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| Ketzal is, quite simply, Derevo on top form: mystical, bizarre, fiercely physical and intensely beautiful. Mary Brennan Derevo have frequently done brutal, and sometimes they do playful. The pleasure of this show is that you get both. Lin Gardner Russian company Derevo have a reputation for highly original, often profound visual theatre. Their latest piece, Ketzal, is no exception. Mark Brown The lighting and visual imagery are unforgettable, the dancing and movement thrilling, the superb, rich soundscape sculpted to the movement as though both had been born in the same creative moment. Joyce McMillan Anton Adasinsky and 6 twithching, writhing acolytes run theatrically amok in a style that plays like a cross between a live Fellini film and Japan’s darkly imagistic butoh dance. Donald Hutera Ketzal will see the stage flooded as the company hop and glide like oil on water Citra Ramaswamy “Boy, what a trip !” Mark Monahan The shows conclussion left the all audience sated and happy. Three Weeks, August 2006 I cease thinking and can only feel lost and found at the same time Mim King Their performances are anarchic, chaotic and utterly beautiful. Katie Phillips In Ketzal the performers become a succession of beats, some of them are fantastical. They are massively inventive. Ian Shuttleworth To expect from Derevo straight line dramatergy would be pure illusion. In pictures move creatures from so mystical, essentially - fantastic dimensions, that it is hardly possible to define them. Gaby Gorgas In defused light on the background of rhythmical metallic sounds, created by Daniel Williams from Edinburgh, appear pictures which at the same moment un-charm and charm you. Bistra Klunker At face value, it reads like evolution theory, performers squirming and hopping as though they are first-footing arrivistes from the primordial soup. Bodies morph bonelessly across species and, when the stage finally floods, they dive, writhe and aquaplane with absurd abandon. Death and re-birth: an epic journey made blisteringly human by Derevo. Mary Brennan But mostly, there’s a vivid, unsettling sense of life on Earth proceeding without any reference to our banal human concepts of normality. And for the most part the show’s quality is breathtaking. The lighting and visual imagery are unforgettable, the dancing and movement thrilling, the superb, rich soundscape sculpted to the movement as though both had been born in the same creative moment. Joyce Mcmillan The atmosphere reflects the company style: environmental effects, lights, sounds and music's rainings movement create a charming and dissonant medley, fantastic and reverberant. "Il Manifesto", 15.02.2005 The scenography is hypnotic and charming. The voices, the lighting changes, the water flowing, the dance, the music bewitched by particular sonorities, all make Derevo's performance as labyrinthine trip through a theatre full of pathos and mystery. "La Repubblica", 15.02.2005 Derevo choose a small theatre hidden from the "big masses". "La Nazione", 15.02.2005 Supplicants in a prison camp; humans to be experimented on, almost spermatozoas looking for a way to come back from inside the uterus with their fluid movements. In the last scene, where they flood the theatre and playing in a furious dance and in a metaphysical trance, they splash the public in the front row with their wet skirts. Tommaso Climenti, "Scanner", 21.02.05 How very Russian and anarchist of them. Without wanting to give the show away, a word of warning to those who may find themselves sitting in the first row – a deluge is part of the script and you may find yourself heading home just a little bit damp. Diane
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