Gogol Center

The Gogol Center, Russia’s leading avant-garde theater[1] is a multi-use arts complex in Moscow, featuring movies, music concerts, a discussion club, and performances by Russian and foreign directors on several stages. The Center is noted for its stagings of contemporary Russian Dramas[2] and a lobby featuring neon-lit mirrors shaped like famous directors.[3][4] and as part of recent news related to Russian State censorship of the arts[5].

The Center's has recently hosted dance companies including SounDrama and Studio Seven as part of an experimental artist in residence program specifically committed to art that "does not limit itself with any genre boundaries and constantly strives to reflect Modern Art in the most relevant way."[6]

The Center's writer and dramaturge, Valeriy Pecheykin, is a regular contributor to the Russian LGBT magazine Kvir, author of the plays My Moscow (2008), Net (2009), Lucifer (2008), Russia, Forward! (2011), A Little Hero (2014), screenplay co-author for Pavel Lungin's The Conductor[7] (Russia, 2012).

Kirill Serebrennikov, the artistic director of the Gogol Center, is professor (of acting and direction) at the Moscow Art Theatre School. His productions were presented at the Wiener Festwochen and the Avignon Theatre Festival. His films have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Rome Film Festival, and the Warsaw International Film Festival, where his film Yuri's Day received the Grand Prix.

History

In February 2014, Moscow’s Gogol Theatre reopened as the Gogol Center[8] with a season that included performances of Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol[9] and Hamlet by William Shakespeare[10]

In May 2017, Russia’s Investigative Committee ordered police to raid the Center. The Center's Directory, Kirill Serebrennikov was detained for questioning. On 23 May, police attributed the cause of the raid and detention of its Director to an investigation of embezzlement of budget funds.[11]

References
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  3. "Gogol Center". Frommers. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  4. "Gogol Center: a modern theater & discussion club". The Vander Lust. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  5. "Russian Artists Face a Choice: Censor Themselves, or Else". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  6. "Gogol Center: About". Gogol Center. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  7. "Valeriy Pecheykin". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  8. "Moscow's Gogol Theatre reopens as Gogol Center". Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  9. "Hamlet at Gogol-center. Contemporary approach to Shakespeare". Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  10. "Hamlet at Gogol-center. Contemporary approach to Shakespeare". Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  11. "Kirill Serebrennikov's property searched without a warrant". Meduza. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
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