Moscow Celebrates Old New Year With Ice Rinks, Lazer Shows and Disco Balls

These days Moscow is truly fabulous. The Tverskaya Square hosts puppet shows and quests, an amazing show where you can paint with light on ice is expected in Sokolniki. You can perform a retro dance on skates at VDNKh, learn the table setting at Kuznetsky Most.

These days Moscow is truly fabulous. The Tverskaya Square hosts puppet shows and quests, an amazing show where you can paint with light on ice is expected in Sokolniki. You can perform a retro dance on skates at VDNKh, learn the table setting at Kuznetsky Most.

Anna Balan has studied what's on this weekend.

 

With a wave of a luminous laser, large ice floes in the Sokolniki Park turn into canvases. You don't need paints or artistic talent to draw on them. You need only an ultraviolet flashlight. The drawing is iridescent, though it lasts no more than 15 minutes. Interestingly, but what other surprises and entertainment does Moscow have this weekend?

VDNKh invites to celebrate the Old New Year on a skating rink, which will turn into a big dance floor on January 14. A few huge disco balls will be installed right on the ice. Dancing will be to the music of the 80s. Do not hesitate to participate in contests, sing along and win prizes. And, of course, do not miss the opportunity to roll down the largest tubing slide.

Begin to dance today. Fashionable DJs will organize a red-hot ice party in the Novopushkinsky park. It will be tonight, but in the afternoon you can walk along the streets of Moscow and take part in numerous quests.

Those who come to Tverskaya Square, will immediately take a mysterious journey through the White Forest. Participants of this quest will have to unspell the inhabitants of the fairy forest and get gifts for it. You can get into a Scandinavian fairy tale right from New Arbat. There, world champions will show tricks in the snowboard park in the evening and share their experience.

You'll be able to learn something new for free almost in all corners of Moscow. This weekend will see many workshop sessions for adults and children. For example, the creative workshop at the Kuznetsky Most will teach you to decorate the house for holidays or to create handmade candlesticks and vases. And after one lesson at the School of Good Manners at the Revolution Square you will know how to serve the table and to entertain.

Those who still prefer to remain warm in the cold winter evenings, I understand them, will also find something interesting. Come to the Moscow House of Music hosting the Christmas Festival of Sacred Music. Top Russian and international choirs are performing on the stage, as well as the world stage stars. The repertoire includes folk songs, carols, hymns and chorals. The atmosphere will be very warm. Unlike outdoors.

It's getting colder in Moscow every day. The weather might make up for the first warm days of January. So, there will already be 10-degree frost and snow on the Old New Year's Eve.

Anna Balan, Andrei Lapigus, and Igor Belekov for Vesti