The Soviet Experience
Art :: Dance :: Music :: Theater
October 2010 – December 2011
The University of Chicago Presents (UCP) is partnering with 10 of Chicago's prominent arts institutions in presenting one of the largest collaborative artistic efforts across the city since Silk Road Chicago in 2006/07. The Soviet Experience, a 14-month-long showcase of works by artists who created under (and in response to) the Politburo of the Soviet Union, will officially kick-off this October and run through the end of 2011. These exciting events will take festival-goers behind the Iron Curtain to explore its essence through the creative work of its visual artists, choreographers, composers, and dramatists.
About the festival...
- More than 48 events will take place in a dozen venues across Chicago.
- Check out the press coverage so far in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times and Chicagoist. Keep your eyes peeled for more features coming soon!
- 11 festival partners include: UCP, Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, Chicago Opera Theater, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Art Institute of Chicago, Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Smart Museum of Art, Special Collections Research Center at The University of Chicago Library, The University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Court Theatre. (Additional partners to be announced in Fall 2010)
A few event highlights...
- Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet will perform the complete string quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich at Roosevelt University’s Ganz Hall.
- Riccardo Muti and Jaap van Zweden will conduct Shostakovich Symphonies No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 and No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 65 at the CSO, respectively.
- Mark Morris Dance Group will perform Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare, featuring Sergey Prokofiev’s original score and scenario, at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance.
- Simon Trpčeski will perform a program of Russian Piano Trios in his Chicago chamber music debut with Gjorgji Dimchevski and Kenneth Olsen at UChicago’s Mandel Hall.
- Chicago Opera Theater will present the American premiere of Gerard McBurney’s re-orchestration of Shostakovich’s MOSCOW, CHERYOMUSHKI.
- The Art Institute of Chicago will exhibit striking War-time propaganda posters not seen in the United States since World War II.
- The Block Museum of Art, Smart Museum of Art, and the Special Collections Research Center at The University of Chicago Library will exhibit special collections of iconic Soviet propaganda imagery, book art, children’s books, posters, cartoons and more.
- The Departments of Music and Slavic Languages and Literatures at UChicago will present additional curricular opportunities featuring expert faculty.
- The University of Chicago, Smart Museum, and Art Institute will present an interdisciplinary symposium in Fall 2011 illustrating the full scope of the artists of this era and their relationship to one another and the state.
"Communism means Soviets, plus the electrification of the whole country" by Mikhail Baljasnij
(Image courtesy of the Block Museum)
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