Ballet is perhaps one of the most static art forms, but as it turns out, there is room for innovation and the search for new forms of expression. The irony, however, is that after a while what seemed innovative and controversial becomes a classic. The name of Leonid Yakobson - Russian ballet artist and outstanding choreographer, Honored Artist of the RSFSR and winner of the Stalin Prize today can be called among the innovators and classics of ballet art. He was born in 1904 in St. Petersburg, died
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Ballet is perhaps one of the most static art forms, but as it turns out, there is room for innovation and the search for new forms of expression. The irony, however, is that after a while what seemed innovative and controversial becomes a classic.
The name of Leonid Yakobson - Russian ballet artist and outstanding choreographer, Honored Artist of the RSFSR and winner of the Stalin Prize today can be called among the innovators and classics of ballet art.
He was born in 1904 in St. Petersburg, died in 1975 in Moscow. If you follow the chronology of his life, after graduating from the Leningrad Choreographic School, from 1926 to 1933 he was an artist; from 1933 to 1942 he was a choreographer of the Moscow Bolshoi Theater; from 1942 to 1950 and from 1956 to 1975 he worked as a choreographer of the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater.
Many blamed Jacobson (calling it formalism) for being more interested in the dance itself than the general direction of the play. At the beginning of his career, like every reformer, he rejected classical dance. But his critics did not suspect that years would pass and Jacobson would bring new techniques and images to this very classic and seriously enrich the Russian ballet school.
Beginning in 1950, he staged seven performances: Shurale, Spartacus, Choreographic Miniatures (ten years later, a new ballet group under the same name was born from this program, whose permanent leader was Jacobson), The Bedbug, Love Novels, Twelve, Wonderland.
In 1969, Jacobson headed the St. Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theatre, which now bears his name. And then it was called "Choreogaphic miniatures." Jacobson claimed that each of the actors of his ballet is an unsurpassed master and for each tried to create a solo role. He actively used the genre of miniatures, creating them on the basis of myths, legends, paintings of artists and sculptures. One of his favorite themes is his works.