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MAY
Ballet
Books
Community
Exhibitions
Family / Kids
Festivals
Movies
Opera
SBS TV
Theatre
Web Sites
BALLET
- Onegin
Onegin, a bored aristocrat from St Petersburg, visits the provinces and enchants the naive Tatiana. She sends him an impassioned letter, but he rejects her, dallies with his own best friend’s girlfriend, and kills him in the ensuing duel. Years later the troubled Onegin again encounters Tatiana, now married to a prince, and is bewitched by her. Will she be able to resist? With soaring music by Tchaikovsky, sumptuous costumes by Jürgen Rose, and two famous pas de deux, this ballet classic will linger with you long after the curtain falls... - All Male Ballet Comedy: Men in Pink Tights
Making their World Premiere season in Australia, Les Ballets Eloelle are bringing their new production Men in Pink Tights - the most hilarious all-male commedy ballet ever. It boasts a stunning and diverse programme that consists of an eclectic mix of Classical Ballet's greatest moments told with outstanding hilarity... back to top
BOOKS
- Odysseya: An Epic Journey from Russia to Australia
Alex Vassilieff vividly recounts the extraordinary journey of his ancestors. A Family’s courageous struggle to survive against the odds of adversity over two centuries and two continents and leave a legacy of their Diaspora for future generations.He not only provides a compelling account of survival against the odds, he also gives a personal insight into what it is like to be born a Russian, with all the complexities that entails... back to top
COMMUNITY
- StGeorge Russian School
The school accepts children from 4 years of age and older. The program includes: religious studies, Russian language and literature, language development, reading, writing, basic history, geography and Russian culture... - Bondi United Soccer Team
Russian Football Club "Bondi United FC" invites people who love soccer to join the club. The club has a rich 18 year history that includes winning multiple competitions. The club has two very successful teams: All Ages and over 45s. Most games are played in the Eastern Suburbs... - Sutherland Soccer Team
A Russian soccer team in Sutherland meets every Saturday to play soccer... back to top
EXHIBITIONS
FAMILY / KIDS
- Russian Play Group in Bondi
Are you are interested in joining a Russian playgorup in the Bondi area? The Russian Playgroup "Russian Kids Group Bondi" ("Russian KGB") accepts the Russian-speaking kids under 5 years of age. Please note the group is not run on wet or rainy days... - Russian Play Group in Hornsby
- Russian Music and Dance Group in Hornsby
The main aim of the group is to prepare children to perform on stage and to represent Russian culture at different events. For more information please visit www.ruskids.com.au... - Art School for Kids and Teenagers
Teaching in a variety of painting and drawing techniques, such as acrylic, watercolour, pastels, pencil and charcoal with specific attention to tone, colour, line, texture, perspective, composition and spatial thinking. Classes are conducted by experienced, exhibiting artist and teacher with over 20 years as Qualified Art Teacher and artist... - Tilkin-Dilkin Studio: Music, Theatre, Mathematics, Science, Reading and Chess Workshops.
Tilkin-Dilkin Studio is Enrolling for Music, Theatre, Mathematics, Science, Reading and Chess Workshops. Ages 1-12. Language of instruction - Russian/English... back to top
FESTIVALS
- SWF: Resistance
Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya resisted Putin’s regime, and many of us at Sydney Writers’ Festival will never forget her visit here in 2006, just months before she was killed. In Demanding the Impossible Sylvia Lawson recounts the courage of Politkovskaya and asks what has become of resistance. Laura Soares Abrantes and Isabel ‘Beba’ Sequeira might have answers from their participation in the fight for East Timorese independence. Lawson, Abrantes and Sequeira talk to Katherine Thomson... - SWF: The Man Without a Face
According to Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen, Vladimir Putin has made a mockery of Russia’s nascent democracy by manipulating his way back to the nation’s Presidency, all the while ruthlessly putting down his critics and opponents. Her compeling biography of Putin shines a light on his modus operandi... back to top
MOVIES
- Silent Souls
When Miron's beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks his best friend Aist to help him say goodbye to her according to the rituals of the Merya culture, an ancient Finno-Ugric tribe from Lake Nero, a picturesque region in West-Central Russia. The two men set out on a roadtrip thousands of miles across the boundless lands. Along the way, as is custom for the Meryas, Miron shares intimate memories of his conjugal life. But as they reach the banks of the sacred lake where they will forever part with the body, he realises he wasn't the only one in love with Tanya... back to top
OPERA
SBS TV
- 12
Loosely based on the 1957 film 12 Angry Men, Nikita Mikhalkov's superbly acted film is clever and gripping like its predecessor, but with a distinctly Russian feel. The fate of a Chechen teenager who is alleged to have killed his Russian stepfather hangs in the balance of a group of twelve all male jurors. Nominated for the 2007 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Stars Sergei Makovetsky, Nikita Mikhalkov and Sergei Garmash... - The Aral Sea Resurrected
The Aral Sea Resurrected - The Aral Sea lies between Kazakhstan in the north and Uzbekistan in the south. Once the world's fourth-largest inland saline body of water the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet Union irrigation projects. There is now an ongoing effort in Kazakhstan to save and replenish the North Aral Sea... back to top
THEATRE
WEB SITES
- Top Moscow Theatres on YouTube
We know that television shows can be granted a second life on the big screen and vice versa. But what about theatre plays re-made as TV versions? The ‘Golden Collection’ project takes on this ambitious task. It had been initiated by the Moscow Media and Advertising Department and been already dubbed in the Russian media as a cultural revolution. The plan is to adapt to and screen on television popular plays from the repertoire of the top Moscow theatres. Follow the project’s progress on http://www.youtube.com/user/MoscowTheaters ... back to top
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JUNE
Ballet
Books
Classical Music
Community
Concerts
Exhibitions
Family / Kids
Festivals
Lectures/Talks
Movies
Theatre
BALLET
- The Nutcracker on Ice
The Imperial Ice Stars company presents... - English National Ballet in Sydney
The Exclusive Sydney Season of English National Ballet will open on 8 June in the brand new, intimate 500-seat Theatre in the Performing Arts Centre on The Concourse, Chatswood. The repertoire comprises two great classics: George Balanchine's Apollo and Serge Lifar's Suite en blanc, with favourite pas de deux, including Don Quixote or the Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake Act III, the bedroom pas de deux from Kenneth MacMillan's Manon and Hans van Manen's Trois Gnossiennes... back to top
BOOKS
- Journey to Hardship – A Russian in Prickly Pear Country
Journey to Hardship – A Russian in Prickly Pear Country is a story about the period at the turn of the 20th Century, during which many Russian families migrated to Australia in search of a better way of life. Some settled in South West Queensland, only to find the land being over-run by the most noxious weed invasion ever known to man – the prickly pear invasion. Andrei Ivanovich Kidiayev aka Andrew John Kidcaff, a Russian Border Guard, was one such man who migrated his family to Australia in 1909. His is a story as written by his grandson former Assistant Commissioner of the QLD Police Force Andrew Francis Kidcaff typifies those pioneers, farmers and graziers who inhabited Queensland, westward from the Darling Downs during the late 19th Century and the turn of the 20th Century... back to top
CLASSICAL MUSIC
- Flutes and Flutists presents Denis Bouriakov
Principal Flute of the Metropolitan Opera, Denis Bouriakov enjoys one of the fastest growing careers in the flute world. Having won numerous prestigious prizes around the globe, this astouding talent will delight audiences with his unique flute repertoire... - Goldner String Quartet in concert
The Goldner String Quartet has widespread and longstanding recognition for excellence, regarded as Australia’s pre-eminent string quartet and among the most accomplished ensembles in the world. Launched during the 1995 season, and still retaining all four founding members, the ‘Goldners’ are also acknowledged individually as performers of the highest calibre... back to top
COMMUNITY
- StGeorge Russian School
The school accepts children from 4 years of age and older. The program includes: religious studies, Russian language and literature, language development, reading, writing, basic history, geography and Russian culture... back to top
CONCERTS
EXHIBITIONS
FAMILY / KIDS
FESTIVALS
- Silent Souls
Lyrical, elegiac and stunningly beautiful, Silent Souls is a transformative work of cinema that intertwines loss, memory and longing in a funerary ritual that is as much about a disappeared culture as it is about the death of a loved one. Aist (Igor Sergeyev) is a photographer, writer and a descendant of the Merya people, a Finno-Ugric tribe from central-western Russia, whose traditions he documents and preserves in his work. When Tanya, the young wife of his boss and best friend Miron (Yuri Tsurilo) unexpectedly dies, the two men prepare her corpse and observe the tradition of 'smoking' - telling intimate stories about the deceased - whilst travelling with Tanya's body to free her soul in the Volga river... - Sydney Film Festival : Khodorkovsky
Mikhail Khodorkovsky documentary film 'stolen'" was the headline in the UK's Telegraph newspaper on the eve of the film's premiere at the 2011 Berlinale. Police dubbed it 'a very professional break-i', which raises the suspicion that the theft was politically motivated. Luckily, a copy was already in Germany, so the packed screening went ahead. Khodorkovsky made his fortune when Boris Yeltsin sold him a state-owned oil franchise at a knockdown price, rather than let it fall into American hands. A multi-millionaire and a friend of the rich and powerful, he fell out of favour with then-President Putin. Since 2003, Khodorkovsky has been locked away in a Siberian prison following his prosecution for tax evasion and, more recently, for theft and money laundering. The story of his rise and fall is told using archival footage, interviews with family and business associates, and classy animation... - Sydney Film Festival: Exporting Raymond
Phil Rosenthal grew up loving television, but never dreamed he'd have his own show, much less one that ran for more than 2000 episodes. When Everybody Loves Raymond - which he created, wrote and executive-produced - finally winds down, he gets a call: would he be interested in making a Russian version of his hit sitcom? Rosenthal sets out for Moscow, pondering the need for kidnap insurance and pleased to hear his driver was once a bodyguard for Condoleezza Rice. Arriving at the daggy Gorky Film Studio, he's instantly in conflict with the costume designer, who's unimpressed by the notion of 'everyday' clothing. The head writer has a problem with Raymond (renamed Kostya) being pushed around by women, an unacceptable notion to a Russian male; and as for the casting process... The notion that comedy is universal takes a battering in Rosenthal's laugh-out-loud account of cultural misunderstandings in the world of television production... - Sydney Film Festival: Faust
Inspired by Goethe's play, Alexander Sokurov radically reinterprets the myth of Faust in this visually stunning film which won the Golden Lion in Venice. Sokurov's Faust is thinker, rebel and pioneer, but is also driven by greed and lust. After Moloch (Hitler), Taurus (Lenin) and The Sun (Hirohito), Faust is the final film in Sokurov's tetralogy on power... - Sydney Film Festival: Target
Alexander Zeldovich's dystopian spectacular is set in 2020 Russia. The political order is an 'ecological democracy' and social structures are rigorously maintained by an exam system that ensures all citizens are correctly positioned in the hierarchy. Victor (Maksim Sukhanov), the minister for natural resources, his wife Zoya (Justine Waddell), her TV-celebrity brother Mitya (Danila Kozlovskiy) and Nicolai (Vitaly Kishchenko), a colonel assigned to commandeer the superhighway, are all members of the elite class with everything but happiness and time at their disposal. Together they travel to the Altai Mountains to an abandoned astrophysics plant - the Target - in order to expose themselves to cosmic rays which prolong life and rejuvenate the mind. Initially elated by the short term fix, the long-term impact sends them spiralling into decadence and destruction. Luxuriously shot and designed, this rampant odyssey is a bold and compelling meditation on sex, communication and contemporary power... back to top
LECTURES/TALKS
- Alexander Zeldovich on Target
Alexander Zeldovich (Moscow) earned a psychology degree at MV Lomonosov Moscow State University before studying at the Film Writers and Directors Institute. He has worked as a director, screenwriter and producer in film and television at Russia's Studio Mosman since the 1980s. He discusses his latest film, the dystopian social satire Target, making its Australian Premiere at SFF 2011 in Official Competition. The talk is moderated by Jason Di Rosso of ABC Radio National's MovieTime... - Phil Rosental on Exporting Raymond
Phil Rosenthal, creator of the hit TV series Everybody Loves Raymond, talks about his first feature film Exporting Raymond, the laugh-out-loud true story about the attempt to turn his show into a Russian sitcom. The talk is moderated by the Sydney Morning Herald's Michael Idato... back to top
MOVIES
- Silent Souls
When Miron's beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks his best friend Aist to help him say goodbye to her according to the rituals of the Merya culture, an ancient Finno-Ugric tribe from Lake Nero, a picturesque region in West-Central Russia. The two men set out on a roadtrip thousands of miles across the boundless lands. Along the way, as is custom for the Meryas, Miron shares intimate memories of his conjugal life. But as they reach the banks of the sacred lake where they will forever part with the body, he realises he wasn't the only one in love with Tanya... back to top
THEATRE
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