Happiness is a choice / article

Madara is very open from the beginning and admits that she may have a different impression of her at first than she really is: “I’m a perfectionist, even a very disgusting perfectionist. I’m struggling, I’m trying to get rid of it. I seem to be starting to succeed lately! ” But at the same time, the young actress has a lot of excitement: “Yes, it is – I have the crazy side that demands my own. Ask me to eat, because otherwise I feel hungry!”

At the beginning of the interview, as always – a gift. Madara receives a book about Alexander Beltsov, the wife of a very versatile artist, the legendary Roman Suta. The host emphasizes that Madara herself is very versatile. And her husband is also famous for her – director Regnārs Vaivars.

“Do you know what I like best about new books? It’s a smell! Just out of print!” Botmane smells the still hard pages of the new book, then continues on to her husband. “I understand that society sometimes tends to perceive me – yes, she’s already married a director! But no! I’ve already married a man, a man who seduced me. With what he has here (shows his heart) and here (shows Not because he was and is a successful director! “

Interestingly, Madara initially wanted to be a director herself, but then she thought, “I realized that I was too young, too empty for this profession. To some extent, I use the specifics of directing in fashion art.”

Madara Botmane has created costumes for the one-act performance “Dancer” (2016, LNO) by dancer Elza Leimane and composer Reinis Xejan, for the video for Linda Leen’s song “Who is in Charge” (2017), she has also created the concept for the Latvian National Theater . For her work in the play “Alice in Wonderland” (National Theater) and “Swamp Wanderer in the Fire” (Liepaja Theater), she received the “Players’ Night 2020” award in the nomination “Costume Designer of the Year”.

It’s hard to believe that Madara was not born in the capital, but is a Kurzeme woman: “Yes, I’m a country girl, accustomed to quiet, natural smells. My mother still lives there in Kandava. Uh-huh! I didn’t understand why they were cheering on me? Now I don’t have such a lament anymore.

The first year in Riga was very difficult, I couldn’t get used to the city, it was even difficult to breathe. “It really was! But whoever doesn’t risk it doesn’t drink champagne!” Laughs Madara. “Now others think that I am 100% from Riga. I can say for myself – Riga is definitely my home!”

There are many beautiful memories associated with Kandava’s time, including the first kiss in 15 years. “And it lasted for years 5-6,” the actress smiles. “Our relationship with that guy continued in Riga. But now – who has to end has to end. That’s right.”

The upbringing in childhood was dignified but serious, says the actress: “I had a very strong opium. But in general I was able to do what I want. The main rule is to take responsibility.” It was necessary to graduate from two schools at the same time – Madara studied at Kārlis Kārlis Milenbach Secondary School and Kandava School of Art and Music.

“Now it’s even hard for me: I’ve been a very responsible and serious person since I was a young person. I’m learning to enjoy, to be happy. rhetorically asks the artist.

Indeed, we are not just working for prizes. Also. But first, because of her self-realization, Madara explains:

“The most important thing in my life is to live an interesting, meaningful, developmental life. And if it is not, then I am tormented.

And I think a person can shape their lives, take responsibility for it, feel fulfilled. “

The second thing that makes life happy – colleagues, fellow human beings. Madara is pleased to be working in the same theater with her course leader – director Edmund Freiberga, that a nice collaboration is also being established with director Valters Sīlis. And Uldis Dumpis is mentioned as one of the most wonderful colleagues of all time.

“I’ve only seen Uldis Dumpis fluff only once. He flickered rightly. But only for a minute,” the actress is a little late in telling about the moment of emotional tension in the theater’s attempt not to say a harsh phrase about a colleague. “During the rehearsal, a phrase was uttered from the director (I will not say which one): ‘Play more actively!’ Then Uldis Dumpis counts. – he said. “If we’ve been standing here for two months and turning our heads around here and there?” And that was all … But maybe it just seemed to me. Since I don’t know anything, “the actress recalls laughing at the demand to say something more.

“Ģirts Jakovļevs, like Dumpis, is so sensitive to support new colleagues!

But there is someone else who seems more special than the special ones. And this is Maestro Raimonds Pauls.

“I will always be very grateful to Raimonds Pauls. I have been fortunate to work and be in the same room with Maestro. Not only in the size of his art, but also in the power of his humanity.

I think it is very big. Huge. And the fact that I have been able to enjoy it for several years… Such a gift! My number one priority is definitely Raimonds Pauls. “

Raimonds Pauls once said complimentingly about the singing actress: “Usually I stick not only to my voice, but also to my face. Yes. I also decided to entrust one of Nora’s songs to this young and sympathetic girl. “

In the duet with Yuri Jopi, several of Paul’s songs have been performed, which Madara remembers with delight: “Once upon a time we didn’t have the best relationship with Yuri, but now everything has changed. to describe it! His wit and jokes are … How to say? Beyond good and evil. He has become a very close and dear person to me! “

He has also sung several times at Raimonds Pauls anniversary concerts, which have been taking place at the National Theater in recent years. And the actress has a special story about one of them: “We have to sing with Raimonds Celmas (also a singing actor at the National Theater, a younger colleague – ed.) And I have an” organic “silence. And what am I singing to Raimonds Stems’ party in embarrassment! “

Continuing with Paul’s music, Madara says that I really like the album “Night Birds”: “I also catch the most popular Maestro songs, not only the well-known ones. For example, I really like Paul’s cycle with lyrics by Imants Ziedonis. that I myself have been able to sing these songs myself! “

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