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The Online Theatre Magazine by the UTE By Herwig Lewy The bassline of the day remains unsaid: United in diversity. Artistic directors of UTE theatres came all the way from Athens, Bucharest, Luxembourg, Moscow, Sofia and Vienna to the Yugoslav Drama Theatre, Belgrade, on 17 September 2017. After a first conference in Milan last year, the focus of this exchange on different theatre structures was on Eastern and South Eastern Europe. For the first time, Boris Yukhananov from the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre in Moscow also attended. Meeting the newest member of the UTE.

The film of Boris Yukhananov's production of The Blue Bird for the Stanslavsky Electrotheatre is now available for viewing on Digital Theatre +, an international educational platform. Registered users are able to watch every part of the trilogy with English subtitles. A detailed minute-by-minute commentary by John Freedman is also available for perusal on the platform.

We recently published a gallery of Ken Reynolds' photos of the Drillalians opera serial. We have now uploaded a new series of Reynolds' works to the archive, his photos of The Constant Principle.

The archive has added a collection of photographs by the famous British photographer Ken Reynolds from performances of the Drillalians opera series.

On January 18, the Kh.L.A.M. gallery in Voronezh hosted the opening of YukhananFest. Visitors perused a collection of Andrei Bezukladnikov's unique photographs presented in the exhibit Boris Yukhananov. Landscapes. Following a two-hour conversation moderated by gallery director Alexei Gorbunov, and Yukhananov's own tales about his student years in Voronezh, his unusual creative journey in the 1980's and 1990's, and much more, the director offered up a screening of the opera Octavia. Trepanation.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin recently presented state awards and Moscow city awards for achievements in various lines of work. For his great contribution to the development of culture and for his many years of creative work, Boris Yukhananov, artistic director of the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, was awarded the title Honored Worker of the Arts of the City of Moscow.

If there were a backstage in performances of The Golden Ass, we would call this series of photos by Luchinel Ainuriel Backstage at The Golden Ass. But the whole point of the Open-circuited Workspace is that it is open, which blurs such boundaries as “backstage.” Here you will find photographs of compositions, modules, discussions, actors and, of course, "consumer contributors,” that is, spectators.

Boris Yukhananov is not only a director, but also a theatre theorist. He lectures regularly at various venues in Moscow and other cities. In his talks, Yukhananov touches upon his own strategies for creativity, on real-life problems in the making of theatre, and on general theoretical and methodological questions of art. Several lectures are now published in the archive in dual versions: video for those who like to watch; text transcriptions for those who prefer to read.

The public presentation of Boris Yukhananov’s website and the book Boris Yukhananov. From Theatre-Theatre to Garden took place on November 17 in the foyer of the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre.

Klim Kozinsky and Leda Timofeeva speak on the eve of the presentation of the Archiving the Future project. Video.