectual considered it necessary to understand all the intricacies of this art form.
Unique Russian ballet
Russian ballet owes its appearance and approval to the world to Empress Elizabeth I. The Academy of Ballet Art was first opened exclusively by her efforts, and then in 1742 she established the first Russian professional ballet troupe by decree. The stars of this troupe are the first professional dancers who studied at the Academy of Her Majesty: Baskakov and Toporkov.
But over time, the entire ballet school became somewhat monotonous. The plotless disparate dances began to lose their popularity. As a result, the first plot productions arose in Russia in the 18th century, and here the Russian school was ahead of the European one by almost 20 years.
Until that moment, everyone understood what ballet was. These are dances with the obligatory set of pa performed in beautiful costumes and beautiful music. In the years of the reformation, short productions with a single plot arose, and later Russian drama of ballet art appeared. A. Sumarokov became its founder, the first ballet performances on his libretto were “New Laurels” and “The Refuge of Virtue”. By the end of the 18th century, almost all the nobles had their own ballet serf troupes. Performances are becoming public and gaining popularity.
From this moment begins a grand procession of the Russian ballet school in all stages of the world.
Modern Russian ballet
Having started its history a couple of centuries ago, the Russian ballet school still gives the world its discoveries and know-how in the field of dance. What is ballet, the play can best tell.
And despite the fact that the traditions of Russian ballet are finally entrenched and established in the minds of the world community outside of Russia, no one disputes the belonging of the first place to Russian dancers. Sergei Diaghilev and his “Russian Seasons” were the impetus that brought Russia to this pedestal.
Ballet is such a mysterious art that its popularity not only does not fall, but also grows every day, increasing the number of fans. The names of the stars of Russian ballet are known all over the world and not only by art critics. These are dancers, whose talent can raise all emotions and impulses from the depths of a person’s soul .