Srbui Stepanovna Lissizian

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Srbui Stepanowna Lissizian ( Russian Србуи Степановна Лисициан , Armenian Սրբուհի Լիսիցյան ; born June 27, 1893 in Tbilisi , Russian Empire ; died 1979 in Yerevan , Soviet Union ) was an Armenian-Soviet ethnographer. She gained fame with an original mathematical method of cinetography , with which folk dances can be precisely described.

childhood and education

Srbui Lissizian's father Stepan Danilowitsch Lissizian was a famous ethnographer and historian and also a public figure. Srbui Lissizian received a musical education at the Tbilisi Music School. From 1911 she lived in Moscow, where she attended historical and philological higher courses for women ( Guerrier courses ) until 1917 . At the same time, from 1915 to 1917, she attended a dance studio under the direction of Inna Samoilovna Chernetskaya and the “Lebendiges Wort” studio under the direction of Olga Erastovna Osarowskaya. She also learned several languages.

dance

In 1917 Srbui Lissizian returned to Tbilisi, where she organized a recitation and dance studio. The studio was continued in 1920 (or 1923) as the "Institute for Rhythm and Dance" of the People's Commissariat for Education of the Georgian Soviet Republic . Her husband Levon Jakowlewitsch Asarapetian, who graduated from the Munich Art Academy , became the institute's artistic director. Srbui Lissizian toured the cities of Transcaucasia with her students.

In February 1924 she was invited to Moscow on a tour. On March 3, 1924 a performance took place on the stage of the Chekhov Art Theater , on March 12 in the Russian Art Academy ; followed by an appearance at the Russian Academy of Theater Arts and one in the pillared hall of the House of Trade Unions . There were a total of eleven gigs in just one month. The screenings were highly valued by, among others, the influential dramaturge and theater director Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko and the People's Commissar for Education of the Russian Soviet Republic Anatoly Wassiljewitsch Lunacharsky .

From 1926 to 1929 Lissizian toured with her students l. Kasparjan, Niseli Lissizian, D. Ter-Sarkisjan and E. Alibegowo through German cities, including Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main, Düsseldorf and Berlin. In Berlin, she taught students in the Soviet embassy and the agitprop troop "The Red Shirts".

In 1930, Lissizian founded the Yerevan School of Choreography, of which she remained director until 1938. Among her students were her younger sister Naseli Stepanowna Lissizian and her cousin Maria Wartanowna Lissizian.

research

From 1932 to 1935 she conducted research at the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the People's Commissariat for Education of the Armenian Soviet Republic . Since 1923, Lissizian took part in expeditions to collect folklore and record folk dances.

From 1942 to 1959 she worked in the fields of theory and art history at the Academy of Science of the Armenian Soviet Republic and at the same time taught at the Yerevan Institute for Art and Dance; from 1945 as Associate Professor. From 1959 to 1979, Lissizian was a senior researcher at the Institute for Archeology and Ethnography of the Science Academy of the Armenian Soviet Republic.

In 1936 she wrote the ballet “Narine” together with the composer Sargis Barchudarjan .

In 1961 she obtained the academic title of Doctor of History.

family

Srbui Lissizian was married and had one son. Her husband Lewon Asarapetian stayed in Berlin after their tour of Germany in 1926. Her twenty-year-old son Roland Asarapetian was arrested and shot in the 1940s. In his diary he had written « Мы так много аплодируем Сталину, что у нас скоро будут мозоли на рука. »(German:“ We applaud Stalin so much that we will soon have corns on our hands. ”) Srbui Lissizian fell out of favor because of her son. The first volume of her book “Old Dances and Theater Performances of the Armenian People” did not appear until after Stalin's death.

Works

  • Sapis dvischenija (Kinetografija) . Iskusstwo, Moscow 1940 ( rsl.ru - Russian: Запись движения (кинетография) .).
  • Srbui Stepanovna Lissizian: Starinnye pljaski i teatralnye predstavlenija armjanskogo naroda Vvedenie w isutschenie starinnych pljasok i teatralnych predstavlennij armjanskogo naroda . Akademija nauk Armjanskoi SSR, 1958 (Russian: Старинные пляски и театральные представления армянского народа: Введение в изучение старинных плясок и театральных представленний армянского народа .).
  • Armjanskye starinnye pljaski . AN Armjanskoi SSR, 1983 (Russian: Армянские старинные пляски .).

Honors

Honor roll for Srbui Lissizian in Yerevan
  • Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union - awarded on June 9, 1973 for services in the field of Soviet ethnography and art history and for long-term educational work
  • Honored Scientist of the Armenian Soviet Republic - awarded in 1964
  • In 1980 the Armenian Institute of Archeology and Ethnology was named after her and her father.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, Joy Dorothy Harvey: The biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century . Routledge, New York 2000, ISBN 0-415-92040-X (English).
  2. ↑ a b c Lissizian Srbui Stepanovna. Russian Лисициан Србуи Степановна . In: Enziklopedija fonda "Chaiasg" Russian Энциклопедия фонда "Хайазг" . Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Irina Vadimowna Sirotkina: Institut ritma i plastiki Srbui Lissizian. Swobodnoe dvischenie i plastitscheskij tanets w Rossii. Russian Институт ритма и пластики Србуи Лисициан. Свободное движение и пластический танец в России . In: design.wikireading.ru. Retrieved November 23, 2017 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Lissizian, Srbui Stepanovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лисициан, Србуи Степановна; Սրբուհի Լիսիցյան; Asarapetian, Srbui Stepanovna (name after marriage)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian-Soviet ethnographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1979
Place of death Yerevan , Soviet Union