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RESIDENCES
An ever-changing performance space modelled on the iconic Russian country house, the Dacha has popped-up in residence at Latitude Festival (2014-2016), Rich Mix (2015-2016), Leyton (2015-2016) and The Bedford in Wandsworth (2016).
In 2017 the Dacha returns to explore life a century ago in the revolutionary year of 1917 through the eyes of the Popov family dacha in Vyritsa several hours outside the political hotbed of Petrograd (St Petersburg).
“Best Discovery... The most fun, raucous late-night dancing at the Festival”
“Utterly compelling”
Uniqlo Tate Late - Cold Wars
24 November 2017 | Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG | Free
Dash Arts is thrilled to be a part of Tate Modern's monthly Uniqlo Tate Late. Inspired by the new exhibition Red Star Over Russia (8 November - 18 February 2018), November's Uniqlo Tate Late will feature interactive art projects, films, a book launch, DJs, special bars, and Dash Arts' unique metaphorical exploration of the Soviet/Post-Soviet century through the medium of the chess board -- all alongside open access to the museum. Please click on the links below for images from the event and to download a copy of the COMPENDIUM - instructions for 16 playable versions of the game.
Tate Modern: Red Star Over Russian
Tate Modern: Ilya and Emilia Kabakovnot: Not Everyone will be Taken Into the Future
Photo Gallery
The Compendium of 16 game-changing chess matches
The Dacha at Latitude Festival
13 July - 16 July 2017 | Latitude Festival
The Dash Arts Dacha had its final triumphant residency of the summer at the lovely Latitude Festival - an ambitious arts and music festival with theatre, poetry, comedy and cabaret alongside the usual array of music stages. The Dash Arts Dacha has become the anchor destination in The Faraway Forest - welcoming festival visitors into our magical time-travelling 1917 Russian summer home all weekend. 2017 was our fourth visit to Latitude and we were welcomed back by many regular festival goers who tell us again and again that the Dacha is their favourite place at Latitude!
Dash Arts Dacha at Rich Mix
12 June - 11 July 2017 | Rich Mix, London | FREE
We spent a triumphant month -- resident at Rich Mix -- in which we explored the the revolutionary turmoil of 1917 through the eyes of one family - plays, live music, special film showings, discussion, and late-night dancing - served up alongside endless tea and snacks and occasional shot of vodka.
Supported by Rich Mix, PRS Foundation for Music, Tower Hamlets Event Fund and Georgy Rossi.
INDIVIDUAL EVENTS:
The Dacha - Autumn 1917 - Open House at the Dacha
9 July 2017 | Rich Mix, London | FREE
Autumn has arrived in our Dacha at Rich Mix, along with the Bolsheviks in Petrograd in October of 1917. Life for the the Popov Family has irrevocably changed as they retreat once again for a weekend in their rural retreat in Vyritsa as the Winter Palace and the Provisional Government falls. Performers from the E15 Acting Programme will create a special day in the Dacha with a mixture of performance, music, story, puppetry, one-to-one theatre, song, craftsmanship and cooking.
E15's A Month in the Country in The Dash Arts Dacha
6 - 9 July 2017 | Rich Mix, London | FREE
Over our Dacha month, the MA/MFA students from the E15 Acting School will be resident in the Dash Arts Dacha - with open rehearsals of newly devised plays, live performances and an open house of public workshops and immersive possibilities.
Play Descriptions | Open Rehearsal and Performance Schedule
The Dacha Film Programme
22 June - 9 July 2017 | Rich Mix, London | FREE
Over our Dacha month at Rich Mix, we are presenting seven films of the Soviet and Post-Soviet era (see full film schedule below) including screenings of rarely shown classics of the last 100 years. All screenings are free and are located in the sitting room of our Dacha -- relax on cushions, sofas and chairs, have a cup of tea (or shot of vodka from the bar) and enoy our home-made cinema.
Ten Days That Shook The World
1 July 7pm - 6am 2 July 2017 | Rich Mix, London
Through the night, performers, musicians, DJs and films will take audiences through the 1917 Revolution in St Petersburg that changed the world. Our audience will become participants in a unique impromptu staging of John Reed's thrilling first-hand account TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD. Immortalised in Eisenstein's silent film OCTOBER) and many years later in Warren Beatty's John Reed-biopic REDS, the book is a short and stunning first-hand narrative of the Bolshevik revolution. The improvised staging will be scheduled throughout the night and interspersed with electric gigs, pulsating DJ sets and movies -- all in our DACHA space.
All survivors will be sent out into the morning filled with a Russian breakfast (with ingredients provided by KinoVino Catering) and, we hope, the memory of a never-to-be-repeated experience.
Ten Days That Shook The World is an Associate Programme of the wider ART NIGHT event occuring in galleries, clubs and other unexpected places throughout Whitechapel overnight on Saturday 1 July.
Download the Programme | Download the Breakfast Menu | Facebook Event
The Dacha - Summer 1917
1 July 2017 | Rich Mix, London | FREE
An afternoon of leisure lounging by the samovar in our summer house followed by a wild evening of revolutionary fervour.
The Dacha - A Weekend in the Summer of 1917
24 - 25 June 2017 | Rich Mix, London | FREE
Summer arrived in our Dacha at Rich Mix, shortly after the abdication of Tsar Nicholas 11, in the year of 1917. The Popov Family spent a weekend in their Dacha in Vyritsa, several hours outside Petrograd as chaos reigned in the city.
The Dacha at Rich Mix - A Weekend in the Spring of 1917
17-18 June 2017 | Rich Mix, London
The opening weekend in our Dacha, our Russian country house at Rich Mix fell early in the year of 1917. The Popov Family have retreated to the Dacha in Vyritsa, several hours outside Petrograd (once St Petersburg) to escape the gloom and confusion of the last days of the Imperial Monarchy.
The Dacha at the British Library
26-29 May 2017 | British Library Piazza, London
Over the Bank Holiday weekend, the Dash Arts Dacha visited the British Library for the first-time in a beautiful marquee on the Library piazza. The Dacha was a special event to accompany the British Library exhbition: Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths
Dash Arts Dacha
15-17 July 2016 | Latitude Festival
We opened the Dacha in several locations across the summer in 2016, you can read a great review in Russian! The final appearance of the 2016 Dacha was at Latitude Festival in Suffolk 15-17 July.
latitudefestival.com
The Sound of Heavy Rain review
The Dash Arts Dacha (2016) was made possible with the support of: Rich Mix, YaD Arts, Tower Hamlets Event Fund and Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre 2017
Dash Arts Dacha
In 2015 our rural Russian idyll; an oasis of cushions, rugs and home comforts toured several UK locations, with our kitchen stocked with hot tea and snacks. We explored changes in Russian life over the 20th century with music, games, books, conversation and food from three different eras - 1913, 1937 and 1997.
DATES:
17th - 20th July 2014
Latitude 2015 Programme
2nd - 4th May 2015
Rich Mix 2015 Programme
21st June 2015
Leyton 2015 Programme
Dash Arts Dacha
17th - 20th July 2014 | Latitude Festival, Henham Park, Suffolk
Situated in the Faraway Forest, here you can escape to a rural Russian idyll and ever-changing immersive performance space laced with enticing intrigue and dangerous secrets. Lose yourself in films, dressing up, live music, theatre, hot tea, fevered discussion and late night DJ sets drawing on a century of Russian music.
In association with Rich Mix and Yad Arts.