VH_787 Ballets Russes 1909-1929: Russian art in transition to modernity

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2014
Rozsah
0/2/0. 3 kr. Ukončení: k.
Vyučující
Elena Khokhlova, Ph.D. (cvičící)
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D. (pomocník)
Garance
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D.
Ústav hudební vědy – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Vlasta Taranzová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Ústav hudební vědy – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
Út 15:50–17:25 N41
Předpoklady
Students should have sufficient knowledge of written and spoken English to listen to lectures, read and analyze suggested literature and write essays.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 120 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/120, pouze zareg.: 0/120, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/120
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 10 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Cíle předmětu
At the end of the course students should be able to:

1. understand the concept of Russian seasons in 1909-1929;
2. describe the specifics of music, choreography and stage design of Russian ballets and operas
presented in Russian seasons;
3. evaluate the significance of Serge Diaghilev for European art and art management in the XXth century;
4. distinguish Russian art of “academism” and “modernity”;
5. discuss the tradition of ballet and opera resulted from Russian seasons;
6. present one's opinion and participate in debates concerning the topic of Russian and European musical and stage art of the interbellum period.
Osnova
  • Syllabus
  • • 1. Introduction. Russian art between the centuries.
  • • Presentation of the course, important study information.
  • • Review of Russian history of art from the XVth to the XXth centuries. Tendencies, milestones and influences.
  • • 2. Russian fin de siècle and the beginning of the XXth century.
  • • The Five, Abramtsevo colony and peredvizhniki.
  • • Serge Djaghilev and “Mir Iskusstva”.
  • • 3. Ballets Russes. Europe discovers Russian art.
  • • Djaghilev's club. Idea and program of the Seasons.
  • • “Petrushka” (Stravinsky – Benois - Fokine)
  • • “Le spectre de la rose” (Weber - Bakst)
  • • 4. Ballets Russes. New choreograpgy.
  • • Fokine, Nizhinsky and Nizhinska, Petipa.
  • • “L'après-midi d'un faune” (Debussy – Bakst - Nizhinsky)
  • • Le Carnaval (Schumann – Bakst - Fokine)
  • • “Fox” (Stravinsky - Nizhinska)
  • • “Sleeping beauty”(Tchajkovsky - Petipa)
  • • 5. Ballets Russes. New music.
  • • “The rite of spring” (Stravinsky - Rerikh)
  • • “Parade” (Sati - Picasso)
  • • 6. Ballets Russes and recreation of epic Russian opera.
  • • “Khovanschina” (Musorgsky)
  • • “Boris Godunov” (Musorgksy)
  • • 7. Ballets Russes and revolution.
  • • New art forms on stage: abstractionism, cubism, suprematism and constructivism.
  • • “Parade” (Sati - Picasso)
  • • “Blue express” (Milhaud - Picasso)
  • • “The three-cornered hat” (de Falla - Picasso)
  • • “Le pas d’acier” (Prokofiev - Yakulov)
  • • 8. Ballets Russes and foreign masters.
  • • Daphnis et Chloe (Ravel - Bakst)
  • • “Le train bleu” (Milhaud – Picasso & Chanel)
  • • “Le dieu bleu” (Hahn – Bakst - Fokine)
  • • “Jeux”(Debussy - Benois)
  • • 9. Ballets Russes and oriental tradition. Rimsky-Korsakov.
  • • “Golden cockerel” (Goncharova - Fokine)
  • • “Scheherazade”(Bakst - Fokine)
  • • 10. Ballets Russes and Russian tradition. Stravinsky.
  • • “Firebird”(Bakst - Fokine)
  • • “Svadebka (Renard)”(Stravinsky – Larionov & Goncharova - Nizhinska)
  • • “The Rite of Spring” (Roerich - Nizhinsky)
  • • 11. Reception of the public and critics. Other artists in Diaghilev's club.
  • • Reception of the Seasons in Europe and America.
  • • Artists surrounding Diaghilev in exile.
  • • Legacy of Ballets Russes and later performances.
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • DICKERMAN, Leah. Inventing abstraction 1910-1925 : how a radical idea changed modern art. Edited by Matthew Affron. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2012, 376 s. ISBN 9780870708282. info
  • CADDY, Davinia. The Ballets Russes and beyond : music and dance in belle-époque Paris. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, xvi, 237. ISBN 9781107014404. info
  • The ballets russes and its world. Edited by Lynn Garafola - Nancy Van Norman Baer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999, viii, 420. ISBN 0300061765. info
  • ARNASON, H. Harvard. A history of modern art : painting, sculpture, architecture. First published. London: Thames and Hudson, 1969, 663 stran. info
    doporučená literatura
  • BELL, Robert. Ballets Russes : the art of costume. Edited by Christine Dixon. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2010, 264 s. ISBN 9780642541574. info
  • DAVIS, Mary E. Ballets Russes style : Diaghilev's dancers and Paris fashion. 1st pub. London: Reaktion Books, 2010, 256 s. ISBN 9781861897572. info
  • DAVIS, Mary E. Ballets Russes style : Diaghilev's dancers and Paris fashion. 1st pub. London: Reaktion Books, 2010, 256 s. ISBN 9781861897572. info
  • DAVIS, Mary Elizabeth. Erik Satie. 1st pub. London: Reaktion Books, 2007, 175 s. ISBN 9781861893215. info
  • Modern art : impressionism to Post-Modernism. Edited by David Britt. London: Thames & Hudson, 2007, 416 s. ISBN 9780500238417. info
  • KLEIN, Pavel. Scénografové ve službách Les Ballets Russes (1909-1912) : počátky divadelní secese. Vyd. 1. Brno: Janáčkova akademie múzických umění v Brně, 2007, 214 s. ISBN 9788086928296. info
  • KLEIN, Pavel. Zrození Ďagilevových Les Ballets Russes. In Theatralia. Brno: MU, 2005, s. 119-133. ISBN 80-210-3785-7. info
  • WALSH, Stephen. Igor Stravinsky : a creative spring : Russia and France 1882-1934. London: Pimlico, 2002, xvii, 698. ISBN 0712667237. info
  • MAUR, Karin von. The sound of painting : music in modern art. Munich: Prestel, 1999, 127 s. ISBN 3791320823. info
  • SCHOUVALOFF, Alexander. The art of ballets Russes : the Serge Lifar Collection of theater designs, costumes, and paintings at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the Wadsworth Atheneum, 1997, 352 s. ISBN 0300074840. info
  • Design for perfotmance : from Diaghilev to the Pet Shop Boys. Edited by Peter Docherty - Tim White. London: Lund Humphries, 1996, 240 s. ISBN 0853317208. info
  • JOHNSON, James H. Listening in Paris : a cultural history. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, xvi, 384. ISBN 0520206487. info
  • SOKOLOVA, Lydia. Dancing for Diaghilev :the memoirs of Lydia Sokolova. Edited by Richard Buckle. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1989, xi, 287 s. ISBN 0-916515-49-4. info
  • Stravinsky : selected correspondence. Edited by Robert Craft. 1. pub. London: Faber & Faber, 1984, ix, 544. ISBN 0571132529. info
  • MACDONALD, Nesta. Diaghilev observed by critics in England and the United States 1911-1929. New York: Dance Horizons, 1975, xvi, 400. ISBN 0903102145. info
  • GORDON, Donald E. Modern art exhibitions 1900-1916 : selected catalogue documentation. Translated by Lucius Grisebach - Léopold Jaumonet - Sara Lehrman. München: Prestel-Verlag, 1974, 360 s. ISBN 3791300660. info
Výukové metody
The course represents a set of lectures on the topic of “Russian art and Serge Diaghilev in the beginning of the XXth century: Ballets Russes”. In the lectures students will be systematically provided with various information regarding the topic, including reproductions and videos of the ballets, operas and design concepts devoted to the Russian seasons.

The course is presented in the form of lectures. Students will be responsible to read suggested literature and watch recommended performances. Each student will be asked to work on a small project of his own. The project is a set of short essays about one of the composer, stage designer and performance (ballet or opera) presented in the Russian seasons. To compose these three essays students will need to attend the lectures and watch the performances, make a small research to gather additional information on their own and write down their critical thoughts based on what they managed to find out.

Five authors of exceptionally good projects will pass the exam automatically.
Other students will need to write a test in the end of semester.
Metody hodnocení
The final examination will be based on the results of students' projects.
Students who deliver their projects before the deadline will pass the examination automatically.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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