Parks, parks and parks. There are lots of parks in Yaroslavl which are very green and beautiful either in summer and winter. You can just talk a walk or run in a circle. But there are more interesting things which have been realised by Architecture of Movement organisers.
Three times during this September — 6th, 13th and 27th — there were great performances directly in parks.
Dancing, music and light show with some hand-made activity were in Yaroslavl when citizens have gone to the parks. We know that in Europe and US it is common to be in a green park and just sit on grass. But for us it is very uncommon and a new experience. That is why we want to change parks and make them better for leisure.
Time will show and now you can see photographs from these events: 6th, 13th and 27th of September.
The name of the quite amazing performance was “Jazz na Svobode” (either Free Jazz and Jazz at Large, a Russian pun). The main idea was to play jazz on the balcony and in the same time passersby can’t see an orchestra. They only should listen to free music, jazz music, street music.
As if the music was from air.
People heard the music but could not understand where it came from. It was city filled with beautiful sounds.
It is just a simple sentence on the grass which made with people on Moskovskiy prospekt. Stop Crisis or Stop Krizis is said by the Architecture of Movement to us.
Stilyagi (Russian: стиляги, the plural of стиляга, literally “stylish”, “style hunter”) were members of a youth subculture that existed from the late 1940s until the early 1960s in the USSR. Stilyagi generally opposed the mainstream Soviet ideology of that time and were primarily distinguished by their snappy or unfashionate clothing, considered politically incorrect and contrasting the communist-socialist realities.
Our Stilyagi event was near Railway Station. Girls and boys were in colourful clothes which looks as real as last century. Dancing and a little bit of those 50’s mood.
There are lots of bicyclists in Yaroslavl. They are real fans of that. No wonder that an event of the Architecture of Movement was great and overcrowded.
It was the Velopanorama or the panorama of the bicycles. There were a lot of these vehicles on our streets on 5th of September.
They started from our Railway station and carried on through Svobody street and Sovetskaya square to another station but River station.
Do you know about street poetry? Many people think that there are no real poets today. Nevertheless the Architecture of Movement project (which has been mentioned recently) realized amazing poetical evening in Yaroslavl on 2nd of Semtemper.
There are lots of ancient arches in the city. They good look and in the same time they are very suitable for some art performances. For example, poetry!
In each arch there was a poet who recited poetry. But not only poetry was this day: guitar, songs and even dancing!
Yesterday there was the first performance of the Architecture of Movement project which is organized for the second time. The Architecture of Movement (Архитектура движения in Russian) is a set of different kinds of events, performances and actions. Participants of this project say that the project for them is a festival of ideas.
The name of the first event is quite ordinary – Start (which in Russian is Pusk). The main idea was in releasing balloons. Every child, every boy and girl could get an own balloon which had to be released simultaneously with other participants.
Good weather, warm and fresh air with a perfect mood are enough to create awesome event!
I should mention that September, 1st is a big holiday in Russia with the name Knowledge Day (День Знаний in Russian or Den Znanij with transliteration). It is the day when the school year starts.
The whole of September there will be other events of the Architecture the Movement. Lots of photographs can be find on the official website www.armv09.ru.
