Performance “Därdemänd” is the brainchild of a dancer Nurbek Batulla, choreographer Marcel Nureyev, director Tufan Imamutdinov, and composer Elmir Nizamov — like-minded people who founded the creative association "Alif" in Kazan in 2017. At the time, their first project was a plastic performance of the same name: as a result, it not only proclaimed the ideological principles of the alliance, but also won Nurbek Batulla a Golden Mask for performing skills. Since then, Batulla and the "Alif" brand have officially presented Tatar contemporary art and dance, which addresses the national identity and the difficult fate of the native written language ground up in the dramas of the 20th century.

At the junction of dance, performance, physical theatre, poetry, and music, "Alif" explores the connection of Tatar people with their native language, and more broadly with history and myth. The 20th century, which marked the transition from Arabic script to Cyrillic script for the Tatars, almost completely deprived them of the opportunity to speak with their ancestors. Now they communicate with them through flesh and blood, through the body – a tool that allows them to find support. For example, in the production "Әlif" Nurbek Batulla dances the Tatar alphabet through on the sand: words and phrases are formed from letters and his plastics, ancient music and vocals filled with the bitterness of lost memory echo his movements. The "Sak-Sok", where Nurbek also acts as a director, and the language of contemporary dance is mixed with breakdancing in the flickering of a strobe light, has been called an initiation rite and a search for spiritual power. The choral oratorio "Әllүki" combines five poems by the Tatar poetry classic Gabdulla Tukai under the title of a Tatar lullaby: the tragic fate of the language is narrated here with gestures of the graduates of the theatre school for the deaf "Inclusion".

In each of its productions, the "Alif" association draws the lost word from the depths of memory and returns it to the "right now" moment using the body language and dance. The starting point for all their works is the verbal impulse. The cross-genre performance “Därdemänd” was based on the poetry of an industrialist Zakir Ramiev who lived at the turn of the 20th century — the Persian word "Därdemänd", meaning "saddened", was taken by the philanthropist as a pen-name. His focus was not the euphonious beauty of rhyme, but the density of thought and meanings that could become a new vision of art. Ramiev's philosophical arguments were supported neither then, nor later, but almost 100 years after his death they turned out to be in tune with the descendants, who, led by director Tufan Imamutdinov, decided to retrieve the poet's ideas and memory.

The plastic design of the performance is organised around the improvisation of Nurbek Batulla. He explores the different qualities of movement in allusion to the poetry of Därdemänd performed by the countertenor Rustam Yavaev. It all starts with groping steps and pauses, and ends with a frenzied dance: plastic is born here and now from the musical trialogue of the violin, viola, and double bass, and inside the body of Nurbek himself, who once again is passing the initiation rite in search of the spiritual power of his ancestors.

Nurbek Batulla is a choreographer, director, and dancer. He is a graduate of the Kazan Choreographic School and the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (RGISI) in St. Petersburg. He received the Golden Mask-2018 National Theatre Award in the category "Male role / Modern dance" for his performance in "Әlif". Currently, he is the resident of the MOÑ Theatrical Venue.

Marcel Nureyev is a dancer and choreographer. He graduated from the Theatre Department of the Kazan University of Culture and Art. From 2005 to 2013 he was an artist of the dance theatre "The Road from the City", since 2010 he has been the head of the student dance theatre "Without Words". He is the choreographer and performer of the dance performance "DӨR", awarded in several nominations with Golden Mask-2023.

Tufan Imamutdinov is a director. He graduated from the Directing Department of the Russian Institute for Theatre Arts (GITIS), was invited by Galina Volchek to the Sovremennik Theatre, served as a resident director of the Moscow Theatre of Nations. In 2014, he was appointed Chief Director of the Kazan Young Spectator Theatre. Presently he is the Chief Director of the Tatar State Karim Tinchurin Drama and Comedy Theatre.

Elmir Nizamov is a pianist and composer. He is a graduate of the Composition Department and the postgraduate programme of the Kazan State Conservatory. He works with national music, opera, and pop music.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

The permanent co-authors of the Greek director Theodoros Terzopoulos — composer Panayiotis Velianitis and the leading actress of the Attis Theatre in Delphi Sophia Hill — present their performance Prometheus in memoriam, a project that interprets the ancient myth in a new way.

Prometheus — according to one version, the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Klymene — created humans. To help the humanity, he stole fire from the furnace of Hephaestus or, according to others, from the chariot wheel of the Sun, and brought it to people to improve their lives. He also taught them the arts and sciences so that they would become civilised.

According to the authors of the performance Prometheus in memoriam, people invented the myth of Prometheus in order to find a reflection of their actions and history in it. It was as if they were trying to exorcise the curse of mutual annihilation and suffering that they themselves cause and that overshadows the achievements of their civilisation.

Panayiotis Velianitis’ sound work is based on a complex relationship between electronics, processed and “pure” field recordings, as well as recorded and edited speech. Following the structure of Aeschylus’ tragedy Prometheus Bound, the author transforms into music turning points in the history of mankind, such as, for example, the industrial and technological revolution or the economic decline of the interwar period.

The actress-performer Sophia Hill, finds herself, like the mythical Nereus, in a constant transformation. She exorcises the curse of eternal punishment of the defeated Titans and humanity itself. Her path runs on coals, it is the source that she draws her energy from, but it is also her punishment at the same time.

Panayiotis Velianitis is a composer, one of the first Greek creators of computer music. He is a member of the Contemporary Music Research Center (CMRC) founded by the composer Iannis Xenakis, and a member of the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association (HELMCA). Since 1991, he has been the composer of Theodoros Terzopoulos’ productions both at the Attis Theatre and in those of other theatres in Greece and abroad. Has collaborated with leading soloists such as the Greek mandolinist Dimitris Marinos, the British trombonist John Kenny, the Russian soprano Natalia Pshenichnikova, as well as with important visual artists such as Yannis Kounellis, Kalliopi Lemos, Michalis Arfaras, Grigoris Semitekolo, Ersi Hatziargyrou, Elias Tabakeas, etc.

Sophia Hill is an actress and performer. After her graduation from Veaki Drama School, she immediately began a long-term collaboration with the Attis Theatre and Theodoros Terzopoulos, taking part in the performances based on Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, Heracles by Heiner Müller, Money on the texts by Bertolt Brecht, Heracles Enraged by Euripides, Kathodos (“Way Down”) based on fragments of Euripides’ The Madness of Heracles (Heracles Enraged) and Sophocles’ Trachiniae, Hamlet, an Apprenticeship following Boris Pasternak and many others, as well as in the production of Dmitri Kourliandski’s opera Nosferatu (Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre). Sophia Hill also performed her own mono performance Rhapsody M based on Homer’s Odyssey at the Ancient Theatre of Aptera and participated in the play Clytemnestra, Chamber Music for One Instrument at the Athens Epidaurus Festival.

Oleg Nesterov, widely known as the leader of the Megapolis band and the founder of the Snegiri-music indie label, has long been interested in the curiosities of the USSR musical history. In 2014, he launched the project From the Lives of Planets dedicated to the unreleased films of the 1960s. In recent years, Nesterov has been engaged with in the “Three Degrees of Freedom project. Music > cinema > USSR”. He digs up unreleased Soviet film music and gives it a new life in the new world. As a result of the research project, books, websites, vinyl and digital music collections, exhibitions and concerts at the Lenfilm studio are produced. In 2021, Alfred Schnittke was the focus of attention, and the next hero became Oleg Karavaychuk. The project in his honour was created with the assistance of the Foundation for the Support of Cultural Projects and the Preservation of Oleg Karavaichuk's Heritage.

A kind of cult has developed around Oleg Karavaychuk, who for many years cultivated the image of an otherworldly creative genius. The textual part of "Three Degrees of Freedom" offers a key to Karavaichuk phenomenon based on the memories of the composer, his colleagues and friends, recordings of Karavaichuk's stories about his childhood and his work in cinema. The exhibition-concert provides the audience with the opportunity to focus on the music and take away pure auditory experience from the concert, cleaned from performative impurities.

The concerts of the project use acousmonium – the "orchestra of loudspeakers", invented in the late 1970s by the pioneer of art house electronics Francois Bayle and allowing flexible control of the distribution of acoustic events in space. Acousmonium is a system of fifty speakers of various shapes, sizes and frequency characteristics. The performer controls the volume of each of them, moving the sound around the hall and immersing the viewer in the dynamically changing sonic space.

The programme of the exhibition-concert will feature music from the films "The Long Farewell" and "Brief Encounters" by Kira Muratova; "Monologue", "Other People's Letters" and "Drama from Ancient Life" by Ilya Averbakh; "Urban Romance" by Pyotr Todorovsky; "Mom Got Married" and "Ksenia, Fyodor's Beloved Wife" by Vitaly Melnikov; "Summer Trip to the Sea" by Semyon Aranovich. The acousmonium will be conducted by Ilya Symphocat, a performer and composer working at the junction of electronic music, modern classical music, and minimalism. The author of the video installation is Mikhail Zaikanov, an artist and video artist, known for his works for the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre, the Oleg Tabakov Theatre, the Meyerhold Centre, the Praktika Theatre, and others.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Composer Alexey Retinsky will create a soundtrack for the silent frames of the documentary film "In Spring" (1929), going far beyond the traditional taper practice, but adhering to the principle of improvisation. According to the composer, "to give a new sound interpretation to the silence of silent cinema and to deepen the visual narrative in a counterpoint is what cinema aspired to in its early stages. Till the present day, the gap between what we see and what we hear is an unknown terra incogita, very reluctantly, but yet revealing its outlines." The performance will use electronics, sound kinetic objects by Herman Vinogradov, and other non-standard musical instruments performed by the author.

The avant-garde masterpiece "In Spring" (1929) is the debut work of Mikhail Kaufman, Dziga Vertov's cameraman, as a director. "In Spring" is Kaufman's answer to the film "A Man with a Movie Camera", which proved that unaided by titles it is still possible to express deep ideas, but doing it differently than Dziga Vertov. The work is based on observing the course of life of people and nature. The film is divided into five parts: "At the Turn", "Spring Vexation", "Life", "National Holidays", "Spring is Coming".

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Every person is striving to conquer their mountain. Often reaching the summit becomes the life’s meaning. Now, when the goal is reached, the peak is conquered – how is one supposed to descend? The text of “the Poem of the Mountain” by Marina Tsvetaeva is a painful memory of reaching the pinnacle (of enjoyment, life, creativity) and the inevitable descent, loss, separation, “back into life, which we all know is: a rabble — a market — a barracks” . The opera begins with a climactic height and, together with the text of the poem, moves down to death — and resurrection.

The action will unfold on the embankment of the Kama River. With the first chant, the actresses and the folklore ensemble will set off on their descent down the slope dotted with the garbage of memories. "Living through" the main stages of human existence, embodied by rituals (birth, wedding, death), the performers will try to construct their metaphorical mountain — to recreate reality from memories, to bring back the past, to turn back time. In order to "leave the auditorium" in the final, all the participants of the action and the audience will have to go upstairs to the church, back to where it all started.

The musical component of the performance is inspired by the words of Joseph Brodsky about Tsvetaeva's poetry: "The source of rhythm is time. Remember I said that any poem is reorganized time. <…> Time speaks to the individual in various voices. Time has its own bass, its own tenor-and it has its own falsetto. If you like, Tsvetaeva is the falsetto of time. The voice that goes beyond the range of proper notation. " The score by Dmitry Mazurov, a composer and sound artist who constantly collaborates with musicAeterna and the Diaghilev Festival, uses folklore voices, accordion, wind instruments in combination with dark electronics.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Every person is striving to conquer their mountain. Often reaching the summit becomes the life’s meaning. Now, when the goal is reached, the peak is conquered – how is one supposed to descend? The text of “the Poem of the Mountain” by Marina Tsvetaeva is a painful memory of reaching the pinnacle (of enjoyment, life, creativity) and the inevitable descent, loss, separation, “back into life, which we all know is: a rabble — a market — a barracks” . The opera begins with a climactic height and, together with the text of the poem, moves down to death — and resurrection.

The action will unfold on the embankment of the Kama River. With the first chant, the actresses and the folklore ensemble will set off on their descent down the slope dotted with the garbage of memories. "Living through" the main stages of human existence, embodied by rituals (birth, wedding, death), the performers will try to construct their metaphorical mountain — to recreate reality from memories, to bring back the past, to turn back time. In order to "leave the auditorium" in the final, all the participants of the action and the audience will have to go upstairs to the church, back to where it all started.

The musical component of the performance is inspired by the words of Joseph Brodsky about Tsvetaeva's poetry: "The source of rhythm is time. Remember I said that any poem is reorganized time. <…> Time speaks to the individual in various voices. Time has its own bass, its own tenor-and it has its own falsetto. If you like, Tsvetaeva is the falsetto of time. The voice that goes beyond the range of proper notation. " The score by Dmitry Mazurov, a composer and sound artist who constantly collaborates with musicAeterna and the Diaghilev Festival, uses folklore voices, accordion, wind instruments in combination with dark electronics.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.

Audio performance-promenade "Persephone. Before" is a curtain-raiser of the main event of the festival, the premiere of the stage version of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone" and "Symphony of Psalms" performed by musicAeterna under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

The project starts with the opening of the festival and will last 9 days. Director Evgeny Malenchev and playwright Ekaterina Avgustenyak will send the participants of their site-specific project on a journey to places that are normally closed to public. The audio performances will take place in Zakamsk: the Perm Shipyard backwater, famed in photo reports and films, will become the place of an impressive journey into the ancient myth of the eternal cycle of life and death, which takes on a new meaning in the landscape of today. Dying ships, living out their last days in the midst of blooming nature – these industrial monsters that once conquered the Kama, and now drowning in its embrace – will serve as "sacred objects" on this journey..

The audio performance is based on conversations, interviews, and memoirs of Igor Stravinsky, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who largely defined the "musical face" of his age. Like Eumolpus, who expounds the content of the myth in the melodrama "Persephone", the main character of the project "Persephone. Before" will be Stravinsky himself. His meeting with Diaghilev and their quarrels, the idea and history of the creation of "Persephone", "the tragic in exile", and other vital issues will form the basis of an audio mystery in which, despite its powerful informativity, feelings will be more important than words, and the dialogue with the composer will turn into a dialogue with myth and nature.