Article Title：DANCING UNDER INSTRUCTION: CREATING SOVIET MASS DANCE IN THE 1920s
Abstract：
In his book on the history of creating self-made art in the USSR, Igor Narskiy describes a paradox: selfmade art managed from the top, creativity under instruction, controlled independent art. In the article, the author discusses how, in the mid-1920s, the Soviet state attempted to introduce control over what traditionally was understood as the most direct, spontaneous and free, the Dionysian, kind of dance (in Russian, plyaska). In some respect, free dance yielded to pressure, although it resisted in other aspects. The author examines the 1920s as the period preceding the frames of Igor Narskiy's research. In the period, the political control over art was not yet total, and it produced some very grotesque institutional forms like the governmental department of mass plyaska. This directly af- fected the so-called salon or social dances, including tango and foxtrot. They were labeled bourgeois and forbidden at public dancehalls. In the 1920s, tango, foxtrot and other jazz dances were replaced by the mass plyaska and physical culture dance. The author looks at the individuals who were involved in the process, to understand whether they suffered or strived working within the Soviet system.
Keywords: mass dance (plyaska); physical culture dance; mass dance instructor; the Soviet self-made art; foxtrot
DOI: 10.17072/2219-3111-2019-1-153-164
Source：VESTNIK PERMSKOGO UNIVERSITETA-ISTORIYA-PERM UNIVERSITY HERALD-HISTORY
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