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Third Evidence at the Hermitage

05. 10. 2010, 20:51 | by DEREVO
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Third Evidence
Improvisation by Anton Adasinsky (Body) & Nikolay Gusev (Music).

Festival “Georges Pompidou Centre at the Hermitage”, St. Petersburg
Nikolayevsky Hall
October 10, 2010, 12:15

 


 

…just wake up early and run along the beach to the rising sun. The rustling breath sound quite like the hissing surf and you’re feeling happy because of your wet ankles…

Then the sun shines in the drops of sweat on your belly. You smile and you swim, and when you look back you see the lump of clothes on the shore…

(From one girl’s letter)

When shall I marry? // This year, next year, sometime, never. // What will my husband be? // Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich-man, poor-man, beggar-man, thief.

a counting game

…Do not swear, please! All of you are under suspicion!…

Anton Adasinsky

 

Third Evidence. Photo - Elena Yarovaya

 

NOW - 7.9.2010 - Two Biographies of Harlequin

08. 09. 2010, 23:06 | by DEREVO
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Conversation with one of spectators

“I know why ‘Harlequin’, it’s for the help of his spirit. You could call the play in any other way, couldn’t you? And the costume is not that of Harlequin. It’s of The Poet! Pierette is his Muse. That’s so right! The Monkey is his inner demon, his sick and run-away heart! Isn’t it just like from Mayakovsky?”

And right there amidst roaring buses he started to read it out in Russian:

…I’ll shut my mouth.
Not a single wail
Will escape my hard-bitten lips.
Bind me to comets
Like to horses’ tails,
And gallop me,
Tearing my flesh on the stars’ sharp tips.
Or else,
When the soul drops the body, decides to leave it,
And comes to your judgment,
Dully flinching,
Over
The Milky Way put up the gibbet,
And like a criminal, seize me and lynch me.
Do what You will,
Quarter me! and let me remain thus.
I myself will wash Your hands clean! I allow it.
Only do this
For me,–
Take away that heinous,
Whom You’ve made my only and true beloved!..

Situation that might have happened

One of Harlequin’s biographies

400 years ago some actor asked to join a wandering minstrels company.

His appearance was rather interesting: ragged and patched robe, blackened face…

“Has he never washed himself?”, asked the ‘Father’ of the actors family
“No, he has burned”
“How comes that?”
“He had to fall from a great heights”
“What’s that on his forehead?”
“A horn shiver”

Actors cracked up together.
‘Father’ raised his voice and they fell silent.

“Thine eyes are sharp. Go thou on stage to-day and to-morrow. It is for spectators to decide.”

Spectators decided. The new actor was accepted in the company

“How must we call thee, horned creature?”
“Alichino”

Who have you been? What was your name, a wandering actor? And why, just why you chose a devil’s name?..

 

 

Miguel & Anton after HARLEKIN. Photo - Elena YarovayaPhoto - Elena YarovayaPhoto - D. AdasinskyAnna Budanova. Photo - Elena Yarovaya
Photo - Elena YarovayaPhoto - Elena YarovayaPhoto - Elena YarovayaDEREVO at the Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh. Photo - Elena Yarovaya

 

 

Text: Anton Adasinsky
English text editor: Daniel Williams
Drawings: Frances Drewery
Photos: Elena Yarovaya, D. Adasinsky
Photo design: Elena Yarovaya

Harlekin ist unter Top 5 der Kritiker auf dem Edinburgh Festival Fringe

24. 08. 2010, 22:29 | by DEREVO
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DEREVO kämpft gerade auf dem Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Das ist nicht einfach.

Für diejenigen, die es nicht kennen: auf einer Bühne an einem Veranstaltungsort und einem Tag treten, zum Beispiel, sieben bis zehn Theatergruppen auf. Es gibt ca. 200 solche Veranstaltungsorte.

Zeit für den Aufbau, minimale Anpassungen beim Licht und Ton, für Masken und Aufwärmen: 30 Minuten, ziemlich genau. Genau so viel Zeit für den Abbau und Aufräumen.

Momentan ist DEREVO mit Harlekin unter Top 5 der Kritiker von allen 1100 Shows, die überhaupt welche Rezensionen bekommen haben. Das Gesamtrating wird freundlich von der Zeitschrift The List zur Verfügung gestellt: http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/top-rated

Ich möchte außerdem auf die wunderbare Slideshow über DEREVO, vorbereitet von Murdo Macleod von Guardian.co.uk, hinweisen.

Gratulationen an Harlekin (und an Das Treue Äffchen), sowie an den Karabass-Barabass.

Ihr haltet es durch! Es sind nur 6 Tage geblieben…

DEREVO-org web-master

Harlekin at the Fringe 2010

NOW - 21.08.2010 - Harlekin’s stars & the slide-show from Guardian.co.uk

21. 08. 2010, 22:57 | by DEREVO
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So this was a half of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Marathon.
In brief: the Fringe is 63 years old.
The number of participating companies in 2010 is 1800!
The number of performers in the streets you should count by yourself.
DEREVO appeared at the Fringe 6 times before: Red Zone, Once…, La Divina Commedia, Islands, Reflection and Ketzal.

Now it’s Harlekin

Here’s what the Scottish and English press thinks of DEREVO this year:

***** The Herald, Mary Brennan
…This piece really is about the heart and soul of tragi-comic physicality…

Watching Anton Adasinsky inhabit the age-old, timeless form of Harlequin – or Petrushka, Pierrot or Mr Punch, since they are the same elemental free spirit – is to witness a celebration of wordlessly expressive artistry shade into a poignant elegy for a theatrical dimension that long predates the machine age….

***** EdinburghGuide.com, Garry Platt
…This is not just a stage production it’s a phenomenon… Derevo’s Harlekin presents one scene after the next, each iconic and visually dazzling, unique. The stage is filled raw visceral emotion and then subtle considered jokes and funny vignettes…

***** Fest
…The show is a sequence of strange, arresting set-pieces which would be disorientating without the Harlekin himself. The weary innocence with which he greets every strange new situation is the play’s one constant note…

**** The Telegraph, Mark Monahan
…Just go and see this show. It’s strange, stirring, often beautiful entertainment, and you’ll be thinking about it for a long time…

**** The List, Brian Donaldson
…The sinister and the beautiful have been Derevo’s trademarks ever since their Edinburgh debut in 1997 with Red Zone, and Harlekin provides another memorable chapter in their captivating story…

**** The Scotsman, Kelly Apter
…big show filled with striking visual images and charming set pieces. As the Harlekin, Adasinsky’s capacity to mix tragedy and comedy in one role has never been more obvious, while his turn as the domineering Hurdy Gurdist is a little comic gem…

**** Edinburgh Spotlight, Julie Dawson
…Technically, Harlekin is flawless. The performers are breathtaking, the marriage between music and movement is impeccable, the lighting is perfect, the costumes and makeup are excellent. The overall effect is stunning…

**** Three Weeks, Hannah Myers
…a heart-rending tale of unrequited love, cruelty and suffering unfolds. Derevo transcend this dark matter to reveal pools of shimmering light in the tenacity of the human soul, matching sinister dances of death with exquisite physical manifestations of the beating heart…

**** Fringe Review
…once we accept the basic theme we sit back and take in the spectacle like a surreal dream….

The List still hasn’t counted all the Harlekin’s stars and put the show at the 9th position of 952. not that bad… ».

[UPDATE, 31 Aug. 2010]: meanwhile DEREVO has reached the 3d position from 1252 shows in the critics rating by The List.

And just beyond all competition is the unique slide-show by Murdo Macleod from Guardian.co.uk just watch it on their web-site:

Interactive Slide-Show: One Day with DEREVO at the Fringe. By Murdo Macleod, Guardian.co.uk

DEREVOs HARLEKIN auf dem Fringe Festival 2010 in Edinburgh

22. 07. 2010, 22:13 | by DEREVO
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DEREVO. HARLEKIN auf dem Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2010

Die Promo-Seite des Stücks HARLEKIN steht jetzt für den 26-tägigen künstlerischen Marathonlauf auf dem Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Schottland bereit.

Jeder ist herzlich an einem der besten Veranstaltungsorte des Fringe Festivals, im Pleasance One wilkommen.

WEISSE FESTUNG 2010 - Das Video

18. 07. 2010, 23:02 | by DEREVO
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Im Juni fand wieder das Open-Air Projekt WEISSE FESTUNG, direkt am wunderschönen Zwingerteich im historischen Stadtzentrum Dresdens statt. Nach dem Erfolg des vorigen Jahres wurden wir nach einer möglichien Wiederholung gefragt, und wir brauchten nur ganz wenig Zeit, um uns zu entscheiden.

Auf dem und im Wasser des Zwingerteichs:

Anton Adassinskij, Lena Iarovaia, Pawel Semtschenko (AKHE), Andrej Sisinzev (AKHE), Alissa Olejnik, Maxim Kusnezow, Lidija Makeewa, Lidija Kopina, Tatjana Beloussowa, Walentin Tsin, Alexej Lanskoj, Nastja Ponomarewa

andere Mitwirkende

Daniel Williams - Sound, Steffen Köhler - Technische Leitung, Falk Dittrich - Licht, Igor Fomin - Licht für schwimmende Objekte, Isolde Matkey - Management, und viele Helfer - alles, was ohne sie unmöglich wäre

Film von Andrej Gladkikh

Siehe auch WEISSE FESTUNG 2010 Tag nach dem Tag »