Circle of Light official tickets. "Tsaritsyno": water orchestra and "Palace of feelings"

The Circle of Light Festival is underway, during which the architectural space of the city will be transformed by the hands of lighting designers and professionals in the field of 2D and 3D graphics.

The facades of religious buildings will be transformed into something extraordinary, will be painted bright colors light show and show completely different and unimaginable landscapes and stories.

The festival originates from the city of Lyon in France late XVII century, later finds popularity throughout Europe.

In 2002, Anton Chukaev (a Moscow artist) sent an application to the Moscow Committee for Culture to hold such an event, but only after 9 years did the debut of the festival take place, which was recognized and received annual status.

Festival themes

Every year the festival has a new theme.

• In 2012 - "The Energy of Life" (the main idea is the speed of changes in the consciousness of society, fashion, tastes, the idea is the unity of peoples and cultures).
• In 2013 - "Relay of Light" (during the festival he arrived in Moscow Olympic Flame, 11 countries of the world take part)
• IN 2014 - " Trip around the world» (merged into multimedia show iconic places and sights of the capital)
• In 2015 - "In the city of light" (an amazing journey to the capital, which no one has ever seen before)
• In 2016 - "Circle of Light" (a grandiose journey around the world)
• In 2017 - "The Seven Tallest Buildings in the World" (Eiffel Tower (300 meters), Dubai's Burj Khalifa (828 meters) and New York's Empire State Building (443 meters), Toronto TV Tower (553 meters), Shanghai (486 meters), Tokyo (332 meters) and Sydney (309 meters).

"Circle of Light" for children

The event is generally family format and involves a wide audience coverage - it is interesting for everyone. In 2015, for example, on Lubyanka, the Central Children's Store was painted with bright colors fairytale heroes and showed the small spectators a parade of toys.

Reviews and photo reports

The number of visitors is growing every year - from 1 million (in 2011) to 8 million people (in 2017). Entrance to the festival is free, anyone can become part of the show. Just to see the opening ceremony as close as possible, you need to have an invitation card, which in turn can be obtained through social media or win a contest on the festival's official page (they are distributed by the department of the Moscow government).

It is interesting to look at the festival works of past years, such an opportunity is given by the reports of Turister users. RU. The festival was held from September 26 to October 4. 9 sites were involved. This year, the event entered the Guinness Book of Records for the first time as the largest video projection (on the building of the Ministry of Defense on Frunzenskaya embankment). In the year from September 23 to September 27. Light shows were held at 6 venues, 2 light shows were shown with a total duration of about 50 minutes (“Unlimited Moscow State University” and “Keeper”). At the end of every evening pyrotechnic show(more than 19,000 fireworks). It also broke its own record in the Guinness Book of Records - the largest video projection.

Awards and achievements of the festival "Circle of Light"

• Moscow Design Biennale - 1st place in the Multimedia Show/Event Design category (2016)
• "Guinness Book of Records" nomination "The largest video projection" (2016)
• "Guinness Book of Records" nomination "The largest light output when projecting an image" (2016)
• "Guinness Book of Records" nomination "The largest video projection" (2015)
• "Innovation Time" nomination "Event Project of the Year" (2015)
• "Event of the Year" nomination "City Event of the Year" (2015)
• The Moscow Times Awards nomination "Cultural Event of the Year" (2014)
• "Best in Russia/Best.ru" nomination "The best cultural event of the year" (2014)
• "Guiding Star" nomination "Best Event Project" (2014)
• "Brand No. 1 in Russia" category "Festival" (2013, 2014)
• "Brand of the Year / EFFIE" category "Entertainment" (2011, 2012)

Where will the Circle of Light festival take place in 2019: program

Preliminary action plan:

• Solemn opening / closing ceremony of the festival: September 21 - 25
• Competition "ART VISION VJing": September 22 ( concert hall"World")
• Competition "ART VISION Modern": September 23 (facade of the Grand Tsaritsyno Palace)
• Competition "ART VISION Classic»»: September 24 (Russian Academic youth theater, Bolshoi and Maly theaters of Moscow)

How to get there

Every year the venues are different and different parts cities. The only trend is that there are very few parking spaces, the best option to bypass traffic jams, use the metro or any other public transport.

Even in Moscow, it is convenient to use taxi applications - Uber, Gett, Yandex. Taxi and others.

Festival "Circle of Light": video

The opening ceremony of the Circle of Light festival will be held in Ostankino. An incredible show is being prepared using lasers, light, choreography of fountains and video projections, the height of which will reach 330 meters. With the help of all this, the audience will make a journey through the most beautiful places of our planet: from the lavender fields to the Sahara desert. And see how Ostankino tower reincarnated in the Eiffel and other world skyscrapers. The performance will be clearly visible from all sides. The show will be shown on September 23 and 24, beginning at 20:00, duration - 40 minutes. At the end, a 7-minute pyrotechnic show awaits you.

theatre square

We will see boring classics on the facades of the Bolshoi and Maly theatres, united into one stage space. In cascades of light and visual effects on the walls historical buildings the works of Russian classics will come to life: fragments from Chekhov, Ostrovsky and Gogol. Performances will go on every day, starting at 19:30. Here you can also see the works of the finalists of the Artvision competition: architectural video mapping, 3D projections and new art trends.

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During the days of the festival, it is worth getting to Tsaritsyn. Facade Grand Palace will “come alive” with the help of light and music and will tell the audience about his feelings. A show of dancing fountains to the accompaniment will be arranged on Tsaritsynsky Pond musical works Russian composers. The park will install incredible light sculptures created by designers from all over the world. On September 24, the Soprano project will perform. Every day starts at 19:30.

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Most big show will be shown on the Stroginskaya floodplain on the closing day. Hundreds of pyrotechnic charges will be launched from barges on the water. Japanese fireworks are distinguished by their brightness and variety of colors - this is a must see. Only on September 27, from 21:30 to 22:00.

Competitions of light and music teams will be held in the Mir concert hall. Each participant will present a 10-minute set. New works will be created in real time at the intersection of video, light and music. The event will be held on September 24, beginning at 20:00, entrance by

The opening ceremony of the international festival "Circle of Light" ended with a grandiose salute. The festival is held for the seventh year in a row and gathers a huge number of guests and participants. There are six venues in Moscow, where everyone will be able to watch bright light shows until September 27. The Ostankino TV Tower is one of the main participants in the project. She will have a whole series of amazing transformations, and you can see them even from a long distance.

The opening of the Circle of Light festival has already broken all records in terms of the amount of equipment - 200 fountains, 6 megawatts of power, dozens of projectors - and in terms of the number of spectators. About 250 thousand people gathered in Ostankino alone to watch the brightest performance of autumn.

Travel around the world - the great skyscrapers of the world in one place. The Ostankino Tower, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, momentarily turned into both the Eiffel Tower and Dubai's Burj Khalifa skyscraper. Toronto, Shanghai and Tokyo TV towers.

“Famous high-rise buildings, the great high-rise buildings of the world are uniting to once again remind people how beautiful our world is, how important it is to protect it, and what miracles nature has created,” says Vladimir Demekhin, director of the Ostankino site of the Circle of Light festival.

A fairy-tale world in which lavender fields bloom, the noise of Niagara Falls. The heat of the Sahara desert envelops the audience with bright fire, and the Fujiyama volcano fascinates with its power.

Ice and fire. Famous figure skaters Tatyana Navka and Pyotr Chernyshev, Alexander Smirnov and Yuko Kawaguchi are at the Ostankino Pond.

Fountains, burners, lighting fixtures. For a year, the organizers came up with a program, chose sites in Moscow, looked for the right amount of equipment that was brought to the capital from all over the country. Every detail matters.

“We have united a lot of people, more than a thousand people work here. We worked even harder in preparation for the festival. This is fireworks, this is water, these are lasers, this is a show,” says Elena Andreeva, coordinator of the Circle of Light Moscow International Festival.

"Circle of Light" - in various parts of Moscow. In Tsaritsyno Bolshoi Catherine Palace comes to life before the eyes of the audience. "Palace of Senses" - a performance under open sky. The building, complex in architecture, moves, turns into abstract images, then into unusual figures.

On Theater Square, the facades of the Bolshoi and Maly theaters show the idea of ​​"celestial mechanics", in which loneliness and love coexist.

For five days, Moscow turned into the capital of the world. The culmination of the opening ceremony is a grand fireworks display, a show not to be missed.

The brightest, fantastic moment that everyone was waiting for. Hundreds of lights seem to embrace the Ostankino TV tower. The spectacle is simply incredible. This is a must see!

The festival of light in Moscow becomes a real gift to all lovers of extraordinary art.

Festival "Circle of Light" in the midst of "golden autumn" fills the capital of Russia with bright colors of high-tech works of art. Leading Russian and foreign lighting designers, 2D and 3D artists are joining forces to decorate the architectural space of Moscow with incredible multimedia installations, each of which is worthy of the title of a masterpiece. Since the start of the festival in 2011, the capital's Department of Funds has been its creators mass media and Advertising and Department national policy, interregional relations and tourism in Moscow. Each season, the Circle of Light dedicates its program to the most important anniversaries and events celebrated by the whole country.

The Circle of Light venues will traditionally be several significant architectural objects in the central part of the Mother See. The opening ceremony of the festival will unfold at the foot of the legendary Ostankino TV Tower and the adjacent Ostankino Pond (September 23 and 24 at 20:00). The guests of the festival will enjoy a multimedia show-tour through different countries of the world and their geographical natural beauties . The final chord of the ceremony will be a 15-minute pyrotechnic performance.

The most spectacular multimedia performances throughout the existence of the festival, many viewers of the "Circle of Light" invariably recognize the projection shows on the facade Bolshoi Theater, which are inspired by the brightest images from classical ballets and performances. In 2017, the projection space of the Circle of Light festival on Theater Square will also expand to the Maly Theater, where a light performance of participants in the ARTVISION competition will be shown in the nomination "Modern".

Light shows of the Circle of Light 2017 cover the Great Catherine Palace in Tsaritsyno Park, the MIR concert hall, the Digital October art center, Patriarch's Ponds and the water area of ​​the Stroginsky backwater. The last venue for the first time in the history of the festival will host the performance of pyrotechnicians from the Country rising sun. On the last day of the festive marathon, a large-scale 30-minute pyrotechnic show from Japanese manufacturers awaits its guests. Hundreds of pyrotechnic charges will be launched from four barges, the largest of which reaches a caliber of 600 mm.

Six venues in Moscow will host unique programs. Guests, for example, will be able to travel to different countries and learn how the fountains sing.

VII Moscow international festival"Circle of Light" will be held from 23 to 27 September. Large-scale video projections and installations will be shown at several city venues. It is planned that about six million people will become guests. You can come to the performances for free.

Ostankino: Sahara desert and lavender fields

"Circle of Light" will open on September 23 at 20:00. The musical and multimedia show will be shown on the surface of the Ostankino pond and on the TV tower. Will repeat it the next day.

The audience will travel to different countries of the world. Using pyrotechnic technology, they will see lavender fields in France, Yellowstone national park in the USA and the Bamboo Flute Cave in China, will be transported to the foot of the Niagara Falls, to the Sahara Desert, to Lake Baikal and the Ural Mountains.

The performance will end with a 15-minute show, during which the Ostankino Tower will alternately turn into the TV towers of Tokyo, Toronto, Shanghai, the Burj Khalifa (UAE) and the Eiffel Tower. The height of the video projections is 330 meters.

Theater Square: Art Vision and Past Centuries

The site will unite two buildings - the Bolshoi and Maly theatres. All days of the festival here will show themed light shows"Celestial Mechanics" (about loneliness and love) and "Timeless" (studies based on the works of outstanding Russian playwrights). Also on the facades will show the work of the finalists international competition Art Vision, held as part of the festival.

How do 2D and 3D light-color projections interact on a building? What discoveries have been made in this area? Participants of the Art Vision contest will answer these and other questions. On the facade of the Bolshoi Theater they will show works in the Classic category, and on the facade of the Maly Theater in the Modern category.

"Tsaritsyno": water orchestra and "Palace of feelings"

The Palace of the Senses performance will be shown on the facade of the Grand Palace. The building will come alive with a unique combination of light and music. Mikhail Turetsky's Soprano art group will perform against the backdrop of a video projection. This is a team with different female voices from coloratura to mezzo-soprano. On all days except the first, the group's compositions will be recorded. And on September 25, Dmitry Malikov will arrive at Tsaritsyno, who will perform famous classical works. They will be translated into visual images. Such an experiment at the Circle of Light will be held for the first time.

A show of fountains will take place on Tsaritsynsky Pond - accompanied by works by Russian composers, they will turn into a water orchestra. In the park, guests will also see original installations by leading lighting designers from around the world.

Digital October: robots and math

Lighting artists and professionals in the field will meet at the Digital October site visual art. Discussions, seminars and lectures will be held here on September 23 and 24.

At the discussion “When will robots replace designers?” representatives of IT companies will discuss what advantages and dangers new technologies can bring to creative professionals. Will they replace the artist or provide new opportunities?

At the lecture “Fulldome Revolution”, Portuguese media artist Pedro Zaza will talk about the history of 360-degree dome projection and virtual reality. He will also touch upon the use of augmented reality technologies in contemporary art.

Media artist and programmer Ilya Derzaev will hold a master class "Touchdesigner: elementary mathematics". Is it true that mathematics will never come in handy in life? After all, even in computer graphics for the person all do programs. How hard is it really? It turns out that complex visualizations can be created by knowing only the high school program.

The lecture “From Phantasmagoria to Sensory Reality” will be delivered by VJ and curator of many festivals Olga Mink from the Netherlands. She will talk about artists working at the intersection of technologies, optical illusions, sound, performance and cinema. It will explain how science and art are connected.

Graphic and motion designer Ivan Gorokhov will hold a presentation “Videomapping. entertainment and efficiency. It concerns not only general aesthetic issues but also technical nuances and problems. He will tell you how to solve them and what to do with them.

A detailed schedule of classes is on the festival website.

Concert hall "Mir": musical battle and VJ-sets

The best light and music teams of the Art Vision competition in the VJing nomination will compete on this site. Participants will show the guests VJ-sets, which will last for ten minutes. To the music, the contestants will create their own masterpieces using visual images and video clips. You can register.

Strogino: Japanese fireworks and unique drawings

The festival will close on September 27 in the Strogino floodplain. Japanese pyrotechnicians are preparing a half-hour fireworks display. Hundreds of charges will be launched from four barges. The largest of them is 600 mm caliber. This has not yet been shown in Russia. The charges will open at a height of more than 500 meters, the diameter of the light domes is about 240 meters. Each shot is a special charge trajectory and a unique pattern. The choice of venue was taken very seriously: the Strogino floodplain is the safest for such a show. In addition, about 300 thousand spectators will be able to come there.

Fireworks are made in Japan, which have no analogues in the world - they are brighter than all the others.

Records and achievements

In 2015 and 2016, the festival was included in the Guinness Book of Records in the nomination "The largest video projection", last year - in the nomination "The largest light output when projecting an image." This time, the President of the World Federation of High-Rise Towers, Daniel Thomas, plans to present the Mayor of Moscow with an award "For contribution to the formation of the cultural and tourist image of the world's great towers." The organization, established in 1989, brings together high-rise buildings. The list includes only those where there are observation platforms. Among them are the Guangzhou TV Tower in China, the Empire State Building in the USA, Torre de Collserola in Spain, the Ostankino TV Tower and others.

Over the years of the festival's existence - it has been held since 2011 - the number of its guests has increased from 200 thousand people to more than six million (last year). Of these, 100 thousand are foreign tourists.