Балетный театр и художественное воплощение исторической памяти о военном лихолетье 1941-1945 годов

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to prove the significance of historic memory as a form of art comprehension of war events in the ballet theater environment. The paper describes the content of the plays showing the Great Patriotic War theme on the ballet stage of the XX-XXI centuries. They are the ballet “Leningrad Symphony” (1961) where the war and peace theme is conceptualized through the lens of human choice – to protect or to enslave; the ballet “Immortality” (1972) which shows a Red Army soldier’s feat the first and only time; the ballet oratorio “Mother Field” (1975) that reflects the war theme with a woman’s eyes; the ballet trilogy “For Life” (1975) about the mother-son farewell; the TV-ballet “House by the road” (1984) devoted to the human soul tested by the war times; the ballet “Life Symphony” (2020) which continues the topic of “Mother Field” and “House by the Road” but in its absolute own way. The scientific novelty of this study is that the main themes and artistic images of the ballet plays about war conflict in the post-war period of the second part of the XX century and in the beginning of the XI century are defined. As a result, it is substantiated that the ballet theatre according to its reflection proceeded from the illustrative aspect just fixing the event towards philosophical understanding of the horror of war and its catastrophic consequences for the mankind.