The title of the play refers to the Eastern philosophical concept of "Mahamaya" - the great illusion that takes over human consciousness and obscures the truth. The actors on stage do not play traditional roles, but engage in a dialog that illuminates the hidden aspects of human existence. At high speed, they exchange questions and answers [...]
The title of the play refers to the Eastern philosophical concept of "Mahamaya" - the great illusion that takes over human consciousness and obscures the truth. The actors on stage do not play traditional roles, but engage in a dialog that illuminates the hidden aspects of human existence. At high speed, they exchange questions and answers [...]
This first staged adaptation of the novel by Belarusian-born writer Sasha Filipenko tells the story of Peter Nesterenko, an officer in the anti-Bolshevik White Guard who, after a long period of emigration at the beginning of the 20th century, made a deal with the Soviet authorities and returned to his homeland. It is a story about forgiveness and the [...]
Spell is a ritual choreography of exhaustion and ambiguity. There is a power in repetition that is almost like a magic formula. The recurring repetition of the same gesture charges it with defiant power and turns it into a form of political resistance. Spell is an embodied incantation that resists the impotence of our daily resistance to [...].
The spatial sound action of PHØNIX16 explores sound and its migration, the sounds of this migration and the migration of these sounds. The programme contrasts the work of the Slovenian-French composer Vinko Globokar, Airs de voyages vers l'intérieur ("Songs of the journey to oneself"), in which Slovenian rhythms break through the idioms of the contemporary musical language and are combined in a ritual [...].
This first staged adaptation of the novel by Belarusian-born writer Sasha Filipenko tells the story of Peter Nesterenko, an officer in the anti-Bolshevik White Guard who, after a long period of emigration at the beginning of the 20th century, made a deal with the Soviet authorities and returned to his homeland. It is a story about forgiveness and the [...]
Spell is a ritual choreography of exhaustion and ambiguity. There is a power in repetition that is almost like a magic formula. The recurring repetition of the same gesture charges it with defiant power and turns it into a form of political resistance. Spell is an embodied incantation that resists the impotence of our daily resistance to [...].
Everything is transient - the performance, the body, life, home. Looking back on himself from exile in Germany - as a dancer, as a son, as a person - choreographer Ivan Estegneev searches for an expression of letting go and holding on in the moment of performance. How do you say goodbye to a deceased father from afar? How [...]
Four actors distribute books on stage, referring to a scene from Parajanov's film *The Color of Pomegranates*, in which books lie on the roof of the Sanahin monastery to dry after a rainstorm. The actors lay out the books and talk about life, art, death, love, grief, [...].
Four actors distribute books on stage, referring to a scene from Parajanov's film *The Color of Pomegranates*, in which books lie on the roof of the Sanahin monastery to dry after a rainstorm. The actors lay out the books and talk about life, art, death, love, grief, [...].
