Janus Films is presenting a theatrical release of the Russian science-fiction epic, Stalker. One of the most immersive and rarefied experiences in the history of cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky’s film embarks on an enigmatic journey through a post-apocalyptic landscape. Stalker will be screening for a limited time at Film Society of Lincoln Center, from May 5th until May 11th. This new restoration is in Russian…
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Please join us for a talk with Maria Ratanova, art historian, dance historian, literary scholar, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Harriman Institute. Professor Lynn Garafola will introduce the talk. In her talk Maria Ratanova will trace the fate and transformations of the legendary Russian 19th century ballet Sleeping Beauty, and discuss its controversial reconstruction in the St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre in 1999.…
Please join us for a talk with Sara Lorenzini, Associate Professor of International History at the School of International Studies, University of Trento, Italy. This talk will deal with the political economy of East-South relations in the 1960s and 1970s, devoting special attention to the predicament of the Socialist countries with the concept of the Third World. Dr. Lorenzini argues…
On May 1, 2017, please join the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU for a seminar, “Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange,” featuring CBA Fellow and musicologist Anne Searcy. Searcy will discuss the Bolshoi Ballet’s first-ever tour of the United States in 1959, in anticipation of the…