The first international festival of baby performances "Kukusya" Automatic translate

MOSCOW
April 1-2, 2017

On April 1, the first international festival of baby performances "Kukusya" will open in Moscow. Within two days, performances for spectators from six months will be shown at the Philharmonic 2.

In recent years, the baby theater has become one of the most interesting trends of not only European, but also Russian theater. The Kukusya Festival is the first theater forum in our country to bring together the best performances for kids from different cities in one program.

The festival of baby performances is conceived as an interactive art space in which you can spend the whole day with your baby: not only watch the play, but also feed healthy food, swaddle, play and find people who are close in spirit. In a spacious game zone for two days they will wait: an educational program for parents, workshops on creating sand animation and a home theater, designers of different sizes and stripes, books, music, baby yoga and much more.

One of the most important tasks of the festival is to create an open and friendly creative environment for meeting young spectators with the "big world". It seems important to us to support a new generation of parents and babies who build relationships with each other and surrounding people on trust, mutual respect and support.

Ekaterina Gayeva, curator of the festival, director: “A game for a child is the most organic way of learning. And for kids, theater is one of the most understandable forms of interaction with the world and an important source for the development of emotional intelligence. ”

Varvara Korovina, curator of the festival, producer: “By immersing the kids in the play environment, the theater opens the whole world for them. We would like to share how different, simple, but not simplified, inventive and unexpected theater for the smallest can be ”.

All the performances of the festival are chamber, home. Young viewers can be watched in an embrace with their parents.

Festival Poster:

•"Swan Lake. baby version ”: a dance performance based on classical musical numbers from Tchaikovsky’s ballet of the same name played on hangs, bongs and other exotic instruments (Vs. Meyerhold and Baby Lab Center, Moscow, 3+)

April 1 and 2 Philharmonic Hall 2 (Small Hall) 10.00, 11.30, 13.00

• "Dreams" - a performance about adventures in a dream, woven from lullabies and the gentle sound of a balalaika (Krasnoyarsk Puppet Theater, Krasnoyarsk, 1+)

April 2 Philharmonic 2 (White Hall) 10.30, 12.00, 16.30

• In the play “All Year Round”, each time of the year reveals itself in its own way and gives a gift to the kids inviting them to play (Krasnoyarsk Puppet Theater, Krasnoyarsk, 1+)

April 1 Philharmonic 2 (White Hall) 10.30, 12.00, 17.00

• “Fantasies” about how to distinguish fiction from the truth, what imagination is and how important it is to dream and fantasize (Drama Theater named after A.P. Chekhov, Serov, 0+)

April 2 Philharmonic 2 (Blue Hall) 11.00, 12.30, 15.30

• “Colorful Tales” will tell that children are an integral part of the world around them, that they can touch a miracle and even create it themselves (Yekaterinburg Puppet Theater, Yekaterinburg, 2+)

April 1 Philharmonic 2 (Game Hall) 11.00, 16.00, 18.00

• The Romanian fairy tale “Silver Tree” about a fairy who lives in a closed garden and on the seventh day after the birth of a child comes to a newborn and offers him to choose a gift for the future. Which gift to choose? (Acting up, Dublin, Ireland, 0+)

April 1 Philharmonic 2 (Blue Hall) 11.00, 13.00, 16.00

• Fairy tale coloring “The Adventures of the Tassel” about how beauty is born out of the void, how colors come into the world and everything comes to life with them (“Mother’s Garden”, Moscow, 0+)

April 2 Philharmonic 2 (Game Hall) 11.00, 13.00, 16.30

• In the play “Music of steps”, right before the eyes of young spectators, they sound a cartoon with the help of unusual musical instruments imitating rain and thunder, and improvised materials, for example, starch, which crunches like snow (BABY LAB and Philharmonic-2, Moscow, 5 +)

April 2 Philharmonic 2 (Virtual Hall) 12.00, 15.00

In the festival’s off-program: the play “Baby and Cat”: even the simplest things can become extraordinary if your cat is magical. Awakening from sleep is a hunt for the sunbeam. To get out of the crib, you need a lot of cunning and acrobatic dexterity. The noise outside the window inspires the baby to build a train, and evening swimming - to go fishing… (V. Mayakovsky Theater and BABY LAB, +1)

March 31 Theater. Vl. Mayakovsky, 11.00, 12.30

Also included in the festival is the educational program of the BABY LAB International School. This year, it is dedicated to storytelling - the ability to captivate a story in a fun way for the smallest viewers. Actress and theater teacher Claudia Noanon (Ireland) and director, puppeteer Carolina Zernite (Lithuania), who are known in Moscow for the May Night performance of the Moscow Puppet Theater nominated for the Golden Mask Award in 2014, will share their methods and technologies. One part of the master class will be dedicated to awakening the ability to create texts in the imagination of participants, the second - to finding a way to tell a story. Using minimal means, participants in the master class will study the depth of legends and the power of intuition, look for their story and a way to tell it.

BABY LAB is a national project for the development of the baby theater in Russia. His tasks include stimulating the creation of a multi-genre repertoire of performances for kids in professional and private theaters in Russia.

Organizers of the festival: BABY LAB, Moscow State Philharmonic Society, Philharmonic Society-2.

Program curators: Ekaterina Gayeva and Varvara Korovina