MOSCOW, October 15 (RIA Novosti) - The fourth international festival "Circle of Light" closed on Tuesday evening in Moscow with grandiose ceremonies all across Moscow, including a surprise performance of opera singer Ljubov Kazarnovskaya.
The main theme for this years' event was "Journey Round the Light”.
The Moscow international festival "Circle of Light" is yearly spectacle, during which light designers and specialists in 2D- and 3D-graphics use the architectural space of Moscow as a canvas for multimedia and luminance installations.
The festival included a spectacular videomapping contest called “Art Vision”, where professional and amateur video mappers from 26 countries took part.
During the closing ceremony, an impressive 3D-mapping installation immersed its captive audience into the exciting history theatre during Ancient Egypt and Greece, the Renaissance and the Middle Ages. Some of the other themes presented to the lucky Muscovites were nature and the ballet.
This, the fourth festival, became the largest in its history. The locations for the event, Ostankino, the VDNKh, the Bolshoi Theater, the Tsaritsyno museum and Manezhnaya square all hosted massive light displays. During the four days of the festival, more than six million people visited the various locations and more than 500 thousand people visited lightfest.ru website every day.
