Maxim Didenko directed the inaugural Russian Creative Awards, the first national award in the creative industries, at Moscow’s Zaryadye Concert Hall.

Conceived as one interconnected performance, a kind of neural network linking the participants, the ceremony brought together orchestral music, choreography, moving image and poetic text. The presentations of the nominees were accompanied by orchestral music, dance and on-screen portraits, while Lev Rubinstein’s texts ran alongside as an independent poetic commentary.

musicAeterna under Teodor Currentzis performed excerpts from Stravinsky’s The Firebird. Anton Sevidov wrote and performed the music accompanying the awards, and the finale featured the song “Temp”, sung by Nino Ninidze with Sevidov.