Աշոտ Ասատուրեան (1937-1999) (Ստեղծագործական Դիմանկար)
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2010
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Outstanding choreographer Ashot Asaturyan is definitely one of those whose works can be termed "not for everyone".
Asaturyan was born in Tbilisi in 1937. As a choreographer, he received the best education of his time. He studies in the class of the prominent dancer and choreographer Vakhtang Chabukiani at the Tbilisi Dance School. In 1962 he attended the newly inaugurated Choreography Department of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Conservatory, where his teacher was Fyodor Lopukhov, groundbreaker in Soviet choreography. Under his tutorship, Asaturyan acquired in-depth knowledge of choreography, theory of music and fine arts. He had a good knowledge of classical literature, philosophy and theosophy. After graduating from the Conservatory, Asaturyan became the main choreographer at the Spendiarian Opera and Ballet Theater in Yerevan between 1973 and 1990 and the principal choreographer of Lysenko Opera and Ballet Theater in Kharkiv, Ukraine, between 1991 and 1997.
A prolific choreographer, Ashot Asaturyan staged as many as twenty-two ballets in St. Petersburg, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, Yerevan, Tbilisi, Chelyabinsk, Kharkiv, Baku. He co-produced numerous operas and dramas, reproduced a number of the classics of the dance on the stages of Saratov and Kharkiv and created numerous choreographic scenes. He is also the author of dozens of librettos, which have not been staged.
Due to his profound knowledge of music, Asaturyan created ballets of "visible" musical intonation and form. He was also a talented artist and was costume designer for many of his productions. He had a perfect sense of light and color and wisely mixed them into his own "light dramaturgy". Asaturyan's ballets are peculiar examples of a philosophical paraphrase with multiple meanings, with some of them, particularly, Stravinsky's "Orpheus" and Rakhmaninov's "Symphonic Dances" presenting autobiographic reflections on his thorny life.
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Սարգսեան, Ն., «Աշոտ Ասատուրեան (1937-1999) (Ստեղծագործական Դիմանկար)», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2010, Պէյրութ, էջ 625-640