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On December 21, the exhibition of the Bakhrushin Museum “Star Pages of Ballet” will open at the Kuzbass Arts Center. It takes place as part of the 250th anniversary of the Moscow State Academy of Choreography. The exhibition is dedicated to the history of the creation, formation and triumph of one of the oldest ballet schools in the world, founded in 1773 by Catherine II at the Moscow Orphanage.

“The Bakhrushin Museum continues the project “Star Pages of Ballet,” which started in Kaliningrad in September. The first exhibition was a huge success, and we are happy to show it now to the residents of Kuzbass.

We are bringing more than 120 original exhibits to Kemerovo: costumes, paintings, graphics, photographs and posters. Separate halls of the “Star Pages of Ballet” are dedicated to the “reformers” of choreographic art - Alexander Gorsky, Leonid Lavrovsky, Yuri Grigorovich, Maya Plisetskaya and others. The exhibition will feature unique exhibits, for example, dresses by Maya Plisetskaya from Pierre Cardin and Valery Leventhal. Visitors will be able to see a collection of porcelain sculptures from the collections of the Bakhrushin Museum.

We thank the team of the Kuzbass Arts Center and all partners for their support in organizing this wonderful exhibition: this is Bakhrushinsky’s first exhibition in Kemerovo. This project will be a bright event and our gift for the New Year for all connoisseurs of beauty, residents and guests of Kuzbass,” said Kristina Trubinova, general director of the Bakhrushin Museum.

Valery Kaplunov, director of the State Autonomous Institution “Kuzbass Arts Center”: “We are proud that the Bakhrushinsky Theater Museum is presenting its monographic project “Star Pages of Ballet” at the Kuzbass Arts Center, which will become a new bright event in Kemerovo and a great gift for the New Year not only for connoisseurs of beauty, but for all residents and guests of Kuzbass.”

Visitors to the exhibition will enjoy a large educational program: excursions, master classes and lectures. Exhibition co-curator Oksana Karnovich will tell the story of the famous New Year’s ballet “The Nutcracker” and introduce Maya Plisetskaya, one of the thirteen prima ballerina assoluta (the title was established by the masters of the romantic stage of the 19th century).

“2023 is a very significant year for our country and especially for ballet! This year marks 350 years since the first ballet performance was performed at the court of Alexei Mikhailovich in Moscow, 285 years of the main school of our country - the Academy of Russian Ballet in St. Petersburg - and 250 years of the Moscow school - one of the greatest schools, which for XX century has given the world a huge number of outstanding artists and choreographers. This is a very significant date for me, because I received two educations within the walls of the Moscow Choreographic School, then within the walls of the Moscow State Choreographic Institute, which is located on Frunzenskaya Embankment and is now called the Moscow State Academy of Choreography. This exhibition gives us all the opportunity to touch the history of our country, outstanding names and everything that actually glorified our Motherland around the world,” commented the opening of the exhibition. O. Rector of the Academy of Russian Ballet named after. A. Ya. Vaganova in St. Petersburg, premier of the Bolshoi Theater, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Nikolai Tsiskaridze.

World famous artists have emerged from the walls of the Moscow Academy of Choreography: Igor Moiseev, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Asaf Messerer, Maya Plisetskaya, Mikhail Lavrovsky, Vladimir Vasiliev, Maris-Rudolf Liepa, Nikolai Tsiskaridze and many others. Today the Academy is the largest international educational and scientific center. By presidential decree it is classified as a particularly valuable object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation.

Exhibition partners: State Academic Bolshoi Theater of Russia, State Historical Museum, Moscow Academy of Choreography, Russian Archive of Film and Photo Documents.

Information partner: Komsomolskaya Pravda media holding.

The curators of the exhibition  are the head of the international activities department of the Bakhrushin Museum, Dilorom Rudenko, and the head of the branch of the Bakhrushin Museum, the Plisetskaya museum-apartment, Oksana Karnovich.

You can purchase tickets without commission, including with the Pushkin Card, in the online store of the Kuzbass Arts Center: https://dom-art42.onff.ru/event/vystavka-zvyozdnye-straniczy-baleta/

Details by phone: 75-07-88, 75-07-31

Ticket price: adult - 300 rubles; for students, pensioners and schoolchildren - 250 rubles, for groups of 10 people - 200 rubles.