Light show on the theater square. A virtual journey into a fairy tale, the latest technologies and light shows on the facades of the capital's buildings

The Circle of Light festival will be held in Moscow for the seventh time and promises to be one of the most spectacular events of the upcoming autumn. By tradition, all performances, as well as training seminars by lighting design masters, are held at city venues in a publicly accessible free format, attracting millions of people every year, including residents of Moscow and the Moscow region, Russian and foreign tourists. So, in 2016, the "Circle of Light" reached a record attendance - more than 6 million people in five days.

In 2017, the Circle of Light will be held at six venues. The opening ceremony of the festival will take place on September 23 in Ostankino. The country's main TV tower is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The technology of projecting three-dimensional images onto an architectural object - video mapping, will allow the birthday girl to "try on" the images of the seven highest buildings in the world. The famous skyscrapers and TV towers of France, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, the USA, China, Japan and Australia will appear before the audience against the backdrop of the natural attractions of these countries, which is due to the Year of Ecology taking place in Russia. Fountains, burners, lighting fixtures will be installed on the Ostankino pond. Guests will be presented with an extraordinary multimedia show combining light, lasers, choreography of fountains and fire, as well as a grandiose pyrotechnic show. An ice rink for figure skaters will be built on the pond.

Theater Square, familiar to the regular viewers of the Circle of Light, for the first time this year, will use the facades of both the Bolshoi and Maly theaters for performances. All days of the festival, two thematic light shows will be shown here: "Celestial Mechanics" - about loneliness and love, and "Timeless" - plots based on the works of outstanding Russian playwrights. Also on the facades of the leading theaters in Russia will show the work of the finalists of the international competition Art Vision, held as part of the festival.

In the Tsaritsyno Park daily, from 19:30 to 23:00, visitors can see the impressive audiovisual performance "Palace of Senses" on the building of the Great Catherine Palace and the fascinating light and music show of fountains on the Tsaritsynsky Pond. On September 24, the art group SOPRANO by Mikhail Turetsky will perform here, and on the rest of the days the unique vocals of the female group will sound on the recording, accompanying video projections on the facade of the palace. The next day, September 25, the People's Artist of Russia Dmitry Malikov will give a concert. “Tsaritsyno Park” for the entire festival period will be decorated with amazing installations from the world's leading lighting designers.

The finale of the Circle of Light festival will be a grandiose fireworks show - the first show of Japanese pyrotechnics in Russia, which will be held in the Stroginskaya floodplain on September 27. To do this, barges will be installed on the water, on which pyrotechnic installations will be placed. The charges of Japanese fireworks are much larger than usual, each shot is made by hand, and the pattern is individual. They will open at a height of 500 meters, and the diameter of the light domes will be about 240 meters.

Festival events will be held in parallel at two indoor venues. On September 24, the Mir Theater and Concert Hall will host the Art Vision VJing contest, where teams from different countries will compete in the art of creating light images to music. And on September 23 and 24, the Digital October Center will host free educational lectures by light designers and creators of laser installations.

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 on our planet: from the Lavender fields to the Sahara desert. And they will also see how the Ostankino Tower will transform into the Eiffel Tower 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 of 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. The facade of the Grand Palace will come to life with the help of light and music and will tell the audience about their feelings. A show of dancing fountains to the accompaniment of musical works by Russian composers will be arranged on the Tsaritsynsky Pond. Incredible light sculptures created by designers from all over the world will be installed in the park. On September 24, the Soprano project will perform. Every day starts at 19:30.

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The largest 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

Venue

Ostankino, Theater Square, Tsaritsyno, Strogino, Digital October, KZ Mir

Date and time of the festival / event

Sat, 23/09/2017 - 00:00 - Wed, 27/09/2017 - 23:59

Ticket price

Free admission

From September 23 to September 27, 2017, the VII Moscow International Festival "Circle of Light" will be held in Moscow.

The Circle of Light festival is held annually. For five days, Moscow will again turn into a city of light - lighting designers and experts in the field of audiovisual art from all over the world will transform the architectural appearance of the capital. Colorful large-scale video projections will unfold on its most famous buildings, the streets will be lit up with fabulous installations, and fantastic multimedia shows using light, fire, lasers and fireworks will give unforgettable impressions and vivid emotions.

Entrance to the opening ceremony of the Circle of Light, as well as to other performances of the festival, is free. However, the opening ceremony can also be viewed up close - from specially organized stands. To do this, you need to get invitation cards. Invitation tickets to the opening ceremony of the festival can, in particular, be won by participating in the competition held on the official page of the festival VKontakte.

ATTENTION! Tickets for the stands are distributed through social services, departments of the Moscow government. Tickets are also raffled off in competitions on the social networks of the festival.

Venues and schedule of the festival "Circle of Light 2017"

The action of the festival will unfold at the following venues in Moscow: Ostankino, Theater Square, the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve, Strogino, Digital October and the Mir Concert Hall.

Ostankino

This is one of the main venues for the Moscow International Festival Circle of Light 2017. On September 23, the opening ceremony will take place here. A musical and multimedia show will unfold on the Ostankino Tower and the water surface of the Ostankino Pond using video projection, choreography of fountains, synergy of light, lasers and fire, and will end with a grandiose pyrotechnic show.

23 SEPTEMBER: OPENING CEREMONY OF THE VII MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL "CIRCLE OF LIGHT", 20:00-21:15

Multimedia show-journey through different countries of the world and their geographical natural beauties. The opening ceremony will end with a 15-minute grandiose pyrotechnic show involving the Ostankino Tower

ATTENTION! In connection with the opening ceremony of the festival, a number of roads in the Ostankino area will be blocked. Changes will also be made to the operation of public transport. The road closure plan at the site in Ostankino on September 23 and 24 is published in the photo gallery on this page (see above).

Multimedia show-journey through different countries of the world and their geographical natural beauties. The program will end with a 7-minute grand pyrotechnic show.

theatre square

The main buildings on this site are the Bolshoi and Maly theatres. The light show on their facades will tell a love story. In addition, the site will host a display of the works of the ARTVISION competition. Participants from all over the world will demonstrate to the audience new works of light art at the Bolshoi Theater in the "Classic" nomination and at the Maly Theater in the "Modern" nomination.

BIG AND SMALL THEATER. LIGHT SHOW "CELESTIAL MECHANICS"

Spectators expect a story about love and loneliness. About the impossibility of accepting one person by another, but at the same time the impossibility of existing alone.

BIG AND SMALL THEATER. LIGHT SHOW "OUT OF TIME"

The light story of the Maly Theater will be told to the audience.

BIG THEATER. SHOWING THE WORKS OF ARTVISION COMPETITION PARTICIPANTS IN THE "CLASSIC" NOMINATION

On the façade of the Bolshoi Theatre, spectators will be treated to new works in the genre of classical architectural video mapping. Participants will demonstrate the art of interaction of 2D-3D light-color projections on a physical object of the urban environment, taking into account its geometry and location in space.

SMALL THEATER. SHOWING THE WORKS OF THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE ARTVISION COMPETITION IN THE "MODERN" NOMINATION

The facade of the Maly Theater will become a canvas for the works of participants in the ART VISION competition in the Modern nomination. This nomination differs from classical architectural video mapping by the authors' constant search for and application of new technologies, tools, and knowledge in the field of contemporary art trends.

Museum-Reserve "Tsaritsyno"

On this site, viewers can expect an audiovisual show at the Great Catherine Palace, a live performance by the Soprano Turetsky art group to the accompaniment of light and music, a fountain show on the Tsaritsyno Pond and amazing light installations.

GREAT CATHERINE'S PALACE

AUDIOVISUAL MAPPING "PALACE OF SENSES"

PHONOGRAPHIC PERFORMANCE BY THE TURKISH SOPRANO ART GROUP ACCOMPANIED BY VIDEO PROJECTION ON THE PALACE FACADE

The audience will witness a unique combination of lighting technologies with recordings of songs from one of the best female bands in Russia, which features voices from the highest (coloratura soprano) to the lowest (mezzo).

TSARITSYNSKY POND

FOUNTAIN SHOW

Dozens of fountains will come to life to the music of classical works by Russian composers, making the audience members of a large water orchestra.

PARK TSARITSYNO

LIGHT INSTALLATIONS

Throughout the evening, amazing light installations from leading lighting designers from around the world will work in Tsaritsyno Park. 4 light installations will be mounted:

• your own space;
• Mush room glade;
• raindrops;
• vinyl mapping.

ON SEPTEMBER 24 from 20:00 to 21:00 there will also be a PERFORMANCE BY THE TURKISH SOPRANO ART GROUP, ACCOMPANIED BY VIDEO PROJECTION ON THE PALACE FACADE.

The program will include a number of classical works performed by Dmitry Malikov, which will be translated into the language of visual metaphors and images by the VJ team, winner of the ART VISION competition.

Strogino

CLOSING CEREMONY OF THE FESTIVAL - PYROTECHNICAL SHOW

Spectators will enjoy a bright 30-minute Japanese pyrotechnic show, which has no analogues in Russia. Hundreds of pyrotechnic charges will be launched from four barges installed in the waters of the Stroginsky backwater, the largest of which, 600 mm caliber, has never been presented in Russia before. Japanese fireworks are unique in their properties and have no analogues in the world. They surpass other fireworks in their color and brightness, and the hand-made process, passed down from time immemorial, makes each projectile a true work of art.

Digital October

From year to year, the site remains the same meeting place for well-known professionals in the field of visual art and emerging lighting artists. An educational program consisting of lectures, seminars and practical classes helps beginners learn the basics and reveals many secrets and subtleties in working with light.

Schedule of educational events in Digital October

The program includes workshops, panel discussions and public presentations.

To attend events, you must register on the official website of the festival at the link.

September 23, Saturday

Conference hall

12:00 - 12:50 Discussion: When will robots replace designers?
Participants: Andrey Sebrant (Yandex), Andrey Kalinin (MailRU Group), Doctor of Biology Alexander Kaplan, artist Alexandra Gavrilova (Stain).
Moderator – Olga Vad (curator of the Polytechnic Museum)

13:20 - 14:00 Lecture: What "shines" for us. Gaston Zahr OGE Creative Group (Israel)

14:30 - 15:10 Lecture: Full dome revolution. Pedro Zaz (Portugal)

15:20 - 16:20 The evolution of 3D mapping. Alexander Meltsev (Panasonic Russia)

17:00 - 18:00 Discussion: Rays of Light - educational sprint
Participants: Tanya Samarakovskaya, Vadim Mirgorodsky (co-founder of the Truce media design studio), Vadim Goncharov (front-end developer), Sergey Batyshev (media designer), moderator - Dmitry Karpov

small hall

12:30 - 13:10 Presentation: The use of Blacktrax technology in multimedia performances. Dreamlaser

13:20 - 14:00 Presentation: Flaretic: Environment for creating real-time graphics. Julien Vulliet (France)

14:30 - 15:10 Presentation: Big Ostrovsky.

Technologies for creating a dramatic mapping show at the Bolshoi and Maly theaters from the Dobro studio.

15:20 - 16:20 Presentation: The unity of technology and art in collaboration with brands. rainbow design

Workshops and seminars

Audience 1*

MadMapper 3.0 - DMX lighting control system. Francois Wunshel

Auditorium 2*

TouchDesigner: Elementary mathematics. Ilya Derzaev

Auditorium 3*

Unreal Visual Orchestra / Unreal Visual Orchestra. Kuflex

Auditorium 4*

Laser projectors Outdoor Lasers in lighting design. Outdoor Lasers

11:00 - 18:00 - Demonstration of a collection of videos with bright multimedia projects from around the world in 2016-2017.

Conference hall

12:00 - 12:50 Discussion. Profession lighting designer: we create an incubator of geniuses.
Participants: Natalia Markevich (lighting designer, curator of the Lighting Design course at the MARCH school), Artem Voronov (co-founder of the MPEI Light Lab School of Lighting Design MPEI), Natalya Bystryantseva (Graduate School of Lighting Design of ITMO University) and Sergey Siziy (member of the International Union of Lighting Designers IALD, founder and run schools and lighting design studios LiDS).
Moderator - Vladimir Pavlovich Budak (Department of Lighting Engineering MPEI)

13:20 - 14:00 Lecture: All art was modern. Marzia Lodi, European Institute of Design (IED, Italy)

14:30 - 15:10 Lecture: From phantasmagoria to sensory reality? Olga Mink (Netherlands)

15:20 - 16:20 Lecture: 1024 architecture - From the physical to the intangible. Panorama of studio 1024 projects"

17:00 - 18:00 Discussion: Light orchestra - original lighting solutions for musical performances and events.

Participants: Roman Vakulyuk (Global Show Trade), Alexander Fuks, Marina Larikova, Oleg Tysyachny and Pavel Gusev (True Light Crew), moderator – Alexey Shcherbina

small hall

12:30 - 13:10 Video mapping. entertainment and efficiency. Ivan Gorokhov, Meshsplash

13:20 - 14:00 Opening ceremony of Expo 2017 in Astana. Anton Sakara (Raketamedia)

14:30 - 15:10 Ku space. Kuflex

15:20 - 16:20 Personality beyond new media. Natalia Bystryantseva (Graduate School of Lighting Design, ITMO University, Russia)

Workshops and seminars

Audience 1*

Mapping to complex objects. Dreamlaser

Auditorium 2*

Design and manage lighting installations with VDMX and Unity. Mikhail Grigoriev, Ilya Ryzhkov (Luna Park)
www.lunapark.space

Auditorium 3*

Visual effects and compositing in vvvv. Julien Vulier (Mr. Vux, France), Ekaterina Danilova (Idwyr)

* - Pre-registration required, places are limited

11:00 - 18:00 - Demonstration of a collection of videos with bright multimedia projects from around the world in 2016-2017

KZ "Mir"

On September 24, at 20:00, the best light and music teams will compete in the VJing nomination of the ART VISION competition. Each VJ has only 10 minutes to showcase their best video projections to a live DJ set. Who will do it better and more creatively? The reaction of the audience also affects the judges' scores! The musical accompaniment of the competition is DJ Artem Splash.

Yesterday the Moscow International Festival "Circle of Light" started in Moscow. The event is already becoming a hallmark of the city, which will soon become the same as the Brazilian carnival in Rio.

Try to hit

All events that take place during the festival are free, and almost all have free access. But you probably already know that there are sites that have very comfortable stands. This year it is the Rowing Canal. But the podium is practically a closed party. Now we will tell you how you can get the coveted ticket.

Influential and not so

The first and most simple thing is to look for friends, acquaintances, relatives who work in the organizing companies or sponsoring companies of the festival. We are looking for such people in the Moscow Government, in Rostec, in Aeroflot. Everything is simple here, open the page of the festival, see partners and call friends and acquaintances.

Magic word PRESS

The next option is you are a media representative or a blogger. With the media, everything is much simpler, they received accreditation and go ahead to do their job - to see and cover. Bloggers are a little more difficult. Anyhow, what kind of fans of writing on the Internet will not be given accreditation. You need to have a well-promoted resource with at least 100,000 subscribers. And if you represent an online publication, then at least 1,000,000 views per month. Evaluated your resource, looked at the statistics and go ahead for accreditation.

Almost sportloto

Let's try our luck. In the group of the festival "Circle of Light", the one in VKontakte are drawing tickets. Join and try to participate, maybe you are lucky. You can win tickets for an everyday performance on the Rowing Canal, but alas, you can’t win tickets for the closing. But more on that later.

Don't go by yourself, sell to someone else

The last option is almost unrealistic. Try to buy tickets. Of course, they are not freely available. But, there are those who have tickets, but they can’t go or simply profit from them. On Avito, offers for tickets vary from 800 rubles. up to 10,000 rubles But for 10,000 you will buy tickets for the closing of the festival.

Closing - they promise to bang

And now for the closure. The event promises to be great. The declared fireworks with a dome diameter of one kilometer are already impressive in their numbers. And how it will look in reality, you can only guess until you personally see it. There are so many people who want to enter that not all media representatives have received accreditation, there are also no tickets in the draw. But you can find 10,000 for a ticket in private ads.

Not everything on tickets is good

But do not rush to the stands and spend money. Just believe me, next to the stands you can see everything just as well, you will be in a more advantageous position, especially since the canopy of the stands cuts off the picture in the sky. Yes, there are inconveniences, standing for a long time, something may drip from above, but the declared show is worth it.

And there are tickets, but not always about our honor.

You can see 3D video mapping and plot representations on famous architectural objects.

WAVING AROUND THE WORLD?

The main venue for the Circle of Light 2017 festival in Moscow is Ostankino. September 23 at 20.00 there will be the opening ceremony of the festival. The country's main TV tower is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The technology of projecting three-dimensional images onto an architectural object - video mapping will allow the birthday girl to "try on" the images of the highest buildings in the world.

The famous skyscrapers and TV towers of France, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, the USA, China, Japan and Australia will appear before the audience against the backdrop of the natural attractions of these countries.

Fountains, burners, lighting devices will be installed on the Ostankino pond. Guests will be presented with an extraordinary multimedia show combining light, lasers, fountain and fire choreography, as well as a grandiose pyrotechnic show.

THEATER NOVEL

Theater Square (September 23 - 27, 19.30 - 23.00). On this site, the Celestial Mechanics program is a kind of non-verbal dialogue between a couple in love and a plastic dialogue between two buildings. The synthesis of choreography, drama and light will erase the boundaries between the Bolshoi and Maly theatres.

The second show is "Timeless". The Maly Theater will invite you on a journey through the ages and epochs along with the great Russian classics. Denying the linear flow of time, scenery created according to historical sketches will grow on two facades at once, scenes from famous performances will unfold.

The Bolshoi and Maly theaters will also show the works of participants in the Art Vision contest.

Free admission.

"Tsaritsyno"

m. "Tsaritsyno",

st. Dolskaya, 1.

The festival will take two sites.

At the Grand Palace (19.30 - 23.00) audiovisual mapping "Palace of Senses" will be shown. With the help of light and music, the authors of the story will revive the facade of the building and tell the audience about its ... feelings.

On September 24, it will be possible to watch a live performance of the Soprano Turetsky art group, accompanied by a video projection on the facade of the palace. Spectators are waiting for a mix of lighting technologies accompanied by one of the best women's groups in Russia, in which voices are presented from the highest (coloratura soprano) to the lowest (mezzo). On other days, female voices will be recorded.

On the Tsaritsyno pond (19.30 - 23.00) - fountain show. Dozens of fountains will start dancing to the works of Russian composers. Light installations will work throughout the evening.

Strogino floodplain

m. "Krylatskoe".

21.30 - 22.00.

A powerful final chord of the festival will be a show in the waters of the Stroginsky backwater. For the first time in Russia, a large-scale 35-minute pyrotechnic show from Japanese manufacturers awaits the audience. According to the organizers, Japanese fireworks are unique in their properties and have no analogues in the world. For the show on the water, barges will be installed, on which pyrotechnic installations will be placed. The charges of Japanese fireworks are much larger than usual, each shot is made by hand, and the pattern is individual. They will open at a height of 500 meters, and the diameter of the light domes will be about 240 meters.

You can visit the festival, as in previous years, absolutely free of charge!

FACT

Last year, the Circle of Light festival was visited by 6 million people!

BY THE WAY

Festival events will be held in parallel at two indoor venues.

On September 24, the Mir Theater and Concert Hall will host the Art Vision VJing competition, where teams from different countries will compete in the art of creating light images to music. And on September 23 and 24, Digital October Center will host free educational lectures by lighting designers from around the world.

During the Circle of Light festival, 10 streets will be closed.