Moscow music hall

Solo artists were performing one by one, showing different acts: tap-dancing, juggling, putting a chicken or even a crocodile to sleep and even using oranges and soft toys instead of musical instruments.

There were such famous people as Ilf, Petrov, Mayakovsky, Demyan Bedny among many other authors who were writing for Music Hall.

This is some kind of variety physical education.» Choreographer Goleizovskyi strived to create a real “music hall” dance where women perform gracious and perfectly synchronous movements.

His choreography was based not only on elements of free calisthenics and physical education but on choreographic compositions and was incredibly elegant.

In the year of 1934 new performance named "Under the circus dome" was staged in the theater (Ilf and Petrov and Valentin Kataev).

This performance managed to save the theater in the history of Soviet art, because Grigori Aleksandrov filmed "Circus" – movie based on its storyline.

If the previous version of Moscow music hall was trying to work with singers and poets, the new theater started to place an emphasis on the intercommunion between dances and entertainers.

Such changes were only possible because of Lev Mirov and Alexander Konnikov who invited "Raduga" (Rainbow) dance troupe and other popular artists in order to restore music hall in 1960.

The strangest fact was that it wasn't located in Moscow, but on the waterfront in Yalta,[2] where Yuri Gagarin visited it one day.

The unique style of the theater was clear and obvious: Music hall was working only with such variety artists as Joseph Kobzon, Alexander Malinin and Dmitry Malikov.

Only thanks to Pavel Ravinsky and constant support of Joseph Kobzon, Moscow Music Hall became a state theater.

Ravinsky becomes art director and the newborn state theater starts the road tour all around Russia with its new "Voyage of dream" and "Spectacular review" programs.

New versions of "Voyage of dream" and "Spectacular review" programs are created under control of chief choreographer Vladislav Lyushnin.