Dear organisers of the 6th St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum!

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Yesterday I spoke with Alexander Sokurov’s office. He does not take part in the forum. The reason for this is a letter signed by deputy of ministry of culture – Vladimir Aristarkhov, which he did not confirm but also didn’t deny. In the letter, several well-known directors, journalists, writers are called unwanted guests at the forum.

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I do not see it’s possible for me to speak under the banner of the organisation which is called the Ministry of Culture. The organisation which still stays indifferent to arrest of my friends and colleagues K. Serebrennikov, S. Apfelbaum and A. Malobrodsky.

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With all due respect to the participants of the “Circus and Street Theater” section, I apologise to my friends Slava Polunin, Joop Mulder, John Kilby, Horacio Czertok, whom I’ve been knowing for years and also to Natasha Tabachnikova, the organizer of this event. I hope for understanding.

I apologise to my spectators - they will receive information about the emergence (more precisely - about the revival) of street theatre in Russia in a different way. Either at my open lecture in St.Petersburg or through the internet. I’ll let you know in advance.

Please remove my name from the program of the “Circus and Street Theater” section of
VI St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum.

Anton Adasinsky
Tanztheater DEREVO

Why one would need to get married?

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• Combine life paths (obsolete)
• Combine capital
• Combine glory
• Continuation of the species
• It’s time
• Registration
• Love
• Forced by parents
• The land question (bargaining for half a kingdom)
• Acceptance
• Lets do it!
• Other

There are stereotypes of social behavior, passionately hated by me.

In different cultures and peoples, the wedding is perceived in different ways.

Somewhere it is a festival, somewhere - the end of life, somewhere just a business agreement.
Somewhere polygamy, somewhere monogamy, somewhere monochrome, somewhere - three in one. With leaky laws, you can marry the deceased or marry a cat.
The whole story.

The Serbian version by Ana Sokolović is just one of the lines from this intricate folio.

Perfect in musical form, harmoniously and rhythmically throwing us into a Serbia which is no more, this “capella” work contains few words, which is how it should be in the forms of rituals, tunes, dialects, lamentations.

Music itself is an inviolable Cosmos. But one day someone could not resist and shoved the word “meaning” into it.

Opera is one of the well-aged heirs of this error.

And it took me into two worlds.

The first - domestic: the story of the heroine and her girlfriends. A history of lives.

The other - operatic: there is Music and Voice. It’s another hypostasis, emasculated.

A history of symbols, it also has the right to exist, but without the first world, is uninteresting.

For a long time I’ve practiced the stage arts, but still haven’t decided for myself what the relationship between man and the theatre is. The combination of reality and unreality is what interests me. And this production is another attempt to understand that,

What is art,
What is music,
What is singing,
What is human life.

Sokolovich’s “Wedding” - a hymn to the hopes of Women.
But they don’t come true for her.

And in a small two-story greenhouse, time will get intertwined.
Above - Notes, Throats and the anguish of operatic powder, searching to become natural.
Below - the same thing, but running on the crooked tracks of time, our lives.
From the sweaty phone booth and - “where did you hang out?” - to the marriage trap.

This is a dance of the five gateways of life. Five girls.

Childhood, adolescence, the WEDDING, everyday life and finally … through pots and pans and a belief in the next day - to meet with a gnarled old woman.

“As they say, the story is “set in stone”.

I’m not a director. I’m an actor first of all. And a dancer. In my company, DEREVO, I’m called “colander” because I sift out all kinds of rubbish, leaving only the best.

And it’s not so important that the viewer understands me literally.

It is important that during the rehearsals something happened in the girls and singers, and they remember this time.

The rest is on stage.

Anton

Translated by David Kemp

June 9th
“OKSTIS”
Dance action dedicated to stubbornness, a split personality and the heavenly bastards.
Music - Vladimir Volkov (double bass, voice)

June 10th
“HARAM”
We are told there
We are told we must
We are told we cannot speak
We are told
Don’t you dare
On the wall there is a fist
Youth has no dusty memorial

June 11th
“WARM-BLOODED”
This dance is about muscles, joints, pulse and blush, about shoulders and hugs, coughing and laughing, wince and desire. And the fact that the body’s language is still not available to us.

June 16th
“OVARY”
You are a donor and a vampire
Mother and father
Finger and ring
Cheek and slap in the face
God and the Devil
You are always two
This is the madness of the Force
Let it sparkle!

June 17th
“SNAKE TIME”
I am the king of nature, I am a man
I feel like I can’t stay sitting
We must create, sell, buy, break and build
I am the master of the illusion of activity
All grief and bubbling
And only after dinner will I calm down for an hour, digesting like a coiled snake hat
And, having drunk a cup of tea, I will stop the War

June 17th
Live concert of the AVIA & Anton Adasinsky

The next workshop by Anton Adasinsky & DEREVO will be taking place in St. Petresburg, on May 23d & 24th 2017. Only for russian-speaking audience.

Full information and registration form in Russian »

Workshop “DEREVO System”

Dresden 8 & 9 April 2017

In co-operation with the European Art Centre HELLERAU / Dresden

Venue: Rehearsal Studio of the Festspielhaus Hellerau, Karl-Liebknecht-Str 56, 01109 Dresden

DEREVO System works primarily with Body, Energy and Fantasy. The Workshop comprises complex exercises: body training, psycho-physics, imagination development. There’s also working with rhythm, musical textures and the basics of various dancing techniques. Particular focus is given to the daily influence of words, memories, speech, news on creative process within physical theatre

The Workshop is aimed at participants professionally interested in Dance and Theater, as well as filmmakers, performers and musicians.

There are 20 places available for participants, who take part in all physical & dance exercises. Additionally 10 places available for listeners, suitable for teachers, students, culture managers and so on. Maximum number of all participants is 30.

Workshop agenda:

Saturday 8.4.2017 / Sunday 9.4.2017
10.00 – 13.00 Training and practical exercises
13.30 – 17.30 Theory & practical exercises

Active participants must have comfortable shoes, training clothes, socks. Please do not use any perfume on you. You may bring a notepad and pens. All electronic devices must remain switched off during the workshop. Absolutely no photo, audio or video recordings allowed.

Workshop fee:

150,-€ active participants / 50,-€ listeners
(incl. Water, Tea, Fruits)
Concession for early bookings 10%: 135,- €*/ 45,- €* if your payment arrives before 19.03.2017

Workshop fee does not include accommodation costs.

You may like to use some online translation tool to ensure to fill out the form fields properly.

Should you have any questions or require any support with your on-line application please contact Ms. Isolde Matkey in Dresden:
+49 351 4057474
or
info@tristan-production.de

Applications become valid as soon as the workshop fee is arrived at DEREVO’s account and you received a confirmation by e-mail with further details about the workshop.

Closing date for applications is April 6th, 2017

Text: Anton Adasinsky
English text editor: David Kemp
Photos: Katja Pietrusky, Roman Ekimov, Elena Yarovaya