FIRST TIME IN KIEV and ODESSA!

                    FIRST TIME IN KIEV and ODESSA!
Children and adults talk in the language of … Contemporary Dance!

AUTHOR’S PROJECT OF THE
CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE AND PERFORMANCE    
«DRUGIE TANTSI / OTHER DANCES»

PREMIERE   
"NOTHING PERSONAL"
17 June, Wednesday 19.00 , Molodoy Theatre (Proreznaya Str., 17 Kiev)
               28 June, Sunday 19.00, Dom Klonov (Olgievskaya Str., 23 Odessa)

A very personal story about every one of us,
where there is nothing personal…

Where is the child who used to live in me?
The child who would look out into the world with wide open eyes of the colour of spring meadow flowers crowned with morning dew drops…
The child who would speak the tongue of the sea surf… and the tongue of the fallen autumn leaves carpet-covering the paths of a city park…
Where is that tuning fork which used to help me sound without any pathos or false?
Don’t we lose forever, “while growing older and wiser», those eternal qualities we were given initially from above, i.e. spontaneity, sincerity, truth?
And if we do lose them,  then why?
Why, as soon as a child living inside gets quiet, we gradually lose that fantastic weightless sensation of happiness?

European in its laconic style, with minimalism in scenography and costumes, unexpected a because of a risky collision of a professional concept and childish ease of the performers, the spectacle puts these questions in front of each of us. And it is not in a hurry to give answers, thus allowing the viewer to start his OWN complicated search of his OWN answers.

Idea and scenography:  Maryna Lymar
Choreography:               Maryna Lymar and dancers
Dance:                           Students of the Centre of Contemporary Dance and Performance                            
“Drugie Tantsi / Other Dances” (Dnepropetrovsk).

«Drugie Tantsi / Other Dances» and  «Nothing Personal»

Centre of Contemporary Dance and Performance DRUGIE TANTSIis a professional educational institution working in Dnepropetrovsk since 1996 focusing its attention on teaching children and youth the techniques of contemporary dance and improvisation.
Study process in the Centre contains two programmes, i.e. a professional and an amateur one.
DRUGIE TANTSI / OTHER DANCES is an information-and-educational producer Centre with a mission to popularize the genre of contemporary dance theatre in Ukraine.  

«All adults used to be children once. But only few of them remember this».

These prophet words belonging to Antoine de Saint Exupery as put into a child’s mouth turned into sort of a diagnosis to the whole adult mankind, the diagnosis being quite disturbing, still true.   

With those words a creative laboratory started.
Maryna Lymar invited ten of her disciples to participate in it, the youngest of whom being 7 years old, while most experienced graduates of the Centre are 20.

Spectacle «Nothing Personal» which was the result of this joint work, had its debut in May 2008 within the framework of the FREE DANCE International Festival having a wide popularity both in Ukraine, and Europe thanks to the initiative of the DRUGIE TANTSI Centre.

More on Drugie Tantsi / Other Dances
http://www.freedance.org.ua/drugie_tantsi/ru.html

More on the performance:
http://www.freedance.org.ua/drugie_tantsi/projects/nothing-personal/ru.html  http://www.freedance.org.ua/videos/ru.html

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Marina Shkuropat  -  mob. 8 067 564 78 81 
mshkuropat@yahoo.com