"Sand fantasy. Tchaikovsky"

Exclusive project "Sand fantasy. Tchaikovsky", takes you to another world, an extraordinary fairy tale story is born before your eyes. Accompanied by organ and piano music performed by Honored Artist of Russia Svetlana Berezhnaya, sand animation artist Lilia Chistina reproduces colored sand canvases in real time. The exclusive plot of the sand animation will give viewers the opportunity to hear the famous musical works of P.I. Tchaikovsky in a spectrum of new visual sensations.
Lilia Chistina is a master of sand animation of international class.

Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, participant of Russian and international competitions, winner of the Moscow and Berlin Art Weeks 2013 and 2014, winner of the 5th International Circus Festival in Albacete (Spain 2012). Has been engaged in Sandart (the art of drawing with sand / on sand) since 2006, has its own special handwriting and manner of performance. An artist by education and vocation, Lilya is also engaged in traditional painting, painting walls, interior items, illustrating books, drawing with light ("Light animation") and on water ("Ebru").

Over the years , Lilia has created many works:

- videos for the Central Telegraph;

- created the first ever title screensavers in the sand for movies and TV series;

- the first advertisement and clip in the style of sand animation;

- creative cooperation with TV channels: ORT, TVC, NTV, TVRAIN, Domashny, Kultura, Stolitsa, Moscow-24

There is a constant work at concert venues, in performances and performances for adults and children in the capital, and not only theaters:

- Sand drawings decorated the "Word about Igor's Regiment" at the XVIII International Festival of Music and Bells "Transfiguration" in honor of the millennium of Yaroslavl - 2010.

- Opening ceremony of the museum of B.M. Kustodiev and E.V. Chestnyakov in Kostroma, also with sand paintings - 2010

- Opera in concert performance "Cinderella" with live sand improvisation, (Moscow Theater "Novaya Opera") - 2011 and 2016

- Concert program dedicated to the 71st anniversary of the city of Krasnogorsk, "The City of friendship, hope, love" - 2011

- Participation in children's and adult musical concerts with sand animation at the Moscow International House of Music, the Central House of Artists, the Moscow Philharmonic, etc.

- A joint project of English-Russian actors, musicians, poets for children and adults – theatrical productions in English using sand animation since 2011.

The artist has performed in many countries of the world, including:

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• North Korea (painted for Kim Jong Il),

• Greece (Rhodes International Forum "Dialogue of Civilizations" and Rhodes Youth Forum "Youth Time" onRhodes in 2010.),

• Turkey

• Spain (honorary participant, laureate of the 5th International Circus Festival in Albacete, Spain 2012),

• Germany (Participation in the circus festival in Kassel (Germany) in 2013; concert programs in Hamburg and Berlin in 2015)

• Sweden (Christmas performances)