PROGRAMM
Okho

23.06 su 18:00
Okho

Gran' Drama Theatre (Novokuibyshevsk)
Anton Chekhov. Three Sisters
If only I knew, if only I knew!

Production – Denis Bokuradze
Set Design – Denis Bokuradze with the participation of Viktor Nikonenko 
Costume Designer – Ursula Berg 
Lighting Designer – Evgeny Ganzburg
Composer – Arseny Plaksin
Choreographer - Alexander Shuisky 
Assistant Choreographer – Irina Pavlova
Video Sequence Director – Leonid Yanshin

18+

Drama Theater "Gran" from the small town of Novokuibyshevsk in the Samara region came to be known throughout Russia in the 2010s, when the performances of the new Artistic Director Denis Bokuradze one after another began to get into the long and short lists of the 'Golden Mask' Russian National Theatre Award, and to receive nominations and win prizes from this and other Russian theatre awards. Denis Bokuradze, an actor who matured professionally in the theatres SamArt and Gran', and a director who combined the chamber space of the theatre and major dramaturgy, classics and modernity, has been staging a lot in Moscow in recent years: at the Taganka Theatre and the Theatre of Nations. In his native Novokuibyshev theatre company, he created a cohesive troupe and production team, preserving the spirit of a studio and passion for careful elaboration of details.

The premiere of the play Three Sisters took place in February 2023. Chekhov's text is not only preserved in its entirety, but expanded with the help of plastic theatre techniques. The protagonist (who is taking an active part, and not just dreaming vainly) of the production is time. The time is manifested in the dials projected onto the backdrop, the ticking of the clock woven into the soundtrack by Arseny Plaksin, and is perceived in physical sensations. The performance lasts for five hours, and the agonizing wait which Chekhov's characters dwell in is transmitted directly to the audience. The artists act very close to the audience, they address those sitting in the hall asking them to move from one seat to another, as if reminding them: 'This is all about you.'
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Gran' Drama Theatre (Novokuibyshevsk)
Anton Chekhov Three Sisters
If only I knew, if only I knew!

Production – Denis Bokuradze
Set Design – Denis Bokuradze with the participation of Viktor Nikonenko 
Costume Designer – Ursula Berg 
Lighting Designer – Evgeny Ganzburg
Composer – Arseny Plaksin
Choreographer - Alexander Shuisky 
Assistant Choreographer – Irina Pavlova
Video Sequence Director – Leonid Yanshin

18+

Drama Theater "Gran" from the small town of Novokuibyshevsk in the Samara region came to be known throughout Russia in the 2010s, when the performances of the new Artistic Director Denis Bokuradze one after another began to get into the long and short lists of the 'Golden Mask' Russian National Theatre Award, and to receive nominations and win prizes from this and other Russian theatre awards. Denis Bokuradze, an actor who matured professionally in the theatres SamArt and Gran', and a director who combined the chamber space of the theatre and major dramaturgy, classics and modernity, has been staging a lot in Moscow in recent years: at the Taganka Theatre and the Theatre of Nations. In his native Novokuibyshev theatre company, he created a cohesive troupe and production team, preserving the spirit of a studio and passion for careful elaboration of details.

The premiere of the play Three Sisters took place in February 2023. Chekhov's text is not only preserved in its entirety, but expanded with the help of plastic theatre techniques. The protagonist (who is taking an active part, and not just dreaming vainly) of the production is time. The time is manifested in the dials projected onto the backdrop, the ticking of the clock woven into the soundtrack by Arseny Plaksin, and is perceived in physical sensations. The performance lasts for five hours, and the agonizing wait which Chekhov's characters dwell in is transmitted directly to the audience. The artists act very close to the audience, they address those sitting in the hall asking them to move from one seat to another, as if reminding them: 'This is all about you.'
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А physical drama
Set to music by Iannis Xenakis and Joseph Tompkins
Choreographer: Vladimir Varnava

Programme:
Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001)
Rebonds A/B for percussion solo (1987–1989)
Okho for three djembe (1989)
Joseph Tompkins (b. 1970)
To Varese for percussion solo (2015)
Iannis Xenakis
Persephassa, percussion sextet (1969)

Performers:
musicAeterna Dance
Artistic director: Anna Guseva
Choreographer: Anastasia Peshkova

Moscow Percussion Ensemble
Artistic director: Andrey Volosovsky

12+

Okho is a physical drama for nine dancers of musicAeterna Dance and six percussionists of the Moscow Percussion Ensemble. The drama is based on cosmogonic myths that in one way or another interpret the theme of the transformation of Chaos into Cosmos (Order). The stage action unfolds between dancers and musicians in a common field of attraction and repulsion, creation and destruction. In the juxtaposition of movements, intense pulsation of percussive timbres and rhythms, the drama participants explore the limits of their physical abilities to discover where the body ends and pure energy begins.

The performance Okho follows the ideas of the Greek classical yet avant-garde composer and architect Iannis Xenakis which he expressed in his music for percussion instruments.
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Private Philharmonic Triumph

‘It Seems That Everything Kicked off Because of Gesualdo’
Concert-reading

The author of the project and the literary and stage adaptation Ksenia Anufrieva

Performers:
N’Caged Vocal Ensemble
Arina Zvereva
Anastasia Polyanina
Olga Rossini
Sergey Malinin
Ilya Laptev

12+

Created by Arina Zvereva in 2015, the vocal ensemble N'CAGED is widely known for its interpretations of contemporary music, often written specifically for this group. Since 2015, the ensemble's soloists have taken part in the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre productions, received nominations and prizes of the Golden Mask National Theatre Awards for their work. Chamber projects, including site-specific ones and those that took place in museums also form a large part in the work of the ensemble.
A new format — a concert-reading — appeared in line with the ensemble’s track. The project was inspired by the exhibition Named by Vasari. Mannerism, which has been held at the NCCA Nizhny Novgorod — Arsenal from the autumn of 2023 to the spring of 2024.
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