Another Night at the Metro took place at the Moscow Metro on 12 March. For this one-of-a-kind cultural and educational project, the Moscow Ballet company presented Café Idiot based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel. Over 150 people gathered to watch the performance. Some of them won invitations on the metro’s social network pages. The same pages streamed the event live.
The ballet was choreographed by Alexander Pepelyayev who teaches at drama and dance academies in Russia, Europe, the United States and also Africa. He explains that Café Idiot is a place where strange and sometimes mysterious things happen to the audience. “It is a very unusual and thoughtful production, especially when you watch it in the unforgettable settings of the metro at night. Nights at the Metro always impress passengers. After every event, we receive numerous suggestions for the next performance,” Head of the Moscow Metro Dmitry Pegov says.
The event opened with live music in the hall of the station. This was performed by musicians taking part in the Music in the Metro project. The next Night at the Metro will take place in April.
For one night, the project turns metro stations into venues for popular educational events. The goal is to show the exciting diversity of the world around us.
The first Night at the Metro took place in November 2015. It was Yoga Night in the Metro at Novoslobodskaya station. More than 100 people came to do yoga and watch traditional Indian dancing.
An entertaining lecture about inventor Nikola Tesla was organised in January 2016 at Mendeleyevskaya station. Russia’s best illusionists performed last May at Sretensky Bulvar. Night of Public Service Ads took place last October at Slavyansky Bulvar. The play the Resurrection was performed by the Nikita Mikhalkov Academy in late 2016 at Kropotkinskaya metro station.