Weekly Newsletter

Dear Friends,

The full term has started and so we are again resuming our usual regular events!

Please find below more updates that we are delighted to announce this week.

1) Conversational Evening

WHEN: Wednesday, 25th January, 8pm
WHERE: GRAD'S CAFE, TOP FLOOR, UNIVERSITY CENTRE
DIRECTIONS: http://www.unicen.cam.ac.uk/contact/maps-and-directions/

The traditional CURS conversational evenings will resume this Wednesday. All
are welcome to practice their Russian speaking skills and just to meet old
friends and acquaintances.

See you all there!

2) Quiz "What? Where? When?" (Sunday, 29 January)

WHEN: Sunday, 29 January 2012, 15:00 - 18:00
LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN
WHERE: To be confirmed: Blue Cafe, The Graduate Union, 17 Mill Lane (entrance via a blue door in the arch closer to Silver St)

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/218167448273563/
"Chto? Gde? Kogda?" ("What? Where? When?") is a team intellectual competition taking its roots from the homonymous Soviet TV programme which later developed into an international intellectual sport enjoyed in many parts of the world with Russian-speaking diasporas: the countries of the former USSR, Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, United Kingdom, United States etc.
CU Russian Society continues to keep Cambridge in the global geography of "Chto? Gde? Kogda?". This week we are playing the tournament called "Azovskij briz" ("The breeze of Azov") consisting of 48 interesting questions. It is played synchronously in 17 different countries.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME!
*No prior experience or special skills required*.
Refreshments will be provided.
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Rules of the game: The players will group into teams of 6. The game
consists of 36 questions. After each question is posed, teams will have 1 minute to discuss and then come up with an answer. Each team will nominate a captain who makes the final decision on the answer for each question. Team that answered the most of questions correctly, wins.
If you don't have a team you still are welcome to come, and we will find a team for you.
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D1%82%D0%BE%3F_%D0%93%D0%B4%D0%B5%3F_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%B0%3F_%28%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F%29

3) Public lecture: 'THE DYING SWAN: SAVING THE RUSSIAN BALLET'

WHEN: Thursday, 2 February, 5:30-7 pm
WHERE: Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College
DIRECTIONS: http://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/home/?m=page&id=58 or see the
attached map

Professor Tim Scholl (Oberlin College and Helsinki University)
'THE DYING SWAN: SAVING THE RUSSIAN BALLET'

Abstract:
Dance writers like to describe the dance as the most ethereal of art forms.
With no standard system of notation, and recording of performances generally
prohibited, how to locate the truth of a performance said to be 'lost?' In
Russia today, the situation is even more complicated. With theaters mostly
funded by the state and a new legion of fans making their own videos, the
researcher's task of documenting a production becomes ever more difficult.
This presentation investigates these questions in analysis of excerpts from
video documentation of Michel Fokine's 'The Swan,' George Balanchine's 'The
Nutcracker', and Marius Petipa's 'Sleeping Beauty', as well as Evgenii Bauer's
1916 ballet-obsessed film, 'The Dying Swan'.

The lecture is organised by the Department of Slavonic Studies and is free and open to the public.

Best wishes,

The CURS team
http://www.russiancambridge.org

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