What are the three periods of Soviet ballet? What are their representative features and representative works?

After the October Revolution, the ultra-left trend of thought of "proletarian cultural school" also spread to ballet, which was regarded as a kind of "bourgeois art" and a kind of "palace pastime". It advocates abandoning it and recreating "new proletarian dance art" with gymnastics, soft work and other modeling actions.

After a fierce and long debate, a group of directors and actors headed by Lopukhov restored and adapted some classic plays in Petrograd. After the victory of the October Revolution, under the call of the Party and the government, a large number of new works appeared, which showed the real life of the revolution and praised the revolution and the capitalist ideal. The Red Poppy is a relatively mature large-scale revolutionary ballet, which is known as the "model of realistic ballet" in the Soviet Union, or the beginning of the "dramatic ballet" period. Among them, the old and new techniques are mixed, including the wonderful performance of court ballet, revolution, folk songs, sports elements and other new factors.

2. Drama and ballet period (1927 ~ 1957)

At the end of the hard war, the arduous and pioneering task of socialist industrial and agricultural construction was placed in front of the Soviet people. One political movement after another, such as collectivization of agriculture, elimination of counter-revolution and expansion, has brought heavy disasters to the country, and the eyes of the broad masses of the people naturally turn to comedy genre, hoping to get some laughter and comfort from it.

1927, College Press published the Russian translation of "Dance and Dance Drama of Nollville", which provided food for thinking for the Soviet dance circle. Noelle's idea of "plot ballet" has become an important theory of the Soviet drama ballet school.

Drama ballet sprouted in Russia before the revolution. At this time, drama ballet inherited the characteristics of emphasizing plot, being easy to understand and pursuing ideology, but its forms and means of expression were not limited to pantomime, but it tried to create "plot dance", trying to shape characters and express plots through dance and pantomime. In this sense, The Fountain and Romeo and Juliet are two successful examples.

3. Symphonic ballet period (1957 ~ 199 1)

Since the second half of 1950s, cultural exchanges between the Soviet Union and foreign countries have been frequent, and ballet artists from the Soviet Union and the United States have exchanged visits. Western symphonic ballet and episodic ballet, especially balanchine's works, aroused great interest in the Soviet Union and promoted the revival of symphonic ballet. From 1957, it was staged in Gemstone Flower, and later became an independent school of Soviet ballet.

"Gemstone Flower" is based on the past practice, and takes dance as the main means to express emotions, narrative and shape images. At the same time, the director uses all means to serve the performance theme, portray the characters and shape the image. In this work, drama structure, music structure, stage art structure and dance structure are organically combined.