Today, libraries are faced with a shrinking readership and are forced to look for new forms of attracting users and expand cooperation with institutions in the socio-cultural sphere. The reader-viewer is offered a new format for meeting with a book, a contact between two inseparable worlds - literature and theater.
Librarians from schools in the Kurchatovsky district of Chelyabinsk presented their experience of interaction between the library and the theater at a city seminar, which took place on March 1, 2018.
Taking into account the interests and needs of our readers, school libraries continue to search for new, non-traditional and effective forms of work that not only educational information, but spectacular, bright, emotional.
Already at the entrance you could feel the theatrical atmosphere. The participants of the city seminar were greeted by cheerful buffoons (students of school No. 12 in Chelyabinsk), inviting them to get acquainted with quotes from famous successful people.
A library plus a theater is a wonderful collaboration that can bear fruit in the field of developing reading for children, adolescents, and even adult readers. According to library tradition, the occasion for the production is the anniversary of a favorite children's writer.
Undoubtedly “book theater is a creative reading of a work, lived through acting skills reader... Translation of a literary text into a special stage language is done in order to auditorium a man came to the reading room. For a performance, it’s enough to reach out to the shelf, take a book and make a performance out of it: revive the text through play, movement, music...”(Russian teacher O. Galakhova)
Theatrical events help solve many pressing problems:
Promote the work of a particular writer;
To educate a literate reader with a high culture of choosing and evaluating what they read;
Introduce children to artistic and literary creativity.
Organizing thematic exhibitions of book publications on theatrical art, introducing the reader to the works based on theatrical productions. Thematic book exhibitions about actors, theater and theatrical art are aimed at expanding the readership and viewing audience.
Forms of activity can include elements of theatrical play and are an effective form of attracting the younger generation to reading. An element of a library performance can be a quiz that activates the thinking of young spectators, so you can use “hint” books containing answers to questions.
One of the creative forms of modern library work with children and adolescents are library theatrical performances, excerpts from the works of classics and contemporaries, staged fairy tales, theatrical games, colorful processions of literary heroes.
Showing small-format performances in the library is a great opportunity to introduce readers to the activities of the theater and theatrical art in general, and thus in game form, which is closest to the child’s perception, will become familiar with the library’s collections.
In schools, librarians often work collaboratively with administrators theater studios: this includes choosing a book for the production, conversations about the main characters, a story about the author of the work, and joint rehearsals. We are sure that similar interaction between the theater and the library is carried out in many schools in our city. It's interesting!
For the seminar, a mini-play “Nedorosl” was prepared by students of the branch of “Lyceum No. 35 of Chelyabinsk”. Bright and talented stars theater club no one was left indifferent.
It was also possible to maintain the theatrical atmosphere of the seminar due to the interior of the theater buffet - a tablecloth with heavy fringe, a samovar, wicker vases with treats.
All-Russian Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts folk art and “Art Project TOGETHER” present the exhibition “Theater in leading role" The exhibition will be held from March 17 to May 1. The exhibition will demonstrate the contribution of various artists to the work on the theatrical image. Central event The exhibition will show the general public a collection of graphic works by artist Georgy Toidze. 15 portraits of Bolshoi stars Mariinsky theaters in stage costumes (1971-1980) provided by the family of the famous Soviet sculptor and graphics. Among them are portraits of the first persons of the Russian opera and ballet stage: Galina Ulanova, Natalia Bessmertnova, Vladimir Atlantov, Boris Shtokolov, Alexander Godunov.
Also at the exhibition “Theater in the Leading Role” will be presented rare exhibits from the funds of the State Central Theater Museum named after A. A. Bakhrushin, the All-Russian Museum Association musical culture and private meetings. Among the exhibits are paintings and graphic works, theatrical costumes, posters, photographs, sketches of costumes and scenery for performances.
In addition, at the exhibition you will be able to see portraits of our contemporaries Diana Vishneva, Maria Alexandrova and Kristina Kretova by Maria Suvorova. Other paintings by the artist depict scenes of rehearsals for actors, ballet dancers and orchestras.
Portraits of musical and drama theater supplemented with original costumes and other elements decoration performance. Visitors will not only be able to see images of the actors in different images, but also to consider the artist’s stage costume itself, as well as the process of working on it, reflected in the sketches of theater artists Alexander Golovin, Simon Virsaladze, Evgeny Spassky and others.
“A holistic image in such a synthetic art form as theater is created through the efforts of many artists: director, set designer, composer, costume designer,” says exhibition curator, head of the “Art Project TOGETHER” Yulia Ambartsumyan. - They all speak to the audience through the Actor and the stage action. At the moment when the action is stopped, we can look more closely at those details that are inaccessible to immediate perception.”
Selected works:
Georgy Toizdze. Alla Sizova as Ophelia. "Hamlet". Composer D.D. Shostakovich. Ballet. Mariinskii Opera House.
Georgy Toidze. Vladimir Atlantov as Cavardossi. "Yearning". G. Puccini. Opera. Big theater.
Georgy Toidze. Natalia Bessmertnova as Anastasia. "Ivan groznyj". Composer S.S. Prokofiev. Opera. Mariinskii Opera House.
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“Art project “TOGETHER”” - created by Yulia Ambartsumyan and presents different directions in art. The main goal of the creative association is to hold major exhibitions in Russia and abroad.
Yulia Ambartsumyan – graduated from Moscow State University with two specialties: lawyer and specialist in intercultural communications. She studied art with leading experts from the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Museum Contemporary art. She also graduated from the Moscow School of Design "Details" with a degree in "Art in Design". She is currently studying at Sotheby's London in the field of “Art as an Investment.” In 2009, as part of the Year of Russia in France, she regularly organized evenings and exhibitions at the French Embassy dedicated to the culture and art of both countries. Since 2010. is a personal consultant on the formation of private collections, as well as an art dealer for a number of famous contemporary Russian artists. In 2016, she held a joint Russian-British exhibition “Our Friend Larionov” in Moscow.
“Do you love theater the way I love it, that is, with all the strength of your soul, with all the enthusiasm, with all the frenzy of which ardent youth, greedy and passionate for the impressions of grace, is only capable?...”
(V.G. Belinsky)
Before the gaze of everyone entering the reading room of the central regional library, an interesting art exhibition “The Great Wizard – Theater”, offering an entertaining journey into the world of art. The exhibition presents best literature about the history and types of theater, about outstanding theater figures, theater people.
In particular, the work of the great theater director is presented, along with Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko who founded the Moscow Art Theater, actor and teacher K. S. Stanislavsky, who formed a system of performing arts that has been famous throughout the world for more than a hundred years.
"An actor's work on himself"- a book that has become a kind of bible of stagecraft, with the help of which actors all over the world study their art. After all, it was in it that the great teacher fully and in detail outlined the acting system named after him, which once and for all changed the very basis of ideas about how the transformation of an artist into his stage character takes place.
Here we present to the attention of readers Encyclopedic collection “Our History. 100 Great Names", each issue of which tells about great personalities (Shalyapin F.I., Stanislavsky K.S., Orlova L., etc.).
The main content of the book Em. Alexandrova “I love the theater!”— reflections on the theater. Moreover, the thoughts of a person who is not just in love with the theater, but who feels a deep need to comprehend and analyze the phenomena of art.
Famous journalist, theater critic T. A. Chebotarevskaya in the book “Journey through the Theater Program” introduces the reader to the complex and poetic world of theater, reveals ideological richness and diversity artistic forms performing arts, introduces the history of the country's leading groups of the Soviet period. A lot of interesting things are told in the book about the art of the director, actor, and theater artist. The reader will become acquainted with the system of K. S. Stanislavsky, with creative biography Ruben Simonov, Vera Pashennaya, Oleg Efremov, Yulia Borisova and other wonderful theater masters.
book author “Three centuries of the Russian stage” A.G. Morov in a popular, entertaining form introduces the reader to the history of Russian theater. The pages of the publication contain creative portraits outstanding Russian playwrights, actors and directors. A.G. Morov talks about ancient folk customs, about holidays accompanied by ritual songs, dances, games, about buffoons and many others. The reader will learn how and on what basis the theater arose and gradually developed over the centuries of its existence, what changes it has undergone and with what it has come to this day.
A collection of publications dedicated to outstanding representatives Russian history and culture, the book continues about the most famous artists Russia. Among them, the reader will become acquainted with the life and work of such stage and film masters as F. Volkov, V. Komissarzhevskaya, V. Kholodnaya, K. Stanislavsky, F. Shalyapin, L. Utesov, A. Raikin, A. Mironov, V. Vysotsky, M. Ulyanov.
Reading the book with interest I.G. Gladkikh “Old Man Kachalov noticed us...”, a story about life and creative path people's artist Russia, actor of the Chelyabinsk State academic theater dramas by Vladimir Ivanovich Miloserdov. A meeting with the great actor Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov played a big role in his acting career.
Of the books presented at the exhibition, the two-volume edition should also be noted "Cultural history of the Chelyabinsk region" V chronological sequence represents dates, brief descriptions significant events from the cultural history of the region, talks about the activities of people who had a significant impact on the development of the region.
People who devotedly serve the culture of the Yemanzhelinsky district and made a worthy contribution to its development are written in the books of a famous local historian IN AND. Efanova, which serve as a real decoration of the exhibition.
Come to the library, a world of wonderful books awaits you!
A thematic theme is dedicated to the Year of Culture book exhibition “The theater is already full...” V Library-branch No. 1 named after. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrin. The exhibition is dedicated to International Day theater, established in 1961 by the IX Congress of the International Theater Institute (MIT). International Theater Day is celebrated annually March 27.
As you know, translated from ancient Greek the word “theater” means “a place where people watch.” Mention of the first theatrical production dates back to 2500 BC. e. It is believed that the development of theatrical craft in Russia began with the court theater of the 17th century.
Now International Theater Day is not just a professional holiday for stage masters, it is a holiday for millions of spectators.
The epigraph to the exhibition “The theater is already full...” were the words of N.V. Gogol: “The theater is a pulpit from which you can say a lot to the world.” Books about the history of foreign and Russian theater, Russian actors and playwrights are presented here.