THE AMERICAN - EURASIAN ART FOUNDATION
BRUNI GALLERY
V. Maksimov, Portrait of Tatiana Bruni, 1930s,
During her childhood in St. Petersburg Tatiana Bruni
was surrounded by creativity.
Her family included artists and professional musicians (her father taught the young Sergei Prokofiev to play the piano),
and as a child she was often taken to plays and ballets. She was in her teens when the Revolution came,
but finished her schooling and in 1920 enrolled in the prestigious Society for Promotion of the Arts.
From then onwards she showed an interest in theatre design, working for a number of new theatre companies,
including the radical Young Ballet which had the involvement of legendary choreographer George Balanchine.
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She was participated in many exhibitions,
including "Moscow - Paris" and "From Malevich to Bruni"
in Italy.
In 1937, the artist draws the play in MALEGOTe (now Saint - Petersburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre Mussorgsky.), The ballet "Vain Precaution" and appears ironic and subtle stylist, always faithful to the major traditions perception ballet scenography.
Since that time the long-term cooperation with the Small Opera House, which lasted about forty years and led to the creation of nearly thirty performances. Among them were the ballets "Imaginary Groom", "Youth", "The Blue Danube", the opera "Madame Favart" directed B.A Fenster, "Francesca da Rimini", choreographer K.F Boyarsky, "Gavroche" The choreographer . A. Varkovitsky, "Arlequin", setting P.A Gusev, "Krechinekogo Wedding," directed by N.V Smolich, "The Robbers," directed by N.V Smolich. Last show - ballet "Esmeralda" in 1981, directed by P. Gusev, T.M Vecheslova and N.N Boyarchikov. These performances included in the golden fund of Soviet ballet history. Simultaneously Bruni designed the performances at the Opera and Ballet Theatre. Kirov (now Mariinsky State Academic Theatre), where one of the most interesting solutions was the ballet "Cinderella", staged by K. Sergeyev.
Since the end of the thirties by the eighties, T. Bruni constantly collaborated with the Leningrad Choreographic School (now Academy of Russian Ballet. Vaganova), was the author of design of individual numbers and ballets staged by B.A Fenetera, K. F. Boyarsky, KL Goleizovsky, K. Sergeyev, B.J Eifman, L. Yakobson, On the same choreographers and artist worked in professional theaters. It was especially interesting working with Goleizovsky and Jacobson. T.G Bruni fruitfully collaborated with the Moscow Ballet under the direction of N. Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasiliev, put the "Rite of Spring" and "Tiny Tsakesa" with a surprisingly bright witty decision.
In addition to ballet Tatana Bruni worked in opera and drama. During his creative life artist created a designs for more than two hundred productions for theaters in Leningrad and Moscow, Kiev and Sverdlovsk, Yaroslavl, Perm, Saratov. For academic and amateur theater, circus, music - hall, ballet on ice, for the puppet theater. Continuous work in the theater was supplemented by teaching at the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography. Students of Tatiana Bruni work in many theaters in the country and abroad, among them such well-known names as A. Kozhenkova E. Kochergin, Mr. Sotnikov. As a few of the artists of the Russian theater, Bruni felt particularly "handwriting" of the composer or playwright, seeking to create a plastic, picturesque their implementation, but the diversity of methods, means of expression has always felt as a " Style of Bruni".
Eurasia Art Museum will be offering over 60 original sketches of costumes and sets from the Theatrical Costume Collection.
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