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JUsupov was admirer D.A.Rossini which operas have bypassed the majority of capitals of Europe and with the big success were put in Petersburg and Moscow. Actor J.E.Shusherin named JUsupova ' the expert on the theatre which opinions were the law for all formed people '.
At Moscow theatre Jusupova in the Big Haritonevsky lane serf actors executed ballets on mythological themes: ' the Zephyr and Flora ', ' the Medea and JAzon ', an opera ' the Seville barber '. Ballet ' the Medea and JAzon ' has been put before in 1789 by the ballet master le Peak in Petersburg. Performance abounded with riches of suits and scenery, a various sort scenic effects. Known memoirist S.T.Bolotov wrote, that all Petersburg thirsted for it to see.
From ballerinas and dancers JUsupov demanded expressiveness of dancing action, semantic correctness of movements and a mimicry, at ballet dancers should be a lot of passion and feelings, action should be live and animated as is not than other as interpretation of passions. Gesture, movement, a pose say that nothing can express. The feelings which wish to describe are stronger, the exists words that them to transfer less.
The Great post when representations on a scene of state theatres have been forbidden, JUsupov invited to itself close friends to ballet representation. Performances jusupovskogo theatre consisted more often of divertissements - various pas de deux, a pas-de trua, a pas-de a shawl, pases-de-garlands. Russian ballet of this time differed the expressed national character; ballet dances were enriched by elements of national Russian dancing; dances were replaced with a pastoral theme by a national divertissement, etc. Jusupovsky actors executed kazachka, kamarinskogo and other dancings. Man's dances as it was accepted, expressed daring, will, scope, noble feeling of man's advantage, female - smoothness, ' melodiousness ', ' beautiful force ', ease and freedom of movements.
Derzhavin has left the bright description of dancing of girls-peasants:
Whether you Ripened, the singer tijsky,
As in a meadow in the spring of the bull-calfe
Girls Dance are Russian
Under a pipe of the herdboy,
As sklonjas heads, go,
Shoes on a harmony knock,
Silently hands, a look povodjat
And shoulders speak...
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