Today, 27 October, the State Tretyakov Gallery on the Crimean shaft (hall № 60-61) opens the exhibition "Visions of Dance" to mark the 100 anniversary of the Russian Ballet Sergei Diaghilev in Paris .

«Vision of Dance" - large-scale international project dedicated to the renowned "Russian Ballet". In the center of a unique exhibition - a wonderful person and work of their founder, Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (1872-1929), a bright figure in the artistic life of Russia in the early twentieth century. It was he who had the honor of opening the domestic art to a Western audience.

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Main brainchild Diaghilev - Private Company "Russian Ballet" - quickly gained recognition abroad. For the first time the troupe from St. Petersburg was made at the Paris Theater "Chatelet" May 19, 1909 with the ballet "Le Pavillon d'Armide", "Polovtsian Dances" and "Feast". In the future evolution of the Diaghilev Project, which participated in the implementation of the most talented and innovative choreographers, composers, dancers, artists from different countries, and the triumph of the Russian troupe in Paris, London, Madrid had a powerful impact on various spheres of art of the twentieth century - the music, set design, choreography , painting. It is no exaggeration to say that Diaghilev's productions have become one of the main Russian artistic phenomena, whose importance and leading role were recognized throughout the world.

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Centenary of Diaghilev Seasons "in 2009 is widely celebrated around the world, a succession of music and ballet festivals and art exhibitions. In the summer of that year celebrated 90 years since the death of Diaghilev - the great impresario, theater and propagandist of Russian culture. The unique composition exposition in Moscow has absorbed more than 500 works: about half of the exhibits from the Tretyakov Gallery, the other - from museums and private collections in Russia, Europe and the USA. Earlier, in a slightly different composition, it was shown in Monaco, where for 18 years was rehearsal base Russian company, and half a century ago was a monument to Diaghilev.

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synthetic character performances of the Russian Ballet "identified a multi-level structure of the exposition, which combines a thematic and chronological principles. Without a view to documenting accuracy to reproduce the chronology of Diaghilev's seasons, the organizers of the exhibition sought to create their common, perhaps idealized image, relying primarily on the expressiveness of authentic works of art. In accordance with the logic of constructing the ballet program and concert tour by the Diaghilev exhibition organized in several thematic areas: they are given the classic ballet, "Orientalism", "Russian" theme, as well as avant-garde productions. With the conventions of the distinction as the expository material would flow from one section to another, forming important for Diaghilev thinking "bias" eras and styles.

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In the exhibition of a variety of products: posters, costumes and scenery, sketches of them, curtains, pictures of dancers and ballet scenes, portraits of artists. Most of the works provided by museums and private collectors from different countries, first demonstrated in Russia. Among the prime - the unique scenic layouts 1920-30-ies from the Collection of the New National Museum of Monaco. Around 250 sketches of scenery and costumes are made famous by Russian and French artists, in many ways shaped the art of the twentieth century: L. Bakst , A. Benoit , Goncharova , M. Larionov , , P. Picasso, G. Braque, Henri Matisse, G. de Chirico, A. Derain, and Russian artists in exile P. Chelishchev , N. Gabo , A. Pevzner , whose works are rarely found in Russian collections. For the first time in Russia, will show about 50 authentic costumes for the Russian Ballet, including such rarities as the constructivist costumes for the ballet "Jester" from sketches Larionov and hand-painted costumes Henri Matisse to the ballet "The Nightingale." Among the most famous works - the epic (10 x 10 meters) curtain for the ballet "Blue Express" on a sketch by Pablo Picasso from the Victoria and Albert Museum (London).

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an important part in the drama of the exhibition are photographs, filled with major Russian and European photographers. Among them - Scene from "The Rite of Spring", "Golden Cockerel," Prodigal Son "," Polovtsian Dances "," Firebird "as well as portraits of the artists Diaghilev troupe - Pavlova, T. Karsavina, O. Spesivtseva , B. and Nijinsky, Massine, V. Fokin. In the exhibit of photos put the emphasis not so much on their documentary value, but on purely artistic effects, typical for that time.

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reconstruct shows and at the same time recall abiding interest in the Diaghilev legacy will help modern art objects and video installation, created, inter alia, on the theme of performances "Parade" by Pablo Picasso, "The Ball" by G. de Chirico , "Ode" P. Chelishchev, "Cat" N. Gabo and A. Pevsner. The connection of heterogeneous artifacts, where each group has its own significance, makes it possible to create not so much a chronicle of how the image of Diaghilev's seasons, to convey their scale, the internal dynamics of development, the desire for novelty shapes, struck demanding European audience.

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exhibition project organized by the Tretyakov Gallery in conjunction with the Cultural Foundation "Ekaterina" and the New National Museum of Monaco. Above the project worked international curator Group - Professor John Boult, Zelfira Tregulova, Eugene Ilyukhina and Irina Shumanova.

The exhibition published: volume, richly illustrated catalog, with articles the largest Russian and Western experts on the history of Diaghilev's ballet seasons, CD-Rom, as well as in the book publishing program of Interros "History of Russian Ballet "real and fantastic in the drawings, memoirs and photographs from the archive of Mikhail Larionov».

The exhibition runs until January 31, 2010.

Source: press release of the State Tretyakov Gallery