Equal Elevations

Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Festival: Diana Vishneva`s Context festival 2019

Type: Classical Concert

City: Saint Petersburg, Russia

Starts at: 19:00

Duration: 35min

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Festival

Diana Vishneva`s Context festival 2019

In its first year, the festival attracted 2,000 spectators, and in 2016 the audience amounted to more than 9,000 people. Among the venues of the festival are the Mariinsky Theater and the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater, the Gogol Center, the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, the Mossovet Theater, and the Documentary Film Center.

Programme

Equal Elevations

Overview

Equal Elevations was born as a project created for the National Museum of Art Reina Sofía, in relation to the work of one of the most recognized living sculptors: Richard Serra. In room 102 of the museum is his sculpture Equal-Parallel: Guernica-Bengasi (1986). Marcos Morau starts on this occasion from a dialogue between the movement generated by his collective La Veronal and the sculpture that Richard Serra conceived, not as a reference to historical memory, but as a spatial experimentation and a temporal analogy of two historical facts: the bombings of Guernica (1937) and the attack of Bengasi (1986). The conversation here braided deals with the spatial juxtaposition between dance and sculpture, between movement and weight, between lightness and gravity.

Accompanied by the music of Steve Reich, collaborating musician and friend of Richard Serra, La Veronal puts at the service its stroke and its morphological development of the movement to construct a labyrinth of significant complexity, a dialogue between the gravity of the body and its capacity of profusion and labyrinthine dispersion, an encounter between two matters that, being deeply opposed, meet in their habitability and their interior and perceptive movement.

Produced by La Veronal in collaboration with Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.

With the support of INAEM – Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte de España and ICEC – Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya.

Venue Info

Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater - Saint Petersburg
Fontanka River Embankment, 65

The Tovstonogov Bolshoy Drama Theater on Fontanka takes its name from Georgy Tovstonogov, the theater's highly regarded director from 1956 to 1989, and is considered one of the finest theaters in Russia.

Pioneered by Maxim Gorky, Maria Andreeva, Alexander Blok and Anatoly Lunacharsky after the 1917 Revolution, the Osobaya Drammaticheskaya Truppa (Special Drama Company) debuted in 1918 with the intention of staging classics for the masses, finding its permanent home at 65 Fontanka Embankment at the former Suvorin Theater. During World War II the theater was evacuated to Kirov. In 1943, in the last days of the Siege of Leningrad, the theater returned to serve the troops of Leningrad Front and the military hospitals.

The Second stage of the theater (pl. Starogo Teatra 13) is located in the Kamenoostrovsky Theater – a unique monument of wooden architecture of the period of classicism. The wooden building of the theater was built for guest performances of the imperial theaters. The theater was built as a temporary structure for one season. However, having gone through numerous renovations, the building still functions.

Important Info

Festival: Diana Vishneva`s Context festival 2019

Type: Classical Concert

City: Saint Petersburg, Russia

Starts at: 19:00

Duration: 35min

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