No tickets from Moscow to St. Petersburg. None and never.

Bought myself a place in the conductor’s compartment.

In Tver two young-and-wonderful boarded.

They were sleeping with their heads against the glass in the corridor. I invited them to join me and waited outside while they prepared a bunk.

The girl came out and asked, laughing:
“Do we disturb you?”
“No”, I said.
“Who are you, actually?” – she asked.
I said, “I’m one of the train security,” (bald, black jacket – so she couldn’t doubt it).
“Excuse us, if we get noisy.”
“No worries,” said I, “sing, laugh… should I wait in the corridor?”
“Well, you’ll probably have to wait a long time. He’s like a Roman law, you know, indistinct and very slow.”

We laughed very loud… The guy peeked out.

“I’m coming. I’m running. I’m already there!” she said to him.

I slept quite honest-minded and dreamed of a bi-directional flow of people.

In the morning she catches me up on the platform, laughing again:

“But you’re not from the security.”
“Security?”
“I know you.”
“I know.”
“Do you have echolalia?”
“Echolalia.”

She’s laughing again. Now the chap is here: “Baby, leave him alone!”

Just outside of the train station she turns to me again:
“Did you sleep well?”
“Fine. Rome, Sparta, a kid falling down the abyss; he was too lightweight, not warrior-like.”

Her eyes narrow.
“Anton, right?”
“Yes.”
“Good. So what do you guard there?”
“The secret of Caipirinha.”

And I head for a taxi. I want to dance.

On June 11 and 12 I was on stage with a guitar in my hands and a microphone at my throat. Friendly musicians around me. We called the concert “Vsyo Khorosho!” – “Everything is fine!”

Text: Anton Adasinsky
English text editor: Jennifer Williams
Photo: Anna Bogodist, Olga Arefieva, Alexandra Krivolutskaya
Photo design: Elena Yarovaya

Our tour-plan has been updated recently. You find there more detailed information on DEREVO’s appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with “The GOSPEL of ANTON”, corrected dates for Dresden, Leipzig and Prague, as well as new dates for Russia, Estonia & Lithuania.

More updates are coming soon!

See the tour-plan here »

How good it is to sit on a perch under the table and look at the leaves and insects flowing in streams below!

A big creature is stirring beside me, Maxim Isaev.

“and the hormones…”

“oh yes, a harmony of the world…” answers Pasha Semchenko.

Innumerable feet rushing along. There are lots of people, but I can’t see them through the tiny hole in the tablecloth.

I can’t see the Great Northern Bear either, but I know it’s above us. Somewhere.

A “WINDROSE” project.

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Text: Elena Yarovaya
English text editor: Jennifer Williams
Photos: Carola Fritzsche, Julia Steinfartz
Photo design: Elena Yarovaya

DEREVO & AKHE present:

WINDROSE

May 20 - 25, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden (DE).

14 min., 63 Mb

Camera / edit by Andrey Gladkikh

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More info about the WINDROSE project (DE) »

Ждем в гости мастеров-виртуозов:

Рома Дубинников (музыка к спектаклям «Всадник», «Однажды…». «Острова» и много ещё всего)
Николай Гусев («АВИА»)
Алексей Рахов («АВИА»)
Игорь Тимофеев - гитара, перкуссия
Андрей Сизинцев (музыка к фильму «Юг. Граница», спектаклю «LA DIVINA COMMEDIA»)
СтереоЗольдат - акции DEREVO и первая пластинка «Асфальт» с Антоном Адасинским
Ольга Арефьева
и другие

Приходите в Мюзик-Холл, 11 и 12 июня!!!

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Festspielhaus Hellerau. Dresden. May 21 - 25, 2008:
Participants: DEREVO, AKHE and others

Camera / edit by Andrey Gladkikh

More info (DE) »

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10 days in April

It turned out to be possible in ten days to play “THE GOSPEL OF ANTON” in Florence, fly to St. Petersburg the same night and dance in the “Nutcracker”, meet the participants of the concert “Vsyo Khorosho!” there, go to Moscow and look at the future performance location in “WinZavod”, come back to Italy, get in the car and drive to France to Mikhail Chemiakin, to find there Slava Polunin and to discuss their participation in the “VERTICAL 2008″ project under the working title “One Sky”, then drive to Dresden and start the rigging for WindRose, then move to Berlin and fly to Kiev at the “GogolFest”, meet our entire company gathered there from three countries, dance the “Wolve’s Tango” and return to Dresden together with AKHE to start the rehearsals for “WindRose”… whew, all in ten days..

Text by Anton Adasinsky
Photo by Elena Yarovaya, Jana Svyatkina, P. Datskovsky and others.
Photo design by Elena Yarovaya

See more photos of “Wolves’ Tango project” in Kiev

See also a video preview of the “WindRose”project in Hellerau, Dresden.

In March at the „Entresol“ I performed a series of improvisations. I was happy and I am still happy now.

From those six days
There’s a new work was born
“The Gospel of Anton”
Which we show in Italy now
And in August we’ll bring it to Edinburgh.

Photo by Anna Bogodist
Photo design: Elena Yarovaya

 
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So we’ve been to Samara, St. Petersburg, Moscow…

Something happened to us or to the people who are here for us.
Now they all really-really want us to be and to live,
Although I’ve had some other plans recently.
And the black cloud is covering the birthmarks and the stubble…
And suddenly, as expected, there’s so much Love!
Not simply, “D’you have any tickets still?”
But crying, “I need it! I flew from Siberia…”

White snow. The colour of the morning alley in a sanatorium just as you’re going out of breath after the nurses’ words:
“There’s a visitor for you.”
“Who?” – you’re pleading – “Who?”
She smiles.
“You’ll see for yourself.”

Pyjamas, a hospital-gown; and sliding down into the park, throwing off a cast of myself on each step of the stairs, a cast of sinful, blabbing and unique me. Then an excuse for the prepared joke: “I love me, me of my own making…”*

Cold hands, a discomfort, where to put those oranges? And then – slantwise into the snowdrift. An incantation.

Original text by Anton Adasinsky
English text editor: Jennifer Williams
Photos & photo design: Elena Yarovaya

Открыта регистрация на двухдневный мастер-класс Антона Адасинского в Санкт-Петербурге, 20 и 21 марта 2008 г.

UPDATE: регистрация на мастер-класс закончена. спасибо!

2008 год

Январь

(см. февраль)

Февраль

“Кецаль” и “Однажды…” в Москве (театр Эстрады), премьера клипа “Диагноз” и cольные акции А. Адасинского и участников DEREVO в клубных пространствах Питера… (площадки будут объявлены дополнительно. или не будут.)
“Однажды…” и “Кецаль” в СПб, Мюзик-Холле, в Самаре (Театр им. Горького),

Акция в Секретном Бомбоубежище в Москве Где Штык в Детстве Вывихнула Ногу - не состоится. Не хотим повторения инцидента.

Март

DEREVO в СПб

7 марта

Показ фильма «Юг.Граница» и встреча с Антоном Адасинским. Ответы на рискованные вопросы языком и телом.

Большой зал Дома Кино (Караванная ул.,12)

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9 марта

Антон танцует Дроссельмейера в “Щелкунчике” (постановка Михаила Шемякина) в Мариинском театре.

*******

Шестидневная акция “Евангелие от Антона” - клуб “Антресоль” (Малый пр. В.O., 49).

*******

20 и 21 марта состоится мастер-класс Антона Адасинского в театре «Люди Дождя» (Мончегорская ул.,10б).

*******

25 марта

Сольная акция Елены Штыковой «Тула» - клуб «Антресоль» (Малый пр. В.O., 49).

Апрель

“Золотая Маска” - ROBERT’S DREAM - опция

Июнь

“Ля Дивина Комедия” - Ленинградский цирк и премьера фильма “Диагноз” - опция

Сентябрь

Питер, “Элегия” - опция

ВСЯ актуальная информация - в Тур-Плане

So it’s over, our three year long odyssey entitled “DEREVO’s soldiers”.
They were wonderful years.

The group gathered in 2004 has brought lots of joy and wonder to the world simply by its existence, as well as with its actions, performances and improvisations.

Maxim Kuznetsov – “MAX”
Anna Budanova – “BUDA”
Galina Samoilova – “GALA”
Alisa Oleinik – “ALISA”
Roman Gabria – “GA”
Maxim Didenko – “DI”
Alexey Finogenov – “FIGA”
Elena Khlebnikova – “HLENA”
Elena Shtykova – “STYK”

And two more wonderful people appeared a little later:

Tatiana Luzai – “LU”
Darya Barabanova – “Darrrrya”

Many saw and will remember for a long time “The Wolves’ Tango” in Kronstadt, “Mad in Japan” / “Mad in Russia” in Tokyo and St Petersburg, “Second Sun”, “KETZAL”, “ROBERT’S DREAM”, “10 Words of Love” in Dresden, “ARKAN”, “WHEEL of POWER” in Mannheim, “Midnight Balance” in Dublin and “Death of Pierrot…” and… and…

Everyone knew from the very first day that we would go our own ways sooner or later. And maybe two or three people will stay with DEREVO (Anton, Lena Yarovaya, Tanya Khabarova).

I’m happy to have an opportunity to wish them all a New & Unique Year, to with good Health and lots of Love, to wish always to go the Path of the Heart, shining brightly in the darkness.

Thanks for inhaling and thanks for exhaling, for scratches on the back can be both from cane or fingernails.

Anton Adasinsky.

English text editor: Jennifer Williams

DEREVO wishes you merry & happy holidays in the past, presence and future. Have a wonderful year 2008!

See the photos from the rehearsals:

Photo by N. Andreeva, A. Gladkih, E. Yarovaya
Photo design by E. Yarovaya

October…

I was walking through the night in Prague with Robert. He was
absent-minded… was hurrying somewhere.
At the reception in the hotel he left me a note “…I’ll see you later.

You know how to find me…”
Then it was St.P. I’ve met my friends, but not all, whom I’d like to thank. I’ve sung three songs to the children,
I’ve shot the black-eyed beginning of the film “Diagnosis”,
I’ve seen the girl Loozai -
I gave her an iron umbrella and the left-hand glove… and October didn’t want to end.

Styk performed in Dresden her first solo “Tula”, Roman Gabria
performed “Gioconda’s Smile”, and there were “Totentanz” and
“Barbuzons”, and the KETZAL flew to Spain, and my last workshop – so
cruel and so funny…………………………………………. Yes, Anton?……………………
….. Yes……………………………………………………………… and Pierrot’s black buttons like three gun-shots in a nightmare.

Text by Anton Adasinsky
English text editor - Jennifer Williams
Photos by Elena Yarovaya, Carola Fritzsche
Photo design by Elena Yarovaya

DEREVO - Elegy

Music - Daniel Williams
Camera - Andrey Gladkih
© DEREVO, 2007

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