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Members:
Quidams (France)
Stelzen-Art (Germany)
Close-Act (Netherlands)
Serious Clowns (UK-Germany)
"AKHE" (St. Petersburg)
Studiya.33 (St. Petersburg)
"Light of the Face" (Moscow)
"Constellation" (New Usman)
"Art-Courage-Show" (Voronezh)
Theaters of Fire and Light (Russia)
Dixie-Alex-Band (Voronezh)
For the first time, the Platonov Festival Theater Parade will take place after sunset! to traditional expressive means(fantastic costumes, festive props, interactive with the audience) new ones will be added - lighting effects and lights.
Parade route: from the monument to Andrei Platonov to Lenin Square. Then the procession participants will give several street performances on the main square of the city.
Quidams (France)
The company was founded in 1994. She has more than a dozen performances to her credit, successfully shown in Europe, Asia, South America and Australia. Quidams brings together twenty artists and technical specialists various directions (theatre, dance, music and circus). Artistic director- Jean-Baptiste Dupre. In addition to performances, the company holds master classes, open rehearsals and creative street art workshops.
Stelzen-Art (Germany)
This is one of the largest and most successful stilted theaters in Germany. Founded in 2001. It consists of 20 actors led by the Swiss artist Janina Jaeggi and her husband Martin Sasse. The theater has more than 120 shows and victories at the carnival of cultures Sapucaiu no samba, the Altonale festival in Hamburg and the Carnival in Aalborg (Denmark).
Close-Act (Netherlands)
The street theatre, founded in 1991, combines different kinds arts: dance, music and circus. Close-Act is not only performers with great physical training, but also impressive moving objects and aerial machinery. The band is led by Hester Mellier and Tony Aerts.
Serious Clowns (UK-Germany)
Serious Clowns was founded in 2013 as a collaboration of artists from different countries. Clownery, pantomime, drama performed by professionals working with such legends as the Slava Polunin Theater and the Cirque du Soleil captivate audiences from all over the world.
Theater "AKHE" (St. Petersburg)
The AKHE Engineering Theater was founded in 1989 by members of the legendary DaNet Theater by Boris Ponizovsky: Maxim Isaev, Pavel Semchenko and Vadim Vasiliev. Based in the famous Pushkinskaya-10 Art Center, they continued to paint, make films, participate in various shows and create unique performances that brought AKHE great fame.
Then Vadim Vasiliev left the team, and the group began to increasingly use the theater space and the laws of the theater. Since that time, "AKHE" - permanent member theater festivals Worldwide. Collaborated with the Slava Polunin Theatre, the DEREVO Theatre, the Formal Theatre, the BDT im. G.A. Tovstonogov, Alexandrinsky Theater and other teams.
Laureates of the "Innovation" award at the festival " Golden Mask”, the Fringe First and Total Theater Award at the Fringe Festival (Edinburgh), the Grand Prix of the Jury at the Mimos Festival in Perigue (France) and many other awards.
Street theater "Studiya.33" (St. Petersburg)
Studiya.33 is street theater on stilts, a team of circus and drama artists. Their repertoire includes shows of various scales: from interactive improvisations to carnival processions and city holidays.
Street theater "Light of the face" (Moscow)
"Light of the Face" presents the audience with a modern technological light show. For each performance, the team develops its own engineering solutions. Cryoeffects, pneumatic and mechanical structures are often used.
Circus studio "Constellation" (New Usman, Voronezh region)
"Constellation" - the most famous children's creative team in the Novousmansky district. The studio was founded in 1995. More than 140 pupils from 5 to 18 years old are involved in it. The creator and head of the studio is Nina Kozlova. The team performed in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Bulgaria, Sweden and Finland. Participant of the Theater Parade of the Platonov Festival in 2016.
In 2009, on the basis of the circus studio "Constellation" was created children's theater clowns and eccentrics "Joker", which is directed by the artist of the Voronezh Youth Theater Yaroslav Kozlov.
Theater Studio "Art-Courage-Show" (Voronezh)
The studio presents performances in different genres- soap and LED shows, children's performances and dance numbers. They took part in the Theater Parade of the Platonov Festival in 2016.
Team "Theatres of Fire and Light" (Russia)
With the participation of theaters: "Berkana" from Rostov-on-Don, AURUM from Moscow, "Fire Mill" and Jet-Set from Voronezh.
Dixie-Alex-Band (Voronezh)
The only ensemble in the city that plays in the style of Dixieland was formed in 2005. The orchestra includes: trombone, trumpet, clarinet, saxophone, tuba, bass guitar, banjo, electric guitar, drums. The group participated in the festivals "Autumn Rhythms" in St. Petersburg, "Jazz Province" in Voronezh, "Jazz on Sura" in Penza, "Jazz on the Volga" in Yaroslavl and others.
The theater parade of the Platonov Festival has been held in Voronezh since 2014. Stilt walkers, puppeteers, mimes, acrobats, dancers and musicians march along Revolutsii Avenue on June 12, Russia's holiday. See the parade and take pictures with unusual characters more than 15,000 people come every year.
The theater parade "Summer Lights" will be held in the center of Voronezh as part of the Platonov Festival at 21:00 on Monday, June 12. Correspondents of RIA "Voronezh" prepared a review of the most interesting images, which the townspeople will see at the festive procession.
Walkers in inflatable costumes
Photo - provided by the Directorate of the Platonov FestivalThe German theater Stelzen-Art brought a team of stilt walkers to the Platonov Festival, who will walk around the city in inflatable luminous costumes. Ballerinas in luminous tutus and butterflies with giant wings will walk along Revolution Avenue. According to the artists, they have recently started using inflatable costumes. Previously, they performed in simple colorful dresses, but once they tried to inflate them, and it turned out that under the influence of air the costumes turned into something incredible.
The Stelzen-Art theater has a very small troupe that started out as a company of actors. A few years ago, German artists realized that they wanted to travel and show the art of street theater around the world. Now they themselves organize a street festival in their hometown Bremen. After the parade, Stelzen-Art will give a performance "Flower and Butterfly" on Lenin Square.
"Proud Horses"
Artists French theater Quidams will be released in the parade of large glowing horses. Inflatable figures will be attached to the bodies of the artists. Quidams is a troupe of 20 people specialized in theatre, dance and circus art, so that the horses will look like trained. After the parade, the Proud Horses of the Quidams Theater will perform on Lenin Square.
Dinosaurs
Close-Act Theater (Netherlands) started with two costumes, now the troupe has 50 people. In total, the Dutch artists have 12 dinosaurs, they brought three to Voronezh.
“We love to surprise people and give them something they don't expect, make them turn on their imaginations and feel like children. When people turn out into the street and accidentally bump into us as dinosaurs, their reaction is the most precious thing for us. They laugh, they get scared, but the most interesting thing is when they come up with own history why all of a sudden there was a dragon on the street or, for example, a witch on stilts, - said actress Aife de Groot.
Dinosaurs of the Dutch theater Close-Act will be able to take a closer look after the parade on Lenin Square.
sad clowns
The style of Serious Clowns (Great Britain-Germany) is gloomy clowning. Voronezh residents could already get to know the artists at their street performance on Sovetskaya Square "The Lost Wheels of Time", based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Yevgeny Schwartz's Tale of Lost Time. This show, according to the artists, has not yet been completed to the end. Serious Clowns staged it in Tel Aviv, and they had only a week to prepare the premiere. Therefore, a significant part of the show is occupied by improvisation. The artists were looking for props for the performance right on the streets among old newspapers and discarded rubbish. Characters from a fairy tale will take part in the procession along Revolution Avenue - a rabbit, a hatter and gloomy clowns in papier-mâché masks.
Serious Clowns performers love to connect with the audience. After the performance on Sovetskaya Square, the clowns noted that the Voronezh audience is very attentive, interested and involved. True, the actors lost several masks. The artists asked those who found or took the props to return them to the theater.
Wheel of Samsara
Artists of the AKHE theater from St. Petersburg emphasize that this is not a street, but an engineering theater - a cult Petersburg underground organization, which was originally based in the well-known independent art center "Pushkinskaya, 10". At the heart of all the performances of "AKHE" is acrobatics on complex engineering structures. Especially for the Voronezh parade, the artists made the wheel of Samsara. There are no words in AKHE's performances, but there are pictures that they paint with the help of music, costumes and their bodies. The company's props are the simplest things - plastic glasses, glasses, stones and even undercooked pasta.
On Tuesday, June 13, at 21:00 on Sovetskaya Square, AKHE will show the performance “Foam of Days” - an acrobatic fantasy based on the works of french classic Boris Vian. At the end of the show, the artists promise to have a foam party.
Also participating in the Summer Lights parade will be Studiya.33, a street theater on stilts from St. Usmani, Voronezh theatre studio"Art-Courage-Show", the combined team "Theaters of Fire and Light" with the participation of artists from Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don and Moscow, and the Voronezh ensemble "Dixie-Alex-band", playing jazz in the New Orleans style.
The route of the theatrical parade "Summer Lights" will run from the monument to Andrei Platonov along Revolution Avenue to Lenin Square. Start of the column at 21:00. In 2017, the procession of street theaters will be held for the first time in. After the procession is over, several groups will perform for free on Lenin Square.
The parade of street theaters has been held annually at the Platonov Festival on Russia Day, June 12, since 2014.
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First theater parade The Platonov Festival will take place after sunset!
Traditional expressive means (fantastic costumes, festive props, interactive with the audience) will be supplemented with new ones — lighting effects and lights.
Parade route: from the monument to Andrei Platonov to Lenin Square. Then the procession participants will give several street performances on the main square of the city.
Quidams (France)
The company was founded in 1994. She has more than a dozen performances to her credit, successfully shown in Europe, Asia, South America and Australia. Quidams brings together twenty artists and technicians from various disciplines (theater, dance, music and circus).
Stelzen-art (Germany). For the first time in Russia!
This is one of the largest and most successful stilted theaters in Germany. Founded in 2001. It consists of 20 actors led by the Swiss artist Janina Jaeggi and her husband Martin Sasse. The theater has more than 120 shows and victories at the carnival of cultures Sapucaiu no samba, the Altonale festival in Hamburg and the Carnival in Aalborg (Denmark).
Close-act (Netherlands)
Street theater, created in 1991, combines various art forms: dance, music and circus. Close-Act are not only performers with excellent physical preparation, but also impressive moving objects and aerial machinery. The band is led by Hester Mellier and Tony Aerts.
Serious clowns (UK - Germany)
Serious Clowns was founded in 2013 as a collaboration of artists from different countries. Clownery, pantomime, drama performed by professionals working with such legends as the Slava Polunin Theater and the Cirque du Soleil captivate audiences from all over the world.
Theater "AKHE" (St. Petersburg)
Engineering theater "AKHE" was founded in 1989 by members of the legendary theater "DaNet" Boris Ponizovsky: Maxim Isaev, Pavel Semchenko and Vadim Vasiliev. Based in the famous Pushkinskaya-10 Art Center, they continued to paint, make films, participate in various shows and create unique performances that brought AKHE great fame.
Then Vadim Vasiliev left the team, and the group began to increasingly use the theater space and the laws of the theater. Since that time, AKHE has been a regular participant in theater festivals around the world. Collaborated with the Slava Polunin Theatre, the DEREVO Theatre, the Formal Theatre, the BDT im. G.A. Tovstonogov, Alexandrinsky Theater and other groups.
Laureates of the Innovation Award at the Golden Mask Festival, the Fringe First and Total Theater Award at the Fringe Festival (Edinburgh), the Grand Prix of the Jury at the Mimos Festival in Perigue (France) and many other awards.
Street theater "Studiya.33" (St. Petersburg)
Studiya.33 is a street theater on stilts, a team of circus and drama artists. Their repertoire includes shows of various scales: from interactive improvisations to carnival processions and city holidays.
Street theater "Light of the face" (Moscow)
"Light of the Face" presents the audience with a modern technological light show. For each performance, the team develops its own engineering solutions. Cryoeffects, pneumatic and mechanical structures are often used.
