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“Moscow is an open city. Transition ”- the first premiere of the updated MDC. The project was created by Vladimir Pankov, the new artistic director of the theater, with the participation of the laboratories of young directors, playwrights and choreographers. The production is the beginning of a new life and the revival of the theater that Alexey Kazantsev once created. The performance will be attended by artists of the Central House of Arts and Studio SounDrama. On the stage-podium, a whole gallery of social types is being created from homeless people to young hipsters - residents of the same metropolis, pedestrians of the same crossing. The viewer will be able to feel like a real participant in events where the transition is the place of movement from sound to word, from word to gesture, from gesture to dance. Through a kaleidoscope of musical short stories, the production reflects the metamorphoses of modern society and opens up a new hero of our time.

In the title “Moscow is an open city. The Transition ”combines two key plots in the history of the Central House of Artists and SounDrama Studio:“ Moscow is an open city ”, the legendary project of Alexei Kazantsev - a non-stop performance that has been changing for almost a decade and has opened the way for a new generation of artists; The Transition is a landmark performance by Vladimir Pankov, which conceptualized urban life in the early 2000s. The new time gives rise to new social types, plots and, of course, forms a generation of young artists looking for modern forms of displaying the life of a metropolis.

As it was once planned, the MDC is an open area for graduates of art and theater universities, a space for experimentation and the “transition” from apprenticeship to the professional environment. Therefore, one of the priorities of the theater is the creation of laboratories. The play “Moscow is an open city. Transition ”will mark the beginning of a new artistic life of the theater and show the first results of the work of three experimental laboratories of the Central House of Arts: director’s, choreographic and drama.

The director’s laboratory is an experiment in the field of theater, music, performance and drama. The curator is Vladimir Pankov, artistic director of the theater.

Participants in the laboratory 2016-2017: Alexander Barmenkov, Alexey Zolotovitsky, Dmitry Akrish.

Choreographic laboratory - an experiment in the field of dance, implemented at the intersection of three professions - director, choreographer and critic. The curators are Vladimir Pankov, the artistic director of the theater, the choreographer Ekaterina Kislova and the ballet critic Leila Guchmazova.

Participants in the laboratory 2016-2017: Alexander Isakov, Victoria Yanchevskaya, Ilya Karpel, Polina Mironova.

Drama laboratory - an experiment in the field of creating a dramatic text together with the director in the rehearsal process.

Curator - Elena Isaeva.

The first results of the work of all three laboratories can be seen in the play “Moscow is an open city. Transition".

Artistic Director: Vladimir Pankov
Production Designer: Maxim Obrezkov
Costume Designer: Sergey Agafonov
Choreographer: Ekaterina Kislova
Musical Director: Sergey Rodyukov
Lighting Designer: Nikolay Surkov
Sound Design: Mikhail Fateev, Konstantin Poznekov, Sergey Lebedev
Collectors of texts: Elena Isaeva, Olga Mikhailova
Directors: Alexander Barmenkov, Alexey Zolotovitsky, Dmitry Akrish
Choreographers: Alexander Isakov, Victoria Yanchevskaya, Ilya Karpel, Polina Mironova

The theater "Center for Drama and Directing" was founded in 1998 by Alexei Kaantsev and Mikhail Roshkin. The aim of the creators of the MDC was to help young directors and playwrights realize their plans in the search for new theater ideas. Such directors and playwrights as Olga Subbotina, Vladimir Skvortsov, Vladimir Pankov, Marat Gatsalov, Kirill Serebrennikov, Vadim Danziger, Vladimir Ageev, Elena Isaeva, Alexander Zheleztsov, Mikhail Ugarov, Vasily Sigarev, Ksenia Dragunskaya, brothers Presnyakov worked at different periods in the Central House of Arts. Yaroslava Pulinovich, Yuri Klavdiev and many others.

The performances of the Center for Drama and Director have repeatedly won the highest awards and prizes at various Russian and international theater festivals.

Since September 8, 2016, the theater was headed by Vladimir Nikolaevich Pankov, founder and ideological inspirer of SounDrama Studio http://www.soundrama.ru/

The appearance of Vladimir Pankov as the artistic director of the theater is symbolic for both the Central Democratic Union and the SounDrama Studio collective: the first performance of the beginning director was staged here and the foundations of a future studio were laid. That is why now our plans are not so much the reformation of the theater as its revival in the form in which it was once conceived by Alexei Kazantsev.