“Dona Kichotė” of the Klaipėda State Musical Theater will inform a singular story on the stage became sand dunes.

If we can’t change the world, then we should encourage folks to alter their interior world! June 7-8 On the stage of the Klaipėda State Music Theater, there’s a triptych of dance performances “Dona Quixote” telling about girls of at the moment: condemned and exalted, falling and rising once more, however at all times transferring ahead and provoking these round them.

Seashore followers are very welcome, as a result of the set design of the third a part of the triptych is particular in that the heroes dance within the sand. Do not be afraid: there aren’t any sandstorms, the theater is stuffed with props.

Feminine model

The feminine model of the legendary character of Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote – a wierd nobleman, all over the place and at all times an emblem of combating evil and life’s ills – was introduced on the Klaipėda State Music Theater in 2022. This manufacturing introduced the best award of the nation’s artists to the sunshine artist Andriis Stasiulis – in 2023. for the brilliant design of the triptych of dance performances “Dona Quixote” he was awarded the “Golden Stage Cross”.

4 choreographers representing totally different international locations and cultures responded to the problem posed by the Musical Theatre. They’re Daria Verovka and Yanas Malaki, members of the KVMT ballet troupe – Ukrainian dancers who’ve been attempting their hand at choreography lately, actively taking part within the KVMT challenge “Consideration!” Ballet”; skilled choreographer Aušra Krasauskaitė, who has already completed her profession as a dancer within the KVMT ballet troupe, at present working because the chief choreographer of the Lietuva ensemble; and the inventive director of the Musical Theater Ballet Troupe, Slovenian choreographer Gajus Žmavacs, who needed to collaborate with the KVMT ballet artists in staging the diptych of dance performances “Stabat Mater / Holy Spring” (2021) and creating the Grand Ballet Gala Live performance. Two new works by G. Žmavcs have been devoted to the presentation of the ballet troupe within the new theater constructing, which obtained a very favorable analysis from the viewers (he himself additionally created the music and costumes). August 2-3 G. Žmavacs and choreographer Douglas Lee will current the premiere of the dance efficiency “Reverb” on the Klaipėda Competition, within the boathouse. November 29-30 G. Žmavacs and the artistic staff will invite everybody to the premiere of the dance efficiency “Legend”.

Within the dance efficiency “Dona Quixote”, the inventive visions of 4 totally different choreographers took the type of a triptych of dance performances, which may be very typically present in at the moment’s theaters all around the world. The plots of the components of “Dona Quixote” are interconnected, however don’t essentially type a coherent narrative. The principle roles will probably be carried out by the soloists of the KVMT troupe: within the first and second half – nominees of the “Golden Crosses of the Stage” Anna Chekmarova and Oleksandra Borodina and this 12 months’s laureate Yanas Malaki, within the third half – Daria Verovka and Roman Budko.

Girl-savior

Within the first a part of the triptych, younger Ukrainian choreographers current their very own interpretations of the given theme. D. Verovka’s heroine “understands that she is totally different. She tries to adapt to the setting and people round her, however someday she feels that the sunshine emanating from her shouldn’t be hidden, however shared with folks. Then she offers all of herself to others, and he or she herself goes into the darkness…” In his composition, Y. Malaki tells a few younger man who felt that his setting was pushing him to the bounds: “Fortuitously, the principle hero meets a savior – a lady who has already realized how one can cope with rising risks. She helps the boy to have a look at the world extra positively and discover a new approach.” These two totally different tales unfold to the sound of works by well-known Baroque composers – Georg Friedrich Händel, Henry Purcell and Johann Sebastian Bach – excerpts of which have been chosen by the manufacturing’s music director, Vladimir Konstantinov. JS Bach’s works for cello solo are carried out stay by cellist Aliaksandr Serdziukou of the KVMT Symphony Orchestra.

Wanting from the picture of the Mom of God

Aušra Krasauskaitė’s choreographic composition proven within the second half grew to become the inspiration for the icon of the Mom of God seen in Orthodox church buildings and reflection on one’s personal relationship with the world, “ideas about maturity through which one desires motherly or sisterly contact with different girls”. The girl depicted by her – Dona Quixote – doesn’t battle windmills, she appears to be suspended between the earth and the sky, carrying everybody’s ache, striving for idealism, current in all of us, however on the identical time unattainable, wanting from the picture of the Mom of God. Capable of accumulate vitality in herself, which brings new life.” The motion on the stage is evocatively complemented by the efficiency of the KVMT choir from the 18th century. Ukrainian composer Maksym Berezovsky’s Live performance for a cappella choir “Do not flip me away in previous age”, complemented by artistic interventions of the choreographer’s associate, younger composer Silvija Miliūnaitė for soprano, birbyny, choir and electronics. The soprano half within the recording is carried out by Rita Petrauskaitė, the soprano half by Arvydas Jankus, and the choir of the Klaipėda State Musical Theater performed by Vladimir Konstantinov sings.

At present’s heroes

In the meantime, the choreographer of the third half, Gajus Žmavacs, claims that he was most impressed by town itself and the Baltic seashore, a panorama with sand dunes that has not been touched by people. These pictures have additionally moved to the triptych stage, and right here we meet the Don Quixotes and Don Quixotes of at the moment within the sands unfold out from a particular materials: “the theater ballet troupe unites younger folks striving for brand spanking new heights, who additionally must face surprising life shocks, like a pandemic, battle and so forth. If we can’t change the world then we should encourage folks to alter their interior world! If Don Quixote from Miguel de Cervantes’ novel fought the ghosts of the previous, the windmills, then we’re marching into the longer term. The experiences of the heroes, the seek for methods out of adverse conditions, and a singular lifestyle are necessary to us.” The artist, who avoids any form of narrative within the choreography he creates, tries to disclose the aforementioned particulars by the dancers’ bodily expression, physique language, which sharply contrasts with the music taking part in. For his composition, G. Žmavacs selected the music of the Italian baroque composer Alessandro Scarlatti, which is comparatively hardly ever heard in dance performances and is subsequently much less perceived by clichés.

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