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пластика

English translation: plastique

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Russian term or phrase:пластика
English translation:plastique
Entered by: Susan Welsh

14:25 Jun 16, 2015
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / ballet
Russian term or phrase: пластика
This is an article about ballet, written in the 1920s, referring to Isadora Duncan among others.

Классический танец в такой же мере равнодушен к воспроизведению естественного движения и выражению маленького психологического смысла, как музыка - к звукоподражанию; он так же, как и музыка, строит **автономно живой пластикой искусственных форм,** одушевленных ритмом - свой особый мир большого смысла, не душевного, а духовного....

Поражают у Гельцер ее «властительные ритмы» - верный голос ее пафоса, глубоко личные именно как голос. Вся оригинальность ее Лебедя и вся его сила именно в ритме, пронизывающем и оформляющем эту небогатую **пластику.**...

В своих работах она опиралась на образцы **древнегреческой пластики,** стремилась к органичной связи танца с музыкой.

I find online that there was something associated with Duncan called "plastic dance" https://www.facebook.com/DominionOfLight/posts/4594808774938... - but the references in English come from Russian sources.

The word "пластика" in Russian seems to have a more varied usage than the English "plastic," referring also to rhythm, as seems appropriate in some of the examples above. But I can also visualize "plastic" dance as referring to flexible body movements. Ushakov: "2. Искусство ритмических и грациозных движений человеческого тела, близкое к танцам (театр.)."

So the question is, if I use "plastic" in English, will this be meaningful to anyone who knows about ballet? Or should I use something that involves the word "rhythm"?

Thanks!
Susan Welsh
United States
Local time: 12:46
plastique
Explanation:
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/american/plastiq...
Plastique is the technique or action of making very slow movements in dancing or pantomime, like a statue in motion.

http://slovar-vocab.com/english-russian/big-new-vocab/plasti...

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It is! To me plastic is associated with plastic bags, containers and other things made of plastic.
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Natalia Potashnik
United States
Local time: 10:46
Grading comment
I think this is the best choice in my context, since the article (by Vygotsky) includes plenty of other French dance terms, which is the "lingua franca" of ballet after all.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +5plastique
Natalia Potashnik
3plastic
Vitaly Ashkinazi
3dynamism (here)
Rachel Douglas


Discussion entries: 7





  

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plastic


Explanation:
4th Int'l Ballet Festival Mariinsky - Ballet.co.uk
www.ballet.co.uk/.../ba_rev_kirov_0304.htm
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20 марта 2004 г. - The Company performed 3 ballets: Steptext, The Vertiginous Thrill of ..... noiseless and precise endings, nuanced and plastic movements, very ...

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The Moscow State Musical Theater of Plastic Ballet New ...
en.travel2moscow.com › Where › Visit
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The creative direction of the theater is unique: it combined pantomime, classical and modern ballet, expressive stage movement, free plastic improvisation and ...

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It's Russian, though...

Vitaly Ashkinazi
Russian Federation
Local time: 19:46
Native speaker of: Russian
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +5
plastique


Explanation:
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/american/plastiq...
Plastique is the technique or action of making very slow movements in dancing or pantomime, like a statue in motion.

http://slovar-vocab.com/english-russian/big-new-vocab/plasti...

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Note added at 30 mins (2015-06-16 14:56:30 GMT)
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It is! To me plastic is associated with plastic bags, containers and other things made of plastic.

Natalia Potashnik
United States
Local time: 10:46
Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
I think this is the best choice in my context, since the article (by Vygotsky) includes plenty of other French dance terms, which is the "lingua franca" of ballet after all.
Notes to answerer
Asker: Ah-ha! Thank you. (I thought plastique was an explosive... Isn't language wonderful?!)


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Oleg Lozinskiy
20 mins
  -> thank you
neutral  The Misha: Plastique is indeed plastic explosive, such as Semtex or C-4. There's also a comics character by that name. Neither of which has anything to do with ballet or dancing in general. It's a textbook case of how things are said differently in dif. languages.
48 mins
agree  Valeri Kouznetsov
59 mins
agree  Tatiana Grehan: Apparently, there are even expressions "Duncan plastiques" and "Duncan's “plastique grace” "
1 hr
agree  cyhul
11 hrs
agree  Vitals
23 hrs
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
dynamism (here)


Explanation:
See my comment in the discussion field. I'd be all for "plasticity," per several earlier KudoZ queries, but this context might demand something different:

"Like music, it creates a special world of profound meaning, ... , through its own vital dynamism of artistic form." (Leaving it to you to sort out душевный/духовный.)

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Correction: Sorry, Susan I was pretty fogged out when I wrote that. Maybe dynamism will still work, but I mistakenly introduced "artistic," while omitting "одушевленных ритмом". As for "автономно", that seemed unnecessary to translate, but I might be wrong about that. (Anyway, that goes beyond the scope of your query about "пластика". Second try:

"Like music, it forges its own special world of profound meaning, ... , through the vital dynamism of the rhythmically animated forms it creates."

Or, "Like music, it creates its own special world of profound meaning, ... through the vital dynamism of its rhythmically animated artificial forms."

Rachel Douglas
United States
Local time: 12:46
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 64
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