What time does the circle of light begin? "Tsaritsyno" will become one of the brightest venues of the festival "circle of the world"
The traditional international festival Circle of Light 2017 will be held this year in Moscow for the seventh time from 23 to 27 September.
The Circle of Light festival will be the brightest visual and sound spectacle this autumn in Moscow.
Six venues have been selected to display all the events of the Circle of Light festival, where residents of the capital and guests of Moscow will be able to see all this.
Circle of Light. Ostankino 2017. September 23-24, 20.00 – 21.15
The opening of the festival will take place in Ostankino and is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Ostankino Tower. Every minute the TV tower will take on the images of the most famous skyscrapers in the world. This is the Eiffel Tower and the Empire State Building in New York. All the world's high-rise buildings from the USA, France, Canada, UAE, China and Australia.
The Ostankino Pond will also become an arena for a multimedia light show. Viewers will see Lavender fields, Niagara Falls, Yellowstone Park and Bamboo Flute Caves, visit the Sahara, the Great Barrier Reef.
Multimedia show will complement the real ice show with skaters.
Circle of Light. Bolshoi and Maly theatres, September 23-27, 19.30-23.00
The debutant of the festival will be the Maly Theatre, which will be integrated with the façade of the Bolshoi Theatre. Two light shows will be shown: "Celestial Mechanics" - about loneliness and love, and "Timeless".
Circle of Light. Park "Tsaritsyno", September 23-27, 19.30-23.00
An audiovisual performance "Palace of Senses" will be shown on the building of the Great Catherine Palace.
The Tsaritsyno Pond will become the venue for a light and music show of fountains. .
Circle of Light. Mir Theater and Concert Hall and Digital October Center 23 – 24 September
On September 24 at 20.00 in the theater and concert hall "Mir" the audience will witness the competitive battle of the best light and music artists.
September 24 from 12.00 to 18.00 Center Digital October will be able to listen to free lectures by light designers and creators of laser installations.
Circle of the World 2017. Strogino floodplain, September 27, 21.30-22.00
On September 27, a 30-minute Japanese fireworks display will be presented on the water in the Strogino floodplain. For this, barges with pyrotechnic installations will be installed. Light paintings will come to life at a height of 500 meters, and the diameter of the light domes will be 240 meters.
Tomorrow, September 24, the Circle of Light festival will continue its work. Another exciting event awaits Muscovites and guests tomorrow
The Moscow International Circle of Light Festival is one of the largest and most popular festivals in Moscow, a grand celebration of light, in which talented lighting designers and audiovisual art specialists from Russia and foreign countries compete in their skills, demonstrating to the public large-scale light shows and unusual installations. In 2017, the festival will be held for the seventh time.
In 2017, the Circle of Light returns to Ostankino! It is here that the long-awaited Opening Ceremony of the festival will take place on September 23. An amazing musical and multimedia show will unfold on the Ostankino Tower and the smooth surface of the Ostankino Pond, which will literally unite the whole world! Large-scale video projections, choreography of fountains, extraordinary fireworks, synergy of light, lasers and fire - a truly grandiose journey through light television awaits you, which will not leave anyone indifferent!
Venues and schedule of the Circle of Light 2017 festival in Moscow
The action of the festival will unfold at the following venues in Moscow: Ostankino, theatre square, Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve, Patriarch's Ponds, Strogino, Digital October and Mir Concert Hall.
Ostankino
This is one of the main venues of the Moscow International festival "Circle of Light 2017". September 23 will be held here The opening ceremony. 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.
SEPTEMBER 23: 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 geographic natural beauties. The opening ceremony will end with a 15-minute grandiose pyrotechnic show involving the Ostankino Tower
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 Bolshoi and Maly theaters. 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 show the audience new works of light art at Bolshoi Theater in the nomination "Classic" and at the Maly Theater in the nomination "Modern".
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 audience will be told light history Small Theatre.
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 NOMINATION "MODERN"
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"
At this site, viewers can expect an audiovisual show at the Great Catherine Palace, live show art groups Soprano Turkish to the accompaniment of light and music, fountain shows 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 the unique combination of lighting technology with recordings of songs from one of the best women's groups Russia, which represents the votes from the highest ( coloratura soprano) to the lowest (mezzo).
TSARITSYNSKY POND
FOUNTAIN SHOW
Dozens of fountains come alive to the music classical works 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.
24 SEPTEMBER 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.
Patriarch's Ponds
LIVE PERFORMANCE BY DMITRY MALIKOV, ACCOMPANIED WITH LIVE VIDEO PROJECTIONS
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, the winner of the ART VISION competition.
Strogino
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 true work art.
Digital October
From year to year, the site remains the same meeting place for well-known professionals in the field visual art and emerging lighting artists. Educational program consisting of lectures, seminars and practical exercises helps beginners learn the basics and reveals many secrets and subtleties in working with light.
The schedule of educational events with the possibility of registration will appear in the near future.
KZ "Mir"
Especially for the competition of the best light and music teams in the nomination "VJing" competition ART VISION a new space was chosen - the MIR concert hall. On September 24, a bright musical battle awaits the audience, which will not allow you to sit still and infect everyone with dance courage.
The seventh international festival "Circle of Light" will be held in Moscow from 23 to 27 September. Traditionally, viewers will be able to see multimedia laser shows, lighting special effects and fireworks on the streets of the city, and the main venue will be the Ostankino TV tower. Admission to all events is free.
Ostankino
Digital October
Those who are interested in innovations in the field of video mapping, visual arts will be able to visit the educational program at the Digital October center. On September 23 and 24, lectures, discussions and master classes will be held by experts in computer graphics, representatives of design studios, programmers, lighting engineers, architects, etc. In particular, on September 24 at a lecture on contemporary art“All Art Was Modern” will talk about how culture reflects our reality and changes in society, and the lecture “From Phantasmagoria to Sensory Reality” will talk about visual art, its history and development over the centuries. Students will learn about how science and art were connected, what were the earliest optical technologies. Pre-registration is required to participate.
Where: Moscow, Bersenevskaya nab., 6, building 3.
VJing competition
You can watch the competition of the best VJs within the framework of the Art Vision competition in the Mir Concert Hall.
VJing (VJ) is the creation visual images to music, mixing visual effects and video with music in real time. Pre-registration required.
Where: Moscow, Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 11, building 2.
The seventh international festival "Circle of Light" will be held in Moscow from 23 to 27 September. Traditionally, viewers will be able to see multimedia laser shows, special lighting effects and fireworks on the streets of the city, and the main venue will be the Ostankino TV Tower. Admission to all events is free.
Ostankino
theatre square
The Bolshoi and Maly theaters will be combined into a single venue for two shows: Celestial Mechanics and Timeless. On "Celestial Mechanics" will be told romantic story love and loneliness, theater buildings will symbolize two lovers. Lighting effects will complement the choreographic performance and music.
At the show "Timeless" the audience will go on a journey through time together with A. N. Ostrovsky. Unique historical scenery will be restored on the facades of theater buildings with the help of projectors and excerpts from famous performances will be shown.
After the show, the Theater Square will host video mapping competitions in the classic and modern categories. Video mapping is the creation of light projections on buildings, taking into account their size, architecture and location in the urban space. Muscovites will be able to take a fresh look at the buildings familiar from childhood.
Where: Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre, Maly Theater
"Tsaritsyno"
All days of the festival, the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve will host a fountain show and light installations. The center of the program is the show "Palace of Senses", during which the Tsaritsyno Palace will become a canvas for video mapping. With the help of light projections and music, the building will come to life, the audience will be invited to immerse themselves in its supposed feelings and emotions. Every day, songs performed by the Soprano art group of the Turetsky choir will sound on the site, which has brought together the entire range female voices, from the lowest to the highest, and on September 24 the band will perform live. And on September 25, Dmitry Malikov will perform a classical program in Tsaritsyn. Lighting designers will create visual metaphors against the backdrop of the palace in real time, which will help to understand classical music in a new way.
Where: Moscow, GMZ "Tsaritsyno"
Stroginsky backwater
The festival of light will end on September 27 in Strogino: here you can see a 30-minute pyrotechnic show using Japanese fireworks, which have no analogues in the whole world. For the first time in Russia, a large pyrotechnic charge of 600 caliber will be used in the show.
Where: Moscow, Big Stroginsky backwater,
Digital October
Those who are interested in innovations in the field of video mapping, visual arts will be able to visit the educational program at the Digital October center. On September 23 and 24, lectures, discussions and master classes will be held by computer graphics specialists, representatives of design studios, programmers, lighting engineers, architects, etc. In particular, on September 24, the lecture on contemporary art "All Art Was Modern" will talk about how culture reflects our reality and changes in society, and the lecture "From Phantasmagoria to Sensory Reality" will talk about visual art, its history and development for centuries. Students will learn about how science and art were connected, what were the earliest optical technologies. Pre-registration is required to participate.
Where: Moscow, Bersenevskaya nab., 6, building 3.
VJing competition
You can watch the competition of the best VJs within the framework of the Art Vision competition in the Mir Concert Hall.
VJing (VJ) is the creation of visual images to music, mixing visual effects and video to music in real time. Pre-registration required.
Where: Moscow, Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 11, building 2.
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From September 23 to September 27, Moscow will host the VII Moscow International Festival "Circle of Light". Impressive light and sound productions will be presented free of charge at seven venues.
Architectural Video Mapping - Projection volumetric images on city buildings and structures - can be seen on the Ostankino Tower, which this year celebrates its half-century anniversary. In addition to the Ostankino TV Tower, the program of the Circle of Light festival will include four more outdoor venues: Theater Square, the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve, Patriarch's Ponds and the Stroginskaya floodplain.
Ostankino tower
The Ostankino Tower will become one of the main venues for the Circle of Light Moscow International Festival. On September 23, from 20:00 to 21:15, the opening ceremony of the festival will take place here.
An amazing musical and multimedia show will unfold on the Ostankino Tower and the surface of the Ostankino Pond using video projection, choreography of fountains, synergy of light, lasers and fire.
With the help of modern water and pyrotechnic technologies, as well as the magic of light and music, viewers will be transported to the fabulous Lavender fields, to the foot of Niagara Falls, to the heart of Yellowstone Park and the Bamboo Flute Cave, to experience the heat of the Sahara desert or the refreshing breeze of the Great Barrier Reef, become Witnesses of the bewitching power of the Fujiyama volcano, the immense depth of Lake Baikal, the boundless beauties of the Ural Mountains and the captivating charm of Sakhalin Island.
The opening ceremony will end with a 15-minute grandiose pyrotechnic show involving the Ostankino Tower.
As part of the festival, the Ostankino TV Tower with a height of 540 meters will alternately turn into the Eiffel Tower (300 meters), Dubai's Burj Khalifa (828 meters) and the New York Empire State Building (443 meters), as well as the Toronto TV Tower (553 meters). ), Shanghai (486 meters), Tokyo (332 meters) and Sydney (309 meters).
theatre square
This year, Theater Square united two buildings at once - the Bolshoi and the Maly Theatre. For this purpose, a unique light show where the interaction of two facades will become part of one love story.
In addition, the site will host a display of works by everyone's favorite ARTVISION contest. Participants from all over the world will demonstrate new works of light art to the audience at the Bolshoi Theater in the Classic nomination and at the Maly Theater in the Modern nomination.
On the facades of the Bolshoi and Maly theaters from September 23 to 27, from 19:30 to 23:00, a light show based on several works played on their stages will be shown. The audience will see fragments of plays by the classics of Russian literature - Alexander Ostrovsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov and others.
Museum-Reserve "Tsaritsyno"
From September 23 to 27, Tsaritsyno Park will appear for visitors in a new fabulous light. Spectators will enjoy an audiovisual show at the Grand Catherine Palace, a live performance by the Soprano Turetsky art group to the accompaniment of light and music, a mesmerizing fountain show on the Tsaritsyno Pond and amazing light installations.
In "Tsaritsyn" on all festival days you can admire the show dancing fountains. Water jets will be illuminated with the help of special installations. Music background performances will include works from the repertoire of Mikhail Glinka, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev and other Russian composers.
Also on September 24, the Soprano art group will perform for the guests of Tsaritsyno Park. Participants unique project Mikhail Turetsky will accompany his vocals with spectacular video projections on the building of one of the palaces. And from 25 to 27 September Soprano will sound on record.
Additional colorful touches to Tsaritsyno Park will be given by the best light installations by famous designers from all over the world.
Patriarch's Ponds
At the Patriarch's Ponds on September 25 from 20:30 to 21:30 Dmitry Malikov will perform his own works on the piano. Romantic music and elegant video images on the facade of the yellow pavilion on the pond will create a harmonious light and music composition.
Strogino
September 27 in the waters of the Stroginsky backwater at the end of the Moscow International Festival"Circle of Light" for the first time in Russia, the audience is expected by a large-scale 30-minute pyrotechnic show from Japanese manufacturers.
Spectators will enjoy a bright and unforgettable 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 Digital October venue 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.
On September 23 and 24, the center will host educational lectures by light designers and creators of laser installations. Admission is free, subject to prior registration on the festival website.
Concert Hall "MIR"
On September 24, the Art Vision VJing competition will take place at the Mir Theater and Concert Hall on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. Teams from different countries compete in the skill of creating light images to the music.
The audience will witness the competition of the best light and music artists in the direction of VJing. Participants will demonstrate 10-minute VJ sets, where in real time under performed music will create completely new works with the help of unexpected visual images and video clips.
Admission is free, subject to prior registration on the festival website.
