Performing Arts

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(Many of these sites are courtesy of Slav-Web)

The Russian Theatre

• Early 20th Century Russian Theatre

• Golden Mask 1998 - Directors of Drama Theaters - in Russian
  

• MKhAT - Moscow Art Theater named after A.Chekhov
  
  • Moscow Art Theater named after A.Chekhov - History - in Russian
    
  • Moscow Arts Theater is 100 Years Old - Russian Culture Navigator
    
  • Tribute to Oleg Yefremov - "Russian Culture Navigator" No.121, 2000
    
  
  
• Taganka Drama and Commedy Theater
  • Lyubimov's Taganka Theater - official website - in Russian
    
  
  
• Moscow Theater "Lenkom"
  • Moscow Theater "Lenkom" - unofficial page - in Russian
    
  • Reviews on Lenkom's plays - in Russian
    
  • A Barbarian and a Heretic
    
  
  

• The Anton Chekhov Theater - in Russian
  
• Theater "Satirikon" (named after A.Raikin) - in Russian
  
• Roman Viktyuk's Theater - in Russian
  
• Theater "Sfera" - unofficial page - in Russian
  

Evreinov, Nikolai (1879-1953) 

Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)

• Presence in Front of the Fourth Wall of Cyberspace - by Monika Wunderer
  
• Lectures by Meyerhold in 1928/1929 - Pervoe Sentyabrya 1999 no.9 (in Russian)
• Challenging Oneself - Marking the 125th Birth Anniversary of Stage Director V. Meyerhold - by Monika Wunderer
  
• Theater Technology -Meyerhold - by Colin Winslow
  
• Early Twentieth-Century Russian Drama - Vsevolod Meyerhold
  
• Constructivist Theater
  

• Naturalism on My Mind - By Peter Hall
  
• K. Stanislavskiy writes about the meeting at Slavyansky Bazaar - Excerpts from "My Life In Art" by Stanislavsky
  
• The first performance of the Cherry Orchard
  
• Early Twentieth-Century Russian Drama - Konstantin Stanislavsky - brief profile and a photo
  

• Early Twentieth-Century Russian Drama - Alexander Tairov - brief profile and a photo

Theatre Links

• Theater -- Anton Chekhov Theater -- Home Page
• Theater -- Central Academic Theater of Russian Army
• Theater -- Chekhov & Russian Naturalism -- by Hall
• Theater -- Database of Russian Theaters
• Theater -- Formal'nyi Theater of St. Petersbourg
• Theater -- Journals -- St. Petersburg Theater Journal
• Theater -- Liubimov's Taganka Theater
• Theater -- Malyi Teatr -- Moscow
• Theater -- Meyerhold -- Challenging Oneself -- in English
• Theater -- Meyerhold -- Essay -- by Winslow
• Theater -- Moscow Art Theatre
• Theater -- Moscow Fomenko Theatre
• Theater -- Moscow Lenkom Theater -- Home Page
• Theater -- Moscow Theater -- Home Page
• Theater -- Moscow Theatre Life
• Theater -- National Theater Institute
• Theater -- Pokrovke Thetaer -- Home Page
• Theater -- Profiles of Moscow Theaters
• Theater -- Russian Actors
• Theater -- Russian Stage Design: 1906-1930
• Theater -- Russian Theater Database
• Theater -- Satyricon Theater -- Home Page
• Theater -- Sfera Theatre of Moscow
• Theater -- St. Petersburg -- List of Theaters & Repertoires
• Theater -- St. Petersburg Theater Pages
• Theater -- Stanislavsky -- Slavyansky Bazaar -- in English
• Theater -- Theater of Music and Poetry
• Theater -- Theatre.ru -- Links
• Theater -- Vysotsky at Taganka -- 5 videos
• The Bolshoy Theatre
• Кремлевский Дворец Съездов
• Kolonny Hall
• Small Theatre
• Gorky Moscow Art Theatre
• The State Academic Theatre named after Evg. Vahtangov
• Mayakovsky Theatre
• Lenkom Theatre
• Satire Theatre
• Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre
• Mossoviet Theatre
• Variety Theatre
• Central Russian Army Theatre
• Satirikon Theatre
• Sovremennik Theatre
• A.S. Pushkin Theatre
• Moscow Musical Comedy Theatre

The Russian Ballet

• Ballet Russes Photographs from e-Onegin.com

• From Russia With Love: Ballet Russes Costumes, 1909-1933

• The Ballet Russes, the Paintings: Danse.com in French

• History of the Kirov Ballet by Clement Crisp

• Kirov Ballet (at the Maryinsky Theatre)
  • The Kirov Ballet and the Kirov Academy
       - Mirror
    
  • The Kirov Ballet of St.Petersburg
    
  • Mariinsky Theater (St. Petersburg) - in Russian
    
  • Mariinka - fan club of the Mariinsky Theater - in Russian
    
• The Bolshoi Theatre
  • Bolshoi Theatre - the official website - in English / Russian
    
  • Bolshoi Theatre - another official website - in Russian
    
  • The Bolshoi Theatre Page in English - by the Russia Net
       - Mirror Site
    
  • The Bolshoi Theatre , Ballet and Opera - basic information in English
    
• The Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre
  
• Kremlin Ballet Theatre
  

• The Great Russian Playwright Sumarokov and his Ballets - by Olga Vsevolodskaya - Golushkevich
  
• The Making of a Love Triangle - by Natalie Shearer
  
  

    Dancers

• Nina Ananiashvili (from Georgia)
  • Nina Ananiashvili, The Complete Ballerina
    
  • Nina Ananiashvili...Bolshoi Ballerina - by Bruce Marriott
    
    
  
  
• Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948-)
  
  • Dancing Free - by Jack Bettridge
    
  • Baryshnikov's Filmography
    
  • Stretching His Legs Creatively - by Elizabeth Zimmer
    
  • Barry's Dance Review - White Oak Dance Project
    
  
  
• Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978)
  • Great Names of Russian Ballet - Tamara Karsavina - by Vadim Kiselev
    
  • Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (1885-1978) - brief biography from the website of Andros On Ballet
    
  
  
• Natalia Makarova (b. 1940) 
  
• Galina Mezentseva (b. 1952)
  • Galina Mezentseva - Foremost Prima Ballerina in the world today
    
  
  
• Vera Nemchinova (1899-1984) Vera Nemtchinova - brief biography from the website of Andros On Ballet
  
  
• Vaslaw Nijinski (1890-1950)
  
  
  
• Rudolf Nureev (1938-1993)
  • Tribute to Rudolf Nureyev - by Patricia Boccadoro
    
    
  
  
• Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)
  • The Russian Ballet from Pavlova to Nuriev - Anna Pavlova - by ARDANI
    
  • Heroine Worship: Anna Pavlova, The Swan - by Allegra Kent
    
  • Anna Pavlova (1881-1931) - brief biography from the website of Andros On Ballet
    
  
  
• Nadezhda Pavlova (b. 1956) Nadezhda Pavlova - Russian ballerina
  
  
• Ninel Petrova (b. 1924)
  
• Maya Plisetskaya (b. 1925)
  
  
• Olga Preobrazhenskaya (1870-1962)
  • Olga Preobrajenska (1870-1962) - brief biography from the website of Andros On Ballet
    
  
  
• Galina Ulanova (1910-1998)
  • A Legend of the 20th Century - by Nina Yakhontova ("Russian Culture Navigator" , No.5)
    
  • She Dances With Angels - "Life" (March 26 , 1998)
    
  • Galina Ulanova (1910-1998) - brief biography from the website of Andros On Ballet

Circus and Clowns

• Russian State Circus Company "ROSGOSCIRK" - in English / Russian
• Old Moscow Circus on the Tsvetnoi Boulevard - in Russian

  
  
  Yuri Nikulin (1921-1997)

  • People's History - Yuri Nikulin - in Russian
  • Yuri Nikulin: Almost Serious - in Russian
    
  • Soviet Screen - Yuri Nikulin - in Russian
    
  • People's History - Vyacheslav Polunin - in Russian
    
  • People's History - Marina Mayatskaya - in Russian

Russian Music

(Obviously this section deserves a page of its own, and is still undeveloped)

• Alexander Borodin
• Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin
• Modest Mussorgsky
• Modest Moussorgsky
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• The Rimsky-Korsakov Home Page
• Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
• Cesar Antonovich Cui
• Casar Cui
• Mily Alekseyevich Balakirev
• Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev
• A Gallery of Russian Composers
• Russian Music
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Piotr Tchaikovsky
• Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
• Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
• Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Scriabin
• Stravinsky
• The Stravinsky Page
• Igor Stravinsky
• Stravinsky's Religious Works
• Rakhmaninov
• Rakhmaninov Lover's Home Page
• Rakhmaninov
• Rachmaninoff Society
• Sergei Vassilievich Rachmaninoff
• Sergei Rakhmaninov
• Russian Classical Music
• Pronunciation Guide
• Sergei Sergeivich Prokofiev
• Sergej Prokofiev
• Prokofiev and the Soviet State
• Dmitry Shostakovich
• Shostakovich.org
• Dmitri Shostakovich Picture Gallery
• DSCH Journal
• Aram Il'yich Khachaturian
• Music under Soviet Rule
• Soviet Composers Page
• The Forgotten Avant Garde: Soviet Composers Crushed by Stalin