Photo: Helen Buffalo
Vladivostok, Primore24. Last Sunday in the museum named after Arsenyev was first in Vladivostok «Ball futurists.» Ball organizers managed to move its members in the early twentieth century. It was then that one of the founders of Russian Futurism David Burliuk comes to the Far East, and after some time opens in Vladivostok theater-cabaret «Bi-Ba-Bo».
«We decided to help participants in the public movement» Patriots of Primorye «at the festival» Our Vladivostok «to organize the ball. Ball that would meet some important historical event in our city. Futurism We chose, as Beijing was once a small cultural center of this trend , — said Olga Afanasyeva, one of the organizers. — Few people know that the famous «Bi-Ba-Bo», the director, who was David Burliuk, is in a building across the road from the Arc de Triomphe and the museum. »
The museum building at the time turned into a cabaret theater of the twentieth century. Many writers, artists, poets and musicians gathered at the ball on one of the most exciting moments in the history of Vladivostok — the arrival of the Futurists. Young people, depicting coastal fashionistas and dandies twenties of the last century, wiped heels foxtrot, lost in the «black jack» and poker playing fashionable at the time the card «Flirt». Young poets try on the image of Mayakovsky, Blok, Gumilev, inspired by reading their works. He hosted David Burliuk (played by a young poet Ivan Radaeva), with his charming wife Mary (whose role is played by Olga Afanasyeva).
