Ensemble of Igor Moiseev. Ballet by Igor Moiseev: world recognition

Igor Alexandrovich Moiseev. GAANT named after Moiseev is the world's first professional choreographic group engaged in artistic interpretation and promotion of dance folklore of the peoples of the world, including Jewish, Mexican, Greek dances, as well as dances of the peoples of the CIS.

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✪ Ukrainian dance "Hopak". Ballet by Igor Moiseev

✪ "Apple". Ballet by Igor Moiseev.

✪ GAANT named after Igor Moiseev. One-act ballet "Night on Bald Mountain".

✪ Suite of Greek dances "Sirtaki". Ballet by Igor Moiseev.

✪ Choreographic picture "Football". GAANT named after Igor Moiseev

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Team history

GANT named after Igor Moiseev was founded on February 10, 1937, on the day when the first rehearsal of a troupe of 30 people took place in the Moscow house of the choreographer at Leontievsky lane, house 4. The task that Moiseev set for young artists was to creatively process and present on stage the samples of USSR folklore that existed at that time. To this end, the ensemble members went on folklore expeditions around the country, where they searched for, studied and recorded disappearing dances, songs and rituals. As a result, the dance troupe's first programs were Dances of the Peoples of the USSR (1937-1938) and Dances of the Baltic Peoples (1939). Since 1940, the ensemble had the opportunity to rehearse and perform on the stage of the Tchaikovsky Hall, and it was this theater that became the home for the ensemble for many years.

To achieve maximum expressiveness and expressiveness of the dance performance, Igor Moiseev used all the means of stage culture: all types and types of dances, symphonic music, dramaturgy, scenography and acting skills. In addition, Moiseev took as a basis the principle of equality of the artists of the ensemble, from the very beginning there were no soloists, leading dancers and corps de ballet in the team - any participant could play both the main and the secondary role in the production.

An important step in creative development collective was the development and updated interpretation of European folklore. The program "Dances of the Slavic Peoples" (1945) was created in unique conditions: not being able to travel abroad, Igor Moiseev recreated samples of dance creativity, consulting with musicians, folklorists, historians, and musicologists. On tour in 1946 in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, the audience was amazed at the accuracy of the productions and the true artistic sense of the ensemble's stage works. With the significant participation of well-known choreographers and experts in folklore Miklos Rabai (Hungary), Lyubusha Ginkova (Czechoslovakia), Ahn Song-hi (Korea), whom Igor Moiseev attracted to work, the program "Peace and Friendship" (1953) was created, where for the first time they were collected examples of European and Asian dance folklore from eleven countries.

From the beginning of the Great Patriotic War Ensemble folk dance under the leadership of Moiseev, he toured Siberia, Transbaikalia, the Far East, and Mongolia.

In 1955, the ensemble became the first Soviet group to go on foreign tours to France and Great Britain. In 1958, the ensemble was also the first of Soviet teams went on tour in the USA.

Quintessence creative way GAANT named after Moiseev became a class-concert "The Road to Dance" (1965), which clearly demonstrates the development path of the team from mastering individual elements before the creation of full-scale stage canvases. In 1967, for the “Road to Dance” program, GAANT was the first of the folk dance ensembles to be awarded the title of academic, and Igor Moiseev was awarded the Lenin Prize.

Despite the fact that in 2007 the ensemble lost its leader and ideological inspirer, the Moiseev GAANT continued to perform and tour around the world. For its concert activity, which has been going on for more than 70 years, the ensemble was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples. GAANT is the only group of its kind that has performed at the Opéra Garnier (Paris) and La Scala (Milan). In terms of the number of tours, it is listed in the Russian Guinness Book of Records as an ensemble that has visited more than 60 countries. .

Per best performance In 2011, the ensemble was awarded the Grand Prix of the Anita Bucchi choreographic award (Italy), and at the premiere program on December 20, 2011, as part of a triumphal Paris tour, UNESCO awarded the ensemble with the Five Continents Medal.

Orchestra

In the first years of the ensemble's existence, the concerts were accompanied by the group folk instruments and musical groups national instruments under the direction of E. Avksentiev. Since the late 1940s, in connection with the expansion of the ensemble's repertoire and the appearance in it of the cycle "Dances of the Peoples of the World", a small symphony orchestra was created with the involvement of a group of national instruments. The main merit in its creation belongs to the conductor Samson Galperin.

To date, the ensemble's concerts are accompanied by a small symphony orchestra consisting of 35 people. original arrangements folk melodies in different years were created by conductors Evgeny Avksentiev, Samson Galperin, Nikolai Nekrasov, Anatoly Gus, musician Vladimir Zhmykhov.

Orchestra artists also take part in ensemble productions. For example, in the suite of Moldovan dances “Hora” and “Chiocarlie”, a violinist in national costume plays on the stage. "Kalmyk dance" is accompanied by the sound of the Saratov harmonica, while the orchestra artist is dressed in a tuxedo. The one-act ballet "Night on Bald Mountain" begins with the performance of the stage orchestra in national Ukrainian costumes.

School-studio

"Studio School at the State Academic Folk Dance Ensemble under the direction of Igor Moiseev" was formed in September 1943 as a study group at the ensemble. Engaged in the preparation of artists and is the main source of personnel to replenish the troupe. The training program includes special disciplines: classical dance, folk stage dance, duet dance, jazz dance, gymnastics, acrobatics, acting, playing the piano and folk musical instruments, history of music, history of theater, history of ballet, history of painting, history of the ensemble.

In 1988, the school received the status of a secondary specialized educational institution.

Repertoire

The Ensemble's repertoire consists of about 300 choreographic works created by Igor Moiseev since 1937. By genre all dances are divided into choreographic miniatures, dance pictures, dance suites and one-act ballets. Thematically, the dances are combined into the cycles "Pictures of the Past", "Soviet Pictures" and "Across the Countries of the World". The list contains the most frequently performed choreographic numbers.

Choreographic miniatures

Fight of two kids
Estonian "Polka through the leg"
Polka labyrinth

dance pictures

Football (music by A. Tsfasman)
partisans
tobaccoryaska
Buffoons (music by N. Rimsky-Korsakov)

One-act ballets

Polovtsian dances (music by A. Borodin)
On the skating rink (music by I. Strauss)
Night on bald mountain (music by M. Mussorgsky)
Spanish ballad (music by Pablo di Luna)
Evening in a tavern

Suite of Russian dances

girls exit
box
grass
Male dance
General final

Today the Igor Moiseev Folk Dance Ensemble celebrates its anniversary. Exactly 80 years ago Moiseev, soloist and choreographer Bolshoi Theater, held the first rehearsal with a small group of enthusiastic folk dance lovers. Thus began the path of the team to international recognition. On its 80th birthday, the ensemble presents its fans with great performances at the country's main concert venues, including the Historical Stage of the Bolshoi Theater and the Tchaikovsky Hall. Reported by Elena Voroshilova.

Ninety-five ballet dancers run a class-concert. Exercises at the barre are replaced by dances of the peoples of the world. In 1965, the program "The Road to Dance" brought Igor Moiseev the Lenin Prize, and the ensemble - the status of an academic.

“Moiseev is a brilliant director and philosopher. Creativity is good, that's why it is modern,” says Elena Shcherbakova, director of the Academic Folk Dance Ensemble named after Moiseev.

Elena Shcherbakova has been in the ensemble since 1969. Soloist, teacher-tutor, director. Conducts rehearsals in Moiseev's tough way. Beginners have long learned - went on stage - give all your best.

“The tradition before the performance is to put on a suit, check that everything is comfortable, so you have to go to full speed in order to give all your best at the concert,” says the soloist of the ensemble Ivan Makarov.

Creating a folk dance ensemble, Moiseev did not change the ballet. A student of Gorsky, he combined classical with folk stage dance and said a new word in choreography.

The ensemble's repertoire includes two hundred numbers. And all this is the legacy of Moses. The Adyghe dance on koturns, staged by Aslan Khadzhaev, is an exception. It takes skill not to fall off the wooden platform.

“The main thing is posture, keeping your back, we were told that after the rehearsal, the back should hurt. You need to wear wooden shoes, ”said the artists of the ensemble Maria Ionova and Anastasia Sorokina.

To become a Moiseevite, you need to study at a studio school for five years. It was opened in 1943. Here they teach not only dance, but also educate character.

“When we did this jump, fell, then got up, you have to complete what you want to do,” explains Irina Smirnova, a student at the studio school.

This is the first course. They are thirteen. Every day from three to seven they make a class. Nobody is in a hurry to leave. And so it has always been.

“We never looked at the clock, the rehearsal is going on, and we don’t look at the clock, we were so passionate about the process,” recalls the director of the school-studio Guzel Apanaeva.

They already understand that devotion to the profession and honesty are the main thing in the Ensemble of Igor Moiseev, and they are ready to go this way.

Igor Moiseev. Photo - ITAR-TASS / Alexey Panov

The name of Igor Moiseev has long become not just a name, but a brand of outstanding achievements of our country.

The legendary choreographer created an ensemble that performs folk dances, perfected by the hand of the master.

He was born on January 21, 1906. According to family legend, he began to study ballet at the insistence of his father. Once he witnessed a fight in the alley and, when he came home, he told his son that he would not fight, but would do ballet. And immediately, literally tomorrow, he will go to a ballet school.

Today, no one doubts that folk dancing is an art. This seems to be the simple truth. The paradox is that it was Moiseev who brought this truth to us. After all, before him no one had to consider folk dance on a par with classical dance.

Why this did not happen before - the maestro himself was surprised.

“Folk dances are born in every nation according to the laws by which the language of the people is born. So essentially it is a genuine phenomenon of art. Why no one could understand this before, I don't know. It so happened that I understood this before others and decided to expose it and identify folk dance as a certain national system, as a national language”,

Moiseev spoke.

1. Sirtaki

As you know, “Sirtaki” is not a Greek folk dance. But at Moiseev it was one of those numbers where they taught to dance in an ensemble. Moiseev's saying is well known:

"Whoever calls himself a soloist, I will fire him from the ensemble."

The maestro had a special relationship with the soloists. He taught not to show himself, but to act as a team. There were leaders in his team who danced better than others, but the peculiarity of the ensemble was that any soloist could be replaced and any member of the team could perform a solo part.

2. "Apple"

The ensemble is confident that Moiseev's school can serve as an alternative to military service. Here they say:

“Give the child to the school of Moiseev, and, God forbid, he will work for a year or two. You will get a disciplined, educated, well-mannered man.”

According to the Moiseev system, a dancer needs to develop not only his legs, but also, for example, acting skills. This is important for folk dance, and it is no coincidence that in every work, even in the smallest miniature, there are actors' images.

At each rehearsal, Moiseev advised his students to "turn on their heads." Taking the team on tour, Moiseev personally led his ensemble along the best museums and art galleries.

3. "Hungarian dance"

Moiseev traveled a lot around the country and around the world, he personally searched for and found the right momentum, movements, moods. Ensemble dances are not pure folk dances.

They are processed by the master, and Moiseev himself said that the ability to think out in the vein in which it was created musical composition, requires a special flair. The famous choreographer considered joy to be a prerequisite for creating a folk dance.

“Folk dance results when the heart is light and cheerful. Man must be an optimist, he is born to be an optimist. And the surrounding circumstances make us a pessimist.”

Moiseev admitted that sometimes in order to radiate joy and optimism, he had to commit "violence on the soul." Especially when there were no prerequisites for optimism. But it was necessary, because the more pessimism in the world, the more optimism had to be given to a person in art.

4. "Tatarochka"

The dancers said that "Tatarochka" is one of the most difficult dances, in which they had to perform a huge number of small foot movements for a long time, to the point of nausea. The master was stubborn. Dancers could perfect the same movement for months.

"Comrades, why are you like sleepy flies?"

The strict Moiseev kept repeating. He rarely praised. His highest praise was the phrase:

"Well, now like adults."

5. "Kalmyk dance"

Contrary to the beliefs of the Kalmyk Buddhists, Moiseev knew for sure that the soul is immortal and in every new life it incarnates into a new living being. He believed that talent is the knowledge accumulated by the soul in a previous life.

“The spiritual wealth gained through art and culture is the only thing we can take away with us. This is what feeds the soul. After death, a person does not lose this, and another time is born with the acquired spiritual wealth that he acquired earlier,

The maestro spoke.

6. "Finnish polka"

Moiseev's colleagues were surprised when the master decided to stage a Finnish dance. It seemed to them that Finnish folk dances were boring and monotonous. But it was not there. Working on the movements, the master brought them to the point of absurdity.

“Absurdity is what the public adores. See how logically and well one absurd movement flows from another!”

7. Dance of the Argentine shepherds "Gaucho"

This dance is considered Moses' masterpiece. Looking at these fellows, it is hard to believe that it was not easy for them to perform.

As soloist Rudy Khojoyan recalled, the clothes of the Argentine shepherd were terribly uncomfortable, and the spurs on his boots were incredibly heavy. It would be difficult for a simple person in such an outfit to walk, let alone dance.

8. "Night on Bald Mountain"

This dance to the music of Mussorgsky is another non-random link in the work of the great Moiseev. The future choreographer was born in Kyiv. His father was a nobleman, lawyer Alexander Moiseev, and his mother was a French milliner. Father and mother met in Paris, in a cafe where seamstresses ran to have a bite to eat during their lunch break.

Igor Moiseev was brought up in a French boarding school for a long time, he knew French perfectly. The family lived in two countries. At some point, they decided to finally move to France, and even a ticket was bought, but the First World War began, and the Moiseevs remained in Russia.

9. "Russian dance"

In 1955, the ensemble made a splash in France. The French did not even think that such art could exist in the Soviet Union. This has not happened since Diaghilev's Russian Seasons. Queues lined up for the concerts of the group, and the group itself performed at the Grand Opera - an unheard of honor, which no folk group has ever been awarded before or since.

"If concerts don't make you go on a rampage, then you're crazy"

Wrote French newspapers.

Since then, the team has increasingly begun to release abroad. Moiseev recalled that he was envied:

“Well, comrade, you are all traveling abroad on business trips!”

The party bosses dragged on with displeasure. However, they had nothing to complain about. From business trips, Moiseev brought checks for a million dollars to the state treasury.

10. Performance of the Moiseev Ensemble at Eurovision

In 2009, the Moiseev ensemble performed enchantingly at the Eurovision Song Contest, held in Moscow. True, the founding father of the team was no longer in the box. The legendary choreographer died in 2007. Fate generously measured him 101 years.

It is striking that Moiseev admitted that he organized the ensemble “not because of a good life”, but because he was expelled from the Bolshoi. While still a very young man, he became a choreographer. I put "Spartacus", but the envy of my colleagues intervened.

“They told me: you can dance, but we won’t let you stage. For me it was a tragedy. Creativity was more important to me than performance,

I remember Moiseev.

The choreographer left and organized his own ensemble.

There was a war, but Moiseev was given money for the ensemble. And then - the will of providence. Once Moiseev was lucky enough to meet with Stalin himself, and the leader ordered that the young teacher be given the best room in Moscow for the ensemble.

What's this? Luck? Luck? Moiseev grinned and said:

“You know, luck doesn't exist. There is spiritual work and spiritual experience, which is transmitted with each subsequent rebirth of the soul.

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State academic ensemble folk dance named after Igor Moiseev

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Igor Moiseev State Academic Folk Dance Ensemble- choreographic folk dance ensemble, created in 1937 by choreographer and choreographer Igor Alexandrovich Moiseev. GAANT named after Moiseev is the world's first professional choreographic group engaged in artistic interpretation and promotion of dance folklore of the peoples of the world, including Jewish, Mexican, Greek dances, as well as dances of the peoples of the CIS.

Team history

An important stage in the creative development of the team was the development and updated interpretation of European folklore. The program "Dances of the Slavic Peoples" (1945) was created in unique conditions: not being able to travel abroad, Igor Moiseev recreated samples of dance creativity, consulting with musicians, folklorists, historians, and musicologists. On tour in 1946 in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, the audience was amazed at the accuracy of the productions and the true artistic sense of the ensemble's stage works. With the significant participation of well-known choreographers and experts in folklore Miklos Rabai (Hungary), Lyubusha Ginkova (Czechoslovakia), Ahn Song-hi (Korea), whom Igor Moiseev attracted to work, the program "Peace and Friendship" (1953) was created, where for the first time they were collected examples of European and Asian dance folklore from eleven countries.

From the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the Folk Dance Ensemble under the direction of Moiseev toured Siberia, Transbaikalia, the Far East, and Mongolia.

In 1955, the ensemble became the first Soviet group to go on foreign tours to France and Great Britain.

Belarusian dance "Bulba"

In 1958, the ensemble was also the first of the Soviet ensembles to go on tour in the USA.

The quintessence of the creative path of the Moiseev GAANT was the class-concert "The Road to Dance" (1965), which clearly demonstrates the development of the team from the development of individual elements to the creation of full-scale stage paintings. In 1967, for the "Road to Dance" program, GAANT was the first of the folk dance ensembles to be awarded the title of academic, and Igor Moiseev was awarded the Lenin Prize.

For the best performance in 2011, the ensemble was awarded the Grand Prix of the Anita Bucchi choreographic award (Italy), and at the premiere program on December 20, 2011, as part of a triumphal Paris tour, UNESCO awarded the ensemble with the Five Continents Medal.

Orchestra

In the first years of the ensemble's existence, concerts were accompanied by a group of folk instruments and a group of musical national instruments conducted by E. Avksentiev. Since the late 1940s, in connection with the expansion of the ensemble's repertoire and the appearance in it of the cycle "Dances of the Peoples of the World", a small symphony orchestra was created with the involvement of a group of national instruments. The main merit in its creation belongs to the conductor S. Galperin.

To date, the ensemble's concerts are accompanied by a small symphony orchestra consisting of 35 people. Original arrangements of folk melodies in different years were created by conductors Evgeny Avksentiev, Sergey Galperin, Nikolai Nekrasov, Anatoly Gus, musician Vladimir Zhmykhov.

School-studio

"Studio School at the State Academic Folk Dance Ensemble under the direction of Igor Moiseev" was formed in September 1943 as a study group at the ensemble. Engaged in the preparation of artists and is the main source of personnel to replenish the troupe. The training program includes special disciplines: classical dance, folk stage dance, duet dance, jazz dance, gymnastics, acrobatics, acting, playing the piano and folk musical instruments, music history, theater history, ballet history, painting history, history ensemble.

In 1988, the school received the status of a secondary specialized educational institution.

Repertoire

The Ensemble's repertoire consists of about 300 choreographic works created by Igor Moiseev since 1937. By genre, all dances are divided into choreographic miniatures, dance pictures, dance suites and one-act ballets. Thematically, the dances are combined into the cycles "Pictures of the Past", "Soviet Pictures" and "Across the Countries of the World". The list contains the most frequently performed choreographic numbers.

Choreographic miniatures

Fight of two kids
Estonian "Polka through the leg"
Polka labyrinth

dance pictures

Football (music by A. Tsfasman)
partisans
tobaccoryaska

One-act ballets

On the skating rink (music by I. Strauss)
Spanish ballad (music by Pablo di Luna)
Evening in a tavern

Suite of Russian dances

girls exit
box
grass
Male dance
General final

Jewish suite

family joys

Suite of Moldovan dances

Chiokyrlie

Mexican dance suite

Zapateo
Avalyulko

Suite of Greek dances

Male dance "Zorba"
Dance of the Girls (music by M. Theodorakis)
General round dance (music by M. Theodorakis)
Male dance in fours (music by M. Theodorakis)
General final dance (music by M. Theodorakis)

A Day on the Ship - Naval Suite

Avral
Engine room
Dance of the Chefs
Dance of the Sailors

labor holiday

From the series "Pictures of the Past"

Old town square dance

From the cycle "Dances of the peoples of the world"

Adjarian dance "Khorumi"
Aragonese "Jota"
Argentine dance "Gaucho"
Argentine dance "Malambo"
Bashkir dance "Seven Beauties"
Belarusian dance "Bulba"
Belarusian dance "Yurochka"
Venezuelan dance "Horopo"
stoneflies
Vietnamese dance with bamboo
Egyptian dance
Kalmyk dance
Chinese ribbon dance
Korean dance "Sanchong"
Korean dance "Trio"
Krakowiak
Oberek
Romanian dance "Briul"
Russian dance "Polyanka"
Sicilian tarantella
Dance of the Bessarabian gypsies
Dance of the Kazan Tatars
Tatarochka
Uzbek dance with a dish

Class-concert "Road to dance"

Notes

Literature

Shamina L.A.; Moiseeva O.I. Theater of Igor Moiseev. - Moscow: Tetralis, 2012. - ISBN 978-5-902492-24-5
Koptelova E.D. Igor Moiseev is an academician and philosopher of dance. - St. Petersburg. : Doe, 2012. - ISBN 978-5-8114-1172-6
Chudnovsky M.A. Ensemble of Igor Moiseev. - Moscow: Knowledge, 1959.
Moiseev I.A. I remember… Lifelong tour. - Moscow: Consent, 1996. - ISBN 5-86884-072-0