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"Underwood." The group's music style is usually defined as intellectual rock. In fact, "Underwood" plays very strange, but extremely nice music - pathetic and funny at the same time. Ikra , July 27, 21.00.
The Good, the Bad & the Queen (UK). TGTBTQ music is something like rock and roll for Dickensian England. The team's lineup is impressive: in addition to the creator of the cartoon Gorillaz, frontman Damon Albarn, the band also includes The Clash member Paul Simonon and main Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen. “B1 Maximum” , July 27, 21.00.
Tracktor Bowling. The main hope of the Russian nu-metal scene is playing truly high-quality heavy music. Heavy guitar riffs, lyrics with a pronounced social orientation and the unique voice of the group’s vocalist, a girl with the strange name Lu. “Point” , July 28, 20.00.
Yogo-Yogo. Cheerful guys in acid-colored clothes, the wards of producer Andrei Samsonov and desperate fashionistas, play fast and cheerful electropop. Domestic representatives of the new-fangled nu-rave trend read obscene poems from the stage, make idiotic faces and enjoy life. Ikra , July 29, 21.00.
CONCERTS
“Picnic “Afisha”. Clinic, Miss Odd Kid (all UK), Dalek, Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin, Shy Child (all US), Hushpuppies (France), Lo-Fi-Fnk (Sweden), Mum (Iceland), Junior Boys (Canada), Fleur (Ukraine), 2H Company, Mumiy Troll, Dream Mechanics and others. The organizers of the annual Afisha events have planned an even more extensive program this time. In addition to the concert itself, it is planned to build a “cardboard city”, gastronomic entertainment in the form of French pancakes, Lebanese snacks and tea, as well as whole lambs roasted according to oriental methods, a “Vertical Dance” show, a special multi-level platform for modern dances and much more. Moscow State United Museum-Reserve "Kolomenskoye Estate" , July 28, 12.00.
"Romantics 200 years later." The Chamber Orchestra of the Ivanovo Philharmonic under the direction of conductor Viktor Shadrin and soloists - laureates of the International Competition for Young Performers "The Nutcracker" perform works by Tchaikovsky, Kalinnikov, Elgar, Weber, Bruch, Schubert, Rossini. Museum of Russian Estate Culture “Kuzminki” (branch of MIM) , July 28, 19.00.
Organ music by Bach. Alexey Parshin (organ) performs works by I.-S. Bach. Roman Catholic Cathedral , 29 July, 19.30.
MOVIE
"Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" (Japan, 1984). Cast (voice): Sumi Shimamoto (Nausicaä), Goro Naya, Yoji Matsuda, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Hisako Keda, Ichiro Nagai, Joji Yanami, Mahito Tsujimura, Iemasa Kayumi, Kohei Miyauchi, Minoru Yada, Chika Sakamoto, Miina Tominaga, Akiko Tsuboi, Rihoko Yoshida Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Another creation of the master of animation, author of “Princess Manonoka” and “Spirited Away.” The cartoon is by no means new, but it is being released in Russia for the first time. “35 MM”, “Wick”, “Artistic”, “Five Stars”.
“10 Steps to Success” (USA, 2006). Directed by Brad Silberling. Starring Morgan Freeman, Paz Vega, Jonah Hill, Alexandra Berardi, Bobby Cannavale, Anne Dudek, Jennifer Echols, Scott Norris, Kumar Pallana, Jim Parsons, Ski Carr. Having received a new role, the Hollywood star leaves the “dream factory” to get used to the character. Faced with ordinary life, the idol of millions turns out to be absolutely helpless. He gets caught up in incredible events and is forced to trust a simple supermarket saleswoman to get home. The film was named one of the best independent films of 2006 by the American publication National Board of Review. “Five stars on Novokuznetskaya” , “Havana” .
"Falling into Heaven" (2007). Directed by Natalya Mitroshina. Starring Alexander Rachmaninov, Boris Kazakov, Leonid Solovyov, Margarita Borisova, Mikhail Burlakov, Alexander Goryainov, Andrey Kazakov, Ilya Sergeev, Yulia Brekhova, Alexander Kuznetsov. The film is based on the series of miniatures by Daniil Kharms “Cases” and the writer’s diaries. The film participated in Andrei Plakhov’s author’s program “Summer Euphoria” at the Kinotavr 2007 film festival. “Wick” 16.00, 21.30.
THEATERS
"Salome". Directed by Roman Viktyuk. Actors A. Andreev, L. Pogorelova, N. Dobrynin, F. Makhmudov. "Salome" is the only tragic work of O. Wilde. The play intricately interweaves two storylines: the biblical story of King Herod and John the Baptist and the tragic love story of Wilde himself. The performance is filled with musical contrasts and dance plasticity: bare-chested dancing, allowing one to admire the beauty of well-built male bodies, is combined with strength gymnastics and martial arts techniques. One of Viktyuk's best performances. MTYUZ , July 28, 19.00.
"Rain". The story of old photographs brought to life from the family collection of Daniele Finzi Paschi. As part of the International Theater Festival. Chekhov. Cirque Eloize (Montreal, Canada) on the stage of the Theatre. Mossovet , July 27, 19.00; July 28, 13.00, 19.00; July 29, 13.00.
EXHIBITIONS
Yuri Avakumov. Yuri Avakumov became famous in the 80s as a paper architect, when, together with Alexander Brodsky and Mikhail Filippov, he won international competitions of architectural ideas. Unlike his colleagues, the author remains a conceptualist to this day, preferring mock-ups to their real implementation. The artist's anniversary exhibition features objects created from paper, playing cards, chess and dominoes. Stella Art Foundation , until September 10.
"Europe-Russia-Europe". Among the works on display are a sculpture by François Rude from the Orsay Museum, a portrait of René Descartes by Bourdon from the Louvre and a still life by Matisse from the Pompidou Center (France); a portrait by Cranach from the Dresden Gallery, a landscape by Caspar David Friedrich from the Kunstmuseum Hamburg and one of Baselitz's famous "inverted" works from the Museum of Modern Art in Duisburg (Germany); paintings by Sargent, Turner and Moore (Great Britain); Titian, Testa and Maratta (Italy); Picasso, Sauras (Spain) and much more. Also on display are famous works by Russian artists: “Trinity” by Andrei Rublev, paintings by Chagall, Malevich and Kandinsky. Tretyakov Gallery , until July 29.
"Word and Image". Yuri Albert, Vagrich Bakhchanyan (USA), Eric Bulatov (France) and others. With the assistance of the Goethe Institute and the ART4.ru Museum. The exhibition is dedicated to one of the main problems of contemporary art - the relationship between words and images. The exhibition presents works by a variety of authors, from the classics of conceptualism Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov to the group of graffiti artists “Why”. National Center for Contemporary Art , until August 5.
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