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Lecture Series “The Long Shadow of Early Modernism: Fuller, Diaghilev, Graham” Successfully Concluded

• 26 сентября, 2025
  
  

  From September 22 to 26, 2025, QyzPU hosted an international educational project under the auspices of the Qazaq Ballet Creative Lab (QB CL) — a lecture series titled “The Long Shadow of Early Modernism: Fuller, Diaghilev, Graham.”

  The main speaker of the project was Linda Kvitkina, a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford, and a researcher in dance, corporeal culture, and cultural policy. The event was organized in collaboration with the Department of Choreography and Arts Management at the Kazakh National Women's Teacher Training University.

  Kvitkina has been studying cultural policy and corporeality since 2013. She has spoken at academic venues in Armenia, the UK, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Japan, and has conducted lectures and workshops on contemporary dance, gender, and the history of performance.

  The lecture series consisted of three thematic blocks:

  • “Loïe Fuller: Costume and Technology for Stage Dance” – focused on Fuller’s innovations, her influence on Art Deco aesthetics, and the stage costume as an independent expressive tool.
  • “Scandalizing the Audience: Diaghilev’s Russian Seasons” – explored revolutionary approaches to early 20th-century choreography and the works of Mikhail Fokine, Vaslav and Bronislava Nijinsky, Léonide Massine, and George Balanchine.
  • “Movement Never Lies: Martha Graham’s Technique” – examined the role of the body in conveying emotion through dance and the dramaturgy of movement in Martha Graham’s system.

  The lectures attracted students, faculty, and independent researchers interested in the development of contemporary choreographic art. Participants expanded their knowledge and engaged in discussions on current perspectives in modern dance.

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