Perhaps the most eccentric Novosibirsk actor and director Oleg Zhukovsky told how his theater survived the first winter in the Central Park pavilion, shared plans for staging Swan Lake and explained why Barabinsk is better than Edinburgh.
Actor, director and choreographer Oleg Zhukovsky returned from Germany to Novosibirsk in 2012 for a reason. He brought his own theater La Pushkin to our city. Experimental, innovative, avant-garde - it is called differently, but this does not change the essence of this amazing phenomenon.
The theater already has its own audience and its own premises in Central Park, a repertoire and tour schedule have been formed.
Novosibirsk News managed to catch Oleg Zhukovsky almost at the plane on which he was flying to Dresden for the theater festival, and asked him about how the theater survived the first winter in the new building, about the patrons of this city, about the nightmares of producers, and also about how performances are born and die.
You moved into the pavilion in Central Park last summer. Last winter was your first in a new place. How did you survive the winter? video clip 
La Pushkin Theater opened in Central Park- Great. I have accumulated a genetic hunger for frost. I am a Siberian for ancient generations, and I constantly miss it, so I feel comfortable here.
- How did you arrange your “Art Barn”? Did someone help you or did you do everything yourself?
In my previous location in the Grass loft, I did everything myself, but the management of Central Park helped me with this, providing some of the building materials.
A lot of work has been done here - a new roof and a new porch, full insulation and interior cladding. There are three thousand screws alone. In the evenings, I then conducted free trainings on plastic surgery, and during the day, the training participants helped us renovate the premises. We managed to complete everything quite quickly - within a month and a half.
- Were those venues that you had before the Art Barn better or worse?
Worse. But I would also like to transform this room. For example, lower the floor by a meter. Or remove at least three columns located in the center of the hall and supporting the roof. There is such technology, but it just requires additional money. We need to run water. And, probably, all this construction is unlikely to ever end. In the current economic situation, it is impossible to expect the construction of any cultural complexes.
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We tour a lot, and where we come, we are sometimes offered to stay and promised long-term projects. For example, you can move to Tomsk even today. They call, they offer any space, workshops, rates.
- Aren't you tempted?
- Besides Tomsk, what other cities did you go on tour to and how were you received there?
It was received very well in Moscow and St. Petersburg. There we played almost the entire repertoire. In Nizhny Novgorod we showed “Kharms” and “Peter and the Wolf”. There was simply an incredible, open public in Alma-Ata.
- What is your audience like? Can you draw a generalized portrait of your viewer or is it impossible to generalize?
Our audience is not theatergoers. These are people who are able to go beyond the standard of perception. read also 
Kekhman: “I can’t understand the preferences of the Novosibirsk public”- Do I understand correctly that there are not many such people?
There are a lot of them. There are many more of them than those who go to the theater. Only 5% of the population goes to theaters.
But you have your own audience, and it cannot be called wide due to the fact that the material is not easy to understand. But according to my personal observations, despite the fact that the “text” of your performances is quite complex, children perceive it well. Maybe somehow in their own way, differently, but they perceive it.
They do this directly, because we are going through some kind of cultural allusions. We are planning to tour the region with the play “Peter and the Wolf”. To Barabinsk, for example, or to Ordynka.
In Germany, I once happily participated in the village theater festival “Landscape Festival”. There they can hold an exhibition or a symphony concert or a theatrical performance in the field. There we played “Peter and the Wolf” surrounded by combine harvesters. People had no idea what theater was at all. They are adults, but like children. They received us wonderfully, fed us, gave us water and thanked us for having such artists on their farm.
Therefore, I need to travel around the region, but so far I can’t find people interested in this. There are no sponsors for this yet either.
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Returning to your viewer, is there any feedback from the viewers? If so, what is the feedback? What emotions? Weren't there people who would teach you about life and say: you're doing everything wrong, Oleg, you're living wrong?
We have a letter box in the theater where viewers leave their reviews. There are not many negative comments. Happened once or twice on the Internet. But time passes, and these people apologize.
- Do they understand?
Fear. (laughs) It’s me who smiles like that with you, but in reality I’m a monster. I understand that one and a half million people in this city are not to blame for anything. Why did I end up here? This happened to me in Edinburgh. When you see people who can buy everything. Actually everything. Any art. The Edinburgh Festival has two thousand performances a day. And what am I playing there? - I thought. Why am I shaking myself when I have Barabinsk, which is not to blame for anything at all?
In Edinburgh we received very good criticism, they wrote very well about us. And with a completely clear conscience we got ready and went. No one from my company supported me. I came here alone, built a new company here, and had a fantastic family here.
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Last season, the repertoire included the performance play “Immortelle.” You promised to show it this season, but it’s not on the posters. When will he return?
He appeared when the play “Kharms” died. It was I who buried him so solemnly. Now in the repertoire there is “Kharms”, so there is no “Immortelle”.
To be honest, it belongs to the category of “minus” performances. It is incredibly interesting, experimental and very complex. We played it with a star cast in St. Petersburg with my favorite musicians at the Erarta private theater. There, he and I got into the black, but it was in the summer, when no one played on this site except us.
- Are “minus” performances a nightmare for an actor?
For an actor, no. This is a nightmare for a producer. I don’t have a producer yet, and I’m not in this system, so I have to build my own system. We have no overlap with that system; we have different tasks and goal-settings. read also There was a funny situation with Kharms. We had a tour Moscow - St. Petersburg - Alma-Ata. Moscow was the last to sign up for the tour, and there was nothing to send there because the scenery was all gone. And the director advised sending “Kharms” there, which the public didn’t go to see here. Maybe it will go there. And suddenly some kind of bomb happened there, only the applause lasted 35 minutes.
- Can you explain this to yourself or don’t you even try? Maybe some flares in the sun?
This is all clear. Even the simplest performances do not find an audience so quickly.
We have one amazing sponsor - he has a private dental clinic and he treats our teeth. One day, after the performance “Cabaret Orpheus”, which was not difficult for me, he said: Olezha, you know, I travel around the world, but I only understood 30%.
According to him, there is definitely an audience for this performance in Novosibirsk. But, firstly, she doesn’t know you, and, secondly, they don’t go to theaters. There are enough smart people here who can evaluate, understand and feel this material.
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At the opening of the Arts Barn, you said that you had plans to stage Swan Lake. Have you given up on your plans?
This idea came to me in Warsaw, where I had a plane connection and needed to spend the day somewhere, sleep at least two hours. One of my friends took me to his theater and gave me a dressing room to sleep. And suddenly it began to rain outside the window, and from somewhere there were seeds in my pocket. In general, when he came for me two hours later, the dressing room was littered with paper written on it. As a result, a dramatization of “Swan Lake” appeared.
This is my ancient dream. It is not canceled, it lives. But this performance requires funds. There I need flying acrobats, water surface. I can already imagine how Siegfried goes hunting and sees a swan with some kind of wild target on his chest. And how feathers fall. video clip 
Residents of Novosibirsk will see a live tiger and ballerinas with weapons in the new version of the ballet “Spartacus”- Besides “Swan Lake”, are there any other plans, perhaps more realistic?
There are many plans, and they are all realistic. I stage plays very quickly, but preparation for them takes an insanely long time. We staged “Cabaret Orpheus” instantly, but it had 800 preparatory versions. In addition to the preparatory process, the stars must also fall into place.
In the summer we plan to stage “The Tale of Lost Time.” For now I can only imagine the combination of light and shadows in it.
I don't even know if there will be text in it. I plan to involve children in preparing the performance. To do this, we will organize a children's theater camp, four seasons in total, during which we will stage the production four times, select the best moments and ultimately put together a full-fledged performance, which we will put into the repertoire. So we will have child actors in our theater.
My friends have been asking me for a long time to make another hit like “Peter and the Wolf.” And so we decided to make the play “Stanislavsky”. The scheme there is the same as in “Love Me,” but only there the characters are not husband and wife with dumplings, but Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko.
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You love?
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Your eyes and your smile are my true wealth.
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Your smile lights up life in me.
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New cool laughing statuses, funny short quotes, beautiful aphorisms, the best jokes, phrases, poems and good touching sayings with meaning for VK and classmates.
We welcome our friends and guests! Here you will find a new positive section - quotes about smiling. This is our gift. So that every visitor to the site can smile for himself, recharging himself in a mood that can be safely described as a Holiday of the Soul. And he gave all his friends joy through his statuses.
But what do Smile Quotes say? What is a sincere smile compared to, and what is its price? It is worth diving deeper into the topic to see what power and abilities it has in order to learn how to use it skillfully. One thing is clear about a person who will smile at difficulties, give joy to the people around him, or who looks for the positive in everything, knows exactly the most important secrets of life:
- Laughing is not only useful, but also pleasant;
- The golden key exists;
- The best interlocutor who understands everything;
- Mood pill;
- You are rich if you have this gift.
Many statements of great people reveal the essence of this radiant phenomenon, which illuminates the face with carefreeness and colors everything around with the color of happiness. And aphorisms about a smile can decorate: a meeting or conversation, a personal profile page, like statuses, and even life.
Beautiful aphorisms about laughter can make you laugh. But more often than not, they also have meaning. Thanks to them, you can look at your circumstances in a new way, with positive side. They help you smile when you are tired; they are used to say hello to your friend who is sick.
And how pleasant it is to remember these sparkling expressions. Therefore, do something nice for yourself: smile as if you are happy. Take the example of a small child who is always happy about everything.
You are not fully dressed, while there is no smile on your face.
(Martin Charnin)
Never stop smiling, even when you are sad: someone can fall in love with your smile.
(Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
There is nothing more beautiful than a smile coming from the heart.
A smile costs nothing but it gives a lot.
It enriches those who receive it without impoverishing those who give it.
It lasts a moment, but sometimes remains in the memory forever.
No one is rich enough to do without it, and no one is so poor that he would not become richer from it.
It creates happiness in the home, creates an atmosphere of goodwill and serves as a password for friends.
(Dale Carnegie)
Smile- kiss of the soul.
(Minna Antrim)
If the loser smiles, the winner loses the taste of victory.
(Usain Bolt)
Smile don't give misfortune pleasure.
(Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
The strong one is not the one who can put you on your shoulder blades with one look, and the one who can lift you from your knees with just a smile!
(Juliette Binoche)
If you see a face without smiling, smile yourself.
(Biant Priensky)
If you are always capable smile at life, life will always smile at you.
(Brian Tracy)
Smile- an inexpensive way to look better.
(Charles Gordy)
A smile costs nothing, and how much does she give? It attracts happiness into the home and increases the number of friends.
(Marcus Tullius Cicero)
A smile is the curve that straightens everything out.
(Phyllis Diller)
Just one smile can change the world around you, but never let the whole world change your smile!
Laughter is the sun: it drives winter away from the human face.
Funny aphorisms
We all prefer to go through life with a smile. And it is right! After all, she is the key that opens any door. Don't believe me? Remember the child illuminated by it! Joy shines and shimmers on his face. As soon as he wants something, are we able to resist the pressure of his cuteness? And the girl’s happiness, which is reflected in the sparkle of her eyes and bright smile! Everything pales before her beauty! Considering the power of such gentle friendliness, we filled our website with rays of joy and pure childish delight. There is laughter and mischief in every phrase. They can be used as statuses.
Smile, joy, positivity, as I was told -
Contraceptive for all adversities... Didn’t you know?
Don't catch the evil virus, take precautions.
Let everyone twist at your temple - you smile!
Last day before VACATION I had to walk through the door sideways to work - my SMILE CAN'T GET IN!
Smile more often at the new day, and don’t forget to tell your loved ones: “I love you...”
You have to smile like this so that lipstick stays on your ears!
A shining smile is smile not only with your lips, but with your eyes, heart and soul. Are we shining?! ;))
A smile is a small coin to the treasury of happiness.
Come on, hide your sadness and show me your smile!
A smile is like a filter: He will let in the good, and keep out the bad!
Stop fussing Live as you like!
Phrases about smiling
Phrases about smiling show how universal it is. With it we can express sympathy, with it we can show that we are happy or satisfied. It’s as if she’s saying to her interlocutor: “I understand you well and mine depends on your mood.” We smile and thereby express our feelings towards a person and circumstances. That is why we post statuses, they are meaningful, and are designed so that these short and funny quotes about laughter tell about ourselves.
Man without a smile- these are strings without a violin, this is a sea without a seagull, this is a house without a mistress, this is a cat without a tail, this is a tail without a cat. Always smile! And have a nice day!
Smile to spite yourself May you be lucky today.
If you smile- all dreams will begin to come true!
Smile- and you will have friends; frown and you will have wrinkles.
Mood pill
Is there a way to get rid of a bad mood? Yes! These are phrases about a smile. Even one quote can make your soul feel light and good again. Not only can you forget about all your problems, but you can also help your loved ones. A man, a woman, and even a child will appreciate how quickly and reliably this simple remedy works, let's call it: Smile. You can take it at least every day, the consequences for women, children and men are inevitable - joy!
Do you want life itself to smile at you? And did children's delight live in your heart? Then start thinking positively about everything. Change statuses and reflect changes for the better in them. Our collection of positive moods will help with this. Everything here has a purpose and everything is meant to make you laugh. You have the gift of being happy, so help your friends with your smile so that they too feel happy.
Smile- the safest weapon mass destruction! “Shoot” with smiles - spread joy, get infected with positivity and be sick with goodness!
Don't look for a reason for a smile - smile and pass it on. ツ