Text: Anton Adassinsky
Foto: Elena Yarovaya

Text: Anton Adasinsky
Photo: Elena Yarovaya

There’s an entire series of exercises within the DEREVO system which is dedicated to “anchors”: our habits, preferences, duties and desires…

All of those exercises I was joyfully trying out on a single test subject (and by his merciful agreement). Many of the exercises have been proved to be good ones. This man has become an even more happy and merry person than previously. Well, for the people around him he might have become useless but terribly interesting.

I could not say he shows up in my life very often but it’s always at the right time.

I was looking at the title «Ketzal. Part two». And I felt that a few other people in the world were looking anxiously for something at the very same moment.

A telephone rang. Not the mobile but the almost forgotten office landline. It was this same man, asking for a possibility to stay and sleep for a while in the studio.

He came with a backpack, rather merry again. He made a dug-out in the backyard and installed a small tent above it. An entire day he was busy with making a pickled cabbage, singing and sweeping the ground.

If I go left and he goes right we’ll turn around the globe and meet again.

We’ve met like that and we were working together on «La Divina Commedia» and later on «Islands».

About his dug-out he said, that it’s his desire to find out about the bears sucking their paws, about slowing down the body’s functions and overall about being below the level of human activity. He asked me to put over the lid and get some earth on it. He reminded me that God has gave himself the trouble to caulk up the seams of the Noah’s Ark from the outside.

Noah’s Ark…

You’re probably aware of the story. There’s one point in it…. as the decision was made, the Earth was to be purged of scum… But the Lord God really couldn’t arrange this slaughter with his leaving the first of all his men still alive… so he’s been waiting for Adam to die.

I covered the lair with earth and wondered about the smell of the Spring while it was just a humus. Everything fits.

It means «Ketzal. Part two. Noah’s Ark»

The man’s name is Oleg Zhukovsky. Once he saw the «Rider» in St. Petersburg he was jumping through puddles all night long and he followed us on our way next morning. With the same backpack.

It’s a good sign that he’s here again.

Text: Anton Adasinsky
English text editor: Daniel Williams
Photos: Oleg Zhukovsky

NOW in the PAST »»

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

DEREVO wishes you merry & happy holidays in the past, presence and future. Have a wonderful year 2008!

See the photos from the rehearsals:

Photo by N. Andreeva, A. Gladkih, E. Yarovaya
Photo design by E. Yarovaya

Very simple and very good news.

DEREVO rehearses a new work, “ROBERT’S DREAM” - and it’s very good. The New Year is coming soon, and it’s very good too.

It’s good that the Winter is not here yet. But it will come, believe in it. It will be good as well. The crazy crowd in the stores, and the punch, and Christmas trees on the streets, and the colourful lights, and the shining punks, and the cheerful handicapped persons, and nobody buying any newspapers.

I’m used to the fact that lots of things are unchangeable and that the tears of change do turn me on.

There’s only place for one at the top of the mountain. It is very lonely and windy there.

You always want to meet everyone but then you remember that you did not call the most important one, simply forgot, while he or she maybe wasn’t so far away. You don’t like to come across friends in queues. No, wrong. The other way round. There is a reason to open your eyes wide and wish lots of happiness… Oh Lord, why not on every single day and not to everyone?

English text editor: Jennifer Williams
Photo & color grading: Elena Iarovaia

2 & 5 November, Dresden
TanzHerbst Festival
Premiere of the new performance “X0″
Choreography: Elena Iarovaia
On stage are: Elena Iarovaia, Anton Adasinsky
Music: Daniel Williams with a composition “What 4?”