Fireworks, “upside down rain” and the mermaid-giant will capture Gatchina on the”Night of Light”
Visiting the “Night of Light” in Gatchina you can hug trees and listen to their “soul”, go to the light show arranged by the Artistic Director of the Alexandrinsky Theatre and see “upside down rain”.
This year you have a chance to do it twice. When it gets dark 30 art objects will start working in the park, oak moods will be shown through colors, and the Gatchina Palace will become a cinema screen.
The theme of this double “Night of Light” is “Paradox”. The program included everything that would be absurd in ordinary life.
On the Island of Love, hundreds of hand-made lamps will be put out, the Venus Pavilion will be “animated” and, with the participation of artists from the shadow theater using animated light illustrations will play the musical “the little Mermaid”. To create another installation – “Removing the cultural layer” – not only artists were recruited, but also an “engineer” of geometrical-optical illusions and mirror paradoxes.
The organizers do not go into details but they say that the show will be “performance”. For example, you will be able to “hug the trunks of spreading oaks and larches” and try to understand their “souls”.
For two nights the walls of the Jordanian facade will become a “canvas” for the light “films”, and the organizers will repeat their play “Dialogues with the Emperor” that was really successful the last year. Viewers will become active participants and will have a chance to talk with the virtual emperor Paul the first. The largest and final performance will take place the second night, August the 11th. At midnight, over the state museum reserve Gatchina, there will be the fireworks and multimedia light and sound show “On the Horizon Line”.
According to the organizers, this project will absorb the whole mass of paradoxes. The show is full of metamorphosis and unexpected turns.
This paradoxical plot includes water and fire, live vocal and high-altitude fireworks, surrealistic canvases and historical context. Enjoy it!
