Love Book for St. Valentine Day

On 16 February, 2002, the Hermitage Student Club presented the Love Book Program dedicated to the St. Valentine Day. Students from the Club's new sections created in 2001 took part in the performance. Students of the French Club told about courtly love inviting the audience to the sunny Provence, in the south of France, where the poetry or troubadours was born. Dante told the story of the tragic love of Francesca da Rimini, enacted by students of the Italian Studio. Students of the Municipal School of Ancient West European Music Schola Cantorum from Peterhof took the audience for a tour of France and Italy. They performed French and Italian music of the 13th and 14th centuries. Stories of love presented by the St. Petersburg Section were witty and funny. They took place in St. Petersburg in various epochs during the 19th and 20th centuries. Students of the Actual Art Section called their performance Love.txt. They used texts from diaries of Andy Warhol and Vazlav Nizhinsky and books of Julio Cortazar. The performance was accompanied by modern West European music. In the end quizzes were organized and funny horoscopes were distributed to all participants of the event.

Participant of the ensemble

Scene from the performance

The celebration

Scene from the performance