Reflections on the origins and roots of folk dance, on the relationship between folk dance and what it turns into on the professional stage.
Late evening in Krasnoyarsk, traffic.
Intercut: artists backstage preparing for a performance, spectators walking into the auditorium.
Traffic on the bridge across the Yenisei.
Boats on the bank against the backdrop of the bridge.
Ensemble members on the platform waiting for the train.
Saying goodbye to those seeing them off, boarding the carriages.
The ensemble leader looks out the window.
Intercut: views from the train window, fragments of rehearsals and performances. M.S. Godenko narrates.
People boarding a bus.
Traffic around the city.
A bus passes the entrance to the hotel. L.V. Korkina-Movchan narrates.
A forest on a mountainside.
A mountain stream.
People gathering in a clearing.
Intercut: natural landscapes, folk dances. A.M. Mekhnetsov narrates.
People dancing in a clearing.
Intercut: artists at a rehearsal, an interview with M.S. Godenko.
Boats in the ice.
Artists warm their hands by the lamps. M.S. Godenko commands the rehearsal.
Artists in the classroom.
Temperature on the street board.
Artists dance.
Godenko M.S. - Soviet ballet dancer
choreographer
choreographer
People's Artist of the USSR
Hero of Socialist Labor
Honored Artist of the RSFSR
Honorary Citizen of Krasnoyarsk. Mekhnetsov A.M. -- ethnographer-musicologist
Candidate of Art History
public figure
scientific director and participant of folklore expeditions
teacher
Professor of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory
Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Korkina-Movchan L.V. -- People's Artist of the RSFSR
soloist of the Krasnoyarsk Academic Dance Ensemble of Siberia
soloist of the State Academic Dance Theatre Gzhel.
Krasnoyarsk Moscow
Autumn Winter
Fragment of an ensemble rehearsal.
View of the road from the park, snow falling.
An artist practicing jumps. M.S. Godenko narrates.
Girls in front of mirrors.
Alternation: spectators fill the hall, artists backstage.
Fragment of a performance.
Foreigners share their impressions of the program.
Alternation: old drawings, interview with A.M. Mekhnetsov.
Rehearsal in costumes.
View of St.
Basil's Cathedral from the bus window.
Artists' faces.
View of the sunset from the train window, an oncoming freight train. M.S. Godenko narrates.
A rig with spotlights is lowered.
A girl sorts through costumes.
Inspection and discussion of costumes. M.S. Godenko.
Artists enter the classroom.
Godenko M.S. Mekhnetsov A.M.
Krasnoyarsk Moscow
Winter
Airplane engine (view from the window).
Icebreaker (aerial shot).
Dog sled. 67th parallel sign.
Streets of Vorkuta.
Audience applause.
Artists backstage.
Fragment of the performance.
Audience applause.
Congratulations to M.S. Godenko.
The audience greets the artists standing.
A cake is brought out onto the stage.
Congratulations to the birthday boy.
The curtain closes.
Stage hands carry a hanger with costumes. M.S. Godenko comes out onto the stage.
Ensemble rehearsal.
Soldiers marching.
Recording of a rehearsal for a TV program.
Buses on the streets of St.
Petersburg.
St.
Isaac's Cathedral.
Artists in buses.
Movement along the city streets. M.S. Godenko narrates.
Alternation: fragments of the ensemble's performances, teenagers on the streets.
Tree branches in the wind.
A tractor drives along the edge of a field.
Children's faces.
Dancing in the meadow.
Rider on a horse.
Street dancing.
Motorcyclist on the road.
Teenagers performing acrobatic numbers.
View from the train window.
Ensemble artist at the window.
Godenko M.S.
Krasnoyarsk Krasnoyarsk Krai St. Petersburg Komi Republic
Autumn Winter