[Fwd: Chekhoviana and information about International Chekhov Fund]
Anne F. Nothof
annen at ATHABASCAU.CA
Mon Mar 5 17:18:43 EST 2001
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Subject: Chekhoviana and information about International Chekhov Fund
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 18:08:50 +0300
From: Victor Goultchenko <vgoultchenko at mtu-net.ru>
Reply-To: vgoultchenko at mtu-net.ru
To: annen at athabascau.ca
Victor Goultchenko writes:
At the moment I organize the International Chekhov Fund (including
Chekhov Lab and Chekhov's magazine). I would like to give you a snapshot
of these projects (see below).
I would like to inform you about our current plans to publish Chekhov
Magazine (English and Russian editions) from the Spring of
2001.The first issue will be mainly devoted to the Chekhov's "Three
Sisters" (this play will have a centenary in this year). Our edition
plans
to be quarterly.
Terms of subscription will be given at the nearest future. The Chekhov
Magazine will publish materials, devoted to Anton Chekhov and Michael
Chekhov.
We also start preliminary actions for the creation of worldwide
Chekhov's
bibliography and would like to attract our potential colleagues from the
various countries to this activity.
Here you can see some possibilities of our potential contacts:
a) A creation of representative office of Chekhov fund in the Canada.
b) Promotion of Chekhov Magazine in Canada.
c) Regular organization of Chekhov Lab in the Canada.
d) Possible staging of Chekhov's plays in the Canada with our
participation.
The most difficult problem for us currently is searching of people who
could translate our articles from Russian to English, from French to
Englisn, from German to Englisn etc. - for our English version of
Chekhov
Magazine. We also are looking for a co-redactor of English version of
Chekhov Magazine. That is the reason we may delay our pilot issue of the
magazine (Nr 1, 2001).
Regards,
Victor Goultchenko
Contacts:
Fax: +7 ( 095) 197 17 45
E-mail: victor at chekhov.org
Web: http://www.chekhov.org.
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Announcement Nr.1: The International Chekhov Fund
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The International Chekhov Fund (ICF) is in process of its foundation
under recommendations of the Council of world culture history (Russian
Academy of Sciences), and Chekhov's commission (Russian Academy of
Sciences).
Main ICF activities:
- Realization of international conferences, symposiums, festivals (Such
as:
International conference "Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov and "new drama" of
XX
Century; International Treplev's festival with general idea of new forms
search; International festival of one Chekhov's play - "Uncle Vanya",
"The
Cherry Orchard, etc.).
- Organization of master-classes, creative labs (Such as: organization
of
Chekhov Lab a) in Moscow, b) abroad, c) in a Chekhov's tour "Moscow
(Sadovaya-Kydrinskaya) - Melikhovo - Taganrog - Yalta - Sakhalin";
special
master-classes for actors, producers, stage directors in Russia together
with foreign theatre practicals).
- Own scenic activity or theatre co-production (Such as: performance
co-production; consulting and other kinds of support in Chekhov's
performance preparation). Main targets are a) producers' and actors'
qualification development directly in practical process, and b) academic
methods of work under Chekhov's materials.
- Publishing activity (Such as: "Chekhov magazine" production including
some other historical & archives appendixes; Russian edition of foreign
Chekhov's researchers and vice versa).
- Target aid to Chekhov's museums in Russia, Ukraine and Deutschland.
Legal destination of the International Chekhov Fund is Deutschland.
Regional branch of the International Chekhov Fund is Moscow, Russia.
Organizations mentioned below agreed to join the International
Chekhov
Fund:
- State Theatre of Nations (Moscow)
- Radio of Russia (Moscow)
- Alexandrinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg)
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Announcement Nr.2: Chekhov Magazine
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Publisher: International Chekhov Fund.
Periodicity: Quarterly bilingual edition (in Russian & English)
including
historical & archive appendixes (in Russian).
Orientation: Prose / drama / theatre.
Audience: Chekhov's works specialists, "the new drama of XX century"
specialists, philologists, theatre & drama specialists, stage directors,
actors, stage-designers, lecturers & students of philological & theatre
departments, literary & theatrical community.
Content:
- The most important aspects of Chekhov's (and Chekhov's followers)
heritage - articles, reports, surveys.
- Republication of old materials (some of which have not been published
before - in some languages, in some countries), simultaneously with
publication of modern theorists' researches, together with articles of
modern stage directors & actors.
- Panorama of international culture life, associated with Anton
Chekhov's
and Michael Chekhov's names and works.
- Headlines and full information about new books, articles,
dissertations,
international symposiums & conferences, being devoted to the Chekhov's
work.
- Headlines and full information about new stage performances (drama,
opera, and ballet) based on Chekhov's materials.
- Illustrations of experience of modern stage-designers.
- Chekhov's exchange - offers, demands, etc.
Editorial board: Famous prose & drama theorists, together with
practical
specialists over-the-world. Permanent address & board membership will be
detailed in the nearest future.
Current actions: The pilot bilingual version of the magazine
(including
appendixes) is in process for the press.
Distribution: The magazine can be delivered under subscription. At the
same
time the magazine will be distributed via specialized bookstores.
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Announcement Nr.3: Chekhov Lab
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The Chekhov Lab is aimed to deep an audience into the poetic world of
Chekhov's plays using organic combination of theoretical and practical
studies.
Methodology:
The following methodology of studies seems to be the optimal:
a) theoretical thesis-ground
b) practical development of the mentioned thesis using a sketch method
with
actor's participation
c) further search-improvisation and discussion on found variants
d) summing up of found results, fixing of material either in play
fragments, or in fantasies based on the play subject, or in complex
performance
Main subjects:
1) Tourgenev - Chekhov - Gorky
2) Chekhov and Gogol
3) Ibsen - Strindberg - Chekhov
4) Chekhov and Moscow Art Theatre
5) Experience of Stanislavsky, Nemirovich-Danchenko and other producers
in
Chekhov's plays: starting from "theatre of feeling" to "theatre of
performance"
6) Chekhov in the culture of XX Century
7) Chekhov and "new drama" of XX Century
8) Chekhov and "theatre of absurd"
9) Base of Chekhov's theatre
10) "Space" and "time" in Chekhov's plays. Chekhov and Einstein.
11) Sense of stage direction in Chekhov's plays
12) Function of pause in Chekhov's plays
13) Features of final in Chekhov's plays
14) "Through" and "fluctuating" characters in Chekhov's plays
15) Russian Eros in Chekhov's plays
16) Chekhov's characters up to the end of XX Century: who'll see "the
sky
in diamonds"? :
17) Chekhov in the East and the West cultures : Etc.
Audience:
- An audience of Chekhov Labs may be formed with participation of
actors,
producers, theatre researchers, Slavonic philologists, students and
postgraduates of theatre institutes or faculties.
- An optimal group quantity is from 30 up to 50 peoples for every study.
Studies organization:
- Minimal duration of Chekhov Lab is 2 weeks.
- Maximal duration is 8-12 weeks.
Set of themes and material richness will be based on the Lab duration
and
group professional features.
Play's fragments, study or commercial performances may be prepared as a
result of Lab studies.
Abilities:
- Chekhov Lab studies may be held in memorial Chekhov's buildings
(Moscow, Melikhovo, Yalta, Gurzuf, etc.), or in native countries of
interested groups.
Victor Goultchenko
E-mail: victor at chekhov.org
Information about Chekhov Fund you can see on: http://www.chekhov.org
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