Slava's Snowshow

Slava's Snowshow is a stage show created and staged by Russian performance artist Slava Polunin. The show won the Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience^[1] and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event.^[2]

Slava's Snowshow
Genre	Contemporary circus
Location	Russia
Creative team
Creator	Slava Polunin
Official website

Slava Polunin in Snowshow

Productions

Slava's Snowshow made its world premiere in October 1993 in Moscow.^[3]

Slava's Snowshow was then performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 1996.

Slava's Snowshow opened Off-Broadway on September 8, 2004 at the Union Square Theatre, created and staged by Slava Polunin, with costumes and scenic design by Anna Hannikainen.^[4] The show closed on January 7, 2007.^[5]

The show opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre on December 7, 2008 and closed on January 4, 2009 after 7 previews and 35 performances. The show was created and staged by Slava Polunin, with sound by Rastyam Dubinnikov, lighting by Alexander Pecherskiy and art direction by Gary Cherniakhovskii.^[6]

The show opened at the Old Vic in London in 1997.^[7] The show ran at the Royal Festival Hall, London from December 17, 2012 to January 7, 2013.^[8][9] The show returned to the Royal Festival Hall from December 18, 2017 to January 4, 2018.^[10] The show ran at the Bluma Appel Theatre at St. Lawrence Centre, Toronto in December 2018. The reviewer wrote: " 'Slava’s Snowshow' is a puzzling theatrical art form, but strangely alluring to watch as I couldn’t take my eyes off the performers. Their movements are precisely choreographed and timed either to the music or the sounds echoing throughout the auditorium."^[11]

The show ran on Broadway at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in a limited engagement, from November 11, 2019 through January 5, 2020.^[3]

Overview

The show features a group of clowns wearing green with one clown wearing yellow, in a "celebration of winter and snow."^[6]

Awards and nominations

The show won the 2005 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience.^[4]

Anna Hannikainen was nominated for the 2005 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Costume and Scenic Design.

Slava's Snowshow won the 1998 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.^[12]

Gallery

• From the Snowshow performance in Vienna, Austria, 2008
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• From the Snowshow performance in San Francisco, 2006
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Music

1. La Petite Fille de la mer - Vangelis
2. Chariots of Fire - Vangelis
3. Stalakdrama - Yello
4. Peter Gunn Theme - Henry Mancini
5. Bolero - Maurice Ravel
6. Le soldat Tufaiev se marie (Soldier Tufaiev Gets Married) - Jean-Mark Zelwer
7. Blue Canary - Vincent Fiorino
8. Mas que Nada - Luiz Henrique Rosa
9. Toccata and Fugue in D minor - Johann Sebastian Bach
10. Kaleb - Ivan Volkov
11. Krasivaya - Roman Dubinnikov
12. Illusion (feat. Jorge Struntz) - Stéphane Grappelli
13. Edges of Illusion - John Surman
14. Concierto de Aranjuez - Joaquín Rodrigo
15. Carmina Burana - O Fortuna - Carl Orff
16. Moonlight Sonata - Ludwig van Beethoven