Tens of thousands of Muscovites last week witnessed a grandiose, unique multimedia show, with which only two similar world festivals, in Hong Kong and Sydney, can compete in scale. Annual festival "Circle of Light" organized by Moscow Department of Sports and Tourism in five days it gathered a record number of spectators not only from the capital and cities of Russia, but also guests from 40 countries of the world. Recent advances in lighting design have turned the Ostankino TV Tower into the Eiffel Tower, and the large palace in Tsaritsyno into an underwater world. This year, the organizers involved several city sites - Ostankino, Theater Square, Tsaritsyno, Strogino, Patriarch's Ponds and others. Everywhere the entrance was free, so everyone who wanted to see this fantastic spectacle could.
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We visited the opening of the show in Ostankino. In 2017, the ideological inspirers of the show decided to dedicate this venue to the year of ecology, the birthday of the TV tower itself, and also the summit of the Great Towers of the World.
Those who were at the festival for the first time expected that the climax would be somewhere at the end of the hour-long performance. But it's not. From the very first minutes, the audience opened their mouths, turned on the video recording on smartphones and did not take their eyes off the platform where the pond filled with fountains, the TV tower turned into famous skyscrapers of the world every few minutes, lavender fields and Fujiyama volcano, the Ural Mountains and Baikal stretched at its foot , and next to all this spectacle - an ice show. All this magically combined with the music. The directors have chosen only the most famous world hits of such performers as Michael Jackson, Muse, Adele, Sting, David Carret, Charles Aznavour and others. This was accompanied by fantastic fireworks. Volleys of salute were fired from the TV tower itself, which at times resembled a fire-breathing dragon. Hundreds of videos flew to viewers' Instagrams, increasing the audience of this festival to millions.
Every time we try to surprise the viewer, come up with something new, - told Komsomolskaya Pravda director of the Ostankino venue Vladimir Demekhin. - In particular, here, at the Ostankino site, we present the largest site in the history of the festival, because the entire length of the pond - 300 meters - is covered by various lighting, fountain equipment, burners, and probably this year we have the most interesting interaction between all tools. We also have a lot of innovations on other sites. In particular, not only the façade of the Bolshoi Theatre, but also the Maly Theatre, is operating on Theater Square this year. Several contents have been specially developed that will allow viewers to have a more interesting viewing experience when two façades operate simultaneously. On the site of Tsaritsyno, a fountain show to the Russian classics and a number of experiments on the facade of the large Catherine Palace. We try to use multi-instrumentalism all the time, to use all the light sources that are available.
According to Vladimir Demekhin, the idea of an ice show is not new. But if in 2015 it was essentially a separate platform, then it fit into the overall show, and the choreography on ice was magically combined with the choreography of water, light, and burners. By the way, this year famous skaters participated in the show - Tatyana Navka, Pyotr Chernyshov, Yuko Kawaguchi and Alexander Smirnov. Together with them, a whole group of professional dancers skated on the ice.
How many pyrotechnics were used during the days of the festival, even the organizers do not undertake to calculate. On the first day alone, about a thousand volleys painted the sky on one site.
DELEGATIONS FROM 40 COUNTRIES and "FIELD OF WONDERS"
By the way, the beginning of the show was dedicated to the Ostankino TV tower itself, its 50th anniversary. The audience saw the stages of her glorious path and remembered the best programs that she broadcast these 50 years. Including, "Time", "KVN" and "Field of Miracles".
The opening day of the festival coincided with the last day of the Summit of the Great Towers of the World, which took place in Ostankino. The association of great towers also includes Ostankino. Members of delegations from about 40 countries of the world came to watch the Circle of Light festival. In addition, tickets to the stands were distributed among social funds. Of course, there were not enough seats in the stands for everyone, there were much more applications, - says group president LBL Tatiana Lifantieva.
Tatyana has no doubts that this "Circle of Light" was better than all previous festivals.
We took into account all the wishes that were from our guests, from our viewers in the past years. And we did everything to surpass technically and creatively all the victories that we had until this day. It's a pity, only Guinness does not measure it, - the organizer regrets.
As Tatyana says, 200 million rubles were spent on holding the festival in Ostankino (the show took place here for two days). This is both a city subsidy and the money of sponsors, of which the festival has a lot. The idea of this show has been coming up since January, and already in April it was completely painted. According to the organizers, they start preparing a new festival as soon as the current one ends. This means that they are already thinking today how to surprise us at the Circle of Light in 2018.
The seventh international festival "Circle of Light" will be held in Moscow from 23 to 27 September. Traditionally, viewers will be able to see multimedia laser shows, special lighting effects and fireworks on the streets of the city, and the main venue will be the Ostankino TV Tower. Admission to all events is free.
Ostankino
theatre square
The Bolshoi and Maly theaters will be combined into a single venue for two shows: Celestial Mechanics and Timeless. The Celestial Mechanics will tell a romantic story of love and loneliness, the theater buildings will symbolize two lovers. Lighting effects will complement the choreographic performance and music.
At the show "Timeless" the audience will go on a journey through time together with A. N. Ostrovsky. Unique historical scenery will be restored on the facades of theater buildings with the help of projectors and excerpts from famous performances will be shown.
After the show, the Theater Square will host video mapping competitions in the classic and modern categories. Video mapping is the creation of light projections on buildings, taking into account their size, architecture and location in the urban space. Muscovites will be able to take a fresh look at the buildings familiar from childhood.
Where: Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre, Maly Theater
"Tsaritsyno"
All days of the festival, the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve will host a fountain show and light installations. The center of the program is the show "Palace of Senses", during which the Tsaritsyno Palace will become a canvas for video mapping. With the help of light projections and music, the building will come to life, the audience will be invited to immerse themselves in its supposed feelings and emotions. Every day, songs performed by the Soprano art group of the Turetsky choir, which gathered the entire range of female voices, from the lowest to the highest, will sound on the site, and on September 24 the team will perform live. And on September 25, Dmitry Malikov will perform a classical program in Tsaritsyn. Lighting designers will create visual metaphors against the backdrop of the palace in real time, which will help to understand classical music in a new way.
Where: Moscow, GMZ "Tsaritsyno"
Stroginsky backwater
The festival of light will end on September 27 in Strogino: here you can see a 30-minute pyrotechnic show using Japanese fireworks, which have no analogues in the whole world. For the first time in Russia, a large pyrotechnic charge of 600 caliber will be used in the show.
Where: Moscow, Big Stroginsky backwater,
Digital October
Those who are interested in innovations in the field of video mapping, visual arts will be able to visit the educational program at the Digital October center. On September 23 and 24, lectures, discussions and master classes will be held by computer graphics specialists, representatives of design studios, programmers, lighting engineers, architects, etc. In particular, on September 24, the lecture on contemporary art "All Art Was Modern" will talk about how culture reflects our reality and changes in society, and the lecture "From Phantasmagoria to Sensory Reality" will talk about visual art, its history and development for centuries. Students will learn about how science and art were connected, what were the earliest optical technologies. Pre-registration is required to participate.
Where: Moscow, Bersenevskaya nab., 6, building 3.
VJing competition
You can watch the competition of the best VJs within the framework of the Art Vision competition in the Mir Concert Hall.
VJing (VJ) is the creation of visual images to music, mixing visual effects and video to music in real time. Pre-registration required.
Where: Moscow, Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 11, building 2.
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A few days before the start of the Circle of Light festival, information appeared on the network on completely different Internet sites about selling tickets to Krylatskoye. The sellers assured that the ticket entitles their owner to attend the show as a VIP. The price of tickets started from 1.5 thousand rubles and reached, at certain venues, up to 8 thousand. Festival organizers emphasize that admission to all events will be free, and ticket sellers are nothing more than scammers. However, there is one caveat.
According to the organizers, all five open areas are available to everyone, without any restrictions. In other words, no tickets, invitations, etc. Not needed. Anyone can come and watch the show. The only site that differs from the rest is the Rowing Canal in Krylatskoye. And the point is not that it is here that the most colorful action of a scale never seen before will take place, but that stands are initially located on this site. In order not to create unnecessary excitement and somehow control a large mass of people, it was decided to block them, and provide access to the stands only with special invitation cards.
“Entrance to all venues of the Moscow International Circle of Light Festival is free to visit. In 2018, the tribune is only at the Rowing Canal site in Krylatskoye. Invitation tickets can be won by participating in competitions held in the official communities of the Circle of Light festival. Tickets will also be raffled off at the media partners of the festival: for example, on Avtoradio on the morning air, Children's Radio, Humor FM and other radio stations. Traditionally, Muscovites can become ticket holders by participating in a special promotion of the Active Citizen project. The remaining tickets are distributed through government agencies, charitable organizations and social institutions,” the press service of the Circle of Light Moscow International Festival told Krylatskoye.ru.
They also explained that all such invitations indicate that "tickets are not for sale."
“Everyone who tries to sell tickets to the events of the Circle of Light festival is committing fraudulent activities,” the organizers emphasized.
Apparently, tickets to the stands of the Rowing Canal are sold by those who received them, participating in various kinds of promotions and projects. At the same time, the purchase of such tickets "not for sale" carries a rather high risk. The fact is that among the sellers there may be real scammers who sell non-existent tickets, for example, printed on a color printer, or electronic. Since tickets were not on sale in principle, buying them by hand can turn into problems. Controllers will check them and not allow those people who have “fakes” in their hands to the stands. At the same time, it is impossible to prove that you acquired them legally, since, as already emphasized above, they were not on sale.
Moscow International Festival "Circle of Light" will be held in Moscow from 21 to 25 September. In total, five open areas will be involved: Tsaritsyno, Kolomenskoye, Theater Square, the Museum of Victory on Poklonnaya Hill and the Rowing Canal in Krylatskoye. At the same time, two main events, opening and closing, will take place this year in Krylatskoye.
According to the organizers, last year, 2017, the show was visited by a total of about four million people. This time the number of viewers can reach five million. At the same time, it is possible that the site in Krylatskoye will be visited by the largest number of light show fans - about half a million people.
The traditional international festival Circle of Light 2017 will be held this year in Moscow for the seventh time from 23 to 27 September.
The Circle of Light festival will be the brightest visual and sound spectacle this autumn in Moscow.
Six venues have been selected to display all the events of the Circle of Light festival, where residents of the capital and guests of Moscow will be able to see all this.
Circle of Light. Ostankino 2017. September 23-24, 20.00 – 21.15
The opening of the festival will take place in Ostankino and is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Ostankino Tower. Every minute the TV tower will take on the images of the most famous skyscrapers in the world. This is the Eiffel Tower and the Empire State Building in New York. All the world's high-rise buildings from the USA, France, Canada, UAE, China and Australia.
The Ostankino Pond will also become an arena for a multimedia light show. Viewers will see Lavender fields, Niagara Falls, Yellowstone Park and Bamboo Flute Caves, visit the Sahara, the Great Barrier Reef.
The multimedia show will be complemented by a real ice show with figure skaters.
Circle of Light. Bolshoi and Maly theatres, September 23-27, 19.30-23.00
The debutant of the festival will be the Maly Theatre, which will be integrated with the façade of the Bolshoi Theatre. Two light shows will be shown: "Celestial Mechanics" - about loneliness and love, and "Timeless".
Circle of Light. Park "Tsaritsyno", September 23-27, 19.30-23.00
An audiovisual performance "Palace of Senses" will be shown on the building of the Great Catherine Palace.
The Tsaritsyno Pond will become the venue for a light and music show of fountains. .
Circle of Light. Mir Theater and Concert Hall and Digital October Center 23 – 24 September
On September 24 at 20.00 in the theater and concert hall "Mir" the audience will witness the competitive battle of the best light and music artists.
On September 24, from 12.00 to 18.00, the Digital October Center will be able to listen to free lectures by light designers and creators of laser installations.
Circle of the World 2017. Strogino floodplain, September 27, 21.30-22.00
On September 27, a 30-minute Japanese fireworks display will be presented on the water in the Strogino floodplain. For this, barges with pyrotechnic installations will be installed. Light paintings will come to life at a height of 500 meters, and the diameter of the light domes will be 240 meters.
Tomorrow, September 24, the Circle of Light festival will continue its work. Another exciting event awaits Muscovites and guests tomorrow
