There will be something

In the metropolitan music theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, promising personnel changes: CEO Anton Getman announced the name of the new artistic director of the ballet troupe of the theater-this post will take the ex-eful of the Parisian opera, 54-year-old Laurent Iler . A few years ago, he was read to the leaders of the Opéra ballet - Brigitte Lefevr, who left Directrice de La Danse, saw as her successor it was Iler, but the new quartermaster Stefan Lissner preferred Benjamin Milpier (by the way, resigned nearly a year and a half after taking office). From January 1, 2017, Iler will work in Moscow. Julia Yakovleva thinks that this may mean for the troupe of Mamt and the domestic ballet.

Guess what this means and what turns out, you can until January 1. Then Iler will take office. The questions “what” and “what” therefore postpone: he himself will answer them with a business. Remain "who" and "how."

Who. The invitation of foreign coaches to Russian football clubs no longer surprises anyone. But for the Russian ballet, this is still a novelty. Nevertheless, to say that the Stanislavsky Theater took a chance, acquired a cat in a bag, it is impossible. I know colleagues who stuff the name of Iler in Google when they are sickly: the ballet, you know, can also be dangled. In the Paris Opera, Iler danced, and now he dances on the video so that every movement returns faith to the profession. Taste, proportionality, accuracy, strength, beauty - these are the definitions with which you narrow circles, but you never fall into the core of its art.

Great dancers are of two types. The first are the lawless comets, the ingenious tip-lap of which gives rise to a wave of ugly imitations and, in fact, for a long time undermines the level of execution (for example, Anna Pavlova, Rudolf Nureyev). The latter are priests who dance each of their performances in a concentrated attempt to reproduce a certain ideal ballet, absolute, final, reference, and if this once achieves it, then everything: the cosmic course of the stars will stop, the earth will fly into the heavenly axis, there will be no more time. These attempts (of course, unrealistic) are painted by reverence, then passion, then despair, and this is their most important interest. So the young Ulyana Lopatkina danced, for example. And Laurent Iler.

What is interesting for the audience, I see. What is good when such dancers leave the stage and begin to lead others (to teach, rehearse, control the troupe): all priests are shifted to professions, craft, and culture of skill. They know about the classic dance as close to “everything” as soon as possible. And their own phenomenal dances, preserved by the film, serve as the best argument in disputes with subordinates. They overcome any language or moral barrier. If Laurent Iler tells you that the leg should here, the hand - here, and the morning class will now look like this, only a very idiot will argue. I think that Iler will get along with the Stasik ballet troupe, despite the help of the translator.

It is boring in the following - that is, the nearest Ilerovsky - for five years, at least certainly will not be.

How. They say that his contract has been signed for five years. Is it a lot? This is a lot: about a quarter of a professional career of the average Russian dancer. If nothing has happened to you in five years, then it is unlikely that it will happen. That is, in five years you can grow and educate a qualitatively different troupe. That's “Stasik” now aimed, inviting Iler - along with his knowledge, his connections, his vision of what a well -functioning ballet mechanism is. And this is most likely to work out with the theater.

Unless, of course, the usual (and always unpredictably diverse) theatrical drama does not happen and Iler will not slap the door earlier. Because once “Stasik” was already very close to such a qualitative change. Critics then thought that they seemed, interesting, and most importantly, very strong news poured one after one. And now disputes have already crawled, who is better dancing the same choreography - large or “Stas”. And now the answer in these disputes has ceased to be obvious. Suddenly ... this "suddenly" stretched for almost five years, but since even the bad ever ends, then God with him. It is boring in the following - that is, the nearest Ilerovsky - for five years, at least certainly will not be.