Andrey Bartenev. Design of theatre costumes. Scenography.
Sasha Frolova. Sound design. Vocals.
Multimedia workshop: Design of theatre costumes, scenography, video design, sound design.
The research is based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen and an opera composed by Igor Stravinsky - "The Nightingale" ("Le Rossignol").
Under the direction of Andrey Bartenev, students in the 10-day course will start with sketches of scenery and costumes and transform their work into an art performance. The gain insight into electronic music composing and sound design, Moscow's electro-pop singer Sasha Frolova will work with the participants on their own version of Stravinsky's opera. The aim is to create a spectacular performance-improvisation of "The Nightingale" with constructivist style costumes, moving scenery, original musical sets, sound simulations and video-movements.
For information about Andrey Bartenev's works and excerpts from his performances:
www.bartenev.ru
www.vimeo.com/bartenev
search on youtube: andrey bartenev
For information about Sasha Frolova:
www.myspace.com/aquaaerobika
search on youtube: aquaaerobika
Andrey Bartenev (RUS)
Russian artist Andrey Bartenev is known as a sculptor, experimentalist and creator of many provocative interactive installations. The artist operates in an interdisciplinary space. "Art for me is a single current," Bartenev says, "and I don't care what forms it takes."Bartenev creates whimsical, racy, provocative, carnivalesque fantasias. The artist, in his wild costumes and makeup, is an object himself. In this way Bartenev continues and develops the ideas of Russian Futurism.For all the apparent spontaneity and messiness of Bartenev's shows, their internal shape and dynamics are always carefully constructed. He turns the chaos of a masquerade into a tightly run show. His performances have no plots. But the many entrances and changing compositions are choreographed to music and rhythm. The most important part is not the concept, but the direct, spontaneous emotion and cheerful mood, which puts Bartenev's performances a cut above the usual melodramatic tone of art actions. His actors become biological engines of extravagant sculptural forms. He has also worked as an artist on a series of LED sculptures. One of them was exhibited in the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and became a big hit in London at the Riflemaker Gallery.
Andrey will hold the workshop together with the performance artist Sasha Frolova. Her work is a synthesis of arts, sculpture and performance art. She has shown her work in numerous group exhibits for example at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the Riflemaker Gallery and Institute of Contemporary Art in London.
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