And suddenly flies

I don't want to comment. This is the decision of the theater. That's how they decided.

Regarding the abolished premiere of Nureyev at the Bolshoi Theater, Kirill Serebrennikov spoke out with the ultimate brevity, but actually he reported quite a lot. About "them" and to themselves. The fact that theatrical or any other authorities suffered the performance for the next season, little interested in the opinion of the director. The fact that he is humiliated, confused and offended. And that in this situation it is better for him to do without detailed comments, so as not to harm himself completely.

It can also be noted that in the clashes with the authorities, theatrical and other, the unique author’s style is gradually developing in Kirill Semenovich. The master of shocking, as individual critics call it, behind the scenes, that is, in life, he is emphasized laconic and objective, and if he is taken from a search for interrogation, he considers it worthless to note the delicacy of the searching ones. And if the ballet, which he created as not only the director, but also the author of the libretto and the scenographer, suddenly three days before the premiere to be transferred to the next year, then again pays tribute to the sister of talent. And perhaps in the last phrase, his true feelings in relation to the leadership, which refused to accept the performance, break through. And we can only guess about what happened to Nureyev.

Director of Bolshoi Vladimir Urin complains about the "incompleteness" of work, but this, as it were softer, is not very similar to the truth. Still, Kirill Serebrennikov is a recognized master who can distinguish the completed performance from the unfinished, and the reputation of the stake. He would hardly take risks, showing the audience something raw and uninterrupted. Of course, the hardships of recent months could have a demoralizing effect on the master, but stress is a state usual for the artist. Yes, and the director began to put Nureyev in the big director before Bastrykin, Bortnikov and other connoisseurs were found out about the Novator. Not everyone likes the style of Serebrennikov’s communications with the auditorium, it came to scandals, but no one, it seems, did not call him a hack.

Rather, the point is in the production itself, which no one saw, but something was flowing into the press. The ballet was not exhausted by dancing, among which, according to the author’s intention, the inadvertible dances of kagabeshniks and transvestites were supposed. The protagonist cursed obscenities, although in English, in advance, upset by Roskomnadzor, and in general the plot was dedicated to the novel Nureyev with the Danish dancer Eric Brun. This is probably already warmer and somehow explains the problems with the premiere. However, as far as is known, no Poklonskaya was delved into the fresh repertoire of the Bolshoi Theater, and even Milonov did not express stormy protests.

That is why it creeps in the idea that Serebrennikov suffered in the totality of the reasons and the main one is associated with the situation that has developed around it. I mean the long-standing accounts of the state with the director, and a long-standing conflict, when the authorities first paid attention to the Gogol Center, and the artist did not yet learn to comment on current events briefly and capaciously and fought fiercely, beyond the facet of the foul. Then, probably, they took him to a pencil, after recalling old sins and punish for incontinence - and to punish for a long time.

In addition, in the conflict of the authorities with cultural figures today, such an unpleasant thing for the authorities has been identified as acting solidarity. You see them, you see that Serebrennikov was not imprisoned, so they still stand up for their arrested business executives, for nothing that at first they seemed to understand everything and asked only that investigators were not overly cruel to doomed. And now, having embarrassed, they demand the liberation of the General Producer of the Seventh Studio of Alexei Malobrodsky from the pre -trial detention center, since he is not a criminal and was not going to escape anywhere . So they are indicated, canceling the prime minister of the iconic director that the authorities can arrange different dirty tricks in subordinate theaters in their discontent and in their discontent, including the largest.

As a result, what is happening pours into the total victory of the state over the intelligentsia - even the one that was almost always loyal to the authorities and was sometimes inspired by the bossal prose, adapting something "by the" subunel "for the stage. A big holiday today and among the Minister of Culture of Medinsky. A few days ago, the Disser of the Belgorod State University supported his amazing dissertation with his authority , and it was especially noted that the great man suspected by enemies in ignorance and shamelessness. And now, it is unlikely that without the participation of the minister, the performance of the director, whom he hates hotly and sequentially, is being removed from the poster. As soon as he can hate the true patriot of a truly anti -people artist with all his twists, external brilliance, false content and Sumbur instead of music.

It seems that Cyril Serebrennikov realizes it more clearly and more and more sharply - and the victory of the collective Medinsky, and his shame in the country, where it becomes more difficult to breathe every day. Therefore, he restrains, and lapidarously answers the questions that there is no need to say in essence and almost no one. That's how they decided , and months of the intense work went under the tail. Rudolf Nureyev at one time was also not a dissident and chose, as they say, freedom. In the era of open borders, this choice is probably easier and harder. Easier, because no one holds. It is harder, since the collective Medinsky will only rejoice in the departure of the troublesome, and the purely specific one too. Here Serebrennikov is silent, and reflects, and endures with all his strength, like tens of thousands of other people of famous and unknown. Patience seems to be running out.