“Ruda” – are evenings where “Derevo” presents to their friends drafts, dances, etudes... These evenings end up being 4 to 5 hours long. All is happening in front of the public’s eyes, at the open – make up, changes, shouts and remarks about who and what should be doing. As all was created today, from the morning on. Maximum length of a piece is 5-7 min. If someone overstays on stage – the siren howls.

Some etudes will never be seen again. Not because they were bad. No, just the time hasn’t come yet, or it might have been just too out of it... Or tomorrow you simply wouldn’t be able to repeat it, and it will remain unclear how one could even think of showing something like that. But from the others one would spark – still short and rough, but precisely it will become the seed for a new show... The forthcoming “Derevo” work carries 4(!) working titles:

- “Thirst”
- “Eternal yid”
- “Robert’s dreams”
- “Live and wonderful adventures of Anton Adassinsky”

Prior to starting the “Ruda”, a high-school Nr77 pupil Tatiana Chabarova has read original Stepan Gautierґs poetic works of her own creation.

The machine.
A simple mechanism.
Working as it should.
Soon we will take off.

Dear site visitors. If you are avoiding the influence, of any kind, by the mass media — You're quite right. But in recent days they, the media, have informed the world that the 'Spirit' spacecraft has transmitted wonderful, sharp surface photographs of the planet MARS.

Mars... Every kid had a cellar. Just walking past to the kitchen would give one the creeps... And then, after a high school piss-up, I dragged once the dux of the class to the darkness, to below... Ohh the shakes we had. But a dumb-ass friend, turns on the light — and there are two wheels of a "Ural" motorbike, a pair of skies, with stunk forever, something else of the eternal, a girl's chalk-stained jeans-clad butt and the bright wolfram truth...

At school I drew up the Mendeleev´s Periodic Table not square shaped but as a spiral. All seem to match up and the development was quite unorthodox — I mean the "actinoids" and "lanthanoids". Now I'd create a spherical one. No... Never mind that. What is that eating at us?

So there you have it. An iron critter fell on to Mars... and no gigantic three-legged, toad-heart bearing creatures crawled his way. And no wide-eyed toilet force cups attacked... and the Love did not chew him up nor spit him out. The magnetic storms and the red winds did little to carry him away, whispering the incomprehensible... Till the horizon — nothing. Another dream shattered! What are we, sick, silly things, are getting ourselves into, one planet ruined — not enough. Can't divide up the Gods...

"We are not here to stay!" (Brion Gysin).

In one of the author-editions of "The Tale of the Troika" is a fourth character – a Colonel, I believe. And there Privalov is stuffing around with something, when Konstantin the alien is seeking CONTACT. The Colonel stands up and gives a little speech. Strugatski fans will help me find this passage. Worth re-reading... They saw far indeed — the brothers... Hound — Golovan.

Dima Tul'panov — one of the founders and keepers of the life-system and the art form of "Derevo" is visiting us. He performed at the Scheune with a solo show. And on the 18-19 of January, at Hellerau will be held two "Ruda-sessions" with his participation. ('Ruda'are evenings for the friends, where "Derevo" is showcasing fresh, new drafts for the spectacles to come).