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October 12, 2024. (Velvet Underground, Toronto)
LYAPIS TRUBETSKOY – North American Tour 2024 to support Ukraine! Warrior of Light – THE BEST.
The legendary punk-rock band played the concert in full force. Part of the funds will be used to help the defenders of Ukraine (Serhiy Mikhalok was one of the first who started accumulating his music to help Ukraine). The atmosphere of punk rock is not transmitted through screens and radio receivers – this is a fact. Real punk rock is where the stage shakes with sound waves, and “Warriors of Light” sounds in thousands of voices. Their music always unites brave, honest, and the real warriors of light. These songs become good memories, a charge of energy, and also hymns of the struggle for freedom.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBNXUf
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October 16, 2024 (Richmond Hill Theater, Toronto)
Movie and theater stars Dmitry Nazarov and Olga Vasilyeva invite you to the premiere of their new play, the tragicomedy “Who The Heck Knows!”
What if, in a whimsical twist, God decided to playfully challenge humanity after the apocalypse, leaving behind Adam and Eve, both now in their ripe age of 90, on the ruins of Babylon? Their mission: to prove that humanity deserves a second chance. And now the snake will have to come up with something more elegant than an apple, since chewing it with dentures is not so easy. How can these two aged people, who hate each other, find the way to save the world? Only by falling in love.
A performance based on Alexey Arbuzov’s play “Old-Fashioned Comedy”, which was in the plans of the Moscow Art Theatre for the 2022-23 season. “In April 2023, we were supposed to start rehearsals, and in June, release the performance on the Small Stage. In early January, our defamation and exile happened. We found ourselves overboard from the Art Theatre and Russia in an unexpected exile in France. But there is no force that can change our life and creative plans. We decided to create a performance in France.” (from an interview to Sergey Elkin in Chicago)
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBNFhH
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Bloor West Village Toronto Ukrainian Festival (North America’s largest Ukrainian Street Festival).
14.09.2024 “Temerty Foundation Stage” @Jane St.
PATSYKI Z FRANEKA is the brightest and extraordinary Ukrainian Pop Band, mixing ethnic Ukrainian melodies
and instruments (Bandura and reed pipe) with modern groove and creating wild energy on ANY stage.
All photos are here
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Concert “No More Searching”. Toronto 23.07.2024
Pavel Fakhrtdinov is a well-known singer-songwriter. His music is known from Vladivostok to San-Francisco. A true musical globetrotter, his songs and poems are both philosophical and ironic, nostalgic and current. His music represents a unique blend of poetry, high intensity guitar, and powerful delivery. With 10 solo albums and a cadre of collaborations with well-known artists from various genres – Pavel Fakhrtdinov represents the new wave of bard-rock renaissance.
Pavel is a kind of a person and a bridge at the same time. Between bards and rock’n’roll, between yesterday and tomorrow, between trendy and eternal, between alive and forever alive.
And most importantly, he himself is still very much alive. Who knows how to feel and most importantly – admit that he still can. There is already a lot nowadays.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBBDUj
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April 28-29, 2024 (John Basset Theatre, Toronto)
A play about great love and the atomic bomb
Starring Ksenia Rappoport and Alexei Serebryakov.
Written by Alexander Gelman; Directed by Alexander Marin; Set design: Alexey Serebryakov; Costumes: Svetlana Tegin; Choreography: Maria Serebryakova.
In 1935, Princeton University commissioned a sculpture of Albert Einstein. The sculptor, Russian emigré Sergey Konenkov, arrived to Princeton with his wife Margarita, who began a wild affair with the world-famous physicist, lasting until August 1945. After the U.S. has just dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Einstein blames himself for his part in the creation of nuclear weapons, when Margarita informs him that in a week, after many years in America, she and her husband are returning to the Soviet Union for good.
Based on the recently discovered letters written by Albert Einstein to Margarita Konenkova, this play details the last days of the secret lovers’ time together. The audience is invited into Einstein’s Princeton’s residence, an intimate setting where terrible words will be spoken and a terrible secret will be revealed.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBrEsZ
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William Shakespeare – The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark.
(Toronto’s Elgin Theatre April 3-7, 2024. World Premiere)
Designed and directed by Robert Lepage.
Co-designed and choreographed by Guillaume Côté.
Composer: John Gzowski.
Dancers
Hamlet: Guillaume Côté; Gertrude: Greta Hodgkinson; Claudius: Robert Glumbek; Ophelia: Carleen Zouboules; Laertes: Lukas Malkowski; Polonius: Bernard Meney; Horario: Natasha Poon Woo; Rosencrantz: Connor Mitton; Guildenstern: Willem Sadler.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBo9p5
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Flato Markham Theatre, Toronto, Ontario. April 2, 2024.
Canadian premiere.
Starring: Masha Mashkova; Voice of Nadezhdin: Anatoly Beliy; Director: Egor Baranov; Playwright: Arseny Faryatiev; Music: Anna Drubich; Artist/Graphic Design: Lisa Irshai; Choreographer: Melpomene; Costumes: Katerina Kravtsova; Producer: Sasha Seberg.
Original size versions: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBkxPX
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Phoenix Concert Theater, Toronto (03.02.2024).
“Neschastny Sluchai” (literally “Unfortunate Event”) is a Russian rock band that was formed by Valdis Pelsh and Alexey Kortnev in 1983, while both men were students at Moscow State University.
Despite being popular in Russia, the band is virtually unknown outside. The band’s lyrics are at the same time grotesque and sentimental while their music features complicated structures and melodic turns rooted in the prog rock of the ’70s. Alexey Kortnev is a Russian musician and actor known for his work in theater and movies in collaboration with the Kvartet E. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the band has been banned from performing in Russia as a result of Kortnev’s anti-war stand.
Band:
Alexey Kortnev — vocals, guitar, songwriting
Sergey Chekryzhov — keyboards, accordion, vocals
Dmitry Chuvelyov — bass, guitar, vocals
Pavel Timofeev — drums, percussion
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBdtJY
YouTube: https://youtu.be/pzGZ2hUhARs
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The Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre, Toronto (December 22-31, 2023)
Slava’s Snowshow has been going strong since its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival in 1996. The entertainment by master clown Slava Polunin is undoubtedly the most popular full-length clown show ever created.
Robert Saralp is one of the main performers in the show. He plays the role of the yellow clown and the main green clown. Robert has been working with Slava Polunin since 1996. He is also a director, actor, and teacher of clowning and physical theatre.
Day 1
Yellow clown: Robert Salarp.
Main green clown: Dmytro Merashchi.
Green clowns: Georgiy Deliyev, Chris Lynam, Oleg Lugovskoy, Bradford West, Jaime Rebollo.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjB9RF1
Day 2
Yellow clown: Oleg Lugovskoy.
Main green clown: Dmytro Merashchi.
Green clowns: Robert Saralp, Georgiy Deliyev, Chris Lynam, Bradford West, Jaime Rebollo.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBbi4B
Day 3
Yellow clown: Dmytro Merashchi.
Main green clown: Georgiy Deliyev.
Green clowns: Robert Saralp, Oleg Lugovskoy, Chris Lynam, Bradford West, Jaime Rebollo.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBbD4w
Day 4
Yellow clown: Dmytro Merashchi.
Main green clown: Oleg Lugovskoy.
Green clowns: Robert Saralp, Georgiy Deliyev, Chris Lynam, Bradford West, Jaime Rebollo.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBbT2t
Day 5
Yellow clown: Robert Salarp.
Main green clown: Oleg Lugovskoy.
Green clowns: Georgiy Deliyev, Chris Lynam, Dmytro Merashchi, Bradford West, Jaime Rebollo.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBckR9
Day 6
Yellow clown: Robert Salarp.
Main green clown: Georgiy Deliyev.
Green clowns: Dmytro Merashchi, Chris Lynam, Oleg Lugovskoy, Bradford West, Jaime Rebollo.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBckRQ
Vanya Yaropolskiy – Technical director
Alistair Kerslake – Sound
Alexander Pecherskiy, Rebecca Lore – Lights
Eerika Yaropolskiy – Company manager
Gwenael Allan – Ambassador
