Perm Choreographic College

The emergence of the Perm Choreographic School is directly related to the evacuation of Molotov (now Perm ) during the Great Patriotic War of the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater. S. M. Kirov and the Leningrad Choreographic School . In 1942, enrollment of children in the first class of the ballet school was announced, and on February 7, 1943, classes began in the Perm branch of the Leningrad school. In 1944, after the lifting of the siege of Leningrad , the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater and the Leningrad Choreographic School returned to their hometown, and on June 23, 1944, the Committee on Arts under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR issued Order No. 317 “On the creation of a choreographic studio at the Molotov Opera Theater and ballet . "

Already on February 24, 1945, the Executive Committee of the Molotov City Council of Workers' Deputies decided to create a choreographic school on the basis of the studio. And on April 2, 1945, the USSR Council of People's Commissars issued Decree No. 5406, which "reorganized the Molotov Choreographic Studio of the Opera and Ballet Theater from September 1, 1945 into the Molotov Choreographic School." In 1957, after the renaming of the city of Molotov to Perm, the school became known as the Perm State Choreographic School. Since 2007 - the current name.

The founder and first artistic director of the Perm Choreographic School was Ekaterina Nikolaevna Heidenreich , in the past - the soloist of the Mariinsky Ballet Theater - Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater. S. M. Kirov. Since 1924, she taught classical dance at the Leningrad Choreographic School, and since 1936, when she left the stage due to heart disease, at the Leningrad Maly Opera and Ballet Theater . For family reasons, Ekaterina Nikolaevna Heidenreich did not evacuate with the Leningrad Choreographic School and remained in Leningrad, where she was arrested and convicted by the NKVD on April 2, 1942 under Article 58-10 Part II for a term of 10 years. She was serving her sentence in the Usolsky forced labor camp in the city of Solikamsk, Molotov (now Perm) region, but was released from the camp as an invalid on December 5, 1942. Since 1943, Catherine Heidenreich resumed work at the Leningrad Choreographic School, located in Molotov. After the departure of the Leningrad Choreographic School, she headed the established studio and, until her rehabilitation on December 26, 1956, was engaged in the formation of the Perm Ballet School.

In addition to Catherine Heidenreich, the first teachers were Tamara Obukhova-Troyanovskaya and Elena Tauber, who taught historical and everyday dance. Then, other representatives of the Leningrad ballet school appeared in the school - students of Agrippina Vaganova Ksenia Yesaulova , Tansla Kushaeva and Ninel Silvanovich , Julius Plakht , Galina Kuznetsova , L.G. Taube, Sofia Tulubyeva, Sofia Hetselius. Subsequently, the leading teachers of the Perm school became their own graduates of the school: Marianna Podkina , Elena Bystritskaya, MA A. Maltseva, Lidia Ulanova , Rimma Shlyamova , Yuri Sidorov, Mars Mirgaripov , Vladimir Tolstukhin , Lev Asaulyak ^[2] .

By the mid-1970s, creatively developing teaching methods, the Perm School formed its own style and achieved international recognition, which made it possible to talk about the “Perm Ballet School”.

Graduates of the Perm Choreographic School not only form the basis of the troupe of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater , but also work in the largest troupes of Russia - the Bolshoi Theater , the Mariinsky Theater , the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater , the Mikhailovsky Theater , the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater , and the Tatar Opera Theater and ballet and others, as well as dancing and teaching in various cities of the world.

In the first two years of its existence, the choreographic studio, and then the school, were located in the building of the Tolmachev Club (57 Lunacharsky Street; the house was not preserved), where there were only three rooms for classes. In 1947, the school moved to the second floor of the former building of the Diocesan Women's School at 18 Kommunisticheskaya Street, where ten choreographic classes were located in ten rooms, and the school’s dormitory for 118 people occupied four more rooms . The choreographic school is still located in this building ^[3] .

In the early 1950s, the school occupied the entire two-story building, and in 1960 the third floor was added. Now there are eight ballet classes equipped. In 1961, a boarding school for 200 students was built, and in 1984, according to the project of architect K.E. Kunof, an educational theater with 286 seats was added . On November 27, 1997, a memorial plaque (by A. Kutergin) was opened on the wall at the entrance to the main building for the 100th anniversary of the birth of E. N. Heidenreich with the text: “Ekaterina Nikodimovna Heidenreich / 1897-1982 / founder and first Artistic Director of the Perm Choreographic School. ”

• 1945-1951 - Catherine Heidenreich
• 1952 - Galina Kuznetsova
• 1953-1965 - Ksenia Yesaulova
• 1965-1973 - Julius Placht
• 1973-2004 - Lyudmila Sakharova
• since 2005 - Vladimir Tolstukhin

• 1945-1965 - Nonna Bagina
• 1966-1985 - Peter Kolovarsky
• 1986-1996 - Ninel Pidemskaya
• 1997 - 2018 - Lyudmila Shevchenko
• from 2018 - Daria Sosnina

• 1946 - " Turnip " to the music of Vladimir Sokalsky , choreographer Aleksey Chichinadze
• 1950 - “ Doctor Aibolit ” by Igor Morozov , choreographer Ksenia Yesaulova
• 1955 - The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky , choreographer Ksenia Yesaulova
• 1957 - “Miracle” by Henry Terpilovsky , choreographer Ksenia Yesaulova
• 1960 - “ Coppelia ” by Leo Delibes , choreography by Alexander Gorsky , revised version by German Shishkin
• 1962 - “Lyubka” by J. G. Zorina, choreographer German Shishkin
• 1968 - “White Dove” by Bogdan Trotsuk, choreographer Suleiman Burkhanov
• 1973 - Chopiniana to music by Frederic Chopin , choreography by Mikhail Fokin
• 1974 - “Sonnet” by Nikolai Martynov , choreographer Nikolai Boyarchikov
• 1986 - Class Concert, staged by Lyudmila Sakharova
• 1987 - " Vain Precaution " by P. Gertel, choreographer Marat Gaziev
• 1989 - “ Aibolit ” by Igor Morozov, choreographer Evgeny Serezhnikov
• 1994 - The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, choreography by Vasily Vainonen , staged by Lyudmila Sakharova
• 2000 - “Choreographic Fantasies” to the music of the 104th Joseph Haydn Symphony, choreographer Georgy Aleksidze
• 2001 - “Spring in the Appalachians” to the music of Aaron Copland , choreographer Evgeny Panfilov
• 2001 - “Waltz Fantasy” to the music of Mikhail Glinka , choreographer Georgy Aleksidze
• 2004 - "Overture" to the music of Joacchino Rossini , choreographers E. Kamenskaya and V. Tolstukhin
• 2005 - “Ode to Victory” to the music of Sergei Prokofiev , choreographer Kirill Schmorgoner
• 2005 - “Cantata” to the music of I. S. Bach , choreographer Radu Poklitaru
• 2006 - The Animated Garden from the ballet Corsair by Adolf Adan , choreography by Marius Petipa
• 2006 - “Waltz” to the music of Aram Khachaturian , choreographer Kirill Schmorgoner
• 2006 - “ Coppelia ” by Leo Delib, edited by Boris Myagkov and Cyril Schmorgoner
• 2006 - The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, choreographer Kirill Schmorgoner
• 2007 - a fragment from the ballet Naples , choreography by August Bournonville , staged by Adam Lüders
• 2008 - Act 3 from the ballet Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, choreography by Marius Petipa
• 2009 - fragments from the ballet Raymond by Alexander Glazunov , choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Vladimir Tolstukhin
• 2011 - “Variations in the Rococo style” to the music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, choreographer Alexei Miroshnichenko
• 2011 - Suite from the ballet La Bayadere by Ludwig Minkus , choreography by Marius Petipa
• 2011 - A large classical pas from the ballet Paquita by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Yuri Burlaki

• 1976 - Order of the Badge of Honor

• Korobkov S. The Way to the Big Ballet: Seven Lessons at the Perm Choreographic School. - Perm: book publishing house, 1989. - 140 p.
• Chernova T. Joining the ballet //. - Perm: book publishing house, 1994. - 30,000 copies.
• Chernova T. The birth of a swan: A word about the Perm Choreographic School, its teachers and pets. - Perm: book publishing house, 2001. - 216 p. - ISBN 5-93683-012-8 .
• Pidemskaya N. My life is my love. - Perm: Aster, 2006 .-- 104 p.

• Sakharova O. The ABC of Ballet // Spark: Journal. - M. , 1973. - No. 3 of March .
• Sergeev K. Chopinovsky Waltz in May 1945 ... // Star: newspaper. - Perm, 1985. - No. 25 of January .
• Davlekamova S. Permskoye Grand Pas // Change: Journal. - M. , 1986. - No. 19 .
• Chernova T. Someone loses, someone finds // Culture: newspaper. - M. , 2000. - No. 33 .
• Batalina Yu. Before the flight // New Companion: Newspaper. - Perm, 2005. - No. 7 of June .
• Orlova M. Prima on growth // Russian newspaper: newspaper. - M. , 2011. - No. January 27 .

• Official site
• Perm State Choreographic College on the site of the Perm Krai encyclopedia

Video

• Perm Choreographic (20th Anniversary) documentary, Permtelefilm, 1966
• Two steps from the theater documentary, Permtelefilm, 1989
• Avos to the 50th anniversary of the Perm Choreographic School television program, Perm State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company T7, 1994
• Prisoners of Terpsichore documentary, 1995
• Dance lesson documentary, 2007