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Memory. Vyacheslav Polunin
On June 12, 1950 , Vyacheslav Polunin, Russian clown, actor and director were born
Personal business
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Polunin (64) was born in the picturesque town of Novosil of the Oryol Region (3,500 inhabitants according to 2013) in the family of a trade worker. After school, he worked at the factory. Having failed exams to the Leningrad Theater Institute, he entered the Economic Department of the Leningrad State University. From the third year he transferred to the Institute of Culture. N.K. Krupskaya, where, together with his studies, he taught the art of pantomime. In 1968, at the Palace of Culture. The Lensoveta created a pantomime studio, which later became the "lyceum" theater. In 1981 - after showing the "New Year's Eve" "Asisyai" - Polunin became a famous clown throughout the country. Since 1988, he worked mainly abroad, since 1994 he lived in London for a long time, and at present in France. In 1989, on the initiative of Polunin, the International Festival of Street Theaters “Caravan of the World” was founded. In 1993, the Baba-Duras organized the international festival. Then he left with the Du Sole circus to Canada, then moved to the UK. In London he worked at the Hakni Theater. In 2000, he brought to Moscow the play “Snow Show” (“Snow Show”). In 2001, he held the Russian festival of the Clown of Fools. Since January 2013, he has been the artistic director of the Greater St. Petersburg State Circus (Circus Cinkelly). Married, has three sons and one stepson. Wife Elena Ushakova works with Polunin.
What is famous
In 1981, at the New Year's Eve showed the number "Asisy", where he portrayed a naive and trembling person in a yellow overalls. One of the business cards of Polunin also became the number “impossible”, and the performance “Snow Show” (“Snow Show”) brought world fame for Mim. The premiere of this work took place in 1993.
What you need to know about
In the second or third grade, he first saw the film “Baby” with Charlie Chaplin, after which he imitated the great silent - he walked around the school in huge shoes and with a cane. For inattention and grimacing the future, Mima was often driven off from lessons. Parents saw Polunin as an engineer, for three years he studied this profession, but then he transferred to the Institute of Culture.
Direct speech:
Vyacheslav Polunin“What is my theater or theater that I love:
- This is such a wedding cavalry, where I try to marry everyone;
-This is a ritual-magical and festive-entertaining theater, built on the basis of images and movements, games and fantasies, joint creativity of the audience and people of the theater;
- This is a theater stubbornly growing from dreams and fairy tales;
- This is the theater of hope and dreams, full of longing and loneliness, losses and disappointments;
- This is what always changes, which breathes spontaneous improvisation and scrupulously protects the tradition;
- This is a theater working in an epic-intimate alloy of tragedy and comedy, absurdity and naivety, cruelty and tenderness;
“This is the theater, elusive of the definitions and unambiguity of understanding of his actions, as to attempts to usurp his freedom,” - Polunin’s thoughts about the theater.
5 facts about Vyacheslav Polunin
Polunin - People's Artist of Russia (2001)
Has the title of honorary resident of London.
In 1981, he called television, assuring everyone that he has a number for a “blue light”. There was no number at that time, there were only ideas of a new character. So Asisiyi was born - an ingenuous man in a yellow jumpsuit and with a scarlet scarf.
Polunin has several Russian awards, he is a laureate of the second award of the All -Union Variety Artists (1979), the Triumph Prize (2000), the Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize (2000). In Edinburgh he was awarded the Golden Angel, in Spain - the Golden Nose, also has the British Award named after actor Lawrence Olivier.
Until 2015, a circus on Fontanka, which is a semi -Polunin, should be restored by returning his original appearance.
Materials about Vyacheslav Polunin:
Official site Vyacheslav Polunina
Article about Vyacheslav Polunin on Wikipedia
Biographical certificate RIA Novosti