Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve will probably be the most visited site of the 7th Circle of Light Moscow International Festival that will be held from the 23rd to the 27th of September. According to the organizers, the total attendance in Tsaritsyno park throughout five days will be about two millions.
The visitors of Tsaritsyno will have an opportunity to enjoy a mesmerizing light and music dancing fountains show on Tsaritsyno pond that will be repeated from 7.30 to 11 PM.
The art group SOPRANO of Mikhail Turetsky will perform on the 24th of September at 9 PM and on other days, the unique voices of the music band will be replayed along with video projections on the façade of the palace.
The Russia’s People’s Artist Dmitry Malikov will give a performance on the 25th of September.
An amazing audio visual show ‘Palace of feelings’ on the façade of Bolshoi palace will become a key element of the festival’s program on this site.
The Tsaritsyno park will be decorated with original light installations made by world’s leading light designers.
Authors:
1. Giant Dandelions (France) - Olivia d'Aboville
2. Large Pendulum Wave (Netherlands) - Ivo Shoofs
3. Message in a Bottle (Israel) - OGE Creative Group
‘A complex architectural and color structure of the palace are not very suitable for a classic 3D mapping with realistic figures and a linear storyline. So for the first time in the history of the festival we decided to create a show starting from the form and geometry of the building based on abstract figures and effects, complementing the visual part with matching music,’ – explains Tatiana Lifantieva, the President of the LBL Communication group, the authorized organizer of the festival by order of the Moscow Government. –The script is based on the theme familiar to all, that of emotions and feelings and it means that the perception of the show will be accessible and spectacular at the same time’.
Videomapping specialists will animate the façade of the Bolshoi palace with projections and music. It will go through different changing emotions and share them with spectators: excitement and peaceful calm, joy and anger, inspiring love and bitterness from ended relationships, revival from solitude and discovery of unconditional happiness.
The dramatic ‘emotional experience’ of the Bolshoi palace does not lack historical grounds. Tsaritsyno palace buildings were erected as per design of Vasily Bazhenov by order of Catherine II as her residence in Moscow region. But when in ten years most buildings of the compound were ready for interior decoration works, the Empress made an unexpected decision to shelve Bazhenov and to hand the project to his apprentice Matvey Kazakov who had to rebuilt the main palace from the beginning so that it could become a manifestation of her power and greatness of her reign. In 1786 the palace planned by Bazhenov was taken to pieces but the building designed by his apprentice had an unenviable fate. The works were stopped by lack of funds, the project was simplified and after the death of Catherine II in 1796 her son Pavel I completely stopped the works. And only two centuries after, in 1984, the renovation of a semi-demolished Bolshoi palace was renewed that is today one of the sights of Tsaritsyno.
For accreditation you have to notify about your present on the site by a reply at pr@lightfest.ru or call Maria Frolova (+79031349677).
The 7th Circle of Light Moscow International Festival will take place on six different sites from the 23rd to the 27th of September 2017.
Details about the program, participants and accreditation to be found on the official site of the event: http://lightfest.ru/