Winter Fairy Tale 2015

06.01.2015

December
23, 2014 Members of the international children’s art project “NusKids”
gathered to deliver fun New Year’s performance in Moscow. This year it was held at the site of
the Cultural Center of the Federal Security Service
of Russia in the famous “Lubyanka”. About four thousand people came to see 3
performances in 2 days! Excitement was unreal, we ran out of tickets and
organizers puzzled over how to fit everyone.

Now about
the touching part, the gathering of artists … I have often written about how
this happens, but every time like the first time. From 6 in the morning until late at
night the kids came to Moscow
and wait for each other in the hotel. The whole bunch of human feelings breaks
out. The hotel staff watching such action did not understand where to call the
police or an ambulance. However we are still familiar with the sense of
proportion, so after a while we calm down, but not for long. Participants of
the project came every hour, and with each new arrival starts all over again.

The next
day kids went to the rehearsal room, where they had heavy and persistent
rehearsals. After two weeks you need to take to the stage again to give the
audience the best New Year gift!

The best
gift … What is it? What or who is hiding behind these words? Anyway, what
could be the best gift for everyone? Is it interesting? It is indeed! Christmas
story by project «NucKids», which is welcome to visit and do miracles happy –
that’s the best gift!

 It’s
all without a doubt because the threshold of the New Year – this is the most
wonderful and the most fabulous time of the year. People can not spend these
days without friends and relatives with whom they just need to share the
happiness and festive mood!

But in
order to become a fairy tale miracle, and the miracle became real, our young
actors spare no effort and time to train hard from early morning and till late
night. Watching the actors of the project «NucKids» in the rehearsal room, one
is struck by how patiently, persistently and purposefully they repeat the same
thing. After all, if the artists have not mastered all the difficulties of
their role now, coming on the scene, they won’t be able play, without making a
single mistake.

Actors of
the theater, as a rule, are great workers. It’s necessary to achieve clarity
and accuracy of performance of each action of the character, beauty and
expressiveness in the rehearsal room. The audience in the theater admiring
acting of the young actors will probably say, “God’s gift! What a talented
child!” However brilliant performance contains a huge number of hours of
exhausting work, rivers of sweat and sometimes tears.

So we had
our rehearsals, which began the day after the arrival. Children didn’t go out
for days, to create a miracle: the New Year’s fairy tale project «NucKids». While
the guys were preparing for the little miracle, the miracle of their own also
not forced to wait long for his appearance.

Happy New
Year! Chiming clock! President speech! Salute!!!

Clinking of
glasses! Joy! Laughter!!! Participants of the Nuckids spend of the New Year
together for the 1^st time! Project organizers have prepared a
remarkable cultural and entertainment program, titled “An Evening of
parodies,” and made the evening memorable. Kids have prepared a parody for
the famous Russian TV program: project “Tancy” show,
“Voice”, and many others. This format gave participants the chance of
once again showcase their talents, and experience great fun. On «NucKids»
participants celebrated in a very special way but the tradition remained: Santa
Claus has visited kids!!! He gave a lot of presents that children listed. While
Santa Claus flew to his home in Great Ustyug, the guys started dancing, and
soon our wonderful New Year’s Eve ended white dance, and participants went to
sleep, because with the morning comes the continuation of the holiday and they
will need a lot of strength and energy.

In the
morning, I woke up and kids immediately went to one of the best cinemas in Moscow to catch the
premiere of the film, and then went for a walk in the famous “Hunter’s Row”
shopping center, near the Bolshoi Theater, and many other attractions of the
capital. After an exciting day kids were exchanging “gifts” with each
other, those gifts were brought from different parts of the country.

The next
day the children are back to the usual routine and continued to prepare for the
premiere, to which was only 2 days away.

With the
huge success premiered Winter fairy tale “The Nutcracker” at the Cultural Center of the FSB of Russia. In just 10
days, under the direction of star teachers, participants of the international
children’s art project «NucKids» managed to create a new masterpiece.

The
premiere took place in an amazing atmosphere. The audience applauded with great
enthusiasm, “atomic” artists, who in record time set ninety-minute musical
performance with a sophisticated choreography and directing. As soon as the
curtain fell, the young actors were not able to resist the flow of their young
admirers who wanted to talk and take photos with fantastic characters. Parents
also have shared their experiences and gave great feedback to creative team.

But no
matter how well it was done, it’s impossible to imagine evening after the
premier without discussing the mistakes! The director and the creative team
once again congratulated kids with success and have made adjustments to some
work of artists. After the premiere, the guys played two of the promised
performance.

But it’s
better to stay there in the distant future. Again, the first days of the
project, the first gatherings and rehearsals … These days all will leave a
mark in our hearts. During the farewell party, our single mechanism «NucKids»
slowly began to crumble: each of us has lost a part of himself – left Sevilla,
as we affectionately call her Seva. However, as promised, during Winter’s Fairy
Tale there are two members selected by the creative team to participate in the
«NucKids 2015″ without competition. Those lucky guys are Varbara Rodnova
and Vassily Bogdanov. After this news the kids gave way to tears of joy and
everyone else too!

In the
morning, the same thing happened, but exactly the opposite. From 6 in the morning until late at
night the guys were leaving Moscow,
and said goodbye to each other in the hotel. Parting until next year, guys
talked through tears. Anyway it will all be back, in summer session of «NucKids
2015″!

Andrew
Korchukov, specially for www.nuckids.ru