Director
Evgeny Kozlov
Dance
Alexander Bondarev
Irina Kozlova
Evgeny Kozlov Julia
Tokareva Shinichi Momo-Koga
Technical
director
Tanya Williams
Music
Matthias Hermann
It
was believed that by examining the shape and unevenness of a head or skull,
one could discover the development of the particular cerebral ‘organs’ responsible for different intellectual aptitudes and character traits
-From
the History of Phrenology-
The bizarre story happened to one Russian composer Sidorov. First he saw an
odd dream in which he had lost his head and after much straggling it has
been replaced with the head of another- not less famous one. He’s got the
head of Joseph Haydn, what inspired him to compose the slapstick- symphony
A. The head of the great Austrian composer Joseph Haydn as we know was
separated from his body after his death to be examinant to localize his
music genius. But because the head had been disappeared from the table of
phrenology scientists- we still wondering was he genius at all. The story of
headless people running around the history of music and literature influents
us to create the piece of Nonsense stories containing the real facts and
lunatic fantasies of course. We can’t tell what’s more in this creation- our
obsession to the odd world of Phrenology, great illusions epoch of Education
and Rationalism. People at that time believed that its possible to grasp
mystery of death and life, puzzle of arts, nature of genius with the help of
scalpel and microscope, and the beauty is a blob of amino acids, some
microbe which takes root in convolutions. Nonsense-is a bizarre world of
Daniel Charms intertwined with a mystery of Mikhail Bulgacov and allegory
from Ernst- Theodore Hoffmann. This is a world where magic
paradoxically matching with reality of 30th last century and
fantasias epoch of Baroque.
Press
extracts
"A
highlight of the
festival at the Theatre in Palais…Breathtaking sensual dance-theatre with
grotesque, body expressivity, light and smoke pictures, deep black humour
and moving music…brilliant headless comedy. Here dance proves itself as an
urgently intermediary medium for heavily tangible realities.
Absolutely tip!"
Graz, KLEINE ZEITUNG 15 July2004
"Desire
full confusingly, very black humour and speed Sankt-Petersburg’s Do-Theatre
its successful combination of innovative theatre and impressing body control
presents a grandiose mixture that carried the public away to approval storm."
AACHENER ZEITUNG, 26 January 2004
