A joint project of the Moscow Art Theater School and Izolyator Group launched

On 21 September 2022, a familiarization tour of the Production Complex of the Izolyator Group was held for representatives the Moscow Art Theater School.

Moscow Art Theater School (MXAT School) trains actors of drama theater and cinema, stage designers and producers. The MXAT School was opened at the Moscow Art Theater in 1943. From the very foundation of the MXAT School, the leading masters of the Art Theater taught here. This tradition has survived to this day: most of the teachers themselves are graduates of the MXAT School, students of Stanislavsky's students. Among the course leaders and teachers of the MXAT School there are well-known actors and directors, art historians, leading Russian theatrical specialists in the field of stage movement, dance, stage speech, scenography, and production. Most of the teachers have experience working abroad. The school-studio lives and develops together with the Art Theater, which it is called to serve.

The Moscow Art Theater School was represented by members of the Department of Stage Costume of the Faculty of Scenography and Theater Technology, Head of the Department Associate Professor Regina Khomskaya and Associate Professor of the Department, head of the course of stage costume artists-technologists Irina Dronova, as well as the Director of the Endowment Fund of the MXAT School Denis Ovsyannikov.

Representatives of the Moscow Art Theater School on a tour of the Izolyator Production Complex, (L-R): Associate Professor of the Department of Stage Costume, head of the course of stage costume artists-technologists Irina Dronova; Head of the Department of Stage Costume Associate Professor Regina Khomskaya and Director of the Endowment Fund Denis Ovsyannikov

The guests were received by Head of the Communications Department Anastasia Burakova and Lead Technical Support Specialist Viktor Kiryukhin.

The tour began with a tour of the exposition of the corporate museum. Here visitors got acquainted with the age-old history of the enterprise, the role of the enterprise in the development of the country's electric power industry, the outstanding achievements of the past decades and today.

Acquaintance with the century-old history of the Izolyator plant in the corporate museum

Inspection of the exposition of product samples of the Izolyator Group

Further, the guests were familiarized with the stages of production and testing of high-voltage bushings.

Tour of the high-voltage bushing insulation making shop

The test center made an indelible impression on the visitors

The guests, as experts in the stage costume technology, were especially interested in the production residues of some materials selected after consultation with the employees of the environmental safety department of the Izolyator Production Complex.

It turned out that the crepe electrical insulating paper, which is the basis of RIP insulation, polymer non-woven material used in RIN technology, as well as metal shavings and foil, are an excellent material for making a life-size theater costume model — one of the intrinsic parts in the creative process of designing stage costumes.

Polymer nonwoven fabric is a great idea for stage costume mockup

 A stage costume master does not see a capacitor liner to equalize the electric field in the foil at all

Thus, some of those production residues will be transferred to the stage costume department of the MXAT School, where initially technical materials will serve a completely different purpose.

This visit marks the beginning and will become part of a unique joint project of the Moscow Art Theater School and Izolyator Group.