What exhibitions and theatrical premieres to visit, and what to study online, what to read and listen to - all this is in our November selection of cultural events in the capital. Surrealistic compositions of human figures at the Rob Woodcox exhibition, the main exposition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Higher Artistic and Technical Workshops, smart premieres of the OKKO Theater of Ivan Vyrypaev, the Polytech's public program and a dozen other bright events of the last month of autumn.
WHERE TO GO?
Exhibition “Rob Woodcox. Natural connections”at the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography
This is Rob Woodcox's first exhibition in Moscow. In his photographs, Woodcox creates surreal compositions from human figures, organically fitting them into the surrounding landscapes. Rob Woodcox is inspired by the cultures of different countries, finds beauty in geometric architecture and natural landscapes. The exhibition will feature the brightest works of the author from different series and periods of creativity. All of them are united by one theme - the nature of movement and human corporeality. The exhibition will also include a new series of works created during the 2020 pandemic. The author works with dancers to create striking images and compositions using photography, using human bodies frozen in motion as ideal geometry. Rob Woodcox's works have been exhibited in galleries in the USA, England, France, Austria, Serbia and published in major publications - Vogue, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Huffington Post, Playboy, Vice, Daily Mail. The young photographer has already collaborated with a number of international companies such as Universal Pictures, Capitol Records, Flickr, Sotheby's Museum Network and others. In 2020, the first photographic book with the work of Woodcox "Bodies Of Light" was published, which covers more than 10 years of the author's work.
When: October 30, 2020 - January 24, 2021
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"VKHUTEMAS 100. School of the avant-garde" at the Museum of Moscow
Exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Higher Artistic and Technical Workshops - the main creative institution of the country, which determined the path of architectural and design education in Russia in the XX century. This is perhaps the most important exhibition of the Museum of Moscow of the outgoing year and the first project in which production and art departments are shown on such a scale, reflecting the experiments of the avant-garde era. Among the subjects of the exhibition are painting, graphics, sculpture, architectural projects, models, industrial and graphic design, porcelain, textiles, furniture created by students of VKHUTEMAS. The works are taken from the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A. S. Pushkin, State Historical Museum, State Museum of Architecture named after A. V. Shchusev and other institutions. The center of the exposition will be the "Flying City" by Georgy Krutikov, soaring in outer space. Visitors to the exhibition will also see the concept of a city fully programmable by algorithms, dissolving in nature, a sanatorium, find out where a whole block was implemented in Moscow according to the project of a student of VKHUTEMAS, and much more.
Leading researchers of the legacy of the Soviet avant-garde, art historians, and architectural historians have been invited to participate in the creation of the exhibition. Scientific consultant of the exhibition - L. I. Ivanova-Veen, director of the Moscow Architectural Institute, curator - Alexandra Selivanova. Among the curators of the sections of the exhibition are the architect and teacher Anna Bokova, designer and publisher Rustam Gabbasov, art critics Ksenia Guseva, Maria Silina, Nadya Plungyan and others.
When: November 10, 2020 - February 7, 2021
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Spectators of the two capitals will see the musical Don Juan. The Untold Story"
Screenings of the musical “Don Juan. The Untold Story”will be held in November in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Popular artists and musical stars are involved in the production - Ivan Ozhogin (Don Juan), Alika Smekhova and Anastasia Makeeva (Pilar), Oscar Kuchera (Performer), Dmitry Yankovsky (tavern owner), Maria Gevorgyan (Consuela) and others. The play is based on the play The Last Woman of Senor Juan, written by the classic of Soviet literature Leonid Zhukhovitsky. The viewer sees the main character tired of fame and eternal persecution. Literally every character wants something from Don Juan: be it revenge, a good fight, or his 5 minutes of fame. In an attempt to hide from people, he comes to a remote village on the seashore, where a chain of events begins to unfold, which led to the birth of the legend of Don Juan.
Dates: November 3, 2020 Moscow. November 17-19 St. Petersburg
Where: Moscow, Teatrium on Serpukhovka (Pavlovskaya st., 6)
St. Petersburg, Theater "Music Hall" large stage, (Aleksandrovsky Park, 4).
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Premiere of the play "The Black Book of Esther" directed by Evgeniya Berkovich
Within the framework of the international theater festival named after Dmitry Brusnikin Brusfest premiere screenings of the play "The Black Book of Esther" directed by Evgenia Berkovich will take place. The play reveals the theme of xenophobia as a civilizational problem that has assumed different guises for many centuries and has not left the agenda to this day. "Black Book" - a reference to the collection of Ehrenburg and Grossman, who collected documents about the Holocaust. Esther is the Persian queen who saved the Persian Jews from destruction 2,500 years ago. The actors act out the story of the insidious Haman and Esther without tears, but with a full range of emotions: from joy to sarcasm and anger inherent in the Purim holiday, which is opposed to the Holocaust. The play was prepared by the Bureau of Artistic Design on the initiative and with the support of the Russian Jewish Congress and Brusnikin's Workshop.
When: November 15 and 16, 2020, at 20:00
Where: Moscow, Boyar Chambers (10 Passion Blvd)
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Nonna Grishaeva as Gurchenko
Nonna Grishaeva's recital at the Actor's House will be dedicated to Lyudmila Gurchenko and her 85th birthday. Accompanied by a pop-symphony orchestra conducted by Andrey Balin, Grishaeva will perform songs by Lyudmila Gurchenko. The concert is also attended by the laureate of the state prize of the Russian Federation Sergei Frolov and Nikolai Chermoshentsev.
When: 12 November 2020, at 19:00
Where: Central House of Actor (35 Arbat St.)
Public Program of the Polytechnic Museum "Polytech in the City"
In the fall, the Polytechnic Museum invites everyone to brunch with scientists, open discussions where guests will discuss accessible education, epidemics, the digital future and much more - together with scientists, engineers and doctors. On Sunday, November 1, the Polytechnic Museum will host a brunch with neurophysiologist Olga Svarnik at the Community restaurant on Kosmodamianskaya embankment. At brunch she will tell you how human memory works, where our ideas come from, and whether free will exists. On November 5, Noor Bar will host a brunch with Boris Iomdin, Ph. D. in Philology, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philology at the Higher School of Economics, lecturer at the Yandex School of Data Analysis. On November 18, the Digital Business Space will host the discussion "What do we teach children - and what is really worth teaching them?" On November 15, a discussion will take place "Why do citizens need a science museum?" Within the framework of the project "Different people - a new museum" on November 17, a discussion will take place "There is a contact: how to make educational games accessible?"Participants will discuss what difficulties await the developers of such projects, how to overcome them, what a cultural institution needs to create an interesting and accessible educational game.
Full schedule of the public program for the fall.
"Christmas at the Cupello House" at the Maly Theater
The play by the Italian playwright Eduardo De Filippo again awaits guests on the stage of the Maly Theater after a half-century break. But both then and now all the vicissitudes in the life of a simple Neapolitan family find a lively response in the heart of the viewer. “The Cupello House is a home theater, a place where a whole spectrum of human emotions is possible, from laughter to tragedy,” says production director Stefano De Luca. - Therefore, the genre of the play is very difficult to determine, everything is mixed here, as in life. The nativity scene made by Senor Coupiello is a symbol of Christmas, the holy family, the ideal family. The main character, in despair, tries to make the same out of his family. But little by little everything disintegrates, so he finds refuge in his own world."
Starring Vasily Bochkarev and Evgenia Glushenko. They bring to the stage all the baggage of a joint theatrical life.
When: November 5 and 26
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WHAT TO WATCH ONLINE?
Charitable autumn marathon of the Russian Jewish Congress to help the elderly
On November 18, the Russian Jewish Congress will hold a three-hour online charity marathon with the participation of media figures and public figures. The purpose of the action is to collect 10 million rubles of charitable donations on the air for programs to rescue and help the elderly.
The most important part of the event will be the presentation of the Global Influence Award from the Russian Jewish Congress - a special sign of gratitude to people whose activities have had a great impact on the world. The laureates will be the chief physician of the infectious diseases hospital in Kommunarka Denis Protsenko, one of the founders of Sots Art, artist Alexander Melamid. The name of the third laureate will be revealed one week before the event.
Especially for the charity marathon, the global changes that have occurred in the world in 2020 will be discussed live: Mikhail Fridman with Leonid Parfenov, Len Blavatnik with Boris Berman and Ildar Zhandarev, David Yakobashvili with Mikhail Gurevich.
The musical part of the program will be conducted by Artemy Troitsky, who will tell about all the most interesting things that happened in Jewish music in 2020.
The marathon will be broadcast on the website, and donations can be made there right now.
When: November 18 at 17:00 (Moscow time)
OKKO Ivan Vyrypaev Theater will present two premieres
Okko Theater under the direction of director and playwright Ivan Vyrypaev prepared two unusual premieres at once. The premiere of the new project "In short: Crime and Punishment" will take place on the Okko platform on November 5th. This is an entertaining storytelling show in which complex stories are told in simple language. In it, the actors disassemble, explain and retell famous books and films in the format of the author's review, preserving the original idea of the work, but with the maximum number of spoilers and assumptions. When creating the first edition of the show, the authors relied on the plot of the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment".
And on November 9, on the Okko platform, a course of 12 lectures "Theater as a model of the Universe" will appear - this is the first cycle of the educational project Okko. Education, in which Ivan Vyrypaev will talk about the essence of drama theater, as well as touch on a number of related topics. Each lecture by Vyrypaev will be accompanied by a more detailed story about a specific area of knowledge from invited speakers: the leading researcher of the Skolkovo Institute Grigory Kucherov will give a lecture on the relationship between biology and linguistics, species languages and genomic texts, Yuri Grigoryan will talk about the craft of an architect, psychophysiologist Dmitry Shamenkov - about communication as the main tool of development, orientalist Viktor Shiryaev will share the skills of mindfulness, etc.
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Premiere of the film “TSVETAEVA. OPEN"
Director Alla Damsker in her film Tsvetaeva. Open responds to the accusations against Marina Tsvetaeva. On the basis of letters, diaries and archival documents, the life of Tsvetaeva from 17 to 22 is revealed step by step. The in-depth and thorough research will be attended by: actors Konstantin Khabensky, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Yulia Aug, Anatoly Bely, writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya, author of the project "yet another" Nikolai Solodnikov, founder of the fund "Anton is here next to" Lyubov Arkus, poet Vera Polozkova, TV presenter Mikhail Kozyrev, musicians Alexey Kortnev and Boris Andrianov. The conversation will be extremely honest and open.
When: from October 28
Where: CDK and Nonfiction.film online cinema
Peruqua will present "The Power of Love"
On November 11, famous Australian singer Peruqua will host the Power of Love online seminar. Peruqua is the author of such popular techniques as "Vocal Yoga", "Emotional Cleansing", etc. She was born and raised in a musical family, graduated from the Academy of Arts in Australia with a degree in jazz vocal, built a singing career in Sydney, and then began to create a completely different music. Studying ancient practices and plunging into ethnic culture, she began to create deep and sensual compositions. In her music, elements of soul, Indian and Middle Eastern motives, melodies of Native American Indians, bits of electronic music are harmoniously intertwined. The songs of Peruqua were recorded with the participation of musicians who have worked with Beyoncé, Christina Aguilera and Coldplay.
“Today there is information pressure from all sides. We get tired, not having time to replenish the resource, we fall into anxiety, we lose the vector of our movement, says Peruqua. - Now the most valuable thing is to find stability within yourself, to fill up and connect with a sense of clarity. I invite you to the pure space of the power of love, in which you can switch your attention from the world of news and remember the feeling of real life, restore your resource, be filled with an inspiring sense of the joy of life."
When: 11.11.
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WHAT TO READ?
Comic novel by Pulitzer finalist Nathan Inglander "Kaddish.com"
When his father dies, according to tradition, Larry must recite the Kaddish, a Jewish memorial prayer, for eleven months every day. But to the horror of his religious sister, Larry refuses to do so, endangering his father's soul in the World to Come. To reassure his sister, Larry turns to the staff of the kaddish.com website, which offers prayer-reading services. This unexpected decision will have profound and very personal consequences. Inglander's story of a son making such a natural compromise for the 21st century brilliantly captures the contradictions between tradition and modernity, which the author, who grew up in an orthodox environment, but has moved away from religion, knows firsthand.
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Artem Rudnitsky's diplomatic novel "Riding a Tiger"
Diplomatic cipher telegrams, official correspondence of permanent missions, official notes, memorandums - this unusual book is based on the richest archival materials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, many of which are published for the first time. Fascinating documentary prose by A. Rudnitsky - about what kind of behind-the-scenes dramas were played out in the diplomatic "kitchen" in the pre-war period and who expected to ride the Nazi "tiger". Intrigues are added by conversations between Stalin and Molotov - what they could have been at that detective time and what the author imagined them. The combination of fiction and documentary creates a special genre of "diplomatic novel" that reads like a historical spy detective.
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Susan Hockfield's book Time of Living Machines. The biological revolution in technology"
A century ago, science allowed engineers to create a number of amazing new technologies that have changed our world so much that we can no longer imagine our life without them. But as world-renowned neuroscientist Susan Hockfield argues, we are on the cusp of a new revolution, when discoveries in biology and engineering combine to create a host of truly fantastic next-generation technologies. Time of Living Machines describes some of the most exciting new developments created by the collaboration of scientists and engineers. Viral batteries, protein filters for water, nanoparticles capable of detecting cancer, prostheses, mind-reading. Computer-inferred crops. All of these latest projects open up the prospect of a 21st century technological revolution that will overcome some of the greatest humanitarian, health and environmental challenges of our time. The book was published as part of the Polytechnic Books project, a partner educational project of the Polytechnic Museum and three Russian publishing houses.
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WHAT TO LISTEN?
"Waves Run" is the debut album of the Moscow group Norway. Today. The disc includes seven lyrical pop-rock songs about the search for love, relationships and bright memories. Lightning-fast melodies and deep lyrics might never have been recorded if not for the quarantine and the opportunity to slow down the pace of life. For the soloists - Gena Vyrypaev and Yuri Tsokurov - who are busy working in the theater (Gena is an actor and co-director of his father Ivan Vyrypaev, Yura plays on the stage of the Vakhtangov Theater), lockdown became the starting point for a completely different creative path.
Norway. Today group was created in Moscow in 2019. The name refers to the theatrical background of the musicians: this is the famous German play by Igor Bauershima of the early 2000s - an intellectual drama about teenage confusion in front of the adult world, in which it is impossible to be sincere, to be "oneself". And this is one of the first performances of Teatr.doc, in which the main role was played by the mother of Gena Vyrypaeva, actress Svetlana Ivanova-Sergeeva.
The Waves Run Album is available on all digital platforms.
SPEND TIME WITH CHILDREN
City from different sides. Online course on ecology for the whole family
The Museum of Moscow, with the support of the book service Storytel, is launching a new block of the course “City from different sides” on ecology for parents with children over 10 years old.
An ecologist, anthropologist, psychologist, sociologist, urbanist and architect will talk about the structure and resources of cities, about the pyramid of needs, and discuss with the course participants what can be abandoned in our daily habits and which will be difficult to live without. In the classroom, they will understand what is hidden behind the incomprehensible term "sustainable development" and how the environment and the life of all creatures on our planet are interconnected. The dual format of the lesson - a short lecture + a seminar - will allow not only listening, but also participating in project activities, in which parents and children will immerse themselves together online.
The online course starts on November 11. Subscriptions are already on sale.
“Open up! This is Polytech!"
Card game for the Night of the Arts 2020 - a fun home quest about science
This fall, as many of us plunge into the online world again, Polytech continues to come up with “material” home entertainment - this time especially for the Night of the Arts (November 3). This evening, the museum invites you to gather with friends at the table and learn a little more about the objects of its huge collection. The board game, which can be downloaded from the Polytechnic website, is invited to print, put the cards on the table, read the rules and go to the fascinating world of science. What are the holes in the bottom of the iron for? What is the name of the modern analogue of the adding machine? Why do we need rubber bands in the compartments of the space refrigerator? These simple yet challenging questions can help you have fun with your family.
And for the most inquisitive Polytechs has come up with a prize! You can send a photo of the game process to [email protected] The first 20 participants will receive an invitation to a free tour of the Museum's Open Collection.
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