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ART OF LIFE // Sinot Yacht Design

Art of life is a 115m yacht creation by sinot yacht architecture & design.

ART OF LIFE was created for “art-loving and explorer-minded owners” . With its long overhangs, the yacht reflects the lines of a classic schooner sailing yacht.

Sander Sinot explains:

“For Art of Life, we augmented this classic yacht type to an innovative motor yacht concept for the present day and the years to come. For the interior, we choose to focus on things in life that really matter, such as spending time with your loved ones, beauty and art. The integrated architecture of the design offers the owner a haven of privacy and the sensorial stimuli for both inner peace and exploration of the beauty and richness of the world around us.”

The tender garage has enough space for a 10m beach tender, a 12m limo tender, an 8m crew tender, two amphibious quads, two jet skis and four Seabobs.

Interior Impressions

The yacht welcomes twelve guests in one owners’ stateroom, two VIP suites, and three guest cabins. Moreover, a crew of 35 serves crew and yacht. There are the captain’s cabin, four single cabins, and 15 double cabins.

Furthermore, Sander Sinot comments: “Sometimes one can forget that our life has a limited amount of time, so one can question, how do we use the hours we live? There is no answer other than to invest as much time as possible towards the quality of living. Freedom, love and quality time with family and friends is key. With our yacht concept Art of Life, we want to address this as yacht architects and designers.”

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Art of Life, a modern-day schooner concept

Every year, Sinot Yacht Architecture & Design presents its bold superyacht concepts at the Monaco Yacht Show. And 2018 is no exception with the Art of Life project, a 115 m superyacht for art lovers and explorers. With a design inspired by schooners, Art of Life emphasizes freedom, quality of life and well-being. And unlike the concepts already proposed by the studio, it is already ready to be built.

A modern schooner

"Art of Life emphasizes aesthetics and beauty, without compromising functionality, space and technology." explains designer Sander J. Sinot. Its exterior style reveals a very large glazing on the back, which overlooks the sea and a projecting bow. "These characteristics are reminiscent of a German shipbuilding icon of the 16th century eST PRIS DANS LE GROS TEMPS, ET TANGUE DE GAUCHE ?ROITE, SECOUÉ PAR LES VAGUES. UN HOMME, SANS DOUTE UN PÊCHEUR QUI PARTICIPE À UNE SESSION DE PÊCHE SPORTIVE, PASSE PAR-DESSUS BORD, DE MANIÈRE ASSEZ IMPRESSIONNANTE. century, the schooner (NDRL: Schooner)" explains the designer.

Before adding" Schoon means both beautiful and pure in Dutch and gave birth to the term schooner. For Art of Life, we have extended this type of classic yacht to an innovative motor yacht concept for years to come. For the interior, we choose to focus on the things that really matter in life, like spending time with loved ones, beauty and art. The integrated architecture of the design offers the owner a haven of privacy and sensory stimuli for inner peace and exploration of the beauty and richness of the world around us."

Focus on quality of life

"Sometimes we can forget that we have little time, so we may wonder how to use the hours we live in. There is no other answer than to invest as much as possible in quality of life. Freedom, love and quality time with family and friends are the key. With our Art of Life yacht concept, we want to address this subject as architects and yacht designers" explains Sander J. Sinot.

The yacht's architecture combines the interior and exterior with this immense bay window to the rear, the large bay windows of the superstructure and the multiple skylights, as well as the toy garage or the large outdoor deck spaces.

The interior design is spacious and full of refinement as shown by the very large owner's cabin and private saloon on the main and upper decks. The latter is accessible via a private staircase and unfolds in length bathed in light thanks to the large glazed areas.

Breathtaking views of the outside world

The saloon at the stern of the boat has an incredible panoramic view of the boat's wake, with its large window tilted from floor to ceiling. The vast upper deck saloon with its glass facades and open terraces promises varied and changing landscapes.

Art of Life's aesthetics centre is located on the lower east deck and has a hammam, an indoor swimming pool and even a sandy area. Access to the upper deck is then by a splendid spiral staircase.

The flybridge, with its swimming pool, relaxation and dining areas are perfect for enjoying with family and friends.

Flattering the body and mind

The four bridges have been designed to provide maximum physical and intellectual activity. On board Art of Life, there is a large indoor swimming pool, a sauna, treatment and spa rooms, a hairdressing and beauty area, a massage room, or a relaxation lounge with a 384-inch retractable cinema screen.

The health and beauty centre's sports and relaxation area has retractable hatches overlooking the water and offers a breathtaking view of the outdoor marine landscape.

Sinot Yacht Architecture & Design presents: Art of Life

Integrated architecture

Art of Life is designed with an emphasis on esthetics and beauty, without compromising on functionality, space and technology. The striking exterior style, with its overhang at the stern and forward projecting bow, is reminiscent of a 16 th century Dutch icon of shipbuilding, the schooner yacht. ’Schoon’, meaning both ‘good looking’ and ‘clean’ in Dutch, led to the term ‘schooner’ which stands for a fast, versatile and efficient hull. Sander Sinot explains: “For Art of Life, we augmented this classic yacht type to an innovative motor yacht concept for the present day and the years to come. For the interior, we choose to focus on things in life that really matter, such as  spending time with your loved ones, beauty and art. The integrated architecture of the design offers the owner a haven of privacy and the sensorial stimuli for both inner peace and exploration of the beauty and richness of the world around us.”

Freedom, love and quality time

Sander Sinot: “Sometimes one can forget that our life has a limited amount of time, so one can question, how do we use the hours we live? There is no answer other than to invest as much time as possible towards the quality of living. Freedom, love and quality time with family and friends is key. With our yacht concept Art of Life, we want to address this as yacht architects and designers.” On board of Art of Life, the ocean and skies are always nearby given the huge aft window from the stern lounge, the large windows and multiple skylights, the toy garage with fold down hatch for amphibious launches and the vast outdoor spaces at the upper and bridge deck exterior.

Spaciousness and openness

The spacious and refined design of Art of Life provides plenty of room to integrate all individual preferences of an owner. The architectural setup aboard is intuitive with a clear functional layout and a smart logic flow in the interior. This, combined with state-of-the-art and fully integrated technology, makes Art of Life a beacon of serenity. The entire design is about spaciousness, openness and freedom, as testified by the owner’s state room and private lounge on main deck and upper deck. The Owner’s lounge is reached by a private staircase and unfolds as a grand haven of light by multiple skylights and floor-to-ceiling windows, offering views all around.

Top of the world features

The panoramic stern lounge of Art of Life, with its large floor-to-ceiling slanted window, offers a grandiose view of the yacht’s wake as it disappears into the distance. The expansive upper deck lounge with full-glass facades and open decks and ever-changing views that will never cease to inspire. The indoor health & beauty center of Art of Life is located on the lower and main decks and features a connecting area with an open, architectural staircase for an exceptionally spacious effect. The flybridge atop of the bridge deck, unique by design and function, is perfect for enjoying expansive views of the surrounding world with family and friends. The vast exterior al fresco spaces are perfect for dining, lounging and partying at sea or in port.

Fitness for purpose

All four decks are designed based on fitness for purpose, resulting in maximum comfort for the body and soul thanks to the large indoor pool, sauna, treatment, hair & beauty and massage areas and stern lounge, which boasts a 384-inch retractable cinema screen. The gym and relax area at the health & beauty center feature fold-down hatches to the water level offering amazing views over the seascape outside. This all lends to a pure and aesthetic interior, using precious materials, rich detailing and superior craftmanship that result in serenity and balance. Luxury is inherent but never a statement in itself, merely a facilitator of onboard experiences.

Technical feasibility

Like other concepts Sinot Yacht Architecture & Design has presented over the years, Art of Life is ready to be built. This concept is designed for discerning entrepreneurs, connoisseurs and explorers who want to express their individuality. Art of Life: full of art, full of life.”

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sinot's 115m superyacht concept presents the 'art of life'

sinot yacht architecture & design presents its latest superyacht concept at the monaco yacht show, the 115-metre art of life .  designed with an emphasis on aesthetics and beauty, without compromising on functionality, space and technology, the striking exterior style, with its overhang at the stern and forward projecting bow, is reminiscent of a 16th century dutch icon of shipbuilding, the schooner yacht. ’schoon’, meaning both ‘good looking’ and ‘clean’ in dutch, led to the term ‘schooner’ which stands for a fast, versatile and efficient hull.

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sinot ‘s spacious design of art of life provides plenty of room to integrate all individual preferences of an owner. the architectural setup aboard is intuitive with a clear functional layout and a smart logic flow in the interior. this, combined with state-of-the-art and fully integrated technology, makes art of life a beacon of serenity. the entire design is about spaciousness, openness and freedom, as testified by the owner’s state room and private lounge on main deck and upper deck. the owner’s lounge is reached by a private staircase and unfolds as a grand haven of light by multiple skylights and floor-to-ceiling windows, offering views all around.

the panoramic stern lounge of art of life, with its large floor-to-ceiling slanted window, offers a grandiose view of the yacht’s wake as it disappears into the distance.  the expansive upper deck lounge with full-glass facades and open decks and ever-changing views that will never cease to inspire. the indoor health & beauty center of art of life is located on the lower and main decks and features a connecting area with an open, architectural staircase for an exceptionally spacious effect. the flybridge atop of the bridge deck, unique by design and function, is perfect for enjoying expansive views of the surrounding world with family and friends. the vast exterior al fresco spaces are perfect for dining, lounging and partying at sea or in port. in addition, other amenities include a large indoor pool, sauna, treatment, hair & beauty and massage areas and stern lounge, which boasts a 384-inch retractable cinema screen. the gym and relax area at the health & beauty center feature fold-down hatches to the water level offering amazing views over the seascape outside.

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Art of Life is designed with an emphasis on esthetics and beauty, without compromising on functionality, space and technology. The striking exterior style, with its overhang at the stern and forward projecting bow, is reminiscent of a 16th century Dutch icon of shipbuilding, the schooner yacht. ’Schoon’, meaning both ‘good looking’ and ‘clean’ in Dutch, led to the term ‘schooner’ which stands for a fast, versatile and efficient hull.

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The Sinot 'Art of Life' Super Yacht Maximizes Oceanic Views

Purity & Greatness

Nature, in all its purity and greatness, offers a new perspective on yachting that transcends the traditional parameters of status and grandeur. A holistic approach allows the yacht to directly reflect the Owner’s true values in life: the richness of being and the intimacy of belonging. Nature grants those on-board every opportunity to be themselves in an atmosphere of complete tranquility and peacefulness. The carefully-designed spaces, the interplay between natural and artificial light, and the pure materials and surfaces combine to create a new world that represents all the good we recognize from nature.

Due to the intelligent layout, the thoughtful routing and the fully-customized furniture, Nature is extremely functional while offering the most desirable yachting amenities, including luxurious state and VIP rooms, a strikingly spacious Owner’s room, luxurious Spa deck, gym, swimming pool at sea level, and the spectacular circular staircase, winding from the Owner’s deck up to the 900sqm+ Panorama deck.

The essence of Nature is epitomized by the Owner’s state room’s fully-functional Inner Garden, equipped with state-of-the-art climate control technology. A shining beacon of peace and tranquility, it also represents the fundamental interconnection between the yacht and her environment. It is nature within Nature.

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Inside and the outside connected.

Nature is intrinsically connected to its natural maritime environment. Open views, clear sight lines, expansive exterior decks and space for water toys enhance the pleasure found in enjoying and exploring the seas. Every detail within the exterior style is intently scrutinized, with immaculate attention devoted to window frames and door handles, mullion design, finishes, sheers and decorative window coverings and outdoor furniture pieces.

The resulting sense of unity in style throughout the yacht generates a natural atmosphere of ultimate quality. The meticulous architecture shows how Nature is essentially about balance: between technology and nature, crafted detail and natural grandeur, the inside and the outside. Nature conveys the timelessness of functional beauty.

United with Nature

At the lower deck aft, Nature unfolds to forge a close connection to the seas. Opening the stern and side hatches and sliding out the roof hatches creates an open-air beach area exuding an exposed, yet intimate, relationship with the maritime environment. The central pool and surrounding terraces provide unlimited views and space for relaxation, sunbathing, cocktails or parties.

The roof hatches provide extended balconies at the Owner’s deck level and create an unexpected second level in the beach area, connecting the Spa and Owner’s decks. The lowered pool at the central structure, which ends towards the bow with a waterfall of fragranced droplets, is an enticing area for diving and swimming in comfort and safety.

The Balance of Beauty

The exceptionally spacious indoor Spa area features a spectacular layout with central, column-lined corridors connecting the pool to the plunge pool, sauna and hammam. The full-sized gym is equipped with all the state-of-the art equipment required to perform a total body workout.

Further conducive to balancing body and soul, the gym also features fold-down hatches to the water level situated around the corridor. The use of precious stones, skillfully-treated timber and meticulously-sourced natural materials help to create a natural atmosphere that is far-removed from hectic day-to-day life.

Beacon of Beauty

The spectacular circular staircase is one of the central features of Nature, winding from the main deck up to the top deck adjacent to the water-cooled two-story glass façades in the hull. Positioned midships in the beam-wide staircase vide, the elegant staircase floats naturally in place, accommodated by the single central beam molded in a curved V-shape.

The intriguing, organic shape and the use of textured natural stones within the design imitate the great outdoors, yet appear to defy the laws of nature. Functional as a staircase and pleasurable as a sculpture, this beacon of beauty unites the physical and metaphorical.

The Ultimate in Privacy

The vast windows on both side of the Owner’s state room create an incredible impression of openness and freedom. For the creation of a more intimate and private atmosphere on Nature, the astute layout and flexible light plan allows easy modification.

Bringing nature inside, the stunning Inner Garden can be adjusted to different app-controlled moods, created using a range of light settings, mist dispensers and water features. Rays of sunlight are allowed to shine in through the vide at upper deck level above the Garden. Everything in the Owner’s state room is completely custom designed and meticulously crafted from the finest and most precious natural materials.

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It’s my pleasure.

The spacious and naturally-outfitted Guest and VIP state rooms stand out by virtue of their spacious design and highly-elaborate furniture. The rooms are specifically designed to offer guests the best possible environment to enjoy their time on-board, cleverly combining a perceptive layout with the optimal use of space.

Textured silk carpets, fully-customized furniture pieces in durable woods and the use of multiple woods in wall and ceiling paneling will make everybody feel at home, creating an atmosphere of ultimate hospitality and natural tranquility.

Nature’s unique Tranquility

The 900sqm+ top deck aboard Nature is where hospitality, socializing and the interaction with the marine environment intertwine. With its full glass façades and open exterior decks, the ever-changing views will never cease to astonish. The relaxed lounge setting and extensive dining facilities create a deck which is ideal for good times with family and friends.

The vast interior and exterior spaces can be connected by opening the sliding glass floor-to-ceiling doors, enabling intimate al-fresco dining, extensive sunbathing in privacy and massive indoor-outdoor gatherings. The Owner, family and friends can truly experience the ocean in all its magnificence and unwind from the tensions of daily life.

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Ever-changing views, top deck aft, with a view, endless views, intimate thoughts.

The upper deck observatory at the bow is unique by design and function. Its spectacular conception featuring two floor-to-ceiling windows eliminates all borders between nature and Nature, offering an incredible outlook for those on-board.

Perfect for enjoying the immense expanse of the outside world or a romantic liaison, it is an enchanting place where ideas are born and dreams come true, to share with others or preserve as a secret hideaway.

Focus on the journey, not the destination

The wheelhouse of Nature is equipped with an innovative dual-steering arrangement and state-of-the art systems and technology. Designed to meet all nautical requirements, fulfil the demands of the decades to come or adjust to accommodate technical developments, it can work at ease or perform under pressure when required.

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‘Art of Life’ 115m mega yacht

Sinot Yacht Architecture and Design unveil ‘Art of Life’ a fascinating superyacht concept at the Monaco Yacht Show.

The ‘Art of Life’ 115m mega yacht concept was designed for an owner looking for adventure and exploration.

Aesthetics combined with functionality, comfort and a forward projecting bow, are at the forefront of the design.

Sander Sinot talks about the design:

“For Art of Life, we augmented this classic yacht type to an innovative motor yacht concept for the present day and the years to come. For the interior, we choose to focus on things in life that really matter, such as spending time with your loved ones, beauty and art. The integrated architecture of the design offers the owner a haven of privacy and the sensorial stimuli for both inner peace and exploration of the beauty and richness of the world around us.”

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The first photos of her were taken and released this morning. In them, she is seen riding passenger in a vehicle being driven by her mother, Carole Middleton, near Windsor Castle.

Kate wears a dark coat and dark round sunglasses. She also wears a serious expression, as does her mother, who is in a dark coat as well.

Princess Kate last made a public appearance on Christmas, and was hospitalized at the London Clinic in mid-January for a “planned abdominal surgery.” The palace refrained from specifying the reason for the operation, but Harper’s Bazaar learned it was not cancerous.

The palace said at the time that Kate’s engagements had been postponed and that she would not return to work until after Easter, which falls on March 31 this year. They added that Kate “hopes that the public will understand her desire to maintain as much normality for her children as possible; and her wish that her personal medical information remains private. Kensington Palace will, therefore, only provide updates on Her Royal Highness’s progress when there is significant new information to share.”

For several weeks afterward, there was radio silence from the palace and the rest of the royals on Kate’s condition. But after speculation rose online about the princess’s whereabouts, the palace said in a statement shared to Bazaar last week: “We were very clear from the outset that the Princess of Wales was out until after Easter and Kensington Palace would only be providing updates when something was significant.”

Rosa Sanchez is the senior news editor at Harper's Bazaar, working on news as it relates to entertainment, fashion, and culture. Previously, she was a news editor at ABC News and, prior to that, a managing editor of celebrity news at American Media. She has also written features for Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, Forbes, and The Hollywood Reporter, among other outlets. 

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The windy Russian autumn weather might be a little bit tricky for sailing, but it doesn’t stop brave yachtsmen from all over the world from flocking to Russian capital in the beginning of September when the Moscow Yacht Show commences. The main Russian Yacht exhibition gathers professional and amateur yacht lovers together under the wing of The Royal Yacht Club.

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Brigid O’Keeffe

‘Life on Wheels’ (1931) at Moscow’s State Gypsy Theatre Romen

Desolation and wretched poverty. A campsite in an isolated patch of Soviet forest. An old wagon, unhitched. The Roma who populate this camp are as wretched as the wagon that is the centrepiece of their ‘life on wheels’. Their clothes are as shabby as their patchwork tents. Beleaguered old women sing mournful tunes and occasionally erupt in fits of ‘wild’ dancing. A young orphan girl named Grina cries bitterly. She cannot muster the strength to dance around the campfire or even to sing a sad song. After all, the pitiful orphan is soon to be sold to a wealthy Rom from a nearby camp for an astonishing bride price of five thousand roubles.

Lording over this scene of misery, poverty, and despair is Vangar – a cruel and insatiably greedy kulak (exploiter). An exemplary counter-revolutionary, Vangar is insistent on preserving the ‘nomadic Gypsy way of life’ and rejecting the new Soviet culture and socialist economy. The camp’s youth can only dream of life in the bustling Soviet cities where not only factories, but also an entire new socialist civilization is being built by proud and happy Soviet workers. Vangar rules his camp with an iron fist and soullessly exploits all the poor Roma in the camp. It is Vangar who has schemed to sell Grina to the highest bidder. Vangar is aided and abetted by an entourage of lackeys ready to deploy their whips and beat any Roma who defy their boss’s orders. Vangar is well-fed and wears warm, attractive boots. The poor Roma whom he exploits go hungry and cold. They sing quiet songs about Vangar’s cunning, and they curse him as a tyrant no better than the ‘bloody tsar’ of the recent imperial Russian past.

In this way, the stage was set for the drama to unfold in Life on Wheels , a Romani-language play that debuted at Moscow’s State Gypsy Theatre Romen in 1931. Life on Wheels was written by A. V. Germano, the early Soviet Union’s most celebrated Romani author of poetry and prose on the theme of Roma’s emancipation under the red star of Bolshevism. Germano designed the fictional Romani camp featured in the play to bring to life for Soviet audiences the plight of contemporary Roma as the Bolsheviks understood it and wanted the Soviet people to understand it. Yet Germano’s play, written in the artistic style of socialist realism, was also to portray – for Romani audiences in particular – the trajectory through which ‘backward Gypsies’ would, with the generous aid of the Soviet state, integrate into the rapidly developing socialist society. Life on Wheels was written as an unambiguous Soviet morality play in which downtrodden Roma bravely overcome their dark past, overthrow their kulak exploiters and emerge transformed in the light of Soviet enlightenment as educated, productive citizens devoted to building socialism under Stalin’s wise leadership.

In Life on Wheels , the spirit of Bolshevism arrives in the miserable nomadic camp in the guise of a brave young Romani hero named Kalysh. Wrongfully imprisoned under Tsar Nicholas II, Kalysh has not seen his brethren of Vangar’s benighted camp in many years. In the glorious days of the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks had liberated Kalysh from prison and welcomed him into the ranks of the Red Army. As a Red Army soldier, Kalysh not only fought bravely for the new Bolshevik way of life, but also learned to read and to write. After the Russian Civil War, he was promoted by the Bolsheviks to help lead efforts to transition nomadic Roma to the Soviet way of life, whether in the factory or in the fields. Hearing of Vangar’s campsite location, Kalysh has arrived in a nearby town, ready to help liberate his kin from Vangar’s exploitative grip.

News of Kalysh’s rumoured return ignites Vangar’s violent anger, but it also gives the camp’s poor Roma reason to hope. As a chorus, they sing of a brilliant Soviet future within their reach:

‘The Gypsy’s life on wheels Has for many years rolled on, But the Land of the Soviets Has offered us a new life.’

Kalysh has brought more than a mere promise of new life. He tells of tangible Soviet achievements. In Moscow, the poor Roma learn, a ‘Gypsy Theatre’ has been created as well as an All-Russian ‘Gypsy Union’. Soviet power offers land for nomadic Roma to settle and organize collective farms. Dignified work is available for Roma in Soviet factories. Romani children study in school.

In the land of the Soviets, Roma work side by side with their fellow citizens to build socialism. In this new world, exploiters like Vangar have no rightful place; they can no longer oppress the weak and the poor with impunity. In this new world, there is likewise no place for ‘unproductive’ and ‘backward’ pursuits like nomadism, fortune telling, begging or dancing on the streets for scraps of charity. In the Soviet Union Roma are equal citizens and, as such, they must study in schools and labour in the socialist economy. They must integrate fully into the modern, sedentary, Soviet way of life. Roma must emancipate themselves from their life on wheels, but they enjoy the assurance of the tutelage and material support Soviet power provides all its citizens.

With these promises of Soviet emancipation and transformation, Kalysh leads the camp’s poor Roma in overthrowing Vangar. They abandon their life on wheels and happily begin new Soviet lives of civic integration. Their bitter tears of exploitation are exchanged for the joy of taking Soviet power into their own hands – of learning ‘to live like people, not like wolves’. They reclaim the camp’s horses from Vangar before he flees, disempowered. Before the curtain falls at the play’s end, young Grina is seen at centre stage, dancing joyfully – an orphan still, but now she is the master of her own happy fate in the Land of the Soviets.

The founding of the Theatre Romen in 1931 came on the heels of a long and complex history of Romani artistic performance in both imperial and revolutionary Russia.

Germano, the play’s author, would later self-consciously admit to the mechanistic portrayal of revolutionary transformation in this, the State Gypsy Theatre Romen’s first premiere of a full-length play. Yet the fact that Life on Wheels was commissioned by the Soviet state at all, no less than that it was staged at the newly created Theatre Romen, was in 1931 an astonishing victory for the Romani activists and artists who had for years lobbied the Soviet state to invest in the development of Soviet-style Romani art. The founding of the Theatre Romen in 1931 came on the heels of a long and complex history of Romani artistic performance in both imperial and revolutionary Russia. That Romani artists and performers successfully launched the Theatre Romen (a theatre still in operation in Moscow today) in 1931 is due to their persistent struggle to claim the legitimacy of Romani art in Stalin’s Soviet Union.

Long before the Bolsheviks seized power in the October Revolution of 1917, Romani music and dance had occupied a special place in imperial Russian culture. By the late nineteenth century, a so-called ‘Gypsy mania’ had consumed elite Russian society. It was the height of fashion for Russian elites to frequent expensive restaurants where Romani choirs were employed to entertain audiences with dancing and singing. For the Roma artists who performed in these choirs, this was a lucrative business that potentially afforded them the advantages of wealth – not least among them the ability to send their children to prestigious schools. In the twilight of the tsarist empire, the popularity of Gypsy choirs was unrivalled, and many Romani families in the business of artistic performance integrated themselves into elite Russian society.

In the wake of Russia’s revolutions in 1917 and the traumatic Civil War that followed, Roma struggled at first to stake a claim in the emerging Bolshevik society for the music and dance traditions that had been so wildly popular in tsarist times. The Bolsheviks associated so-called ‘Gypsy music’ with bourgeois decadence. They decried the performances of Romani choirs as ethnographically inauthentic and accused Romani performers of pornography and petit-bourgeois counter-revolution.

More broadly, the Bolsheviks viewed the Romani population of the Soviet Union with dread. Through the prism of stereotypes, the Bolsheviks regarded Roma as the antithesis of the ‘New Soviet Men and Women’ whom they sought to create. When they declared their intention to ‘refashion life on earth’, the Bolsheviks envisioned a modern society of engaged citizens who laboured productively in the socialist economy and who prized education, hygiene and culture. Assuming that all ‘Gypsies’ ( tsygane , the official nationality they were known as in the Soviet Union) were extremely ‘backward’, the Bolsheviks imagined Roma as stuck at the primitive stages of human development on the Marxist evolutionary timeline. Roma, the Bolsheviks assumed, were aimless nomads, filthy illiterates and cunning parasites dangerously alienated from the socialist economy and culture that they hoped to create.

Yet Roma were but one of many ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union whom the Bolsheviks considered ‘backward’ and for whom they designed their nationality policy. The historian Terry Martin has described this nationality policy as a Soviet ‘affirmative action’ programme. The Bolsheviks promised to ‘uplift’ and ‘advance’ the Soviet Union’s ethnic minorities via a range of nation-building projects that would liberate them from the ‘backwardness’ to which tsarist rule had ostensibly condemned them. Roma and their fellow ‘backward’ ethnic minorities in the early Soviet Union were promised preferential access to jobs and education, but also the creation of national languages, alphabets, literatures, theatres, native-language schools and territories (within the USSR). In the Bolsheviks’ famous slogan, these were all to be ‘national in form, socialist in content’. In other words, this nationality policy was designed to integrate the Soviet Union’s ethnic minorities into the modern socialist economy and new Soviet culture by means of institutionalized ethnic particularism.

Bolshevik nationality policy thus provided a framework through which Roma and their fellow minority citizens of the Soviet Union could (and very creatively did) make ethnic-based claims for themselves and their nationality. In so doing, they fulfilled the ‘national in form, socialist in content’ logic that was intended by the Soviet state. In using the framework of this ethnic-based Soviet affirmative action, they also integrated themselves into the Soviet economy and culture. Roma were no exception. Indeed, the Theatre Romen and Germano’s play Life on Wheels were inconceivable without the Soviet nationality policy that made them both possible in Stalin’s Soviet Union.

In the 1920s, Romani activists and artists had energetically campaigned for the establishment of a national theatre. Using the Bolsheviks’ logic, they argued that the creation of a Soviet Gypsy theatre would ‘rescue’ Romani art from the degradations of the capitalist past and help accelerate Roma’s transition to a Soviet way of life. On stage at this new theatre, they argued, Romani artists would sing new songs of Soviet socialism for Romani audiences in the Romani language. The theatre would serve a crucial didactic function and accustom ‘backward Gypsy’ audiences to the values of Soviet socialism. In October 1930, the Commissariat of Enlightenment approved the creation of the Theatre Romen, the first theatre of its kind in the world.

Life on Wheels premiered at the Theatre Romen in 1931. Colourful tapestries and a shabby wagon decorated the stage. Romen’s female performers wore brightly patterned dresses. The men sported unruly beards, lined their eyes with kohl, and carried horsewhips. One theatre critic decried what he considered the staging’s crude exotica, but Soviet officials and theatre critics generally hailed the play as a success for the young theatre.

Life on Wheels launched what for the Theatre Romen and its artists would prove to be a stressful decade of trying to adroitly navigate evolving Stalinist policy regarding the arts, nationality policy and the ‘socialist content’ of broad Soviet culture. Several times in the 1930s, the Theatre Romen was threatened with closure by Soviet authorities. Behind the scenes, Romani activists and the theatre’s Romani performers struggled to assert their own authority over the development of this Soviet-style Romani art, as well as to meet the mercurial demands of Stalinist policy and culture.

In the Theatre Romen’s early years, Romani-language plays written by Romani authors dominated its repertoire. These plays, like Life on Wheels , faithfully wedded socialist realism and the logic of Soviet nationality policy; they were straightforward tales of ‘backward Gypsies’ becoming ‘new Soviet Gypsies’. Romen’s troupe performed these plays on stage in Moscow, but also regularly travelled in the summer season to Romani collective farms throughout the Soviet Union to perform for their rural brethren.

Already by 1933, however, calls were coming from within and outside the theatre’s administration to change course and adopt a more ‘classical’ repertoire. In 1934, it premiered its staging of Prosper Merimée’s Carmen and received disappointing reviews in the Soviet press. Doubts also emerged early on – again, from both within and outside the theatre – about the viability of performing Romen’s plays in the Romani language, rather than in Russian. Most of the Theatre’s Romen’s audience members in Moscow could not understand a word of the Romani spoken on stage. Many of its actors and actresses were themselves not fluent in the Romani language and wanted to perform in Russian. Some of Romen’s artists quickly grew tired of what they felt was the disrespect of non-Romani theatre administrators and disinvested Soviet officials. By mid-decade, the Theatre Romen was palpably in crisis.

In 1937, a serious of fateful decisions transformed the Theatre Romen. M. M. Ianshin, a star at the prestigious Moscow Art Theatre, was hired as its new artistic director. A Russian, Ianshin was selected by the Commissariat of Enlightenment to elevate the Theatre Romen’s repertoire and artistry. Ianshin’s approach was straightforward. The Theatre Romen would now perform in the Russian language, not in Romani. And while plays written by Romani artists (I. I. Rom-Lebedev, in particular) would still feature in its repertoire, greater priority would be given to staging classical plays from the heights of Soviet and world culture.

Under Ianshin’s lead, in 1938 the Theatre Romen premiered a new adaptation of A. S. Pushkin’s poem The Gypsies . The play was performed in the Russian language – the language of Pushkin and of the Soviet Union’s ‘First Among Equals’, the Russian nation. Soviet audiences were invited to delight in a play that portrayed the very same images of ‘Gypsies’ that had earlier so filled Bolsheviks with dread. Pushkin’s ‘Gypsies’ were hot-tempered and carefree. They were beguiling lovers of liberty who shunned society and wandered aimlessly. Pushkin’s character Zemfira, a fiery ‘Gypsy’ beauty, enchanted her Russian lover, Aleko, and tempted him to escape modernity and follow her into the wild steppes. Soviet theatre critics celebrated this production as the triumph, at long last, of ‘authentic’ Romani art at the Theatre Romen.

The theatre’s performances were to be ‘national in form, socialist in content.’

There is irony, of course, in the Theatre Romen’s route from Germano’s Life on Wheels in 1931 to the triumphant production of Pushkin’s The Gypsies under Ianshin’s lead in 1938. But there is much more than irony. This route mirrors in stark and telling ways the evolution of Stalinist culture and nationality policy in the Soviet Union of the 1930s. Both productions, in their own ways and their own times, reflect the Bolshevik logic that justified the Theatre Romen’s founding in 1931: the theatre’s performances were to be ‘national in form, socialist in content’. By the close of the 1930s, the Theatre Romen, its actors, and its audiences were already to have graduated to a mastery of Soviet and world culture, an embrace of Stalinist kul’turnost’ (culturedness). Life on Wheels in 1931 paved the way for the Theatre Romen’s triumph with its production of The Gypsies under the changed Soviet circumstances of 1938. Likewise, both plays helped to secure the Theatre Romen’s legacy in Soviet and Russian history as well as in the global history of Roma.

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