Syndicate: Ballettikka Internettikka | net.ballet

["intima" <igor.stromajer@guest.arnes.si>]

*announcement
and invitation for co-operation*

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"Ballettikka Internettikka | Part One: net.ballet"

(Ljubljana, Slovenia: February / March 28th 2001)

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Igor Stromajer - "intima | virtual base" and MC Brane (Brane 
Zorman) - "Beitthron" are beginning with the preparations for the 
new multilevel intermedia project:
"Ballettikka Internettikka"

[Stromajer dances net.ballet!]

After the project "Oppera Teorettikka Internettikka" (Ljubljana, March 
1999 - Opera and Ballet of the Slovenian National Theatre), where 
Stromajer was singing the HTML code of his net art projects, he 
decided to dance the net ballet. It's time!

The aim of the project is also to support The State Academic 
Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow, Russia) and its renovation.

"Ballettikka Internettikka | Part One: net.ballet"
March 28th, 2001 at 19:00 GMT+1
online only - live on the net
one year after - exactly one year after The Bolshoi Day, 2000
http://www2.arnes.si/~ljintima2/ballet

net.ballet dancer: Igor Stromajer - intima | virtual base
net.ballet composer: MC Brane / Brane Zorman - Beitthron

The second part of the project "Ballettikka Internettikka" will be 
realized in spring 2002 in Moscow (RealTimeSpace).

Any kind of help or co-operation with the preparations and 
realization of the project would be much appreciated.
For further information please contact: atom@intima.org


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links:

intima virtual base
http://www.intima.org

Beitthron
http://www.ljudmila.org/beitthron

net.ballet
http://www2.arnes.si/~ljintima2/ballet

The Bolshoi Theatre
http://www.bolshoi.ru

International Day of Solidarity with the Bolshoi Theatre,
March 28th 2000
http://www.bolshoi.ru/english/recon_day.phtml

TV.INTIMA
http://www2.arnes.si/~ljintima2/cam

Oppera Teorettikka Internettikka
http://www2.arnes.si/~ljintima2/oppera


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Appeal by The Bolshoi Theatre for international support


The Bolshoi is one of the finest theatres in the world, not only 
because it is one of the largest and handsomest but also by virtue 
of the supreme artistic level of the performances staged there.

Many outstanding musicians, composers, conductors, directors, 
ballet masters, designers and performing artists have worked at the 
Bolshoi, among them the singers Antonina Nezhdanova, Fyodor 
Chaliapin, Leonid Sobinov, Vladimir Atlantov, Aleksandr Pirogov, 
Yevgeniy Nesterenko, Irina Arkhipova, Elena Obraztsova, and such 
great names in the world of ballet as Marina Semenova, Galina 
Ulanova, Maya Plisetskaya, Raissa Struchkova, Lyudmila 
Semenyaka, Nikolai Fadeyechev, Ekaterina Maksimova, Vladimir 
Vasilyev, Maris-Rudolf Liepa and Mikhail Lavrovskiy.

The theatre has experienced many vicissitudes during its 223-year 
life. Founded as a private theatre on 28 March 1776, under a 
warrant granted by the Empress Catherine II, it soon became a 
State institution and has remained one down to the present day. It 
suffered two fires, in 1805 and 1853, and reopened in 1856 after 
being rebuilt by the architect Albert Cavos to the original plans of 
Osip Bovet. This elegant building, its colonnade of eight Doric 
columns surmounted by a bronze quadriga driven by Apollo, still 
possesses a special grandeur and majesty that make its image 
immediately recognizable to lovers of the performing arts the world 
over.

Since then, for over 140 years, the Bolshoi Theatre has been 
constantly undergoing minor repairs and restoration, but this has 
unfortunately been insufficient to solve the problems it has 
accumulated with the passage of time. The behind-the-scenes 
technology is also in need of modernization, to enable the theatre to 
stage new, interesting large-scale productions.

Following a thorough survey of the premises by a specially 
appointed commission, the Government recognized the need for a 
comprehensive restoration and rebuilding programme for the 
theatre back in 1987, but events in subsequent years meant it had 
to be postponed. In 1993, the Russian Government decided that 
subsidiary premises should be built, after which restoration and 
reconstruction work would commence on the principal building, the 
idea being that the new premises would house the Bolshoi company 
pending completion of that work and would become its second 
auditorium.

The foundation stone of the new building was laid on 8 September 
1995 in Theatre Square, in front of the Bolshoi itself. Work on the 
fabric of the building has now been completed, and the installation 
of technical equipment and the finishing and decorating operations 
began in October 1999.

The preliminary estimate of the total cost of renovation and 
reconstruction of the Bolshoi Theatre is close to US $200 million.

The Bolshoi Theatre reconstruction project is assisted by UNESCO 
on the basis of a tripartite agreement signed in 1993 by UNESCO, 
the Russian Ministry of Culture and the Bolshoi Theatre. In order to 
draw worldwide attention to the theatre's problems, an international 
campaign to raise funds for its restoration was launched in May 
1999 by UNESCO.

A steering committee has been set up to supervise the campaign, 
oversee income and expenditure, and advise on general policy 
matters connected with the project's implementation. This 
committee comprises representatives of UNESCO, the Russian 
Government and the Moscow municipality, the governing body of 
the Bolshoi, directors of some of the world's major opera houses 
and leading figures in the world of culture and the arts. The 
campaign is being coordinated by UNESCO which has opened 
special bank accounts to receive contributions for the reconstruction 
of the Bolshoi Theatre.

One of the most important measures to be taken in connection with 
this international campaign will be an International Day of Solidarity 
with the Bolshoi Theatre on 28 March 2000. The world's theatres, 
cinemas, concert halls and other cultural and performing arts 
centres are invited to participate by setting aside any sum they can 
afford from box-office receipts of one performance on that day. 
Other organizations, corporate bodies and individuals caring about 
what becomes of the Bolshoi are also invited to take part. The 
names of all who have helped the Bolshoi will be recorded in a 
commemorative list that is to be incorporated in the fabric of the 
restored and renovated theatre

[ text: ? 2000 The Bolshoi Theatre (www.bolshoi.ru) ]


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