The next workshop by Anton Adasinsky & DEREVO will be taking place in St. Petersburg, on Dec 8&9, 2018. Only for russian-speaking audience.

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We apologise to all our friends and fans in Moscow for having to cancel the shows of HARLEKIN on 28 & 29 October 2018, which were scheduled as part of the BIG BREAK Festival (Bolschaya Peremena).

Unfortunately, the new managing company has been assigned by a state tender just a couple of weeks prior to the festival start. Why it has been done so late we don’t know.

The new company “Zapomni” and its General Manager Yaroslav Davlyatov was unable to find a solution to continue the work started by the original festival’s crew, our friends, people who invented and tended the festival for twelve years.

We hope next year will bring some positive changes.

Sincerely yours
Anton Adasinsky
DEREVO founder and director

[full text in Russian can be found here]

The next workshop by Anton Adasinsky & DEREVO will be taking place in St. Petersburg, on May 19 & 20, 2018. Only for russian-speaking audience.

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

1
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.

2
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.

3
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

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

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The next workshop by Anton Adasinsky & DEREVO will be held in Moscow on November 22nd 2016. Only for russian-speaking audience.

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A week passed - my dreams haven’t changed
Endless celebrating faces, colourful flyers on the ground, the city covered with thousands
of posters, all the shows, performances, concerts…
We’ve barely left and we want to come back again
To go out in the street and look around, proudly thinking: there’s more of us, actors, here
than of you, visitors.

We played 24 shows in 26 days

What happened:
Makhina debuted in the role of Oleg
Alexey Popov debuted as Cupid
Never sleeping, Merkushev drove his standard 5000 km
People came who saw ONCE… 20 years ago
People came who had never seen ONCE… the children of those first ones

David ran onto the stage for the first time

What didn’t happen:
Guiness beer (god knows why)
A visit to ‘Sharmanka’ (what a shame)
Any quarrels coming from exhaustion (surprising for the Fringe)

I think a hamster running in a wheel must be happy!
His road never ends.

Anton

Ребята, привет!
Хорошая новость!

После длительных переговоров с РГИСИ и моих размышлений, я принял решение не набирать предварительный курс.

Структура РГИСИ не позволит мне учить студентов только по системе DEREVO. А некоторые дисциплины в нашем театре так и вообще идут вразрез с тем, что студенты будут изучать в Академии.

Это ни в коем случае не бросание “тени” на давно сложившуюся структуру РГИСИ.

Это то, от чего я всегда сбегал и прятался. И выходить на поверхность с довольно “герметическим” воспитанием актёра в стилистике DEREVO - это риск уплощения, а то и вовсе разрушение нашей структуры, которые я бережно строил в течение 35 лет.

Да и в сегодняшнем театральном мире диплом, или еще какое-то свидетельство, не имеют для меня никакого значения. Мастерство и талант человека будет проверяться мной в работе, не важно что вы закончили, как часто снимались и выступали

Поэтому - status quo:

Я буду проводить мастер-классы, когда почувствую в этом необходимость

На своем “поле” и по своим принципам

И вы узнаете об этом вовремя

Спасибо

и извините за чьи-то нарушенные планы

Антон Адасинский
DEREVO

Currently this information only available in Russian here: http://www.derevo.org/live/286

10 days in June

• June 8th ISLANDS
• June 9th ISLANDS
• June 10th Filming for «Viking» (feature), director A. Kravchuk
• June 11th AVIA at the street parade
• June 12th «Midnight Balance»
• June 15th AVIA in concert
• June 17th Makhina Dzhuraeva performs with Elena Kaufman

These two weeks reminded me of DEREVO’s beginnings.

Working continuously for 24 hours at the limit of your strengths, you stop being conscious of any other world but your own. And thus it becomes easy to be creative!

No, “easy” is the wrong word.

At the peak of tiredness all the most crazy ideas become natural, the place begins to draw people in like a magnet, a church-like seriousness builds, a whirlpool of power…

And then the great moment comes when the actors and dancers on stage cease to look like “performers”. They are living it.

It stops being “just” a Theatre.

Elena Yarovaya
Makhina Dzhuraeva
Anna Budanova
Gleb Alekhin
Ivan Nevzorov
Lida Kopina
Liza Polyanskaya
Nikolay Zapolskih
Dmitry Krivochurov
Dasha Fedotova
Anna Bogodist
Elena Imamova
Nikolay Khamov
Igor Fomin
Grisha Shmidko
Sasha Gromyko

Thank you!

Anton Adasinsky

and folliwing was the ONCE… in Poland, we’re heading to Italy with MEPHISTO WALTZ soon and AVIA is going to play a big concert at the Open Cinema Festival in St Petersburg

Text: Anton Adasinsky
English text editor: David Kemp
Photo: Anna Bogodist

Hello all,

the rehearsals in Voronezh are finished!

Tonight, on 27th November 2013 the ONCE… show by DEREVO has been revived on stage in Voronezh with:

Andrey Merkulov
Ekaterina Khmelevskaya
Makhina Dzhuraeva
Mikhail Bagramyan
Dmitry Krivochurov
Alexander Gromyko

and

Yana Kuzina
Elizaveta Polyanskaya

All the best, guys!
Merda!!

and on November 29th in Voronezh concert hall ONCE… is going to be presented by the classic cast:
Anton Adasinsky
Elena Yarovaya
Tatyana Khabarova
Oleg Zhukovsky
+ Pavel Alekhin

Anton Adasinsky

The next workshop by Anton Adasinsky & DEREVO will be held in Moscow (RU) on October 21-23 only for russian-speaking audience.

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