Lyadsky garden will turn into an open-air theater

August 13 and 14,    the guests of  Days of street arts will see performances  for children and adults by  puppet and drama theaters from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan and Izhevsk All performances will be shown in Lyadsky garden.

The theater "Brodyachiy Vertep (Vagrant Crib)" (Moscow)  brings to  Kazan  the program "Dancing Dolls", based on the old trick items collected from around the world. Viewers will see how goat, though without the aid of a puppeteer, dancing to a gusli  , thatched "girlfriends" are dancing  in a ring, and a tightrope walker with a torch in his hat rushes over the crowd.  The street theater "Vagrant  crib" was established in 1989 and toured with his show many cities from Moscow, St. Petersburg and Abakan to London, Nuremberg, Jerusalem, Paris, Boston and Hamadan. For the preserving  the tradition of  street  Petrushka   the theatre  received a prize  from  jury Tallinn TREFF Festival 2012.  The «Vagrant Crib" is a member of the International Association of Puppeteers UNIMA.

Leo's marionette show, a street puppet theater of  St. Petersburg actor Leonid Kondakov  'Licedei "" will show in Kazan  “the Blue Canary”   a legendary item (" Sad Canary ") and other miniatures for children and adults. In the company  there are of a lot of "stars", puppets of  example, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Serge Gainsbourg, Antonio Banderas, and other celebrities. Five years  Leonid Kondakov performed in Central Park in New York, after traveling through Italy, Finland, Israel and France. And for every tour created a special doll with the face of a national idol. However, he names St.Petersburg  his  beloved city  where already for 19 years has been   appearing  at  the Summer Garden.

Vladimir  Nakhimov  - a man band that plays simultaneously on  7 musical instruments and thus controls the puppet with 24 working threads. Puppet artist's name is Antonio and Vladimir called "the man with  doll-double."

Head of Izhevsk studio theater "Ptitza (Bird)" Svetlana Shanskaya  did not reveal the plot of the play "The auction of happiness." The show has been  specially prepared for the Days of street arts in Kazan.   The show  will not be on stage, but just on  open space  of  Lyadsky garden, on the lawn at the entrance from the intersection of Gorky – Mushtari streets. The audience will have the opportunity to take part in street theater: on the "Auction of happiness" no one will be the loser.

"Paket –Teatr (Package Theatre" will present the play  by  Regina Sattarova " V rozovom (In the pink)". The newly created team in Kazan - a theater a multi task, that is a multi-functional team, where everyone can act in various capacities, for example, to be an actor, lighting designer, and playwright. Performance "In the pink" was successfully shown in the framework of the theater laboratory "City of Art Training". Guests of Days of street arts will have  a rare opportunity to see the production that was created specifically for the space of the  Lyadsky garden.

Another participant in the theatrical laboratory from foundation "Living city" Radion Bukaev  will hold a quest "Dad, Mom, I am" at the Lyadsky  gardent  According to the author, to participate in the quest will be able  just close   people,  families and  parents with children and couples  expecting babes or just dreaming about it. The theatrical journey through the Lyadsky  garden will turn   for them   into  the  opportunity to learn something new about themselves  and loved ones.

The full program of the Days of street arts - Online: iskrafest.ru

Days of street arts will be held in Kazan on August  13 and 14, and will become  a final event of the Festival of art and local history "Iskra". Admission to all events is free, registration is  not  required. Age Marker: 0+.

Organized by the Foundation for the Support of Contemporary Art "Living City", Center for Contemporary Culture "Smena" supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan and Kazan City Hall.

Partners: Swiss Council for Culture "Pro Helvetia"; Polish Cultural Center in Moscow; School of Photography and Multimedia. Rodchenko; School of documentary film and theater  Marina  Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov; Department of Research Arts; Department of Communications, Media and Design Higher School of Economics; Charitable Foundation of the Performing Arts «Sforzando», the Kazan Art School.  Under financial support  with  JSC "Prosto moloko”  

 Denis Volkov, the Centre for Contemporary Culture "Change", +7 987 289-50-41

E-mail: iskrafest@mail.ru