Cultural events next week

Cultural events next week

Sun.E.M.!

Center them. Meyerhold (CIM) began to celebrate the 140th anniversary of Vsevolod Meyerhold , arranging a festival of everything and everything for the anniversary of the avant-garde classic, which will last, as the Center plans together with the Theater Museum. Bakhrushin, a whole year. Artifacts of the Russian avant-garde of the 1920s and the voice of Meyerhold are already located in the spaces of the TsIM, posters of his performances and posters of the classic of Russian constructivism Alexander Rodchenko have appeared on the walls. In the works of contemporary media artists, the experiment they started continues. Entrance to the exhibition is free. And on February 15, a thematic festival of short performances will take place , in which, in addition to the TsIM itself, St. Petersburg's BDT and the Theater. Lensoviet, Moscow theaters "Practice", them. Pushkin, Center for Drama and Directing, Kiev Theater. Franko and another Center them. Meyerhold, from Kherson. No one can imagine what exactly can be seen on the stage of the TsIM: with a common theme and conditions (to meet 20 minutes), each troupe has complete freedom to choose a genre, form and material.

st. Novoslobodskaya, 23. Beginning at 19.00

Dodo Order

"In that case," declared the Dodo, "I propose that a resolution be passed on the immediate dissolution of the meeting in order to take the most urgent measures for the speedy..." "Speak like a human being," said Eaglet Ed. I don't even know half of those words! And you yourself, in my opinion, do not understand them. “I wanted to say,” Dodo said offendedly, “that the Order of the Honorary Dodo chain of bookstores was established jointly by the Book Institute and the community of the Dodo Magic Bookroom to encourage merit for Russian literature and the reader (as well as spectator and listener) audience in the field of fantasy, imagination, life-affirmation, creative play, wit and philanthropy. Cavaliers - Neil Gaiman, Yuri Norshtein and Joan Harris. On February 15, their glorious company will be joined by the master of the literature of the absurd, Yevgeny Klyuev , a storyteller and poet, translator of Carroll and Lear, linguist and playwright. Now he lives in Copenhagen, but he will specially fly to the Dodo bookstore on Solyanka for the award ceremony, because it will be accompanied by the Cavalier reading poems and fairy tales of his own composition, his answers to questions, autographs and declarations of love.

st. Solyanka, 1/2, building 1. Beginning at 18.00

two and objects

Brilliant violinist and composer Alexei Aigi and Russian electronics guru Arkady Marto tonight will continue the series of non-traditional musical evenings . At the first of them, the musicians played ping-pong on the piano, burst bubbles of wrapping film, and depicted beetles. On the second they sang and popped balloons. On the third they played on radios, on the fifth they drank coffee to the music, on the seventh they vacuumed the piano. What will happen this - the twelfth - time, in the club "Dom" , is unknown. At least in terms of performance. In terms of music, these will be musical compositions in the aesthetics of academic minimalism or, as Aigi himself says, rehearsalism, including from the repertoire of the ensemble of hooligans from classical music "4'33''", in which Aigi, as you know, is the leader, and Marto is a full-time keyboardist.

B. Ovchinnikovsky per., 24, building 4. Beginning at 20.00

The Last of Miyazaki

The Wind Rises , a new feature-length animated film by the great Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki , is released in Russian cinemas on February 20 . The master for the first time deprived the plot of his cartoon of fabulousness, based on the novel of the same name by Tatsuo Hori and the biography of the aircraft designer Jiro Horikoshi, the developer of the famous World War II fighter Mitsubishi A6M Zero . The magic and mysticism in the story being told has been replaced by the tragic prose of reality, but the magic of Miyazaki's gaze and the mysticism of his skill have not gone away. The more acutely perceived is the transformation of Horikoshi's childhood dream of heaven into a formidable world of total destruction, romantic love into merciless death. Last fall, the master announced that The Wind Rises is his last feature-length work in animation. But the name of the cartoon is also a reference to Paul Valery's line: "The wind is getting stronger! .. So - to live again!" That is, there is hope.

Saga of the Kaps

Friedrich Gorenstein, a playwright and prose writer, is mainly known in the former USSR as the author of scripts for Tarkovsky's Solaris and Mikhalkov's Slave of Love, although he is the author of many works, of which only one story was published before his emigration in 1980. Among the things that lay “on the table” for a long time was the play “Berdichev” (1975), comparable in scale to a novel. In the center of the narrative, covering 30 years - from 1945 to 1975 - the fate of two sisters living in a small apartment in "Jerusalem in Volyn" - the Ukrainian city of Berdichev. This is the history of the family, the history of the clan, unfolded in time, behind which is the history of the whole people. This story has been waiting for its director for a long time. They became a young director Nikita Kobelev at the Theater. Mayakovsky . The main roles in the performance, premiere which will on February 20 and 21 , are played by Tatiana Orlova and Tatiana Augshkap.

st. B. Nikitskaya, 19. Performances start at 19.00

Legal marriage / selling love

"Judas and Tamar" is a rather rare plot in Western European art. Meanwhile, the story of a woman who disguises herself as a prostitute in order to obtain legitimate sons changes depending on how she is portrayed and who looks at her. How did the Portuguese crypto-Jews manage to read the story of Judah and Tamar as a story of ideal love that is sung about at weddings? On what basis did feminist critics see in Tamar not an obedient and humiliated victim of circumstances and the patriarchal system, but a trickster and a victorious heroine? How were these biblical characters depicted in different eras? What is the reason for the sudden rise in popularity of the plot in 17th-century Holland? The focus of the historian Galina Zelenina and art historian Dilshat Harman on their lectures in the library. Dostoevsky February 16 - the work of Ferdinand Bol from the Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin, painted in 1653, and a mysterious double of this painting from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The entrance is free.

Chistoprudny Boulevard, 23. Beginning at 16.00

Opera first

with a solo concert by the brilliant opera singer Yulia Lezhneva International Festival will open in Moscow On February 18 , the Opera Apriori , which will last until June inclusive on the stage of the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory . These will be five unique concerts with unique voices, including Jonas Kaufman, Stephanie D'Ustrak and Sumi Cho. But this is still in the future, albeit not so distant. In the meantime, opera lovers are waiting for the opening - the premiere of the program "From Baroque to Mozart", which Lezhneva will perform accompanied by the Moscow Chamber Orchestra Musica Viva . The program reflects the evolution of 18th century music from Baroque to Viennese Classicism. At its end, they promise Mozart's Exsultate, jubilate, a work that the composer wrote at sixteen for his favorite singer in Milan, castrato Venanzio Rauzzini.

He is. B. Nikitskaya, 13/6. Start at 19.00

In pose and without pose

Photographer Frank Worth was a member of the closed circle of Hollywood celebrities of the middle of the 20th century, he was more than friendly with many stars, and precisely because, oddly enough, his work remained practically unknown to the general public for a long time. The fact is that Worth filmed his illustrious acquaintances not in glamorous studios, but in private life, which, of course, could not do without luxury, but appeared in homely immediacy. During his lifetime, the photographer did not show his work, and after his death in 2000, more than ten thousand pictures were found that captured Marilyn Monroe and Sophia Loren, Jane Mansfield and James Dean, Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayward and many other Hollywood stars in interiors and against the background yachts and cars. 50 of them can now be seen at the exhibition in the Cinema Gallery , the second half of which is the work of the much more famous photographer Helmut Newton . Coming out of the world of high fashion, Newton specializes in the beauty of the female body, and he does it provocatively, showing models not so much naked as naked. The exhibition features his hits from the 1980s, as well as a number of photographs that have never been exhibited before.

st. M. Molchanovka, 8, building 2. Until March 7

flared

Andy McKee is perhaps one of the best guitarists today, representatives of the “finger style” ( fingerstyle ), * a technique that uses different methods of sound production and allows you to play accompaniment and melody at the same time. Heir to the traditions of such masters of style as Preston Reed, Michael Hedges and Don Ross, McKee is a master of atypical guitar acrobatics, wonderful melodies, tight bass lines and sonorous percussion sounds at the same time. Often using a non-standard tuning, in his first Russian concert on February 16 at the Teatr club, he will habitually rebuild the guitar after almost every composition, but it won’t be boring, you can vouch for it. Both new material and hits from the eight-year-old The Art of Motion* album, which glorified the guitarist, will be heard.

st. Staraya Basmannaya, 20, building 1. Beginning at 20.00

Art serial killer

The great manipulator of the 20th century, who made moneybags around the world admire the graceful lines of a tin can and clumsyly colored photographs of celebrities, Andy Warhol is the undisputed icon of the era. The ecstatic fusion of mass consumption, aggressive marketing and the so-called "high art" from his light hand, which without restraint stenciled acrylic on canvas, is still relevant today, a quarter of a century after his death. A tribune of commercial pop art, Warhol at his "Factory" produced silk-screen portraits of all kinds of celebrities at the speed of a rabbit, releasing series of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, John Lennon, Elvis, Jim Morrison and many, many others. The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center opened the exhibition "Andy Warhol: Ten Famous Jews of the 20th Century" . The exposition consists of portraits of Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Brandeis, Martin Buber, George Gershwin, Franz Kafka, the Marx Brothers, Golda Meir, Gertrude Stein, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein - Warhol's "brush", of course - and the archival materials accompanying them.

st. Obraztsova, 11, building 1A. Until April 9