The Features of Vyacheslav Samodurov’s Staging Style

Abstract

Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Samodurov is one of the brightest choreographer-directors in contemporary Russian ballet. Despite the fact that at present V.V. Samodurov is a free artist who has entered a new stage of his creative biography an important milestone on the way of the master is his staging activity, carried out in 2011—2023, the period of his work at the Yekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (“Ural Opera Ballet”). The productions of the Yekaterinburg period allow us to draw a conclusion about the features of V.V. Samodurov’s style, which determine the creative image of the master. At the same time his creative heritage of the period of his work with the “Ural Opera Ballet” company has not been subjected to a comprehensive art history analysis. This fact reveals the relevance of the topic of the article.The aim of the research is to identify the features of V.V. Samodurov’s production style, manifested during his activity as a choreographer of the “Ural Opera Ballet” company. The novelty of the article lies in the fact that for the first time in the research of scientific character the features of V.V. Samodurov’s staging style are generalized and systematized. On the basis of the comparative analysis of his productions performed during the Yekaterinburg period of the master’s creative biography, generalizations were made, which testify to the combination of traditional and individual innovative features in the master’s staging style, defining the creative image of the choreographer.