Jan Ciepliński’s Ballet (1922–1925)
Janina Pudełek
Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music (Poland)
Abstract
The author discusses the history of Jan Ciepliński’s ballet company, highlighting the links between the artist’s activities and his “restless, entrepreneurial personality.” She emphasizes that his off-stage work began quite early on, with the establishment (with Halina Szmolcówna and Zygmunt Szubiakiewicz) of the ballet section of the Association of Polish Stage Artists at Warsaw’s Teatr Wielki [Grand Theatre] in 1919; he was also actively committed to raising the level of general education for dancers. The author analyses the artistic and infrastructural aspects of the work of Ciepliński’s group, which was successively based in Katowice, Poznań, and Vilnius, as well as touring actively (e.g., in Silesia, Vienna, Czechoslovakia, and Warsaw). She underscores the importance of Ciepliński’s experience from his ballet school, Teatr Wielki, and Anna Pavlova’s ballet, as well as his inspiration from Ballets Russes. She cites numerous and divided opinions regarding his choreographic inventiveness. She briefly presents the story of the Warsaw Ballet (1937) – Ciepliński’s short-lived return to the idea of an running an independent dance company. The article opens a series in which the author discusses selected interwar ensembles (see Pamiętnik Teatralny 3/4, 1996, and 3/4, 1998).
Keywords:
ballet, ballet history, dance, dance history, Jan Ciepliński, Warsaw BalletReferences
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Authors
Janina PudełekFryderyk Chopin Academy of Music Poland
Dr hab. Janina Pudełek
dance critic and researcher, historian. She learned dance at Janina Mieczyńska's school, later also in the classes of Jerzy Gogół and Leon Wójcikowski. She studied Polish philology at the University of Warsaw and dramaturgy at the State Theatre School in Warsaw. She obtained her doctoral degree and habilitation at the Institute of Art at Polish Academy of Sciences. She worked in the editorial team of Pamiętnik Teatralny, Taniec and Encyklopedia Muzyczna PWN, in the State Scientific Publishing House, the University of Warsaw Library, the Theatre Museum. Author of such books as Warszawski balet w latach 1867–1915 [Warsaw Ballet in the Years 1867–1915], Warszawski balet romantyczny: 1802–1866 [Warsaw Romantic Ballet: 1802–1866] or Tajniki sztuki baletowej: Rozważania o estetyce i anatomii baletu [The Secrets of the Art of Ballet: Reflections on the Aesthetics and Anatomy of Ballet]. Since 1974, a lecturer of history and aesthetics of ballet at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music. She publishes regularly in Pamiętnik Teatralny, Ruch Muzyczny, Teatr, Taniec and others. For the latter, she translated excerpts from the writings of Carl Blasis (Basic Treatise on the Theory and Practice of the Art of Dance and The Terpsychora Code). Member of the Polish ITI Centre.
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