REVOLUTION17
PRODUCTIONS
Late at the Library: Sounds of the Revolution
5 May 2017 | British Library, London
SHORT FILMS:
Renegade Orchestra - Journey One, Alexander Manotskov
A night of breathtaking live music, radical sound and silent film featuring the premiere of the Renegade Orchestra, a revolutionary piece of music theatre written by Russian composer Alexander Manotskov with musicians from the Post-Soviet States. The Renegade Orchestra has been researched, developed and created over several years by Dash Co-Artistic Director Josephine Burton. This event will be premiere the first part of this new work.
The End of St Petersburg + Live Score
The evening continues with a screening of Vsevelod Pudovkin’s brilliant silent film The End of St Petersburg (1927) - in association with Kino Klassika - which beautifully depicts Russian peasants’ struggle and journey towards Revolution in 1917 which will be accompanied by a live soundtrack devised by British-based composer Gabriel Prokofiev and Manotskov and featuring the Renegade Orchestra and additional UK-based musicians. Monumental sounds, sirens, theramin, strings and foley instruments are combined with elements from works of the period by composers such as Sergei Prokofiev (grandfather of Gabriel) and the legendary experimentalists Mossolov, Avraamov and Matyushin.
Read here about the development of the Renegade Orchestra.
Presented with the British Library, Nonclassical and Kino Klassika
Made possible with the support of PRS for Music Foundation and Rich Mix London (The End of St Petersburg) and the Oleg Prokofiev Trust, Brighton Festival, and Cockayne - Grants for the Arts (Renegade Orchestra).
Brodsky/Baryshnikov (UK Premiere)
Co-produced by Dash Arts
Wednesday 3 - Sunday 7 May | Apollo Theatre, London
Brodsky / Baryshnikov is a one-man show based on the poems of Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky, performed by Mikhail Baryshnikov. Conceived and directed by Alvis Hermanis, noted Latvian director of The New Riga Theatre, Brodsky / Baryshnikov is an emotional journey deep into the poet's visceral and complex compositions. Performed in Russian, Brodsky's mother tongue, Baryshnikov recites a selection of his long-time friend's poignant and eloquent works. His subtle physicality transports the audience into Hermanis' reverent imagining of Brodsky's interior world.
Performed in Russian with English subtitles.
Presented by Lester Partners in association with Dash Arts.
TWISTOV
30 October - 18 November 2017 | Shoreditch, London
A young man called Twistov has gone missing in London. Inspired equally by Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist as well as the real experiences of migrant communities currently living in UK cities, TWISTOV explores identity and home and who we become if both are taken away from us.
After attending a talk by a distinguished lecturer the audience will be taken in small groups on a man-hunt, a bird-watch, and a game of cat-and-mouse in search of the elusive Twistov. As they journey, the audience will experience stories from the hidden lives of East London’s migrant population.
The performances of TWISTOV will start at Rich Mix and will be staged in Shoreditch, the heart of Dickens’ East End, where faint traces of the past remain visible. Over the performance, TWISTOV will take the audience on a journey that asks them to see beyond the new buildings and trendy shops, to look down side streets and in doorways and meet another London. Here we will face our own sense of home and identity: what would we do and where would we run, if these were our stories?
Revolutionary Futures: After Khlebnikov
26 January 2017 | King's College London | Free
Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian and British artists and academics come together to explore the writings of the utopianist horticulturalist mathematician and poet Velimir Khlebnikov in the centennial year of the Russian revolutions. Join us for a discussion with artists Nikita Kadan and Iced Architects, Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at the University of London Donald Rayfield and Dash Arts artistic director Josephine Burton, to explore Klebnikov's writings, their revolutionary artistic potential, and the broader implications that Russia's revolutionary past - and future - has for the world.
This public conversation will follow the opening of Glossolalia, a sound installation created by Iced Architects and based on Khlebnikov’s Language of the Future. The installation will run at Pushkin House from 25th January 2017.
This event is part of Dash Arts long-term research project- artistic responses to the writings of the brilliant and mad Russian utopianist poet Velimir Khlebnikov. You can read more HERE.
Presented by Dash Arts, The Russia Institute at King's College London, and Pushkin House.