D E R E V O - NOW in the PAST

English text editor: Sean Crosky
Original text: Anton Adasinsky and/or DEREVO
Images: Elena Yarovaya and/or DEREVO

2003

May, 19

Physical touch to St.Petersburg is a big job. Not because of a traffic jams. Here are no soulless objects. One have to thread his way through the lines of tension. Inanimate sex. A restaurant "By babushka". Waiter says: "Bet you just have played football with guys… and did you washed your hands?" At the hospital's admitting office among security men, nickering nurses and the drunk eternity my mobile rang. Hiding my ear I discussed a scenario for the production "Argonauts" with producer from Athens meanwhile helping an orderly man with cigarettes. In this sea of the plain dealing nobody gets old… Simply dies.

It is a lot of love here. Just quite a lot of love…

May, 5

On April 28th, in an old mill-house near Paris, amidst shrubs and otters, Vyacheslav Ivanovich Polunin - a Lenin Komsomol Award winner - held a three day long workshop "How to learn to take a rest?" with one of his students, the underwater sportsman, Anton Alexandrovich Adasinsky. During the workshop, the following things were discussed, debated, eaten, caught and punished:

"a herring under the fur-coat"
a project "The Ship"
a dog named Durak (Fool)
a roasted turkey from the local grocery
a project "The Theater-House"
canoe oarsmen
an air-inflated theater "The Belly-Button"
an automatic gear-box and a protection of Human Rights in Australia
hand-made sausages fried on a cedar wood fire
a project "Ogogon'" and the Great Moscow Fire of 1812.
a wild eel

To the ringing of mobile phones the Student and the Teacher reacted, snuffling together in a major third: "ze person u huv cold iz tamporarily not avalible"...

Slava Polunin: here will be a Theatre-House...

Anton Adasinsky and Slava Polunin. Fishing...