Staging is who? Famous choreographers of the world

The choreographer is the producer of dance numbers in concerts, ballet performances, choreographic scenes in musical and dramatic performances, the head of the ensemble of dance or the troupe of dancers. This is the person who comes up with and implements the characters' images, their movements, plasticity, chooses musical material, and also determines what light, make-up, costumes, and decorations should be.

Choreographer

The extent to which the dance number has a strong emotional impact, the choreographic scene in the music and drama theater or the entire ballet performance depends entirely on how beautifully and precisely the movements and interactions of dancers and dancers are organized, on the expressiveness and originality of their movements, on how They combine their dances with musical material, with stage lighting, with costumes and makeup - all this together creates a single image of the whole action. A choreographer is just the person who is his creator. He must know all the rules and subtleties of ballet art, its history, in order to create such dances that it will be interesting to watch the audience and perform to the dancers. The performer must possess knowledge, have the experience and abilities of the organizer, have imagination, fantasy, be original in his ideas, have talent, be musical, understand music, have a sense of rhythm, be able to express emotions with the help of plastics - it is from these components that art forms Choreographer. If all this is in the arsenal of the head, then his production will have success with the public and critics.

The word "choreographer" in translation into Russian means "master of dance". This profession is complex, and it requires a lot of work and effort, both physical and moral. The performer should show all the performers of their party, explain what emotions they should express in the plastic and facial expressions. The complexity of this work is also that the script of the dance can not be written down on paper, the choreographer must keep it in mind and show the artists that they learn their part. Acquaintance of the dancers with the role takes place directly at the rehearsals, while the actors of the drama and the musical theater have the opportunity to get the text and music material in advance. The choreographer must disclose the content of his role to the performer, showing him that it is necessary to dance and how. And the more expressively the director demonstrates his idea to the artist, the quicker and easier his idea will be understood and learned.

The task of the choreographer is also to build a dance or the whole play in such a way as to maintain and enhance the spectator interest. By themselves, dance movements are just mechanical exercises, a set of poses that will not tell the viewer anything, they will only demonstrate the flexibility of the performer's body, and they will only speak if the director fills them with thought and feeling and helps the artist to invest in them Also his soul. In many respects, the success of the performance and the duration of its "life" on the stage will depend on this. The very first performer of all dances is the choreographer himself, because he must first show the performers of their party.

Choreographers of the past and present

Famous choreographers of Russia and the world of the 19th and 20th centuries:

• Marius Petipa, who made a huge and invaluable contribution to the Russian ballet;
• Jose Mendez - was a director in many famous theaters of the world, including the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow;
• Filippo Taglioni;
• Jules Joseph Perrault is one of the brightest representatives of the "romantic ballet";
• Gaetano Joya - representative of the Italian choreodrama;
• George Balanchine - initiated the American ballet, as well as the modern ballet neoclassic, believed that the plot should be expressed only with the help of the bodies of dancers, and the scenery and lush costumes - this is superfluous;
• Mikhail Baryshnikov - made a great contribution to the world of ballet;
• Maurice Bejart is one of the most brilliant ballet masters of the 20th century;
• Maris Liepa;
• Pierre Lacotte - was engaged in the restoration of the ancient choreography;
• Igor Moiseyev is the creator of the first professional ensemble in Russia in the national genre;
• Vaclav Nijinsky - was an innovator in the choreographic art;
• Rudolf Nuriev;
• Alexei Ratmansky.

Modern choreographers of the world:

• Jerome Belle - representative of the school of modern ballet;
• Nacho Duato ;
• Jiri Kilian;
• Angelin Preljocaj is a bright representative of the new French dance.

Russian choreographers of the 21st century:

• Boris Eifman is the creator of his own theater;
• Alla Sigalova;
• Lyudmila Semenyaka;
• Maya Plisetskaya;
• Gediminas Taranda;
• Evgeny Panfilov is the creator of his ballet troupe, an enthusiast in the genre of free dance.

All these Russian choreographers are very famous not only in our country, but also abroad.

Marius Petipa

French and Russian choreographer, who left a huge legacy. Since 1847 he joined the ballet master at the Mariinsky Theater of St. Petersburg and the Bolshoi Theater of Moscow, at the invitation of the Russian Emperor. In 1894 he became a subject of the Russian Empire. He was the director of a huge number of ballets, such as Giselle, Esmeralda, Corsair, Pharaoh's Daughter, Don Quixote, La Bayadere, Midsummer Night's Dream, Daughter of the Snows, Robert-Devil "And many others. Other

Roland Petit

There are well-known choreographers who are considered classics of the ballet of the 20th century. Among them one of the brightest figures is Roland Petit. In 1945, he created his own ballet troupe in Paris, which was called "Ballet des Champs Elysees". A year later he staged the famous play "The Young Man and Death" to the music of IS. Bach, who entered the classics of world art. In 1948 Roland Petit founded a new ballet troupe called "Ballet of Paris". In the 50s he was a dancer for several films. In 1965 he staged in Paris the legendary ballet "Notre Dame de Paris", in which he himself played the role of humpback Quasimodo, in 2003 he performed this production in Russia - at the Bolshoi Theater, where Nikolai Tsiskaridze staged the party of the ugly bell ringer.

Gediminas Taranda

Another famous ballet master in the world is Gediminas Taranda. After graduating from the choreographic school in Voronezh he was a soloist in the Bolshoi Theater of Moscow. In 1994 he founded his Imperial Russian Ballet, which gave him world fame. Since 2012, he is the leader and co-founder of the Foundation for Promoting Creative Education, the president of the Grand Pa Festival. Gediminas Taranda holds the title of Honored Artist of Russia.

Boris Eifman

Bright, modern, original, the choreographer is B. Eifman. He is the founder of his own ballet theater. He has various titles and awards in the field of art. His first productions in 1960 were: "Life to meet" to the music of composer D.B. Kabalevsky, as well as "Icarus" to the music of V. Arzumanov and A. Chernov. Fame for Boris Eifman as a choreographer brought the ballet "Firebird" to the music of the composer IF. Stravinsky. He has directed his own theater since 1977. The performances of Boris Eifman are always original, they are innovative, they combine together academic, non-spinning, and also modern in the style of rock choreography. Every year the troupe goes on tour to America. In the repertoire of the theater classical ballets, children's, as well as rock ballets.