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Annual three days long exercise “Hello, School!”

During these three days you shouldn’t watch TV, listen to radio, read any newspapers. Avoid a computer. Better do it alone and silent.

It takes place at the end of August.
Ideally on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Friday

Throwing away things and moving furniture

Right in the morning or after your work all the clothes, shoes, linen, towels, dishes, old crèmes and pastes, anything concerning your body must be thrown out of the cupboards and drawers. Also books, letters and photographs, music, quite everything…

Just make a big pile to throw away this later but now just leave it as it is. At the same time try to move a furniture (particularly important a bed) from their usual positions. There must be a real mess in the house. You must go into rage and have no mercy for any valuables, just put them separately to leave later on the street.

You can sort your things in three categories:
- Instrument
- Weapon
- Ballast

As an example:
Good gloves keep my fingers safe – an instrument
My saxophone – a weapon
A poster with Parker in the toilet – a ballast.

It is very important to leave some talismans and religious symbols behind. For instance the stone bringing you back to the seashore trip as you were a child…

Go for a walk. Don’t eat or drink anything.

Return to your house or flat, take a shower, stand in the very centre of the mess, better naked, and do the “Compass” exercise.

Sleep with the windows open wide.

Saturday

Cleaning

Wake up without your alarm-clock and enjoy the mess.

Start to wash the windows curtains while packing and bringing out the whole litter.
“Valuable” things just leave next to the container and be glad how fast they’re disappearing.

Start the cleaning from the ceiling and windows. No hackwork!

The last is your doormat.

If it’s possible remove the doors between the adjacent rooms and make one room empty. Keep it in this state as long as possible.

Call your friends and make a supper in the empty room.

Sunday

Go for a walk but use an unusual route. Start to make a kim-chi (buy the ingredients prior to the exercise). It is nice to do it together with your friend.

Good luck!

Newbie in the school!!!

“Compass”, DEREVO’s exercise.

Takes at least 30 minutes. Performed in standing.

Windows are tightly shut. Complete darkness. Minimal noise, minimal clothing.

Relax and feel your entire skin surface. Very important is the skin on the back.

Lay down the radio in the middle of the room, loudspeakers on top. Find that hissing noise between the waves. Not too loud, just to damp the noise from outside. Try to reach the state when you can’t distinguish where the window is.

Eyes are shut.

Start the slow rotation clockwise and then counter clockwise, bending your head to the left and to the right. Extend your perception until you feel as you were alone on the planet, in the universe. Leave the closest disturbances like a neighbour’s energy, different temperature of in- and exhalation out of your attention.

Your body will find only one comfortable position between West-East-South-and-North. It depends on your birth date, sign and so on. You may guess about the rest.

Remain in the found position for a while. Then turn around in 90 degrees. Compare the sensation. The difference is enormous. Turn back to the previous position. Turn around in 180 degrees. The difference is negligible. It’s a question of your spine’s excitation. Go back to the found position again. Open your eyes, remember the direction.

Put your bed in a way to sleep with your head in this direction.

Good luck!

Text: Anton Adasinsky
Photo: Elena Yarovaya
Photo design: Elena Yarovaya

No tickets from Moscow to St. Petersburg. None and never.

Bought myself a place in the conductor’s compartment.

In Tver two young-and-wonderful boarded.

They were sleeping with their heads against the glass in the corridor. I invited them to join me and waited outside while they prepared a bunk.

The girl came out and asked, laughing:
“Do we disturb you?”
“No”, I said.
“Who are you, actually?” – she asked.
I said, “I’m one of the train security,” (bald, black jacket – so she couldn’t doubt it).
“Excuse us, if we get noisy.”
“No worries,” said I, “sing, laugh… should I wait in the corridor?”
“Well, you’ll probably have to wait a long time. He’s like a Roman law, you know, indistinct and very slow.”

We laughed very loud… The guy peeked out.

“I’m coming. I’m running. I’m already there!” she said to him.

I slept quite honest-minded and dreamed of a bi-directional flow of people.

In the morning she catches me up on the platform, laughing again:

“But you’re not from the security.”
“Security?”
“I know you.”
“I know.”
“Do you have echolalia?”
“Echolalia.”

She’s laughing again. Now the chap is here: “Baby, leave him alone!”

Just outside of the train station she turns to me again:
“Did you sleep well?”
“Fine. Rome, Sparta, a kid falling down the abyss; he was too lightweight, not warrior-like.”

Her eyes narrow.
“Anton, right?”
“Yes.”
“Good. So what do you guard there?”
“The secret of Caipirinha.”

And I head for a taxi. I want to dance.

On June 11 and 12 I was on stage with a guitar in my hands and a microphone at my throat. Friendly musicians around me. We called the concert “Vsyo Khorosho!” – “Everything is fine!”

Text: Anton Adasinsky
English text editor: Jennifer Williams
Photo: Anna Bogodist, Olga Arefieva, Alexandra Krivolutskaya
Photo design: Elena Yarovaya

Our tour-plan has been updated recently. You find there more detailed information on DEREVO’s appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with “The GOSPEL of ANTON”, corrected dates for Dresden, Leipzig and Prague, as well as new dates for Russia, Estonia & Lithuania.

More updates are coming soon!

See the tour-plan here »

How good it is to sit on a perch under the table and look at the leaves and insects flowing in streams below!

A big creature is stirring beside me, Maxim Isaev.

“and the hormones…”

“oh yes, a harmony of the world…” answers Pasha Semchenko.

Innumerable feet rushing along. There are lots of people, but I can’t see them through the tiny hole in the tablecloth.

I can’t see the Great Northern Bear either, but I know it’s above us. Somewhere.

A “WINDROSE” project.

See all photos »

See also WINDROSE Video »

Text: Elena Yarovaya
English text editor: Jennifer Williams
Photos: Carola Fritzsche, Julia Steinfartz
Photo design: Elena Yarovaya

DEREVO & AKHE present:

WINDROSE

May 20 - 25, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden (DE).

Camera / edit by Andrey Gladkikh

See also Text & Photos »

More info about the WINDROSE project (DE) »

Ждем в гости мастеров-виртуозов:

Рома Дубинников (музыка к спектаклям «Всадник», «Однажды…». «Острова» и много ещё всего)
Николай Гусев («АВИА»)
Алексей Рахов («АВИА»)
Игорь Тимофеев - гитара, перкуссия
Андрей Сизинцев (музыка к фильму «Юг. Граница», спектаклю «LA DIVINA COMMEDIA»)
СтереоЗольдат - акции DEREVO и первая пластинка «Асфальт» с Антоном Адасинским
Ольга Арефьева
и другие

Приходите в Мюзик-Холл, 11 и 12 июня!!!

Подробнее о концерте »

Festspielhaus Hellerau. Dresden. May 21 - 25, 2008:
Participants: DEREVO, AKHE and others

Camera / edit by Andrey Gladkikh

More info (DE) »

See also Text & Photos »

10 days in April

It turned out to be possible in ten days to play “THE GOSPEL OF ANTON” in Florence, fly to St. Petersburg the same night and dance in the “Nutcracker”, meet the participants of the concert “Vsyo Khorosho!” there, go to Moscow and look at the future performance location in “WinZavod”, come back to Italy, get in the car and drive to France to Mikhail Chemiakin, to find there Slava Polunin and to discuss their participation in the “VERTICAL 2008″ project under the working title “One Sky”, then drive to Dresden and start the rigging for WindRose, then move to Berlin and fly to Kiev at the “GogolFest”, meet our entire company gathered there from three countries, dance the “Wolve’s Tango” and return to Dresden together with AKHE to start the rehearsals for “WindRose”… whew, all in ten days..

Text by Anton Adasinsky
Photo by Elena Yarovaya, Jana Svyatkina, P. Datskovsky and others.
Photo design by Elena Yarovaya

See more photos of “Wolves’ Tango project” in Kiev

See also a video preview of the “WindRose”project in Hellerau, Dresden.

In March at the „Entresol“ I performed a series of improvisations. I was happy and I am still happy now.

From those six days
There’s a new work was born
“The Gospel of Anton”
Which we show in Italy now
And in August we’ll bring it to Edinburgh.

Photo by Anna Bogodist
Photo design: Elena Yarovaya

 
All photos »

 
 

So we’ve been to Samara, St. Petersburg, Moscow…

Something happened to us or to the people who are here for us.
Now they all really-really want us to be and to live,
Although I’ve had some other plans recently.
And the black cloud is covering the birthmarks and the stubble…
And suddenly, as expected, there’s so much Love!
Not simply, “D’you have any tickets still?”
But crying, “I need it! I flew from Siberia…”

White snow. The colour of the morning alley in a sanatorium just as you’re going out of breath after the nurses’ words:
“There’s a visitor for you.”
“Who?” – you’re pleading – “Who?”
She smiles.
“You’ll see for yourself.”

Pyjamas, a hospital-gown; and sliding down into the park, throwing off a cast of myself on each step of the stairs, a cast of sinful, blabbing and unique me. Then an excuse for the prepared joke: “I love me, me of my own making…”*

Cold hands, a discomfort, where to put those oranges? And then – slantwise into the snowdrift. An incantation.

Text: Anton Adassinskij
Übersetzung: Rainer Jäckel
Fotos und Bilddesign: Elena Iarovaia

Открыта регистрация на двухдневный мастер-класс Антона Адасинского в Санкт-Петербурге, 20 и 21 марта 2008 г.

UPDATE: регистрация на мастер-класс закончена. спасибо!

2008 год

Январь

(см. февраль)

Февраль

“Кецаль” и “Однажды…” в Москве (театр Эстрады), премьера клипа “Диагноз” и cольные акции А. Адасинского и участников DEREVO в клубных пространствах Питера… (площадки будут объявлены дополнительно. или не будут.)
“Однажды…” и “Кецаль” в СПб, Мюзик-Холле, в Самаре (Театр им. Горького),

Акция в Секретном Бомбоубежище в Москве Где Штык в Детстве Вывихнула Ногу - не состоится. Не хотим повторения инцидента.

Март

DEREVO в СПб

7 марта

Показ фильма «Юг.Граница» и встреча с Антоном Адасинским. Ответы на рискованные вопросы языком и телом.

Большой зал Дома Кино (Караванная ул.,12)

*******

9 марта

Антон танцует Дроссельмейера в “Щелкунчике” (постановка Михаила Шемякина) в Мариинском театре.

*******

Шестидневная акция “Евангелие от Антона” - клуб “Антресоль” (Малый пр. В.O., 49).

*******

20 и 21 марта состоится мастер-класс Антона Адасинского в театре «Люди Дождя» (Мончегорская ул.,10б).

*******

25 марта

Сольная акция Елены Штыковой «Тула» - клуб «Антресоль» (Малый пр. В.O., 49).

Апрель

“Золотая Маска” - ROBERT’S DREAM - опция

Июнь

“Ля Дивина Комедия” - Ленинградский цирк и премьера фильма “Диагноз” - опция

Сентябрь

Питер, “Элегия” - опция

ВСЯ актуальная информация - в Тур-Плане

So it’s over, our three year long odyssey entitled “DEREVO’s soldiers”.
They were wonderful years.

The group gathered in 2004 has brought lots of joy and wonder to the world simply by its existence, as well as with its actions, performances and improvisations.

Maxim Kuznetsov – “MAX”
Anna Budanova – “BUDA”
Galina Samoilova – “GALA”
Alisa Oleinik – “ALISA”
Roman Gabria – “GA”
Maxim Didenko – “DI”
Alexey Finogenov – “FIGA”
Elena Khlebnikova – “HLENA”
Elena Shtykova – “STYK”

And two more wonderful people appeared a little later:

Tatiana Luzai – “LU”
Darya Barabanova – “Darrrrya”

Many saw and will remember for a long time “The Wolves’ Tango” in Kronstadt, “Mad in Japan” / “Mad in Russia” in Tokyo and St Petersburg, “Second Sun”, “KETZAL”, “ROBERT’S DREAM”, “10 Words of Love” in Dresden, “ARKAN”, “WHEEL of POWER” in Mannheim, “Midnight Balance” in Dublin and “Death of Pierrot…” and… and…

Everyone knew from the very first day that we would go our own ways sooner or later. And maybe two or three people will stay with DEREVO (Anton, Lena Yarovaya, Tanya Khabarova).

I’m happy to have an opportunity to wish them all a New & Unique Year, to with good Health and lots of Love, to wish always to go the Path of the Heart, shining brightly in the darkness.

Thanks for inhaling and thanks for exhaling, for scratches on the back can be both from cane or fingernails.

Anton Adasinsky.

English text editor: Jennifer Williams