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The Ring (ballet)
''The Ring'' (') is a ballet staged by choreographer Alexei Miroshnichenko and the musical group 2H Company (Ilya Baramia, Alexander Zaitsev and Mikhail Fenichev) with the participation of beatboxer Sergei Galunenko. The premiere took place in April 2007 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. Many publications called ''The Ring'' the world's first rap ballet.''Alexander Gorbachev .'Poster Wave: Creators of the play “Ring” about hip-hop ballet Afisha.Daily (April 1, 2007). The choreographer and musicians were awarded the Sobaka.ru TOP 50 award. History of creation At the very end of 2006, choreographer A. Miroshnichenko came to the studio of “Christmas Tree Toys” / YOI (the duet of I. Baramia and A. Zaitsev) and asked him to write music for his new production, despite the musicians’ lack of musical education (according to Zaitsev, the group “I didn’t know the notes at all”). Pavel Gershenzon, assistant director of the Mariinsky Theater ballet troupe, recalle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariinsky Theatre
The Mariinsky Theatre (, also transcribed as Maryinsky or Mariyinsky) is a historic opera house in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music theatre of late 19th-century Russia, where many of the stage masterpieces of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov received their premieres. Through most of the Soviet era, it was known as the Kirov Theatre. Today, the Mariinsky Theatre is home to the Mariinsky Ballet, Mariinsky Opera and Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Mariinsky Orchestra. Since Yuri Temirkanov's retirement in 1988, the conductor Valery Gergiev has served as the theatre's general director. Name The theatre is named after Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse), Empress Maria Alexandrovna, wife of Alexander II of Russia, Tsar Alexander II. There is a bust of the Empress in the main entrance foyer. The theatre's name has changed throughout its history, reflecting the political climate of the time: * 1860 – 1920: Imperial Mariinsky Theatre () ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intelligent Dance Music
Intelligent dance music (IDM) is a style of electronic music originating in the early 1990s, defined by idiosyncratic experimentation rather than specific genre constraints.''"…the label 'IDM' (for avant-garde, 'intelligent dance music') seems to be based more on an association with individualistic experimentation than on a particular set of musical characteristics."'' Butler, M.J., ''Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music'', Indiana University Press, 2006, (p. 80). The music often described with the term originally emerged in the early 1990s from the culture and sound palette of styles of electronic dance music such as acid house, ambient techno, Detroit techno and breakbeat;''"The electronic listening music of the nineties is a prime example of an art form derived from and stimulated by countless influences. Partisan analyses of this music claim a baffling variety of prime sources (Detroit techno, New York electro + Chicago acid, En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollo (ballet)
''Apollo'' (originally ''Apollon musagète'' and variously known as ''Apollo musagetes'', ''Apolo Musageta'', and ''Apollo, Leader of the Muses'') is a neoclassical ballet in two '' tableaux'' composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky. It was choreographed in 1928 by twenty-four-year-old George Balanchine, with the composer contributing the libretto. The scenery and costumes were designed by André Bauchant, with new costumes by Coco Chanel in 1929. The scenery was executed by Alexander Shervashidze, with costumes under the direction of Mme. A. Youkine. The American patron of the arts Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge had commissioned the ballet in 1927 for a festival of contemporary music to be held the following year at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The story centres on Apollo, the Greek god of music, who is visited by three Muses: Terpsichore, muse of dance and song; Polyhymnia, muse of mime; and Calliope, muse of poetry. The ballet takes Classical ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ( – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential 20th-century classical music, composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernism (music), modernist music. Born to a musical family in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Stravinsky grew up taking piano and music theory lessons. While studying law at the Saint Petersburg State University, University of Saint Petersburg, he met Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and studied music under him until the latter's death in 1908. Stravinsky met the impresario Sergei Diaghilev soon after, who commissioned the composer to write three ballets for the Ballets Russes's Paris seasons: ''The Firebird'' (1910), ''Petrushka (ballet), Petrushka'' (1911), and ''The Rite of Spring'' (1913), the last of which caused a List of classical music concerts with an unruly audience respons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komissarzhevskaya Theatre
The Komissarzhevskaya Theatre () is a theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is named after Vera Komissarzhevskaya. History It was founded in 1942 as the City Theatre (at the time, the city, then Leningrad, was Siege of Leningrad, besieged by the German army. It then became the Blockade Theatre, or, as it is sometimes translated, the Besieged Theatre). The company was legitimized as a drama theatre in 1943. It was renamed after V.F. Komissarzhevskaya in 1959, and granted academic status in 1994. It is located in the former “Passage Hall” of the elite department store Passage (department store), The Passage. The same building housed many theatre companies before 1942, most notably, the ''Komissarzhevskaya Theatre'' (), a private theatre under the directorship by V.F. Komissarzhevskaya herself, in 1904–1906 (this troupe operated in 1904–1909). Notable actors * Boris Sohn (1948 - 1966) * Vladimir Chestnokov (1948 - 1953) * Alisa Freindlich (1957 - 1961) * Sergei Boyar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Hip Hop
Russian hip hop refers to hip hop music recorded in Russia or in the Russian language in former Republics of the Soviet Union, Soviet states such as Ukraine, Belarus, Tatarstan and Kazakhstan. Hits by Russian rappers are included in the soundtracks of some Grand Theft Auto IV soundtrack, PC-games and have formed part of several popular internet memes. Many Russian rap artists have achieved commercial success, including Detsl, Bad Balance, Face (rapper), Face, Skryptonite, Husky (rapper), Husky, Basta (rapper), Basta, Feduk, GeeGun, Centr, Morgenshtern, Timati, Ligalize, Markul, Slava Marlow, Slava Marlov, Kizaru, Instasamka, Slava KPSS, Pale (musician), Pale, Irina Smelaya, Loc-Dog, Big Baby Tape, L'One, Mayot (singer), Mayot, Pharaoh (rapper), Pharaoh, Jah Khalib, Soda Luv, Macan (singer), Macan, Smoky Mo, Eldzhey, Bogdan Titomir, Egor Kreed, T-killah, T-Killah, Kasta, Oxxxymiron, Boulevard Depo and Belarusian artist Seryoga. Especially at the end of the 2010s and the beginning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Husky (rapper)
Dmitry Nikolayevich Kuznetsov (; born February 10, 1993), better known by his stage name Husky (Russian: Хаски), is a Russian rapper from Ulan-Ude. His music is known for its use of somber and evocative lyricism, complex rhyming schemes, and musical techniques like assonance and alliteration. His provocative songs are known for being poetically contradictory to his gopnik image, his aptitude for coalescing philosophical existentialism, biblical condemnations, and sophisticated references to Russian and European literature seemingly antithetical with his more obscene, anti-humanist characteristics. Early life Dmitry Nikolayevich Kuznetsov was born on February 10, 1993, in Irkutsk, Siberia. He moved to Buryatia when he was three months old. At the age of three, he was taught to read using Russian classical literature and at four years old, he was formally baptized, although his mother frequented both Christian churches and Buddhist datsan. When he started going to school, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxxxymiron
Miron Yanovich Fyodorov (; born 31 January 1985), known by the stage name Oxxxymiron, is a Russian rapper and former CEO of the Booking Machine Talent agent, booking agency, as well as a co-founder and former member of the record Record label, label Vagabund. He is one of the most influential and prominent hip-hop performers in Russia, and his albums ''The Wandering Jew'' and ''Gorgorod'' are considered by the community as the most important releases of Russian rap. Biography Miron Yanovich Fyodorov was born in 1985 in Leningrad, in a family of History of the Jews in Russia, Russian Jews. His father is a Theoretical physics, theoretical physicist of the Boris Konstantinov, Konstantinov Institute of Nuclear Physics in St. Petersburg and his mother is a librarian. In St. Peterburg Miron attended secondary school No. 185. When Fyodorov was 9 years old, his family emigrated to Essen, Germany. During his studies in Maria Wächtler School, Miron had a 'tense relationship' with his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Ballets
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. 7 is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Evolution of the Arabic digit For early Brahmi numerals, 7 was written more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted (ᒉ). The western Arab peoples' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arab peoples developed the digit from a form that looked something like 6 to one that looked like an uppercase V. Both modern Arab forms influenced the European form, a two-stroke form consisting of a ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
