From Petipa to Balanchine: Classical Revival and the Modernisation of Ballet by Tim Scholl

Author:Tim Scholl [Scholl, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2003-09-02T04:00:00+00:00

Acmeism arose already in the 1910s as a negation of the poetics of symbolism, and elements of its aesthetic were soon evident in the Paris productions of the Russian ballet. The earthy basis for feelings, the interest in the “tangible world” and “beautiful clarity” of forms announced themselves in such productions as Mikhail Fokine’s Polovtsian Dances and Schéhérazade, and most importantly, in the works of the great dancer Vatslav Nijinsky. The images of the heroes created by Nijinsky in the ballets of Fokine—those of the “first man’s” perceptions of the world—brought to life one of the primary themes of acmeist poetry.

(1971, 9)

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