Why do Russians, known as "fighting nations", love ballet so much?

Why is ballet so important in Russia?

Although ballet lost its popularity in Europe and America in the late 20th century, it still stands in Russia, partly because exporting world-class talents has brought great satisfaction to Russians. Ruth, the successor of Dia Gilev Ballet, traveled around the world and spread the gospel of ballet. For fond memories of this period, please refer to the documentary Ballets Russes by Dan Geller and Dai Na Goldfein in 2005. Russian young people regard ballet as the fastest way to win national and international honors, while the state strongly supports the development of promising dancers. Nowadays, ballet schools all over the world claim to teach Russian traditions, and western students are curious about how their Russian counterparts bend those impossible postures.

Russia's unique ballet style may also be the reason for its long-term popularity. Some critics have noticed-while others severely criticized-that Russian dance troupes pay attention to the outstanding physical advantages of dancers, and sometimes even sacrifice subtlety and artistic expression for this purpose. Russian audiences need this kind of performance, and they will cheer loudly and praise their superb skills during the performance. Paying attention to personal glory reminds people more of Hollywood's star-making system than pure artistic pursuit, which may help beautify modern Russian ballet.

Russia's method of conquering the world of ballet is a bit special: Russian high-level officials decided to make ballet an art form in Russia, and transferred national culture according to their own will through centralized planning and clever use of resources. Catherine the Great also set up a famous school and built a drama palace. Catherine officially made ballets russes the most important Russian ballet company. ) Russian czars used their wealth to attract foreigners to St. Petersburg, especially after the French Revolution opened the artistic process in Paris. Most notably, French dancer and choreographer Charles Louis? After Charles Louis Didelot failed in London, he immigrated to Russia. In Britain, ballet has no strong national support. In Russia, foreign and local talents developed Russian ballet. They liberated ballet from the relationship with drama-the oldest national ballet in the world is the Ballet de Paris Grand Theatre, which was founded in17th century-and focused on the beauty of action rather than narrative structure. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Russian modernists, such as Sergei? Dyagilev opposes the rigid choreography style of ballet as a series of technical training.