(17 Mar 2023)
RUSSIA BALLET
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
St. Petersburg, Russia - 15 March 2023
1. Various of ballet tutus of different eras on display at exhibition
2. Wide of visitors taking photos of costume from ballet "Firebird", from Sergei Diaghilev's Russian Seasons
3. Pan of poster of Russian Seasons, Anna Pavlova, depicted on poster in role of the Sylphide, 1909
4. Wide of reconstructed hats from Diaghilev's Russian Seasons on display (from ballet "Firebird")
5. Wide of section devoted to Soviet period, photos of Soviet ballerinas on display
6. Visitors looking at paintings of Soviet period, devoted to ballet
7. Various of figurines of Soviet time on display
8. Various of "Corsair" kinetic installation showing sinking ship, small copy of ballet stage
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Anna Yalova, director of Saint Petersburg Manege:
“Paintings, drawings, sculptures, figurines and, unconditionally, costumes are here. We focussed our attention of the Bolshoi and Mikhailovsky theatres for this project. The Alexandrinsky theatre gave us access to its wardrobe departments. At some point, we were even afraid that the Manege and its 4,500 square metres of exhibition area would not be enough to store everything.”
10. Various of Diaghilev's costumes on display
11. Wide of tutu of Soviet dancer Olga Lepeshinskaya from ballet "Don Quixote" (1940)
12. Various of pointe shoes and training dress of Mathilde Kschessinska
13. Wide of cast of Anna Pavlova's leg and tutu from "Dying Swan" ballet
14. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Anna Yalova, director of Saint Petersburg Manege:
“We have in fact unique items, for instance, house slippers of Tchaikovsky kindly provided by the museum of Tchaikovsky in Klin. These slippers have never been outside the museum. Therefore, the fact they are being exhibited here is a great success.”
15. Close of slippers of Tchaikovsky
16. Wide of visitors looking at Tchaikovsky's slippers and top hat
17. Various of people looking at screen with different versions of ballet "Swan Lake"
18. Various of reconstruction of old version of "Swan Lake" on display
19. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Pavel Maslennikov, research consultant of the exhibition:
“We conducted a study, especially for the exhibition, on how the plot of the Swan Lake has changed. On the second floor, we have the laboratory of Swan Lake, where we demonstrated some main milestones of changes to the story. Not only does the public not know that in 1887 the plot was also absolutely different, many specialists don’t know this.”
20. Soviet ballet on screen of TV
21. Wide of visitor watching ballet
22. Various of paintings of Soviet time
23. Various of video installation showing how muscles of dancers work
24. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Pavel Maslennikov, research consultant of the exhibition:
“We go through two, not very well-known, but good examples of elements of the classical ballet in terms of anatomy. These are (moves) grand jete pas de chat and the shoulder lift, or “the chair”. The soloists of the Mikhailovsky theatre Marat Shemiunov and Irina Peren helped us with this. In the specially created videos, we demonstrate what the muscles are responsible for from the point of view of anatomy.”
25. Close of audio guide
26. People taking audio guide
27. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Anna, surname not given, visitor:
“Costumes are amazing, incredibly beautiful. I like the unusual audio accompaniment throughout the exhibition, the music of great composers.”
28. Various of visitors watching video installation
30. Tilt up of dress on display
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