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Fedor Lopukhov: A Soviet Choreographer in the 1920s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2014

Elizabeth Souritz ,
Lynn Visson  and
Sally Banes
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Elizabeth Souritz's book Soviet Choreographers in the 1920s (first published in the U.S.S.R. as Khoreograficheskoe iskusstvo dvadtsatykh godov [Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1979) is presently in preparation for publication by Dance Horizons. The book focuses on one particular aspect of Soviet choreography in the 1920s – the changes within the ballet institution, that is, the state lyric theaters. Although her main purpose is to excavate the choreography itself, and especially the work of three key artists (Alexander Gorsky, Kasian Goleizovsky, and Fedor Lopukhov), in the course of reading about the ballets, we also learn a great deal about the dance and theater life on the periphery, about who was included and who excluded from the mainstream and why, about the aesthetic and political debates that brought some of the projects to fruition and buried others, and about the ways in which the period served as a kind of linchpin in the history of ballet. We see in Souritz's account a microcosm both of the larger Soviet dance world of the 1920s and of the larger picture of state cultural institutions.

The book sheds a welcome light on an era, a group of choreographers, and a series of ballets that have previously been little known in the West. We have been tantalized by brief references in the available literature to the revolutionary ballets celebrating the October Revolution of 1917, to the revisions of the classics that remain in the Soviet repertory, to the remarkable innovations inspired by modernist experiments in all the arts of the period, and to the “model ballet” The Red Poppy. These topics fascinate us not only for their own sake, for they have been a missing chapter in our knowledge of dance history, but also because they illuminate the history of American ballet, and in particular the early roots of George Balanchine's oeuvre.

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Research Article
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Dance Research Journal , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , Fall 1985 , pp. 3 - 20
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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 1985

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