Biography of the choreographer Moiseev

Born on January 8 21 in the provincial city of Kyiv is now the capital of Ukraine in the family of a small nobleman. Father, Alexander Mikhailovich Moiseev, was a lawyer, mother, Anna Alexandrovna Gren, - a modist, came from a family of Romanian Jews. Subsequently, the family moved to France, then - to Poltava Ukraine, and then to Moscow. In the year he graduated from a private ballet studio in Moscow, in the year - a choreographic college of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater, a student of A.

Gorsky, and in the year - the University of Arts. After the college was graduated, he was accepted by the artist in the ballet troupe of the Bolshoi Theater, in years he was her soloist. In the year, remaining an artist of ballet, he became a choreographer, a dance suite in performances. He set the ballets: “Football player”, together with L. Zhukov and L. Lashchilin, “futile precaution”, together with A.

Messerer, “Salalambo”, “Three Fat Men”, “Spartak” put dancing in the operas: “Campus”, “Turandot”, “Demon”, “Love for Three Oranges”, “Carmen” both in the Bolshoi Theater of his career: it has no equal career: He became a choreographer at 24 years old - an unprecedented case in the history of the Bolshoi Theater. Working in the theater, he enthusiastically studied folk dances, traveled all over Pamir, Belarus, Ukraine, the Caucasus, where he collected images of dance folklore.

In the year, he was appointed head of the choreographic part of the newly created theater of folk art and soon made the production of the I All -Union festival of folk dance. He was also a director of a number of physical education parades on Red Square in Moscow. Molotov, I. Moiseev created the first professional ensemble of folk dance in the country - “The Ensemble of Folk Dance of the USSR” now - the State Academic Ensemble of People's Dance named after Igor Moiseev, which is not equal to the world to this day.

The first rehearsal of the new ensemble took place on February 10. The ensemble I. Moiseev is the first professional choreographic collective in the world, who was engaged in artistic interpretation and propaganda of the dance folklore of the peoples of the world. The main artistic principles of the development of the ensemble were the continuity and creative understanding of traditions and innovation.

Over the long years of the collective, thanks to the incessant efforts of I. Moiseeva and his artists, the folklore dance work of our country and peoples of the whole world is preserved and creatively understood. The main task that I. Moiseev set before the artists of the first troupe is the creative processing of folklore samples at that time. To this end, the artists of the ensemble went on folklore expeditions around the country.

In the repertoire of the ensemble, folklore samples received a new stage life, due to which the audience around the world has been preserved for several generations. In years for 70 years, the great choreographer was the permanent artistic director of the ensemble. During the Great Patriotic War, he toured with his ensemble in the Far East, Transbaikal, Siberia and Mongolia.

He set several numbers in the amateur ensemble of the Pacific Fleet. Under his leadership, the programs were set: “Dances of the peoples of the USSR”, “Peace and friendship”, “Road to dance”, “Visiting and at home” and others. In addition, he put folklore cycles various in genre: “Pictures of the past”, “collective farm street”, “sea suite”, the suite “Jock”, “Partisans”, “Cunning Mokan”, “Metelitsa”, “Blutters”, “Polovtsian dance”, “Labor Festival” both, “at the rink”, “Night on the Lysy Gorus”, “Taverh”, “Taverh”, “Taver “In the world of the world”, a cycle of foreign dances, “Greek suite”, “Jewish suite” the dancers of the ensemble were the first Soviet artists who began to speak abroad: in Finland, China, France, in the Middle East, the USA, South America and India immediately after the ensemble in Israel and Israel were established Diplomatic relations.

In the year, he created the first professional school of folk dance in the country-the school-studio school at the State Academic Ensemble of People's Dance named after Igor Moiseev, and in the year-organized the choreographic concert ensemble “Young Ballet” now-the State Academic Theater of Classical Ballet under the leadership of N. Kasatkin and V. Vasiliev, which was led by up to a year.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated January 20, for outstanding merits in the development of Soviet choreographic art and in connection with the seventy anniversary of the birth of Moiseev Igor Alexandrovich, the title of Hero of Socialist Labor was awarded with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Medal “Sickle and the Hammer”. He was a director of solemn concerts and cultural programs dedicated to outstanding events of the country's public life: the anniversary of the foundations of the USSR, the flying of victory in the Great Patriotic War and others.For many years he headed the jury of the Rainbow television folk festival, was a permanent member of the jury of many international competitions and festivities festivals, participated in the work of the World Protection Committee, was a member of the Bolshoi Theater College and a member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts, a member of the Presidential Prizes of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art, a member of the Council of Culture Workers, a member of the Council of Culture Councils, a member science and education under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Moiseev is an organizer, a permanent artistic director and dance director of a state academic ensemble of folk dance. He is the creator of the new genre of stage art-folk-stage choreography, a new model of a professional team-an ensemble of folk dance, a new artistic method of stage interpretation of folklore, the purpose of which is to develop and enrich folklore with the help of professional art.

The life and fate of I. Moiseev is an exceptional example of selfless service to the beloved business. Already in his youth, he was fascinated by folk art, since then all his thoughts and aspirations were subordinated to the only goal - to preserve, develop, enrich folklore with professional knowledge and make the property of world culture. Having created the first professional folk dance ensemble in the world, he turned it into a unique folk dance theater, where the direct enthusiasm of folklore, with its unexpected and always desired improvisation, easily and naturally breathed life into strict forms of stage dance.

In the repertoire of the ensemble, hundreds of works generously filled with juicy images, bright characters, picturesque colors prompted by life itself. This is a miracle that the world has been applauded for decades, could not have been born, do not own all the intricacies of national dance, all the methods and techniques of professional choreographic, dramatic and musical art, which formed the basis of its unique artistic method of stage interpretation of folklore.

Moiseev was the first in the history of choreography of the twentieth century to make a folk dance a phenomenon uniting the peoples of all countries, regardless of religion and political regimes. Wherever the collective, created by I. Moiseev, is a flexible, mobile model of the folk dance ensemble propagated the dance folklore of the world and enriching it with techniques of professional art, continues life in strict forms of stage art.

It is impossible to evaluate the grandiose significance of his work - his dances went down in the history of the picturesque encyclopedia of folk life, a living chronicle, retaining the aroma of time. Social conflicts, national characters, the fate of entire peoples - everything is subject to the work of I. Moiseev. The scenic forms clothed in slender, unique in the nobility of the lines and clarity of the expression of the artistic idea, the works of I.

Moiseev are the classic of choreography, understandable to the audience of the whole world. They are always modern, filled with juicy folk characters, imbued with love, joy, humor, life itself - everything that will always be dear to every person. The great patriot of his country, he was recognized by the man of the world, the messenger of good and justice.

A passionate enthusiast and selfless donor, I. Moiseev generously shared with millions of people talent, knowledge, love of dance. The alien pathos, an infinitely gifted creator, all his life he professed the great spiritual principle - to give without thinking about gratitude. The nobility and humanism of the world cultural mission I. Moiseev are invaluable and unprecedented. He lived and worked in Moscow.

He died on November 2 in the year of his life. He was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. People's Artist of the USSR