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GLIB ZELGIN
Photo: Konstyantyn Rodygin
DESCRIPTION:
The performance works at the intersection of media: dance, drawing, word, interactive scenography.
An important component of the scenography are threads — ties woven into the hair that give or take away strength, entangle or return to oneself and show the way in the labyrinth.
The creation of the script and score took place through writing essays, letters, consideration of personal “wigwams”, events, choices, weaknesses, experiences, feelings and sensations. The performance is “stitched” with the stories of the team members, which makes it possible to rely on improvisation and performativity. The script is written with the courage to open up and share experience.
A separate component is the invitation of the audience to walk around the location and get acquainted with the materials of our residencies, rehearsals, evenings of discussions, togetherness, readings, sketches. The way we walked through labyrinths in search of meanings worth sharing: a person's relationship with their own life, body, universe, partner, society, child, time.
What precedes birth? What happened before memory? We drew inspiration from mythology, the diversity of nature, evolution — as the dance of life. What is a person in this — and how can evolution occur in the relatively short duration of a human life? A person who has light and shadow, social masks and blocked feelings, weaknesses and virtues. What gives a feeling of evolution-development-joy-fulfillment in life? What is courage? What is each of us? Where to find a guiding thread to get out of the labyrinth of a dark wigwam, how to defeat the inner minotaur, especially in the darkest times?
TEAM:Director:
Glib Zelgin
Composer:
Konstyantyn Bushynskyi
Performers:
Iryna Tychyna
Maryna Nikulenko
DURATION: 1 h 30 min
PREMIERE: September 2024 Vinnytsia, Ukraine
SUPPORTED BY:Per Forma grant program, carried out by The Kyiv Contemporary Music Days platform which is supported by the Performing Arts Fund NL and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands for the development of the performing arts sector in Ukraine.
TRAILER:
Performer, actress, dancer, movement researcher, coach. Independent artist working on the synthesis of genres.
She worked at the Theater of Plastic Drama (Kyiv), participated in poetry readings Word and Voice (Lviv), filming video poetry, dance films. Participant of creative residencies in Budapest (Workshop Foundation, Hungary), in Tampere (Pirkanmaan Tanssin Keskus, Finland).
In 2022, she completed the practical course "Fundamentals of Psychotraumatology", is a trauma-informed trainer. Developer of an author's course on posture.
Born and lives in Kyiv. Graduated from the master's degree program of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute with a degree in biotechnology. She applies and expands the knowledge she has gained in biology and anatomy by studying somatic approaches to the correction and restoration of posture, movement, acting and dance practices.
His main preoccupation is a traveler-performer. Part-time — a teacher, a movement director, a cultural manager.
He teaches movement for various audiences: conducts classes for amateurs and artists of various specialties, as well as for the ballet troupe and cast of the M. Sadovsky Music and Drama Theater in Vinnytsia. Teaches stage movement for students of the theater faculty of the M. D. Leontovych Vinnytsia Professional College of Arts.
Founder and curator of the art space-gallery MŌNTAZH. Co-organizer of the multidisciplinary festival of contemporary art. Founder of the creative association MŌN.
Musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer and researcher of life. He plays the guitar, piano, guzheng, drums, percussion, flute, trumpet with virtuosity, and also works with a loop station.
He is the founder of the Ocheretyanyi Kit band and the studio of Japanese percussion instruments Taiko-Drummers, co-founder of the bands Propala Gramota and TopOrkestra. He was twice a laureate of the Chervona Ruta festival. He writes music for films and performances. In addition, he has his own label of contemporary electronic music Bushiko.
Painter, artist from the people. Paints walls, boards and canvases. Explores the integrity of the world around her. Self-exploration through the image. Understanding your time and its quality. Experimenting, she seeks answers to the questions: What is it like to be a woman? What are relationships and how to manifest themselves in them? Where is my support when everything around has collapsed?
Marina works with teenagers and young people, conducts group trainings and workshops in the direction of self-knowledge.
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