The miniature stage of the Bolshoi Theater is covered with “The Tempest”. The world premiere of the ballet based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name came much sooner than the curtain rose.
In the studio of an artist who conveys metal metaphors.
Alexey Kondratyev, chief artist of the Lenkom Theater, said: “The main surprise in the theater is some new aesthetic features, a new aesthetic. If you can surprise the viewer with what he sees after the curtain opens, then that is already good, it means that he will search and find some new truth in his work.”
The exhibition “Results of Season 62” opened in the creative space of New Manege, where the secrets of the stage were revealed to the audience. Moscow artists present their work and reveal the entire creative process: from initial sketches to models or costumes. By the way, these outfits of Olga Bekritskaya defy the elements.
Artists from Moscow theaters work throughout Russia. Therefore, the geography of the projects is from Ryazan to Novosibirsk. This grandiose show is staged on the Pskov pond.
“The costumes were specially made with large skirts so that the inflatable raft on which the artists floated could not be seen. It was as if our performers were walking on water,” said Vyacheslav Ignatov, artistic director of the Trickster theater.
By the way, the exhibition space itself seems to imitate the behind-the-scenes mechanism, all the exhibits are like decorations on trusses and bars. And visitors seem to find themselves in 250 performances at once.
“A theater artist is interesting because he always tries to do things a little contrary, not the way it has always been. Not the way it is usually done. Because this is a theater artist's way of expressing himself – making a statement, as if letting it enter his visual perception,” noted Inna Mirzoyan, curator of the exhibition.
At the same time, the exhibition allows you to look at projects of various types of theaters – from the main stages of the country to private, studio and home theater projects. This story tells how the karst sea overflowed near Moscow. Installation work telling the play “Sea of Time” for GES-2 Cultural Center.
“Our main character is a grandmother who is very much looking forward to her granddaughter for the New Year, but she, as always, does not have time. And then the grandmother wishes with all her heart that she will have such a time as we all wish. And then absolutely wonderful things begin,” says Alena Smirnitskaya.
The exhibition allows you to immerse yourself in a theatrical world that is not always visible from the hall, but in which the audience is immersed and believes unconditionally.
