Open AccessBallet and Drama: the Peculiarities of Expressive Scenographic Means in the Post-Classical Theater
Author(s) -
Grigory. I. Chapaev,
Maria N. Chistyakova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ikoni
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-3095
pISSN - 2658-4824
DOI - 10.33779/2658-4824.2021.3.029-036
Subject(s) - drama , visual arts , ballet , movie theater , action (physics) , art , simultaneity , front (military) , adaptation (eye) , aesthetics , psychology , dance , engineering , physics , mechanical engineering , classical mechanics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience
A characteristic feature of the theater of the Post-Classical Era, which has lasted from the early 20th century up to the present time, is the interpenetration of elements pertaining to different art forms in the course of a ceaseless search for forms and means of impact on the audience. The interaction between ballet and drama theater leads to the result that one of the genres is enriched by the scenographic solutions of the other. From a broad spectrum of examples, it is possible to highlight a number of techniques characteristic for both the dramatic and the ballet stage. In the present work such scenographic techniques are determined and described as the changes of the parameters of the stage by means of a curtain system, the use of a curtain as a full-fledged member of the action, simultaneity (the simultaneous demonstration of several different places of action in one scene), the multi-leveledness of the stage space, adaptation for the cinema (use of elements of cinema, video-recording or the technique of “recording in real time” in the performance), as well as the change of decorations occurring in front of the viewer’s eyes.