Борис Эйфман: на пути к современному Театру балета

Abstract

The aim of this article is to study the factors that determined the way of formation, creative discoveries of the original author’s repertoire Ballet Theatre of Boris Eifman - an outstanding choreographer at the turn of the XX and the first twenty years of the XXI century. The scientific originality of the research is due to the fact that the topic of the author’s ballet theatre has been little studied in art history, but its role in the development of modern choreography is significant. As a result of studying the phenomenon of Boris Eifman Ballet Theatre, the components of this type of theatre were identified: mastering the creative heritage of great choreographers, continuing the traditions of Russian ballet in creating a multi-act plot performance based on literary classics (and other sources), updating the spiritualized plasticity and polystylistics of the choreographic vocabulary, its dramatization , musical drama.