Feor stood up for Navka's dance on the theme of the Holocaust. Navka’s dance about the Holocaust caused hysteria on social networks and the media Daily Mail “replaced” Navka with Totmyanina

Never before show glacial period"did not receive as much press and such heated discussion on the Internet as after the number of Tatiana Navka and Andrei Burkovsky. The skaters performed it on Saturday, November 26, in an episode dedicated to world cinema.

Photo: fragment of the Channel One show “Ice Age”

From all the variety of cinema, the dancing couple chose the Oscar-winning film by Italian director Roberto Benigni, “Life is Beautiful,” the existence of which the mass Russian television viewer might not have even suspected until last Saturday. The film, which tells about the Holocaust, was shot in a comedic manner - despite the horrors of their lives, its characters laugh and clownish, trying to convince their child that the concentration camp is just a game. Such a rare approach to covering tragic historical events Only a comedian with a jeweler's flair and a sense of proportion could afford it. Having told the same story through an ice show, the skaters received not only positive reviews, but also accusations of mocking the victims of the Holocaust.

The bad press began, as usual, from the West - an article about skiing on the English Daily Mail was published on the website of the English Daily Mail. thin ice wife of Vladimir Putin's press secretary. Although the performers are dressed in striped camp uniforms with Stars of David sewn on them, their beaming smiles have little in common with such tragic theme, complains Daily mail. The Internet did not remain aloof from the controversial issue of “Ice Age” - now in the Russian blogosphere you can find the whole gamut of ratings from “this is disgusting” to “Bravo, Tanechka!” By the way, the figure skater’s husband, Dmitry Peskov, has already stated that he is proud of his wife. Tatyana Navka herself was surprised by the reaction of Western media. In her opinion, it turned out to be one of bright numbers"Ice Age", made with pure and good intentions.

The head coach and producer of the Ice Age show, Ilya Averbukh, who came up with this number, felt that the press was too biased because of Tatyana Navka. In his opinion, any other figure skater would not have attracted so much attention to her performance. So, in the previous program of the ice show there was a number by Ekaterina Barnabas, touching on the topic of the Armenian genocide, which no one paid attention to. Averbukh also recalled that no one attacked Yulia Lipnitskaya, who performed a program under musical theme from the film "Schindler's List", also dedicated to the theme of the Holocaust. True, Yulia Lipnitskaya’s costume did not contain such direct associations with the concentration camp; the skater used only a musical theme.

The question is how ready our public is to see ice show skaters of people in the uniform of prisoners of Auschwitz, a representative of the Jewish community has already commented. The Chief Rabbi of Moscow, Chairman of the Council of Rabbis of Europe, Head of the Rabbinical Court in the CIS and Baltic countries Pinchas Goldschmidt recalled that the Holocaust and everything connected with it is too big a wound. In his opinion, in such cases, in order not to touch a nerve, you need to consult. At the same time, the rabbi did not doubt good intentions performers of this dance.

The dance was based on the Oscar-winning film “Life is Beautiful” by Roberto Benigni, which tells about the life of an Italian Jew, a prisoner of Auschwitz.

Photo: DR

Tatyana Navka's recent performance in the Ice Age program caused huge wave discussions. It’s not about the skater’s impeccable technique or difficult jumps, but about the theme of the performance: Navka and Andrei Burkovsky’s performance was dedicated to the Holocaust. Dressed in striped robes with Stars of David on their chests, they portrayed Auschwitz prisoners dancing on ice. Many considered this performance frivolous, and the smiles on the faces of the skaters and their gaiety were journalists and public figures was considered almost an outrage against the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. The British edition of the Daily Mail dedicated an entire article to Navka, in which journalists cited user statements about the number. “Vladimir Putin should oblige Tatyana Navka to apologize for her speech”, “Have you forgotten how people suffered during the war?”, “This is disgusting, she should be ashamed” - these are just some of the comments that were collected scandalous video. The other part was concentrated on the figure skater’s Instagram: Tatyana posted photos from the performance, noting that it had become one of her favorites, and advising everyone to show it to their children. “Creatures, dance and have fun in the costumes of concentration camp prisoners, you will be responsible for this, cow,” they immediately wrote to her under the photo. “You hit the ice and hit your head?!” The Holocaust is not a topic that can be used for entertainment,” wrote subscribers. At the same time, there were those who thanked Tatyana in the comments for her performance, because she “doesn’t let people forget all this horror.” The skater herself does not see anything offensive in the number and assures that it is dedicated to Roberto Benigni’s film “Life is Beautiful.” In this film, the parents who ended up in a concentration camp assure the child that everything that is happening is a funny game. According to Tatyana, that’s why the skaters smiled while skating - it was feigned gaiety that the characters in the film had to play.

But the point here is not even in the smiles of Navka and Burkovsky: if they were gliding across the ice with mournful faces, it would hardly change the situation. The problem is as old as time - we just still can’t decide which themes can be used in popular culture, and which ones are not. There is no single standard, so everyone speaks for themselves: some are offended by figure skaters in the uniforms of Auschwitz prisoners, while others consider this an excellent opportunity to remind humanity of the terrible tragedy. What some call an outrage against values, others consider a creative act that no one has the right to prohibit, otherwise it is censorship, restriction of personal freedom and creativity, and the like. When Pussy Riot danced in the temple, many public figures fiercely defended the individual's right to dance anywhere and talk about anything, and if it hurts your feelings, then that's your problem. So Tatyana Navka danced - so it is absolutely unclear what complaints those who previously advocated creative freedom might have against her. It turns out that we can fiercely demand our own freedom, but we have not yet learned to respect someone else’s - be it freedom of thought, speech, or even ice dancing.

In the Federation Jewish communities Russia (FEOR) stood up for figure skater Tatyana Navka, who was criticized by many after she performed a dance in the show “Ice Age” on Channel One in which she portrayed a prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp
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The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR) stood up for figure skater Tatyana Navka, whom many criticized after she performed a dance in the show “Ice Age” on Channel One, in which she portrayed a prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp.

“The turn that the discussion of this issue has taken—an attempt to condemn it from ideological or moral positions—seems to me completely inappropriate, since addressing the topic of the Holocaust as such, especially with artistic comprehension“When the perpetrators associate themselves with the victims, it is worthy of all respect and gratitude,” the head of the department told the Interfax-Religion portal on November 29 public relations FEOR Borukh Gorin.

In his opinion, works like Navka’s number “compensate for the historical injustice of uprooting the memory that people were exterminated precisely because they were Jews,” and “in this sense, this number is worthy of all praise.”

Gorin called all condemning reactions to the number performed by the wife of Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov “catastrophically exaggerated.” He believes that discussion of this dance is possible only on stage, as a cultural event. “To say in 2016 whether it is worth creating various kinds of works on the topic of the Holocaust is the same as arguing whether we need wind,” Gorin added.

A day earlier, the chairman of the Council of Rabbis of Europe and the chief rabbi of Moscow, Pinchas Goldschmidt, expressed the opinion that the authors of this dance should have consulted with the relatives of prisoners of Nazi concentration camps before staging a dance related to the Holocaust.

“Many people liked it, but the dance hurt many,” he noted in a commentary to TASS. “The Holocaust and everything connected with it is too big a wound. It will not heal soon. There are almost no Jewish families in which none of the ancestors suffered if it were from Nazism, I wouldn’t wear it yellow stars, like on figure skaters’ costumes.”

"I would like to believe that the dance directors wanted to convey the will to live and best hopes concentration camp prisoners,” Goldschmidt added. - Probably, the intentions were good, but every nation has its own pain, and we must try not to touch a nerve. I wouldn’t like to see anti-Semitism here.”

Earlier, the president of the Holocaust Foundation, Alla Gerber, commenting on the angry reviews of this issue, urged not to perceive the situation so unambiguously. In her words, “The Holocaust is not only destruction, it is colossal resistance, resistance of spirit, resistance human qualities, the resistance of human dignity." "If this Holocaust dance had all of that, then I don't see anything wrong with it,” Gerber said.

The motives of the Holocaust are not for show, the Israeli Minister of Culture is sure

The number performed by Navka and her partner Andrei Burkovsky caused a very mixed reaction on social networks and the media. Many considered it inappropriate to show a Holocaust-themed number on an entertainment television show. Others objected: the Holocaust can be talked about in the language of dance, including ice dancing; it is important that the topic of the catastrophe of European Jewry is raised on Russian television, writes NEWSru Israel.

Many Western media published very critical notes about this dance. “Holocaust motives are not for parties, not for dancing and not for reality (shows),” The New York Times quotes Israeli Minister of Culture and Sports Miri Regev. “Not a single person out of the six million (Jews who died during the Holocaust) danced, and a concentration camp is not a summer camp.”

Yohanan Petrovsky-Stern, a professor of Jewish studies at Northwestern University in the United States, said that this ice dance terrified him. “For a person who knows very little, if anything, about the Holocaust, this sends a message: put on a striped robe, adorn yourself with a yellow six-pointed Star of David, buy an all-inclusive package to a concentration camp, and your life will be wonderful, - he told reporters. “I would call this a crime against basic humanity.”

At the same time, the scientist expressed the opinion that this number is in line with the “cynicism that has permeated Russian political life from top to bottom,” writes the publication, an excerpt from the article of which is published by InoPressa.

Navka herself, in the wake of the discussion of the issue about the love of prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp, explained that the terrible time about which we're talking about in the room, you need to “know and remember”. The performance, as the skater explained, is based on her favorite film “Life is Beautiful,” based on the biography of an Italian Jew, a prisoner of Auschwitz. During the performance, Navka and her partner danced in striped prison uniforms with yellow stars David.

Holocaust is the generally accepted term for the genocide of Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators from 1933 to 1945. According to rough estimates, victims of massacres and the system concentration camps About six million Jews died.

On November 26 in Russia, Channel One, as part of the “Ice Age” program, showed the performance of Tatyana Navka and Andrei Burkovsky “Beautiful” That Way"Based on the Italian film "Life is Beautiful." Navka and Burkovsky took to the ice in the uniforms of concentration camp prisoners and with yellow stars.

The number caused, to put it mildly, mixed reactions.

There are also more loyal opinions, for example, the opinion of the editor-in-chief of the N+1 website Andrei Konyaev.

About the fuss that arose around the speech of the wife of Putin’s press secretary, for example, The Huffington Post. One of the Russian commentators wrote that Navka and Burkovsky should be “sent to where such pajamas are issued.” In particular, blogger @Lndcalling said that Channel One has gone crazy. The Daily Mail says the Russian president should force the show's creators to apologize for making a mockery of the Holocaust. A note about the disgraced program and The New York Times.

A photo posted by Tatiana Navka (@tatiana_navka) on Nov 26, 2016 at 11:22am PST

Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov also responded to criticism from his wife. In a conversation with Life, he said: “I don’t think this is an issue that concerns the Kremlin. And due to my work, I am limited to comment in any way,” Peskov noted. “I’m proud of my wife, that’s all I can say.”

“Life is Beautiful” is an Italian tragicomedy, released in 1997, directed by Roberto Benigni. The film tells the story of how, during World War II, a father tries to save his son from the Nazis by convincing him that the horrors taking place are just a game.