Kirill Serebrennikov and Old Media

The premiere of the ballet "Nureyev" for the first time in a long time forced different media to perform almost in unison. Everything - from state newspapers and television channels to foreign agents - wrote about the ballet of Kirill Serebrennikov about the same thing - the long -awaited, talented, outstanding. With the same intonation with which all cultural Moscow demonstrated involvement in the event, posting on the social network photographs of black and white invitations and selfies against the background of the premiere poster.

“As if the subtext sounded that perhaps the production was still“ combed ”. But the answers, which, it seems, could disappoint someone of the same type: no, fundamentally did not redo anything, the revision concerned exclusively choreography. ”

“The choreographer and the composer went out in t -shirts with portraits and the inscriptions“ Freedom to the director ”, after which the applause came with renewed vigor, and in the choir of the screaming“ bravo ”one could distinguish a thin“ Cyril! ” Publishers and politics of Irina Prokhorova. "

“Even the citizens advanced in art are most worried about, they put a fig piece on Nureyev or not, whether the photo of a completely naked hero appears in the play. And yes, and no. "

Could you immediately determine where there is a cast -iron state salary , where is the flowering gloss , and where is the flagship of the liberal press ? Do you remember the last time such unanimouses were visiting our polarized ranks? When is the last time the audience, one half of which has long ceased to speak with the other, in a single impulse rose to a 15-minute standing ovation-and a “masterpiece” screamed unanimously? When was it? Is it after the opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics in 2014 .

But the opening of the Olympiad (especially the home) is the spectacle of a priori popular, generally governing, and here the ballet is not a classic “swan”, but a controversial, unorthodox production, where choreography is mixed with choral singing and a dramatic theater. In addition, this is a story about Rudolf Nureyev, a adherent of gender behavior that is not approved in our area, and even a defector, which is also not everyone now finds understanding. In general, there is no reason for unanimity-and here everything is admiring, applauding, press secretary of the President of the country Peskov declares the prime minister Nureyev a world event.

Of course, the event is truly a truly historical event that the director of the cost at the time of his triumph is sitting under house arrest. Three kilometers from the large. This will definitely not mention this connoisseur of the history of the world theater.

When is the last time the audience, one half of which has long ceased to speak with the other, in a single impulse rose to a 15-minute standing ovation-and a “masterpiece” screamed unanimously? When was it? Is it after the opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics in 2014.

In order to somehow fit this phantasmagoria in the head, many habitually try to choose rhymes from the past for it. Looks like a sharashka? It seems yes, but there the prisoners were still engaged in applied science and technology, the names of those aircraft designers, gunsmiths and chemists were classified in the wild. And yet, it seemed that Comrade was not. Stalin put a man with one hand - and the other publicly applauded him. Somehow it seemed to be easier: they planted the director-they closed his performances, the artist left-he was branded with a shame. If the defector Rudolf Nureev performed at the Festival in Athens, then the Soviet Svyatoslav Richter was not allowed to participate in this festival.

Someone talks about the fortress theater. In fact, a world -famous director was chained by the leg to the kitchen table and puts performances directly from his apartment: it is convenient, no damage to the treasury. But also a curve of some kind of analogy comes out: it is not clear who is the serf? Who at all chained him when there were only his fans around? They are in the Great Hall: the Chairman of the Council of the Federation Valentina Matvienko, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Alexei Miller, senators, representatives of the presidential administration, State Duma deputies, prominent cultural figures, entrepreneurs and other officials - and everyone applauds.

So that the director could hear these applause, these people would have to come to him. Just because the court is the only place where the director Serebrennikov can see the public and colleagues. At the rehearsal to the Bolshoi Theater, as well as the premiere itself, he could not get. The investigator did not answer his petition - either he did not have time, or was busy searching for invitations to the premiere of Nureyev.

Serebrennikov is experiencing his success at home - but neither counting the checks of the audience in Bolshoi, nor to see the selfies of Tanya and Vali against the backdrop of the posters, nor read congratulations from Facebook friends by law: the home prisoner is not supposed to use the Internet. The good old media remains - paper newspapers, radio, TV.

The cameras of ether television channels on the day of the general rehearsal were launched into the hall for a short time. Serebrennikov could see pieces of his two -hour ballet in a three -minute “Vesti” or three -minute reporting of the NTV channel .

The world -famous director is chained by the leg to the kitchen table and puts performances directly from his apartment: it is convenient, no damage to the treasury.

Let’s try to imagine: here is the author of the production sits by the TV with a bracelet on the leg and tries to consider his work while the TVC channel reporter says from the screen : “Whoever is looking for a special feeling today is the director. Alas, Kirill Serebrennikov is unlikely to appear in Bolshoi. ”

Serebrennikov is trying to understand what he did - during the direct inclusion of the Russia 24 television channel from the general rehearsal. “All the ballets of Kirill Serebrennikov are incredibly cinematic,” the correspondent reports. And he adds : "The uniqueness of the ballet is that no one did anything like this in the world."

And from the plot of the Culture TV channel Serebrennikov learns that his ballet "is already wanting to see at many festivals."

Well, if the director guessed to turn on the Moscow 24 TV channel, they gave reviews from social networks and amateur vidos from the premiere. From the plot of Moscow 24, Kirill Serebrennikov, could find out that his ballet “remains the most discussed news in social networks”, understand with whom Roman Abramovich came to the premiere, see a piece of standing ovation of the hall and examine the artists who went out to the bow, T -shirts with their portrait. Even the video from the banquet after the premiere, where the director of the Bolshoi Theater, Vladimir Urin proposed raising the first toast for Cyril, slipped through the phone.

You see, the paper is dying, the TV has long become an anachronism - and Serebrennikov, like many people of his generation and circle, probably long stopped watching it. And now he looks. Now he may even think about subscribing to paper newspapers.

Still, the old media in our country is still irreplaceable. How would Alexei Malobrodsky, Serebrennikov’s comrade -in -arms in the Seventh Studio, learned about the triumph of his accomplice - if there weren’t a television in his prison cell?

Of course, the TV will continue to follow the successes of Nureev - they will probably be. For such a ballet, they may well give state aid. The human rights activist Lyudmila Alekseeva, who has fought with the arbitrariness of the authorities, gives the state -owned state - and they can even more so the ballet. The Investigative Committee will not release the prisoner Serebrennikov to the Kremlin ceremony - and it will be difficult for him to get the prize itself, because his accounts are arrested. But he will probably learn about the award of the award - from the news of federal television channels.

The TV, of course, will tell the prisoner Serebrennikov about how those who wish to get to his ballet will be on duty at the cash desk of a large one at night. About what heavens will take off the prices of tickets. About what kind of pomp “Nureyev” will tour around the world. Collect a full house. Get festival awards. Become the hallmark of Russian ballet of the XXI century. The TV will show this ballet through all channels instead of “Swan” - one day, when the time comes.