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.

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

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

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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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And we gladly finish the long promised “news” about the great days in Mannheim. Nothing to add actually. Maybe I wasn’t in time to say one loud THANK YOU to everyone.

THANK YOU, guys! Great job. Fantastic project.

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And in the end of October a film about the project must be ready. Wheel of Power, Will Power, Weal Power, Weel Power… whatsoever our participants: dancers, technicians, artists, managers from Italy, Russia, Holland, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Poland and one man from the North have tried to call or write it.

In November two weddings should tinkle in the world. Mannheim.

Text by Anton Adasinsky
English text editor: Jennifer Williams
Photo design: Elena Yarovaya based on the photos by Nicole von Hasselt

After uneasy and sleepless days in Mannheim (girls, tractors & night elegy) we found ourselves in Dublin. We were going to open the big Fringe festival. We couldn’t realize it at the start.

We really really wanted to sleep. Really.

What we could dance was maybe the sirtaki. And most likely only the first male part – slow and circumstantial.

And so we started. A dream on black waters at Hanon’s music. “Her Midst”. Hanon – is a pseudonym. I don’t think he would allow Skryabin to leave a wonderful greenhouse in the Pushkarskaya street in St. Petersburg without asking for permission.

The water wasn’t warm or clear. But it was happy that we gave our bodies to it. Just touch the water and some high-speed shimmering wonder connects you through all the brooks, rivers, seas and oceans to that peaceful creek where Krapp is hearing the sedge rustling against the bottom of his boat.

And then we performed in Samuel Beckett’s Theatre. A “happy days”…

Text: Anton Adasinsky
English text editor: Jennifer Williams
Photo: Elena Yarovaya, Andrey Bobylev
Photo design: Elena Yarovaya

See also the video shot by visual designers from Mercury Boy Inc. and originally posted at TheBubble.

—– Original Message —–
From: “seva bakushin” <sevikflight@rambler.ru>
To: DEREVO
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 6:15 PM
Subject: ПРИГЛАШЕНИЕ НА РАБОТУ Антону Одессенскому

> Здравствуй, Антон! Да святится имя твое, о великий и всемогущий!!!
> Поздравляем тебя! Вот и наступил твой долгожданный звездный час. Слушай и
> не говори, что не слышал. В списках лучших людей планеты ты увековечен на
> букву А. Боги вспомнили о тебе - пришло время и тебе заняться настоящим
> делом. СТРОЙКА!!! Ведь об этом ты мечтал всю жизнь (загляни в свое
> Детство).
> Мы в настоящий момент создаем поселение людей будущего, попросту говоря
> рай. Собрались самые талантливые хулиганы планеты. Одного из них ты слегка
> знаешь и можешь составить себе представление об остальных - все остальные
> на него совершенно не похожи. Наверное тебе интересно, что мы можем тебе
> предложить. Ответим тебе стихами. Все зависит в доме оном от желанья
> твоего: хочешь - будешь ты Буденным, хочешь - лошадью его. В общем, слова
> молоток, плотник, коса, топор легко могут войти в твою жизнь. А захочешь -
> будешь ездить по предприятиям с творческими концертами в обмен на еду и
> цемент. Предлагаем тебе познакомиться с самим собой по-настоящему. И еще
> приятно тебя удивим - все достойные идеи и их воплощение будут щедро
> оплачены.
> В составе строительной бригады есть олимпийские чемпионы, композиторы,
> поп-звезды и человек с севера.
> Наш адрес: РФ, Респубика Татарстан, Камско-Устьинский р-н, деревня
> Антоновка. Телефон в России: 8…(84377) 34-187. Ответим на все возникшие
> в течение многих жизней вопросы.
>
> Вставай, мужик!
>
> Твои друзья, с которыми пришло время познакомиться.
>

Используя Интернет по назначению, я ужасно рад поздравить с Днем Рождения - Даниила Адасинского - создателя сайта www.derevo.org, куда вам всем дорогим гостям и welcome.

Антон Адасинский

Several ways of living for those who want to devote their life to the arts.

1. A person pursues his favourite occupation. In the remaining time he makes his living by simple physical labor that does not employ his art and skills.
2. A person limits his social requirements as much as possible and pursues his favourite occupation while living on alms.
3. A person divides his time between the favourite occupation and additional earning in the “art field” such as mass-media, TV, cinema, parties, bad productions, etc., understanding clearly that all those are just “hack work”.
4. A person pursues only his favourite occupation and, after spending years to achieve perfection in it, he reaches the time when his stage work allows him to survive in society ensuring him creative, financial and geographical independence.
5. A person understands that he won’t have enough time and energy to obtain independence through his favourite occupation, so in order not to sell himself he makes the decision not to pursue it or anything related to it, but instead to make money and pave the way for the creative independence and happiness of another person: Husband, Wife,
   Children, Friend.
6. A person finds a social structure or another person, which (or who) supports him, making it possible to be occupied only by his favourite art and not requiring “loafing”.
7. A person decides not to do anything at all and leaves for the monastery. He relies upon maintenance from a certain prosperous organization or person.
8. A person puts an end to his life.

It is necessary to assign names of people who you know well or of celebrities to each point of the list. For example: Bashlachev, Faulkner, Moguchiy, Nikitin, Makarevich, Modigliani, Maximov, Jodorowsky, before starting to tear your ass with a pike crankbait. The ways and methods of transition between the listed models are intriguing. Propose and try.

* Methodological blunders are commited in this text on purpose.

Original text: Anton Adasinsky.
Translation: Niki
English text editor: Jennifer Williams
Photos: Elena Yarovaya

I see my hands. They are stained with oil. Old cars are around me. Apparently I’m working in a garage. Alone.

There’s some annoyance in my sleep: should I change jobs? But there are obscure liabilities. This is not my dream. A sort of a junk movie.

I’m sure I’m handsome and manly. I search for a mirror and whistle something.

Powerful blows at the gates which open upwards slowly. Red-hot stripe of the sun-tide crawls the floor.

The customers are from the 30s. The blonde man remains in the car. The miniature girl comes out. She smokes a cigarette squinting in the sun.

Seems like I’m hearing jazz and realize – if the music stops I will be shot down. I know this pair. The girl is Bonnie Parker.

I know how they will die. She will turn 23.

One of my friends in St. Petersburg bought herself an old soviet government limousine. ZIM or something like that. Every little gap is filled with sand. Sort of bullet-proof doors.

It is possible to die in sleep. So I answer in good English that I recognize their faces; that I have no money in the garage but I point out the idea of car doors filled with sand. I’m showing them where I can put the sand in.

“Not bad”, says Bonnie (I will never be able to forget her voice),”but where would we get so much sand, my boy?”

“In a fire-protection bin” – I smile and want the blond guy to see that.

I’m going to the bin. Car’s door slammed. Maybe he’s got out. It’s hot in the car.

At last it’s summer.

Text: Anton Adasinsky
English text editor: Jennifer Williams
Photo: Elena YarovaYa, Roman Dubinnikov
Photo design: Elena Yarovaya

The big project “WHEEL of POWER” in Mannheim is over. Amount of video, photo & press material is enormous. So we’ll report in a parts.

Part 1.

To design all the space at the old railway station DEREVO invited the Gang of the Steel Sculptors - the ROBODOCK Crew.

This way they’re creating their magnificent mechanical objects.

Camera / cut by Andrey Gladkih © DEREVO, 2007

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WHEEL of POWER - Preview
WHEEL of POWER - friends report