The theater is housed in a characterful 1,500-seater auditorium right in the artistic heart of the city - the theatrical district of Bolshaya Dmitrovka.
April 13, 2006 (Press Release) --
History of the Theater
The Stanislavsky & Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater, founded in 1941 when the Staniskavsky Opera Studio merged with the Music Studio of Nemirovich-Danchenko, blends the traditions of Russian classical ballet with a novel and innovative approach to production, staging and set design.
The theater is housed in a characterful 1,500-seater auditorium right in the artistic heart of the city - the theatrical district of Bolshaya Dmitrovka. The history of the theater's ballet group (there is also an opera group) goes back to the late 1920's, when Moscow acquired a new dance company called Art Ballet.
Founded by Viktoria Krieger, the company's productions used a novel combination of movement, dance, acting and theatricality, along the lines of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko's system of theatrical theory, and were met with enthusiastic audiences and endless full houses. Their productions aimed to abandon traditional theatrical themes and cliches and strove for a modern approach to dance, which also absorbed and adopted the multi-faceted elements of drama. On seeing an Art Ballet performance, Nemirovich-Danchenko, the Russian playwright, novelist, producer, and later co-founder of the famous Moscow Art Theatre, was struck by its similarity to what he was trying to achieve at his Musical Theater and in 1939 incorporated the smaller company into his own.
Nemirovich-Danchenko undertook the first few ballet productions himself, and his student Vladimir Burmeister later headed the company for nearly 30 years, acting both as a lively and innovative producer and a highly talented choreographer to generations of dancers. Between 1971 and 1984 the company was led by Alexei Chichinadze, one of the theater's star dancers, and in 1985 he was replaced by the younger and equally talented dancer, Dmitry Bryantsev.
The theatre boasts an excellent corps de ballet and a series of soloists who have won prizes throughout Russia and the West, where the company has toured extensively. Although nowhere near the quality of performance one can expect at the Bolshoi, the Stanislavsky & Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater offers some very professional productions and some interesting approaches to staging.
Repertoire
The theater boasts an extensive repertoire of the usual classical works and a few more interesting and lesser known one-act ballets and Russian favorites. The following ballets are well worth a look; Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, The Nutcracker; Minkus' Don Quixote, Adam's Giselle and Le Corsaire, as are the operas; Tchaikovsky's Iolanthe and The Queen of Spades, Donizetti's The Elixir of Love, Puccini's La Boheme, Bizet's Carmen, Verdi's Othello, Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery and the company's 2001 premiere of the Strauss operetta Die Fledermaus. Several of the theater's productions have been involved in this year's Moscow Theater Olympics and Russia's prestigious Golden Mask Theatrical Awards.
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The Stanislavsky & Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater, founded in 1941 when the Staniskavsky Opera Studio merged with the Music Studio of Nemirovich-Danchenko, blends the traditions of Russian classical ballet with a novel and innovative approach to production, staging and set design.
The theater is housed in a characterful 1,500-seater auditorium right in the artistic heart of the city - the theatrical district of Bolshaya Dmitrovka. The history of the theater's ballet group (there is also an opera group) goes back to the late 1920's, when Moscow acquired a new dance company called Art Ballet.
Founded by Viktoria Krieger, the company's productions used a novel combination of movement, dance, acting and theatricality, along the lines of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko's system of theatrical theory, and were met with enthusiastic audiences and endless full houses. Their productions aimed to abandon traditional theatrical themes and cliches and strove for a modern approach to dance, which also absorbed and adopted the multi-faceted elements of drama. On seeing an Art Ballet performance, Nemirovich-Danchenko, the Russian playwright, novelist, producer, and later co-founder of the famous Moscow Art Theatre, was struck by its similarity to what he was trying to achieve at his Musical Theater and in 1939 incorporated the smaller company into his own.
Nemirovich-Danchenko undertook the first few ballet productions himself, and his student Vladimir Burmeister later headed the company for nearly 30 years, acting both as a lively and innovative producer and a highly talented choreographer to generations of dancers. Between 1971 and 1984 the company was led by Alexei Chichinadze, one of the theater's star dancers, and in 1985 he was replaced by the younger and equally talented dancer, Dmitry Bryantsev.
The theatre boasts an excellent corps de ballet and a series of soloists who have won prizes throughout Russia and the West, where the company has toured extensively. Although nowhere near the quality of performance one can expect at the Bolshoi, the Stanislavsky & Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater offers some very professional productions and some interesting approaches to staging.
Repertoire
The theater boasts an extensive repertoire of the usual classical works and a few more interesting and lesser known one-act ballets and Russian favorites. The following ballets are well worth a look; Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, The Nutcracker; Minkus' Don Quixote, Adam's Giselle and Le Corsaire, as are the operas; Tchaikovsky's Iolanthe and The Queen of Spades, Donizetti's The Elixir of Love, Puccini's La Boheme, Bizet's Carmen, Verdi's Othello, Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery and the company's 2001 premiere of the Strauss operetta Die Fledermaus. Several of the theater's productions have been involved in this year's Moscow Theater Olympics and Russia's prestigious Golden Mask Theatrical Awards.
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