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Шаги/Steps, #3, 2022
The article is devoted to the series of Russian revolutionary songs which the American dancer Isa... more The article is devoted to the series of Russian revolutionary songs which the American dancer Isadora Duncan used as a musical basis for her choreographic works while in the USSR. The series included such popular songs as “Dubinushka”, “Varshavianka”, and others. The author also considers the pre-history of this cycle — Duncan’s dance “revolution” in the beginning of the 20th century, and revolutionary motifs in her choreography of the 1910s. Another aspect of the American dancer’s creativity is her intuitive aspiration to the genre of performance, not conceptualized at that time, which intensified in the context of the Russian revolution and experimental art of the first post-revolutionary years.
RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism
Fedor Sologub entered British literary consciousness only after the onset of WWI. The British-Rus... more Fedor Sologub entered British literary consciousness only after the onset of WWI. The British-Russian war alliance was auspicious for the translation of Russian literature, bringing about what John Cournos termed a “Russian Boom.” In 1915 alone, two translated collections of Sologub’s short stories appeared. This paper examines the British reception of Sologub, with a focus on John Cournos (1881-1966), one of Sologub’s earliest and most prolific translators, and the role played by Zinaida Vengerova (1867-1941) as mediator between translator and author. In her correspondence with Sologub, Vengerova promotes Cournos as translator. A more pressing concern for Vengerova was to convince Sologub to make Cournos his “authorized” translator. This paper also argues that the reception of Sologub in Britain must be contextualized in terms of war propaganda. Politically, the British government prioritized the promotion of brotherly feeling between the two allies and a positive opinion of Russia...
Practices & Interpretations: A Journal of Philology, Teaching and Cultural Studies, 2020
The article deals with the impact of the English theatre director Edward Gordon Craig’s innovatio... more The article deals with the impact of the English theatre director Edward Gordon Craig’s innovations in the dance theatre of the end of the 20th to the beginning of the 21st century. We consider one of Craig’s earliest performances in the opera “Dido and Aeneas” by the well-known English composer of the 17th century Henry Purcell., This was first staged in 1900 in London, and we focus on the selected methods and techniques associated with the reforming of theatre language, which were used by choreographers, such as the American Mark Morris and the German Sasha Waltz several decades later. Dance-operas by Morris (staged in 1989 in Belgium), and by Waltz (staged in 2005 in Berlin), despite their completely different approaches to the material, undoubtedly used Craig’s inventions, consciously or unconsciously entering into a dialogue with his experimental performance. Both Morris’s minimalism and Waltz’s baroque abundance stem from English director’s work, although the choreographers do...
ROSSICA. Литературные связи и контакты, 2021
The article is based on the documents stored at the State Archive of the Russian Federation and r... more The article is based on the documents stored at the State Archive of the Russian Federation and related to the preparations of the great Bengali poet and thinker Rabindranath Tagore’s official visit to the USSR in 1930. Many of these documents had been classified for a long time. Part of them was unclassified with the Soviet leaders’ authorization and analyzed by archivists while organizing the Festival of India in the USSR in 1987. However, most of the documents (especially on VOKS - All Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries) had remained “classified” until the end of the 1990s. The author of the article drawing upon the archival documents analyzes the peculiarities of the visit preparations and the social-political context of reaching out these documents in the 1980s. Tagore’s name was used as a compelling argument
for substantiating a “very special” Soviet-Indian friendship
Journal of Russian American Studies
see the same article below
Практики и интерпретации, 2020
Аннотация.В статье рассматривается влияние идей английского режиссера-новатора Эдварда Гордона Кр... more Аннотация.В статье рассматривается влияние идей английского режиссера-новатора Эдварда Гордона Крэга на танцевальный театр конца ХХ-начала ХХI в. На примере одной из ранних постановок Крэга, оперы английского композитора XVII в. Генри Пёрселла «Дидона и Эней», осуществленной в 1900 г. в Лондоне, выявляются ключевые приемы реформирования театрального языка, которые спустя несколько десятилетий оказались востре-бованными среди режиссеров-хореографов, таких как, в частности, американец Марк Моррис и немка Саша Вальц. Две танц-оперы «Дидона и Эней»-Морриса, поставленная в Бельгии (1989), и Вальц, осуществленная в Берлине (2005),-несмотря на кардинально различные подходы к материалу, безусловно, используют открытия Крэга, зачастую вольно или невольно вступая в диалог с экспериментальной постановкой столетней давности. И минимализм Морриса, и барочное изобилие Вальц так или иначе произрастают из работы английского режиссера: несмотря на то, что хореографы не обращаются к ней напрямую, идеи Крэга прочно вошли в практику театра ХХ в., а музыка Пёрселла практически переживает новое рождение. Сравнительный анализ позволяет выявить, как мечты английского режиссера о создании театра, основанного на таких компонентах, как действие, линия, цвет и ритм, и мощно воздействующего на душу зрителя, подобно те-атру древности, успешно реализовались в творчестве хореографов-постмодернистов. Особое внимание уделяется как сценографии постановок, так и формированию зрительного образа и атмосферы спектакля.
Шаги / Steps, published by the School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities. The School of Public Policy of The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, peer-reviewed journal, 2019
The article is devoted to the history of pantomime theater in the second half of the 20th century... more The article is devoted to the history of pantomime theater in the second half of the 20th century in the USSR/Russia and its highpoint during the 1970s, when Giedrius Mackevičius, an outstanding theater director, created the Ensemble of Pantomime in Moscow.Then the ensemble was transformed into the professional Moscow Theater of Plastic Drama, which had successful tours all over the USSR. After perestroika, new trends pushed aside plastic theater, which was forgotten until the beginning of the new, 21st century.
Статья посвящена истории развития пантомимы во второй половине ХХ в. в СССР/России и моменту ее расцвета, когда на базе пантомимы появился пластический театр. Его активным пропагандистом стал режиссер Гедрюс Мацкявичюс, создавший сначала Ансамбль пантомимы, прославившийся спектаклем о творчестве скульптора Микеланджело «Преодоление» (1975), а затем - Московский театр пластической драмы. После перестройки новые веяния, пришедшие в постсоветское искусство, вытеснили пластический театр на обочину, и, по сути дела, он был забыт до начала ХХI в.
Forum Modernes Theater (Published in 2019, not in 2014), 2014
The article is devoted to the street performance in Moscow which took place in January 2014 and e... more The article is devoted to the street performance in Moscow which took place in January 2014 and expressed a protest against the law on “foreign agents” issued by the State Duma on November 21, 2012 and special measures against Russian NGOs receiving support from abroad. The dancer Alexandra Portyannikova performed famous Dying Swan piece with handcuffs on her arms in the open air in winter when the temperature was minus 20 Celcius and her show became a Requiem to freedoms and human rights in Russia.
The article deals with the personality of Victor Seroff whose biography is not widely known altho... more The article deals with the personality of Victor Seroff whose biography is not widely known although he played a significant role in Isadora Duncan's life during her last years. The author makes an attempt to gather and analyze accessible materials
article
The article was published in the collection of conference proceedings "ДИАЛОГИ И ВСТРЕЧИ: ПОСТМОД... more The article was published in the collection of conference proceedings "ДИАЛОГИ И ВСТРЕЧИ: ПОСТМОДЕРНИЗМ В РУССКОЙ И АМЕРИКАНСКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЕ"
The article shows the political context, in which the Moscow school of the American dancer Isador... more The article shows the political context, in which the Moscow school of the American dancer Isadora Duncan existed in the 1920s in the USSR, as well as some peculiarities of interactions between the school and the regime. The author reveals the evolution of the authorities’ attitude towards the school and reasons for its closure.
The article represents an unpublished material on the American dancer Isadora Duncan found recent... more The article represents an unpublished material on the American dancer Isadora Duncan found recently in one of the Russian archives
Poetik des Alltags/ Поэтика быта, 2014
The article published in Germany in 2014 is devoted to the Moscow School of the American dancer I... more The article published in Germany in 2014 is devoted to the Moscow School of the American dancer Isadora Duncan (1921-1924). Статья, опубликованная в сборнике Poetik des Alltags (Поэтика быта) в Германии в 2014 году, посвящена московской школе Айседоры Дункан (1921-1924) и контексту ее существования
The review published in the journal International Trends. 2011, volume 9, No 2(26) p. 136-139 (in... more The review published in the journal International Trends. 2011, volume 9, No 2(26) p. 136-139 (in Russian)
Журнал «Балет» в газетном формате, 2013
My article is devoted to the First International Isadora Duncan Symposium in Washington, DC, publ... more My article is devoted to the First International Isadora Duncan Symposium in Washington, DC, published in the supplement to the magazine Ballet - Liniya (in Russian)
The article is devoted to the literary legacy of Isadora Duncan which is less known but was a sig... more The article is devoted to the literary legacy of Isadora Duncan which is less known but was a significant part of her work.
The article deals with the understanding of Isadora Duncan's dance legacy nowadays.
The article deals with the biography of the forgotten actor of the Tairov's Chamber Theater Alexa... more The article deals with the biography of the forgotten actor of the Tairov's Chamber Theater Alexander Rumnev and analyzes archival collections of Rumnev's materials in Moscow and also his famous book On pantomime (1964). Was published in Toronto Slavic Quarterly in 2014.
The review of the new edition of Isadora Duncan's memoirs My life. Published in Russian in Vopros... more The review of the new edition of Isadora Duncan's memoirs My life. Published in Russian in Voprosy Literatury (Literary Issues)
The review of the book by Andrea Mantel Seidel Isadora Duncan in the 21st century. Was published ... more The review of the book by Andrea Mantel Seidel Isadora Duncan in the 21st century. Was published in Dance Chronicle in 2016
Шаги/Steps, #3, 2022
The article is devoted to the series of Russian revolutionary songs which the American dancer Isa... more The article is devoted to the series of Russian revolutionary songs which the American dancer Isadora Duncan used as a musical basis for her choreographic works while in the USSR. The series included such popular songs as “Dubinushka”, “Varshavianka”, and others. The author also considers the pre-history of this cycle — Duncan’s dance “revolution” in the beginning of the 20th century, and revolutionary motifs in her choreography of the 1910s. Another aspect of the American dancer’s creativity is her intuitive aspiration to the genre of performance, not conceptualized at that time, which intensified in the context of the Russian revolution and experimental art of the first post-revolutionary years.
RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism
Fedor Sologub entered British literary consciousness only after the onset of WWI. The British-Rus... more Fedor Sologub entered British literary consciousness only after the onset of WWI. The British-Russian war alliance was auspicious for the translation of Russian literature, bringing about what John Cournos termed a “Russian Boom.” In 1915 alone, two translated collections of Sologub’s short stories appeared. This paper examines the British reception of Sologub, with a focus on John Cournos (1881-1966), one of Sologub’s earliest and most prolific translators, and the role played by Zinaida Vengerova (1867-1941) as mediator between translator and author. In her correspondence with Sologub, Vengerova promotes Cournos as translator. A more pressing concern for Vengerova was to convince Sologub to make Cournos his “authorized” translator. This paper also argues that the reception of Sologub in Britain must be contextualized in terms of war propaganda. Politically, the British government prioritized the promotion of brotherly feeling between the two allies and a positive opinion of Russia...
Practices & Interpretations: A Journal of Philology, Teaching and Cultural Studies, 2020
The article deals with the impact of the English theatre director Edward Gordon Craig’s innovatio... more The article deals with the impact of the English theatre director Edward Gordon Craig’s innovations in the dance theatre of the end of the 20th to the beginning of the 21st century. We consider one of Craig’s earliest performances in the opera “Dido and Aeneas” by the well-known English composer of the 17th century Henry Purcell., This was first staged in 1900 in London, and we focus on the selected methods and techniques associated with the reforming of theatre language, which were used by choreographers, such as the American Mark Morris and the German Sasha Waltz several decades later. Dance-operas by Morris (staged in 1989 in Belgium), and by Waltz (staged in 2005 in Berlin), despite their completely different approaches to the material, undoubtedly used Craig’s inventions, consciously or unconsciously entering into a dialogue with his experimental performance. Both Morris’s minimalism and Waltz’s baroque abundance stem from English director’s work, although the choreographers do...
ROSSICA. Литературные связи и контакты, 2021
The article is based on the documents stored at the State Archive of the Russian Federation and r... more The article is based on the documents stored at the State Archive of the Russian Federation and related to the preparations of the great Bengali poet and thinker Rabindranath Tagore’s official visit to the USSR in 1930. Many of these documents had been classified for a long time. Part of them was unclassified with the Soviet leaders’ authorization and analyzed by archivists while organizing the Festival of India in the USSR in 1987. However, most of the documents (especially on VOKS - All Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries) had remained “classified” until the end of the 1990s. The author of the article drawing upon the archival documents analyzes the peculiarities of the visit preparations and the social-political context of reaching out these documents in the 1980s. Tagore’s name was used as a compelling argument
for substantiating a “very special” Soviet-Indian friendship
Journal of Russian American Studies
see the same article below
Практики и интерпретации, 2020
Аннотация.В статье рассматривается влияние идей английского режиссера-новатора Эдварда Гордона Кр... more Аннотация.В статье рассматривается влияние идей английского режиссера-новатора Эдварда Гордона Крэга на танцевальный театр конца ХХ-начала ХХI в. На примере одной из ранних постановок Крэга, оперы английского композитора XVII в. Генри Пёрселла «Дидона и Эней», осуществленной в 1900 г. в Лондоне, выявляются ключевые приемы реформирования театрального языка, которые спустя несколько десятилетий оказались востре-бованными среди режиссеров-хореографов, таких как, в частности, американец Марк Моррис и немка Саша Вальц. Две танц-оперы «Дидона и Эней»-Морриса, поставленная в Бельгии (1989), и Вальц, осуществленная в Берлине (2005),-несмотря на кардинально различные подходы к материалу, безусловно, используют открытия Крэга, зачастую вольно или невольно вступая в диалог с экспериментальной постановкой столетней давности. И минимализм Морриса, и барочное изобилие Вальц так или иначе произрастают из работы английского режиссера: несмотря на то, что хореографы не обращаются к ней напрямую, идеи Крэга прочно вошли в практику театра ХХ в., а музыка Пёрселла практически переживает новое рождение. Сравнительный анализ позволяет выявить, как мечты английского режиссера о создании театра, основанного на таких компонентах, как действие, линия, цвет и ритм, и мощно воздействующего на душу зрителя, подобно те-атру древности, успешно реализовались в творчестве хореографов-постмодернистов. Особое внимание уделяется как сценографии постановок, так и формированию зрительного образа и атмосферы спектакля.
Шаги / Steps, published by the School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities. The School of Public Policy of The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, peer-reviewed journal, 2019
The article is devoted to the history of pantomime theater in the second half of the 20th century... more The article is devoted to the history of pantomime theater in the second half of the 20th century in the USSR/Russia and its highpoint during the 1970s, when Giedrius Mackevičius, an outstanding theater director, created the Ensemble of Pantomime in Moscow.Then the ensemble was transformed into the professional Moscow Theater of Plastic Drama, which had successful tours all over the USSR. After perestroika, new trends pushed aside plastic theater, which was forgotten until the beginning of the new, 21st century.
Статья посвящена истории развития пантомимы во второй половине ХХ в. в СССР/России и моменту ее расцвета, когда на базе пантомимы появился пластический театр. Его активным пропагандистом стал режиссер Гедрюс Мацкявичюс, создавший сначала Ансамбль пантомимы, прославившийся спектаклем о творчестве скульптора Микеланджело «Преодоление» (1975), а затем - Московский театр пластической драмы. После перестройки новые веяния, пришедшие в постсоветское искусство, вытеснили пластический театр на обочину, и, по сути дела, он был забыт до начала ХХI в.
Forum Modernes Theater (Published in 2019, not in 2014), 2014
The article is devoted to the street performance in Moscow which took place in January 2014 and e... more The article is devoted to the street performance in Moscow which took place in January 2014 and expressed a protest against the law on “foreign agents” issued by the State Duma on November 21, 2012 and special measures against Russian NGOs receiving support from abroad. The dancer Alexandra Portyannikova performed famous Dying Swan piece with handcuffs on her arms in the open air in winter when the temperature was minus 20 Celcius and her show became a Requiem to freedoms and human rights in Russia.
The article deals with the personality of Victor Seroff whose biography is not widely known altho... more The article deals with the personality of Victor Seroff whose biography is not widely known although he played a significant role in Isadora Duncan's life during her last years. The author makes an attempt to gather and analyze accessible materials
article
The article was published in the collection of conference proceedings "ДИАЛОГИ И ВСТРЕЧИ: ПОСТМОД... more The article was published in the collection of conference proceedings "ДИАЛОГИ И ВСТРЕЧИ: ПОСТМОДЕРНИЗМ В РУССКОЙ И АМЕРИКАНСКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЕ"
The article shows the political context, in which the Moscow school of the American dancer Isador... more The article shows the political context, in which the Moscow school of the American dancer Isadora Duncan existed in the 1920s in the USSR, as well as some peculiarities of interactions between the school and the regime. The author reveals the evolution of the authorities’ attitude towards the school and reasons for its closure.
The article represents an unpublished material on the American dancer Isadora Duncan found recent... more The article represents an unpublished material on the American dancer Isadora Duncan found recently in one of the Russian archives
Poetik des Alltags/ Поэтика быта, 2014
The article published in Germany in 2014 is devoted to the Moscow School of the American dancer I... more The article published in Germany in 2014 is devoted to the Moscow School of the American dancer Isadora Duncan (1921-1924). Статья, опубликованная в сборнике Poetik des Alltags (Поэтика быта) в Германии в 2014 году, посвящена московской школе Айседоры Дункан (1921-1924) и контексту ее существования
The review published in the journal International Trends. 2011, volume 9, No 2(26) p. 136-139 (in... more The review published in the journal International Trends. 2011, volume 9, No 2(26) p. 136-139 (in Russian)
Журнал «Балет» в газетном формате, 2013
My article is devoted to the First International Isadora Duncan Symposium in Washington, DC, publ... more My article is devoted to the First International Isadora Duncan Symposium in Washington, DC, published in the supplement to the magazine Ballet - Liniya (in Russian)
The article is devoted to the literary legacy of Isadora Duncan which is less known but was a sig... more The article is devoted to the literary legacy of Isadora Duncan which is less known but was a significant part of her work.
The article deals with the understanding of Isadora Duncan's dance legacy nowadays.
The article deals with the biography of the forgotten actor of the Tairov's Chamber Theater Alexa... more The article deals with the biography of the forgotten actor of the Tairov's Chamber Theater Alexander Rumnev and analyzes archival collections of Rumnev's materials in Moscow and also his famous book On pantomime (1964). Was published in Toronto Slavic Quarterly in 2014.
The review of the new edition of Isadora Duncan's memoirs My life. Published in Russian in Vopros... more The review of the new edition of Isadora Duncan's memoirs My life. Published in Russian in Voprosy Literatury (Literary Issues)
The review of the book by Andrea Mantel Seidel Isadora Duncan in the 21st century. Was published ... more The review of the book by Andrea Mantel Seidel Isadora Duncan in the 21st century. Was published in Dance Chronicle in 2016
Isadora Duncan. The Making of a Legend. New fascinating findings of the people and circumstances surrounding the dancing icon (in Russian – Айседора Дункан и вокруг: новые исследования и материалы), 2019
The new book on Isadora Duncan by Elena Yushkova (in Russian), supported by the Kennan Institute
Пластика преодоления, 2009
Translation of the part of the book Plastique of the Overcoming: Notes on the History of Russian ... more Translation of the part of the book Plastique of the Overcoming: Notes on the History of Russian Mime-Dance-Drama Theater in the 20th Century (in Russian, 2009)
Voprosy Literatury/Вопросы литературы, 2022
Аннотация. В рецензии на книгу М. Воскресенской «Серебряный век в социокультурном измерении» анал... more Аннотация. В рецензии на книгу М. Воскресенской «Серебряный век в социокультурном измерении» анализируется научная новизна работы, а также контекст ее появления. Отмечаются достоинства и некоторые недостатки книги, систематизирующей представления об эпохе с позиций историка и культуролога. Ключевые слова: О. Ромен, Серебряный век, социокультурное измерение, социальная база, культурная элита, культурологический анализ, коллективный портрет.
Вопросы литературы, 2018
Рецензия на книгу Ольги Партан Vagabonding Masks на рус. яз. в журнале Вопросы литературы № 6, 2018
The review was published in Women East-West, the newsletter of Association for Women in Slavic St... more The review was published in Women East-West, the newsletter of Association for Women in Slavic Studies, Volume 7, issue 2