title: The “Ballet within a Ballet”: The Creative Searches of Contemporary Choreographers
abstract: By the example of ballet performances of the recent decade: Ilya Demutsky’s “A Hero of Our Time” at the Bolshoi Theater of Russia (Yuri Posokhov, choreographer; Kirill Serebrennikov, producer and scenographer, 2015) and Sergei Prokofiev’s “Cinderella” produced by Alexei Miroshnichenko (the Perm Theater of Opera and Ballet) examination is made of the problematic aspects of the use of the stage technique of “ballet within a ballet,” as well as their artistic motivation within the framework of the 
journal: Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal noj Nauki