Revazov German Georgievich Biography

Contacts Life without pointe how much is such a glory? And is it really talking about all the delights of ballet - just a prism that hides a cruel world, which is capable of only a strong personality? If this is the case, then Revazov has already survived, it is worth it and will rise for a long time over this "elite" world. At least, this weight of zero gravity is very much to him.

How to a ballet dancer or a photographer? Jan Revazov: I believe that I can contact me both as a dancer and as a photographer. For many years I worked and performed on different scenes of the world even such as the Bolshoi Theater and the Paris Grand Opera.

I have been engaged in photography since childhood, I myself showed and printed. It seemed to me that this was a little miracle. Later, the ballet became my profession, and photography became a hobby and rest. But after I finished dancing, I work as a photographer. And I am very glad that I found a profession, which I love just like the work of a dancer. I specialize in stage photography, because I worked a lot in the theater.

I try to see and convey the essence of the performance in one photo. Sometimes it is very difficult. On the father you are the carrier of the Caucasian, namely Ossetian, culture. Who were, where did your parents live and what? Jan Revazov: My parents were not, but there is, thank God! Dad in education and profession is a lawyer, mother-mathematician, worked at the Central Design Bureau of defense significance by a leading engineer-programmer.

Dad was born and raised in a large family of a small mountain village of North Ossetia. His father was a disabled war of war, and his mother died when he studied in first grade. The family lived very poorly. So poor that there was not enough money for even one pair of shoes for each of the children. Dad told how the oldest of the brothers, the teenager himself, manually sewed sandals for his younger as a gypsy needle.

And in this small village, dad graduated from school, and then went to Odessa to enter a higher educational institution. Mom was born in Estonia. Among her closest ancestors there are Estonians, Germans and Ukrainians. She grew up the only child in the family of a school teacher of mathematics, without a father. They hid from her for a long time that her mother fell in love with a German soldier during the war and gave birth to a daughter from him.

At that time, it was impossible to talk about this to anyone - it was possible to get to the bars. Although our grandmother was a teacher of mathematics, she had an absolute musical hearing, played the violin and piano perfectly, and also wrote wonderful verses. After school, my mother also went to go to a university in Odessa. There, my parents met in their student years and fell in love with each other.

And the result of their love was five brothers. Jan Revazov: Actually, my parents themselves were not related to art. They simply introduced all our children to the dancing, and we already chose our own path: we were fond of swimming, and acrobatics, and a photo -eater, we were engaged in mathematics at the Small Academy of Sciences. My idol was the older brother Alan, who danced in the children's team the best, and then entered the Vaganov school in Leningrad.

When I was 16 years old, I decided to enter the ballet school in Moscow. Our teacher was Boris Georgievich Rakhmanin. That is, he simply was not there. But after what Nuriev did when he erected a “male dance” into a certain cult, he began to compete with the female ballet in his expressiveness. Jan Revazov: Ballet as a form of art for the highest court nobility originated in France thanks to the King of Louis XIV, and the main role in it was assigned to the king.

In general, in a classic ballet, the role of the dancer is to present the beauty of a woman as best as possible. But the real revolution in the ballet was committed by the Russian dancer V. Nizhinsky, who was the first to change the male dance, turning it into the embodiment of strength, virtuosity of movements and sensuality. It was he who changed the ballet traditions and the entire ballet school, raising the Russian ballet to an unattainable height.

And later the famous Nuriev, with his art, raised the men's dance in the ballet even higher. My favorite role is the main party in the ballet "Nizhinsky". To depict a brilliant dancer with innovative thinking, unique physical capabilities and a severe mental illness is unusually difficult not only physically, but also psychologically. But it was this that attracted me as an artist.

Jan Revazov: Immediately after the end of the choreographic school, I went to Paris. There, in the famous “Moulin Rouge”, my elder brother Alan, from whom I could stop to get into the “Young Ballet of France”, was a soloist. In this troupe, my life began in Paris. I worked in different European countries, but I chose Germany. Jan Revazov: Here, even in small cities, there are opera theaters that are on the content of the state.

Thanks to this, art can develop regardless of its financial profitability. They do not try to flirt with the public, but raise it to the level of their art. And as a result, the viewer here, being more prepared, all the time seeks to know the new in art.Here they do not like to get hung up on one thing, on the same performances. In some small town for a new performance, they can come off from all over the country.

In general, Germany is not striking in school, but by cultural education. And to develop as an artist, I am most interesting to me here. With the exception of the reverent storage of ballet traditions and certain innovations in the dance. Jan Revazov: I can answer this question with the words of M. Baryshnikov that only two ballet schools exist in the world: good and bad.

Jan Revazov: Getting on the pointe, the ballerina personifies soaring and weightlessness, she, as it were, does not concern the floor, and the man even in the dance should remain a man, embodying strength and elegance. In modern ballet, these ideas have changed. Does it leave time for a ballet class? Jan Revazov: The dancer's ballet life is very short. He, like a professional athlete, is constantly persecuted by various injuries.

In connection with my back injury, I had to be on sick leave for two long years, I could not even walk normally. All experts claimed that from now on I am disabled, and this should be put up with. And the fact that after such an injury and such a long break I returned to the stage is considered the only case in Germany. In fact, it is very difficult to feel that you cannot realize yourself in art.

As a rule, dancers in such a situation psychologically break and fall into depression. The only thing that helped me distract from physical pain and avoid depression is a return to creativity, but already in the role of a photographer. Jan Revazov: Undoubtedly. Jan Revazov: One hour a day is enough for the machine, but the dancer’s work does not end there, this is only the beginning of his daily work on himself, the body and soul.

Indeed, in essence, the dance is for the dancer and his religion and his nationality. Why was the idea just like that? Jan Revazov: This is only the first part of my great project on the art of dance and its backstage. Dance is always something deeply intimate, and the dancer, going on stage, publicly exposes his soul. And there is an internal contradiction that does not give him rest.

Various physical injuries and diseases caused by multiple overloads, both physical and spiritual, are layered on this background. And I am interested in using the photograph to convey to the viewer all the contradictions of the inner world of the dancer. How do you achieve such results? Do you play sports, in addition to ballet? Jan Revazov: Dancers are working on their bodies, like sculptors on their creations.

A series of photographs in which I show naked dancers is called Bronze Dance. In it, dancers appear to be bronze statues with ideal forms. And at the same time, unlike monumental bronze, they are sensual and graceful. This series of works brought me the title of Laureate of the International PhotoGraphy Awards. Jan Revazov: As an artist of ballet, I always dreamed of gathering on the same stage in the same performance with all my brothers.

Our fate has developed so that so far it was impossible. But this year everything should change. My dream should come true, and at the end of the year we will make a performance for four brothers. And as a photographer, I am preparing my first book and I hope that she will soon go to print. Feb 7,