Seventh international festival“Circle of Light” will take place in Moscow from September 23 to 27. Traditionally, viewers will be able to see multimedia laser shows, special lighting effects and fireworks on the city streets, and the main venue will be the Ostankino TV Tower. Admission to all events is free.
Ostankino
Those interested in new products in the field of video mapping and visual arts will be able to visit the educational program at the Digital October center. On September 23 and 24 there will be lectures, discussions and master classes conducted by specialists in computer graphics, representatives of design studios, programmers, lighting engineers, architects, etc. In particular, on September 24, at a lecture about 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 arts, its history and development over the centuries. Listeners will learn about how science and art were connected, what the earliest optical technologies were. Pre-registration is required to participate.
Where: Moscow, Bersenevskaya embankment, 6, building 3.
VJing competition
You can watch the competition of the best VJs as part of the Art Vision competition in the Mir concert hall.
VJing (VJ) is the creation of visual images to music, mixing visual effects and videos to music in real time. Pre-registration is required.
Where: Moscow, Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 11, building 2.
The Circle of Light festival, which will take place from September 20 to 24, will be the highlight of this fall. The capital will be immersed in an atmosphere of geometric illusions, laser projections and light installations.
Fireworks over the water and harmony of light and music
The opening of the festival will take place on September 20 at Grebny Canal. From 20:30 to 21:30, the multimedia musical “Seven Notes” will be shown here - a story about how music helps people find spiritual harmony, as well as a 15-minute musical and pyrotechnic show.
An arc will be built over the canal, which will connect the two banks and serve as a screen for video projections. And on the water surface of the canal there will be more than a hundred burners, over two hundred fountains and screens that will visually bring the characters of the show closer to the guests. There will also be more spectator seats this year.
You can watch the show again on the site on September 21 and 22 from 19:45 to 21:30, but with a five-minute fireworks display.
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On the last day, September 24, the “Code of Unity” light show will be presented on the Rowing Canal. In 25 minutes, guests will see several eras and main events in the history of Russia. The festival will close with a ten-minute musical and pyrotechnic show with high-altitude fireworks. It will use charges with a caliber of up to 300 millimeters.
“Space Odyssey”, “Spartacus” and the history of the Polytechnic Museum: colorful stories on the facades of buildings
On Theater Square spectators will be greeted by a 270-degree panoramic platform, including the facades of the Bolshoi, Maly and Russian Academic Youth Theaters. For five days it will show a five-minute light novel dedicated to the Year of the Theatre. Guests will also see the Spartak show, stories from the official partners of the festival and the work of the finalists international competition“Art Vision” in the “Classic” category from five countries.
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For the first time, the festival site will be a renovated Polytechnic Museum. From 19:30 to 23:00, multimedia shows about the history of the Polytechnic University and scientific and technological progress will be shown on the facade. For example, viewers will learn about the exhibition of 1872, the work of scientific laboratories, creative meetings with figures of Russian culture and art, as well as the secrets that will be revealed to visitors to the Polytechnic Museum after the restoration is completed.
Among the new items in the program is also a show on Academician Sakharov Avenue. A 15-minute laser show and video projections will be shown on the facades of the building complex in a cyclic mode. “A Space Odyssey” will open up the depths of space to viewers, and the 28-minute show “Melodies of Knowledge” will be dedicated to scientific disciplines.
Illusions and light: walks in the parks
Lovers evening walks in the parks will also be in the center of the “Circle of Light”. Visitors Ostankino Park will find themselves in a world of illusions thanks to 15 light and video projection installations. A museum-reserve "Kolomenskoye" will turn into a “Fairy Tale Park”. Here guests can meet the Genie, animated puppets and dancing people, or see the “Shadow Theatre”. Installations and video mapping shows will be presented on an area of more than 1.5 hectares. In addition, on September 22 at 20:00 a concert by Dmitry Malikov with lighting accompaniment will take place in the park. The concert program will include songs and instrumental compositions by the People's Artist of Russia.
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IN Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Hill will show the works of participants in the Art Vision competition from 12 countries in the Modern category.
Entrance to all sites is free. More information about the events of the Circle of Light festival can be found on the official website.
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From September 23 to 27, 2017, the VII Moscow International Festival “Circle of Light” will be held in the capital Moscow. The Circle of Light festival is held annually. For five days, Moscow will once again turn into a city of light - lighting designers and specialists in the field of audiovisual art from all over the world will transform architectural appearance capitals.
Its most famous buildings will feature colorful large-scale video projections, the streets will be illuminated with fabulous installations, and fantastic multimedia shows using light, fire, lasers and fireworks will give unforgettable experience and bright emotions.
Entrance to the opening ceremony "Circle of Light", as with other performances of the festival - free. At the same time, tickets to the stands are distributed through social services and departments of the Moscow government. Tickets are also raffled off in competitions in social networks festival
Circle of Light 2017 - theme, what's interesting
The festival will take place at the following venues in Moscow: Ostankino, Theater Square, Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve, Strogino, Digital October and Mir Concert Hall.
This year, guests of the Festival of Light will be treated to performances by artists of various genres, music shows, master classes and lectures, various installations and light shows, prepared by the best Russian and foreign designers and art artists.
Every year, the Festival of Lights in Moscow covers different venues - this time there will be seven places where Muscovites and guests of the capital can come for free and enjoy the colorful multimedia performances of the Festival of Lights 2017.
As part of the VII Moscow International Festival “Circle of Light”, Moscow will once again take on the appearance of amazing city Sveta! Get ready for unexpected transformations, pleasant surprises and amazing meetings that await you at all festival venues.
The theme of the seventh Festival of Lights in Moscow is dedicated to “The Seven Tallest Buildings of the World”. Seven sites will become places where professional lighting designers and amateurs in the field of 2D and 3D graphics will transform their architectural space with the help of multimedia and lighting installations.
Circle of Light 2017 in Moscow - schedule, venues
Ostankino
September 23 from 20:00 to 21:15 – opening ceremony of the festival.
September 24 from 20:00 to 21:00 – multimedia show performance in different countries of the world.
Viewers will be transported to the fabulous Lavender fields, to the foot of Niagara Falls, in the heart of Yellow Stone Park and the Bamboo Flute Cave, will experience the heat of the Sahara Desert or the refreshing breeze of the Great Barrier Reef, will witness the mesmerizing power of Mount Fuji, the immense depth of Lake Baikal, the endless beauty of the Ural Mountains and the captivating charm of Sakhalin Island. The program will end with a grandiose pyrotechnic show.
Theater Square
On this site, the “Celestial Mechanics” program is a kind of non-verbal dialogue of a couple in love and a plastic dialogue of two buildings, reports the portal C-ib.ru. The synthesis of choreography, drama and light will erase the boundaries between the Bolshoi and Maly theaters.
The second show is Timeless. The Maly Theater will invite you on a journey through centuries and eras along with the great Russian classics. Denying the linear flow of time, decorations created from historical sketches will appear on two facades at once, and scenes from famous performances will unfold.
Also at the Bolshoi and Maly theaters the works of participants in the Art Vision competition will be shown.
Tsaritsyno
September 23–27 from 19:30 to 23:00 – light show on the facades of the palace, dancing fountains and light sculptures.
September 24 from 20:00 to 21:00 – concert of Soprano Typetsky.
Throughout the evening there will be amazing performances in Tsaritsyno Park. light installations from leading lighting designers from around the world.
Patriarch's Ponds
For the first time, as part of the Circle of Light festival, visual images will be created in real time under live performance pianist
Strogino
September 27 from 21:30 to 22:00 – 30-minute pyrotechnic show. Hundreds of pyrotechnic charges will be launched from four barges, the largest of which, 600 mm caliber, has never been presented in Russia before.
Digital October
September 23 and 24 – educational program by prior registration (time to be confirmed).
Concert Hall "MIR"
September 24 from 20:00 to 23:00 – competition of the best light and music artists in the direction of VJing. Participants will create completely new works using unexpected visual images and video clips.
Circle of light 2017 video
The Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve promises to become the most visited site of the VII Moscow International Festival “Circle of Light”, which will be held in the capital from September 23 to 27. According to the organizers' forecasts, the total audience of impressive multimedia shows in Tsaritsyn Park over the 5 days of the Festival will be about 2 million people.
Visitors to Tsaritsyno Park will be able to admire the mesmerizing light and sound show of fountains on Tsaritsyno Pond every day, which will be shown in a cyclic mode from 19:30 to 23:00.
On September 24, from 20:00 to 21:00, the art group SOPRANO by Mikhail Turetsky will perform in the park, and on the remaining days, unique vocals women's team will be recorded and accompanied by video projections on the façade of the palace.
In addition, the public will enjoy a stunning audiovisual performance “Palace of Senses” on the building Grand Palace, which will become the central element of the Circle of Light festival program at this site.
For the entire festival period, Tsaritsyno Park will be decorated with original static installations from the world's leading lighting designers:
1. Giant Dandelions (France) - by Olivia d'Aboville
2. Large Pendulum Wave (Netherlands) - author Ivo Shoofs
3. Message in a Bottle (Israel) - author OGE Creative Group
"Complex architectural and color scheme facades of the Tsaritsyn Palace are not entirely suitable for classical 3D mapping with realistic images and linear history. Therefore, for the first time in the history of the Festival, we decided to build a performance based on the shape and geometry of the building, taking abstract images and effects as a basis, complementing the visual part with suitable music,” explains the President of the LBL group of companies, which acts as the authorized organizer of the “Circle of Light” festival on behalf of Government of Moscow, Tatyana Lifantieva. “At the same time, the script is based on the familiar theme of emotions and feelings, which means that the perception of the production will be accessible and spectacular at the same time.”
Video mapping specialists will bring the façade of the Grand Palace to life using projections and music. It’s as if he himself will experience and tell the audience a story about successive feelings: excitement and serene peace, joy and anger, inspiring love and the bitterness of the breakup of a relationship, rebirth from loneliness and finding unconditional happiness.
It is interesting that the dramatic “emotional experiences” of the Grand Palace are not without historical basis. The Tsaritsyn palace complex was built according to the design of the famous Russian architect Vasily Bazhenov, according to the orders of Empress Catherine II, as her residence near Moscow. Construction began in 1775. But when, after 10 years, most of the buildings of the monumental ensemble were ready for interior decoration, the empress made an unexpected decision to remove Bazhenov from business and transfer the project to his student Matvey Kazakov, who was instructed to rebuild her main palace again, wanting it to become a manifestation of the power and greatness of her reign. In 1786, the palace designed by Bazhenov was dismantled, but the building of his successor also faced an unenviable fate. Construction was suspended due to lack of funding, the project was significantly simplified, and after the death of Catherine II in 1796, her son Paul I finally stopped work. And only almost two centuries later, in 1984, the gradual restoration of the dilapidated Grand Palace began, which is now one of the main attractions of the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve.
The VII Moscow International Festival “Circle of Light” will be held at six venues in Moscow from September 23 to 27, 2017.
The Moscow International Festival "Circle of Light" will be held this year for the seventh time, it will take place from September 23 to 27. The organizers promise to make it the most spectacular event of the fall. The city will once again turn into a center of light attraction for several days: entire video performances will unfold on its most beautiful buildings, and fabulous installations will illuminate the streets. Many surprises await Muscovites and guests of the capital at all six venues, and this year the festival will also include new addresses.
The Ostankino Ponds area, Tsaritsyno Park, Theater Square, Stroginskaya Poima, as well as the Mir theater and concert hall and the Digital October center will become the main auditoriums festival RG correspondents found out all the details.
The show will open in Ostankino, in honor of the tower’s half-century anniversary. The hero of the day will “try on” different images famous skyscrapers. Every minute the tower will turn into the Parisian Eiffel Tower, the New York 103-story Empire State Building, or the Japanese Landmark Tower... Viewers will also be able to see the skyscrapers of Canada, the UAE, China, and Australia ... The image will cover the entire diameter of the tower, so that the show will be visible from afar.
Those who happen to be nearby will be able to see an extraordinary multimedia light show right on Ostankino Pond. Viewers will be transported to the fabulous Lavender Fields, to the foot of Niagara Falls, to the heart of Yellowstone Park and Bamboo Flute Cave, to experience the heat of the Sahara Desert or the refreshing breeze of the Great Barrier Reef. Guests of the festival will witness the mesmerizing power of the Fuji volcano, the immense depth of Lake Baikal, the endless beauty of the Ural Mountains and the captivating charm of Sakhalin Island. A breathtaking spectacle here will be the choreography of fountains and fire, as well as a pyrotechnic performance.
A special platform for an ice show will be installed on the pond, which will be shown by figure skaters.
With Circle of Light's growing popularity, new venues have joined the festival this year. The debutant of the festival will be the Maly Theater, the facade of which will be united by the plot with the Bolshoi Theater. “One story will smoothly move from one building to another,” says Vladimir Demekhin, creative director of the LBL Communication Group. Two light shows will be shown here: “Celestial Mechanics” - about loneliness and love, and “Timeless” - plots based on the works of Russian playwrights. Demekhin reminds that the Maly Theater carefully preserves the traditions of Russian theatrical arts, therefore, from its facade, Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky himself, as the symbol and soul of the theater, will invite viewers on a journey through time. “On two facades there will be unique decorations created according to historical sketches, scenes from cult performances will unfold, and their authors will not miss the opportunity to present their work, talk to each other and even joke,” continues Demekhin.
The finale of the festival will be a grandiose fireworks display - the first 30-minute show of Japanese pyrotechnics in Russia. Photo: RIA Novosti
In addition, the theaters will traditionally be able to see the works of the finalists of the international competition ART VISION Classic. Participants from all over the world will demonstrate new works of light art to the audience at Bolshoi Theater in the "Classic" nomination and at the Maly Theater in the "Modern" nomination.
This palace and park ensemble in the south of Moscow will turn into a light stage during the festival. On the Bolshoi building Catherine Palace The audiovisual performance “Palace of Feelings” will be shown, and a mesmerizing light and music fountain show will take place on Tsaritsynsky Pond. Dozens of fountains will come to life to the music of works by Russian composers, making spectators part of a large water orchestra. During all days of the festival, the park will be decorated with amazing installations from the world's leading lighting designers, and performances will also take place famous musicians. In particular, on September 24, the art group SOPRANO by Mikhail Turetsky will perform; on the remaining days, the unique vocals of a female group will be heard in recording, accompanied by video projections on the facade of the palace. There will be a concert in the park on September 25 People's Artist Russia Dmitry Malikov.
Theater and Concert Hall "Mir" and Digital October Center
Will pass festival events and two indoor areas. On September 24 at 20.00 in the theater and concert hall "Mir" the audience will witness a competitive battle of the best light and music artists in the direction of vijing: teams from different countries will compete in the skill of creating light images to music. And those who are interested in exactly how this is done will be able to listen to free lectures by lighting designers and creators of laser installations on September 23 and 24 from 12.00 to 18.00 at the Digital October center.
One of the surprises awaits Muscovites and guests at the end of the festival. For the first time in Russia, a 30-minute Japanese fireworks display, which almost never travels around the world, will be presented. To do this, on September 27, barges with pyrotechnic installations will be installed on the water in the Stroginskaya floodplain. Japanese charges differ from ordinary ones in size - they are much larger, and each shot is made manually by specialists, due to which the pattern is individual. Light pictures will be revealed at an altitude of 500 meters, and the diameter of the light domes will be 240 meters.
Specifically
The international festival "Circle of Light" has been taking place in Moscow since 2011, and every year more and more guests come to see it: if in 2011 there were 200 thousand people, then in 2016 - already 6 million. There are also more and more performances, and their level is ever higher: last year on the facade of the main building of Moscow State University. M. Lomonosov, in particular, two new shows were presented, which had no analogues in the world in terms of scale and technical complexity. The Moscow International Festival "Circle of Light" has set records and is already included in the Guinness Book of Records in two categories: "Largest video projection" (50,458 sq. m) and "Largest luminous flux power when projecting an image" (4,264,346 lumens).
By the way
As always, you can come and enjoy the performances for free - admission to all festival sites is free. Details can be found on the website lightfest.ru.