The Days of Russian Culture in India will take place in five cities from late October to December 2018. The opening of the Days of Culture will take placeon October 28 in New Delhi, with the premiere performance of “REVERSE” by the Moscow Musical Theater. On October 31, the showwill be presented to the residents and guests of Jaipur.
This unusual experimental production has been created by young Russian directors AndreyKoltsov and Irina Drozhzhina with participation of Debra Brown, famous Canadian choreographer andthe Emmy Award winner. The Indian audience will be treated with a vibrant and dynamic theatrical performance with tricks, flying pylons and elements of circus choreography. This show blurs the boundaries between the dramatic and plastic theater and does not fail to thrill the viewer.
The Days of Russian Culture in India will continue with another discovery for the Indian audience – performancesby the New Life Brass band named after T.Dokshitzer. Concerts will take place from November 10 to 15 in New Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata.
The New Life Brassis anoutstanding musical band with a new concept. Their performances are always bright and unusual. This is not just aninstrumental presentation, but also a real musical show.
The famous Chechen dance group “Vainakh” will close the Days of Russian Culture in India. This distinctive creative team will acquaint Indian viewers with the traditional culture of the North Caucasus.
India has always been a friendly partner for Russia and eager for mutually beneficial work. Cultural cooperation is an important area in Russian-Indian relations. Mutual tours of the best teams, art festivals and folk art shows have been held with unfailing success both in Russia and in India. Days of Indian Culture in Russia and Days of Russian Culture in India are particularly significant events for promoting friendly relations.
General information
"REVERSE"
The experimental performance “REVERSE” by the Moscow Musical Theater is about the external and internal struggle of a human. It tells about its lowest and most beautiful manifestations, which appear only in extreme situations. It tells about conflicting qualities of the human nature. It tells about the desire to transform and return to his former self. And, eventually, it tells about the main choice that every person has to make at least once in a lifetime.
The directors of the performance are AndreyKoltsov and Irina Drozhzhina.
AndreyKoltsov is an outstanding representative of the modern nouveau cirquemovement. Unique numbers created by him, including those for Cirque du Soleil, bear his name. At the Moscow Musical Theater, he has developed the acrobatic concept for the musical “Princess of the Circus” and performs the trick of Mr X.
Irina Drozhzhina is an aerial gymnast, a participant of the Konstantin Bogomolov’sdirectoriallaboratory as well as an artist of Cirque du Soleil and the musical “The Princess of the Circus”.
Debra Brown (Canada), legendary choreographer and the Emmy award winner, has been invited to the team by the “REVERSE” show creators. Debra stood at the origins of Cirque du Soleil that she has been working with continuously since 1987. She is globally renowned for her work for the New York Metropolitan Opera (world premiere of John Corigliano’s opera The Ghost of Versailles), the Chicago Lyric Opera (The Ring of the Nibelungen), Hollywood movies (Catwoman, Van Helsing) and with pop stars – Madonna, Celine Dion, Bjork, Shakira and others.
The original music for the production was written by Misha Mishchenko, a Moscow composer and a representative of the neoclassical movement, who has “taught” the urban young audience to modern academic music.
Together they have created a supersaturated dynamic performance that crosses the boundaries of all existing theatrical genres. The REVERSE actors blur the line between drama and physical theater, choreography and acrobatics. Falling from a height, flying over the audience, balancing on dynamic pylons and other tricks are not just spectacular tricks, but means of narrating and discovering the inner world of the characters.
The New Life Brass named after TimofeyDokshitzeris a brass band established in 2009. The artists of the group are professional musicians of the highest level all graduated from the GnesinykhRussian Academy of Music. Their repertoire spans a significant part of the world musical culture and includes popular classical, jazz and pop compositions. Every performance of the band is a vivid and memorable event.The band successfully performs at Moscow venues, tours around the country and abroad. In 2012, the New Life Brasswas named after prominent trumpeter Timofey Dokshitzer.From 2013,its members have become the artists of the Yamaha company.
State dance group "Vainakh"
- Decorated with the Orderof the first President of the Chechen Republic and Hero of Russia AhmadKadyrov, with the Order of the Star of Jordan, a winner of the Prize from the Government of the Russian Federation, a winner of the Grand Prix at international competitions and festivals.
The State dance group “Vainakh”, the guardian of the national Chechen folk art, is famous far beyond its motherland. Established in August 1939, the ensemble has traveled a long creative path. Choreographers who worked over years with the dance team, have studied the origins of the Chechen folklore and managed to create vibrant and holistic choreographic works based on the organic fusion of folk traditions, music and dance.
The Vainakhgroup saw in its ranksMakhmudEsambayev, a brilliant choreographer and a legendary dancer, the People’s Artist of the USSR, the Hero of Socialist Labor.
The Chechen ensemble has been greeted with thunderous applauses in many countries, including Argentina, Mexico, Peru, San Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Portugal, Czechoslovakia, Jordan, Kenya, Mozambique, Syria, Turkey, Israel, Palestine, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Spain.
The group has become the hallmark of the culture of the Chechen people, their pride and cultural heritage.
