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Report on behalf of the State
Central Library in Moscow
Natalija Ezdina (Moscow)
Documentation et Art de
l'Acteur
Records and Images of the Art of the Performer
18ème Congrès
International, Stockholm 3-7 septembre 1990 / 18th
International Congress, Stockholm 3-7 September 1990
Editor: Barbro Stribolt (Drottningholms Teatermuseum).
Stockholm : 1992, p. 111
One of the main fields
of the State Central Theatre Library's activity is the
assistance to theatre personalities in the creation of
performance. In the process of this work various
documents from the library's funds such as books, albums,
archives of photographs and post-cards are being used.
- The necessity of
such kind of work has appeared with the assertion
of the so-called producer's theatre, in which
space solution of a performance is directly
connected with the producer's concept, or more
exactly is the materialization of this concept.
- The work with
documents in the process of implementation of an
artistic conception has several directions. The
main principle of document selection is to go
from general to particular that is first
information on the epoch in general and its
aesthetics, then - more concretely - on
architecture, interiors, objects of daily use,
costumes, make-up etc. Next step is the
scrupulous work on specific details of the
interior, ornaments, composing parts of costumes
and so on with the aim of performances' image
creation, solution of stage space setting,
creation of the exact atmosphere, satiation of
the environment with necessary attributes.
- Selection and use
of documents with consideration of the genre of
the theatre performance on the basis of general
concept of performance image, with consideration
of creative specifics of the staging group as a
whale and the creative individuality of every
artist.
- Use of documents
revealing epoch, selected with consideration of
specific demands of the performance-makers:
- Staging
artist
- Costume
artist
- Artist-technologist
- Producer
- Actor
- Up to this point we
have dealt with using necessary information from
books, albums, collections etc. In addition the
library has the archive of different photographed
performances in which our documents have been
used. This archive is used by theatre specialists
for work on reconstruction of old performances,
artistic images, performance stage space
settings, description of plastic movement. In
some cases the same material is studied again and
again by the next generations of theatre artists
for original solutions of artistic images of
performances.
- All documents, used
for work on a performance are taken note of in
bibliographic lists in accordance with the
performance's title, in topical individual
scenographic card indexes, in classed and
factography catalogues. As an example we suggest
a scheme of the classed factography catalogue
titled Costume, and the bibliographic list
Peter the Great.
18th Congress
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