The ballet directed by Kirill Serebrennikov "Nureyev" was removed from the poster of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater, said the director of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin, he is quoted by Interfax.
Urin explained the removal of the ballet from the repertoire by the LGBT "propaganda" law.
“The performance “Nureyev” was removed from the repertoire in connection with the signed law, <…> where issues related to the promotion of non-traditional values are absolutely unequivocally discussed.”
According to him, the decision was made as soon as the law was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The production was dedicated to the famous Soviet dancer and ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, who left the USSR in 1961. The premiere took place on December 17, 2017.
In June 2020, Serebrennikov was sentenced to three years of probation in the Seventh Studio case. According to investigators, the defendants in the case (including Serebrennikov) stole 128 million rubles from the budget allocated for the Platform project. Serebrennikov has headed the Gogol Moscow Drama Theater since 2012, and it was on its basis that the director created the Gogol Center. In March 2022, the autonomous non-profit organization "Seventh Studio" created by Serebrennikov on the basis of the Moscow Art Theater School was liquidated, and on March 28, 2022, the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow granted the defense's petition and canceled Serebrennikov's probation, removing his conviction under the article on fraud in a particularly large size, and the director left Russia. The director opposes the war in Ukraine and has repeatedly condemned the Russian invasion in interviews and on his social media pages. In November 2022, for the first time in 18 years, Serebrennikov's name was removed from the program of the play "The Forest" at the Moscow Art Theater, as well as from the page on the theater's website. The director was simply called "Director", Serebrennikov himself expressed the hope that the name of the official who did this would someday be known.
Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the names of cultural figures who opposed the war have been removed from the playbills of performances. This happened, for example, with Dmitry Krymov and Boris Akunin.
