21.10–23.10.2025 | Crocus Expo, Moscow

 
 

X THEATER FORUM

the THEATER FORUM SCHEDULE 2024
List of participating theaters and program

As part of the forum: analyses of the most interesting case studies in the renovation and re-equipment of cultural institutions, presentations of the latest equipment, meetings with potential clients, and tours of Moscow's theaters.

ARCHITECTURAL BUREAU MV-PROJECT
Sponsor of Theater Forum 2024
Preparation of design and estimate documentation for cultural and educational objects, works related to restoration and adaptation of cultural heritage objects.
Program
MODERATORS:
  • Artur Ratke, Deputy Director for Theater Technology Development of the GA Maly Theater of Russia;
  • Sergey Samodov, Director of the Lomonosov Arkhangelsk Drama Theater. M.V. Lomonosov Drama Theater.
September 17, Tuesday
  • 11.00-11.30
  • Registration, coffee break
  • 11.30 - 12.30
  • MV Project: experience in designing theater buildings in terms of the importance of proper selection of design solutions at the initial stage of work. preliminary research and development work to determine the needs of the client/user and to draw up a roadmap. Dmitry Shurygin and Oleg Shurygin, founders and managers of MV-Project ltd.
  • 12.35-13.15

Theater Technological Systems: Stage. Technology. Innovations. 2024: non-standard solutions of technological equipment, review of successful re-equipment and reconstruction projects, ways of obtaining financing.

Vitaly Yakunin, General Director of TTS

Mikhail Vasiliev, TTS Development Director

  • 13.20 - 13.35

Ancomp: Theater is not only a stage. Interaction with the audience with the help of multimedia

Maxim Glinnikov, General Director, Ancomp Company

Mikhail Absalyamov, Ancomp Leading Engineer

  • 13.40 - 14.00

Shadow: Novelties of lighting equipment

Ilya Permyakov, Director of Shadow Company

  • 14.05 - 14.45

Sistema: How to make a stage you want to work on: 35 years of practical experience. computerized mechanical control system as an example of successful import substitution

Alexey Levushov, Commercial Director, Firma Sistema LLC

Alexander Shalin, Head of Control Systems Development at Firma Sistem

  • 14.50 - 15.05

Octava: Octava professional microphones for theater equipment

Pavel Belkov, Lead Engineer

  • 15.05 - 15.25
  • Q&A Session
  • 16.00 - 18.00
  • Technical tour
September 18, Wednesday
  • 11.15 - 11.55

Doka Center: How to Reconstruct in the New Geopolitical Realities? Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, St. Petersburg.

Alexander Fokichev, General Director of JSC Doka Center

  • 12.00 - 12.40

Aris: Delta method for assessing the quality of SRAM in theaters

Evgeny Shuev, acoustic engineer, head of BAR (Bureau of Acoustic Calculations)

  • 12.45 - 13.00
ProTone: ProTone's theater sound solution

Liliya Gaynutdinova, ProTone Product Manager

  • 13.00 - 13.30

Coffee break

  • 13.30 - 14.10

Constage:

1. Cases and trends of staging complex 2024 - sound

2. Cases and trends of the production complex 2024 - light

Nadezhda Rakhmanova, audio engineer

ANTON POLYAKOV, CLAYPAKY Lighting Equipment Engineer

  • 14.15 - 14.30

LTM: Reliable solutions for theaters: Equipment and service under sanctions pressure

Elena Kharitonova, Project Manager, LTM Music LLC

  • 14.35 - 14.50

Stroycirc: techno-economic problems in construction and reconstruction with cultural facilities /institutions

TVA
  • 14.50 - 15.15

Q&A Session

  • 16.00 - 19.00

Free time to work at the stands

September 19, Thursday
  • 11.15 - 11.55

DealerCenter & TTT Group:Modern technologies in the theater. Composition of technical assignment. Examples of realization.

Evgeny Mullin, Deputy General Director and Project Manager of JSC "Technics and Technologies of Theater"

  • 12.45 - 13.00

MediaData: Synapse for concert halls and theaters. Hardware and software innovations

Dmitry Slobozhaninov, Leading Engineer, Synapses Implementation and System Integration Department, Trakt Company

  • 13.05 - 13.20

GLOBAL EFFECTS: New GLOBAL EFFECTS equipment for special effects in the theater

Tatiana Shubina, Marketing and Sales Director

  • 13.20 - 13.40

Q&A Session

  • 15.30

Departure to the State Academic Mossovet Theater

TECHNICAL TOUR & ROAD EXCURSION

September 17 at 4:00 p.m.

Technical tour of the exhibition


Tour of the exhibition for representatives of theaters with a professional guide. Acquaintance with the novelties of equipment and technologies for equipping modern theaters at the stands of the exhibitors.


Tour curator: Dmitry Lyashkov

September 19 at 3:30 p.m.

Departure tour


Field trip to a theater that has undergone technical reconstruction and re-equipment. Familiarization with new equipment and technologies of modern theaters on a real example.


Field trip to the State Academic Mossovet Theater

  • Dmitry Lyashkov

    Technical Director of theater and related projects. Headed the production part of the open theater space Art Platform, Praktika Theater, Gogol Center, Gorky Moscow Art Theater, Russian Song, and the Polytechnic Museum. As a technical director he collaborated with the festivals “Vakhtangov Festival of Theater Managers”, “Territory”, “Texture”, “Big Change”, “Tradition”, “New People”, “Theater March”, BRUSFEST, Global Ballet Holidays, Festival of Science “Polytech”, international theater project “In Touch” at the Royal Dramatic Theater in London. Author of several projector reconstructions of theater stage complexes.

40+ participating theaters

List of participants of Theater Forum 2024
National Youth Theater of the Republic of Bashkortostan named after M. Karim
г. Ufa

Y.P.Kiselev Saratov Academic Youth Theater of the Republic of Saratov.
г. Saratov

Tula Regional Young Spectator Theater
Tula

Buguruslan State Drama Theater named after N.V. Gogol
Buguruslan

Chelyabinsk State Drama Chamber Theater
г. Chelyabinsk

Kursk State Puppet Theater
г. Kursk

Kaliningrad Regional Musical Theater
г. Kaliningrad

Lomonosov Arkhangelsk Drama Theater
г. Arkhangelsk

A. Bobrov Musical Theater of Kuzbass
г. Kemerovo

Ryazan Musical Theater
г. Ryazan

Drama Theater of the city of Elets “Benefis”
г. Yelets

Svetloyarsk Puppet Theater “Fairy Tale”
Volgograd region

Academic Russian Drama Theater named after Georgy Konstantinov. Georgy Konstantinov
Yoshkar-Ola

Krasnoyarsk Puppet Theater
г. Krasnoyarsk

Young Spectator Theater of Nizhnekamsk
г. Nizhnekamsk

Young Spectator Theater of the city of Zarechny
г. Zarechny

Nizhny Tagil Drama Theater named after D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak
г. Nizhny Tagil

Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater
г. Novosibirsk

Cultural and Sports Center “Naziya”
Naziya, Leningrad Region

Volgograd State Theater “Tsaritsyn Opera”
г. Volgograd

State Russian Drama Theater, Sterlitamak, Russia
г. Sterlitamak, Republic of Bashkortostan

Nizhny Novgorod State Academic Puppet Theater
г. Nizhny Novgorod

Vologda Theater for Children and Youth
г. Vologda

Perm House of Folk Art “Gubernia”
г. Perm

Perm Opera and Ballet Theater
г. Perm

D.K. Sivtsev-Suorun Omolloon Opera and Ballet Theater of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
Yakutsk

Yaroslavl Drama Theater “Novy Kovcheg”.
г. Yaroslavl

First Experimental Theater
г. St. Petersburg

Bashkir State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater
г. Ufa

Ivanovo State Philharmonic
г. Ivanovo

Vologda Drama Theater
г. Vologda

Saratov Drama Theater
г. Saratov

Murmansk Regional Philharmonic
г. Murmansk

Mariinsky Theater
г. St. Petersburg

Novokuznetsk Drama Theater
г. Novokuznetsk

Nyagan Young Spectator Theater
г. Nyagan

Grand Concert Hall “Oktyabrsky”
г. St. Petersburg

Palace of Arts “Neftyanik”
г. Surgut

PJSC “Surgutneftegaz”
г. Moscow

Stavropol Regional Puppet Theater
г. Stavropol