5/10/2016

8:00 p.m.

New Stage

Theme, stage direction, set design: Vladyslav Troitskyi

Music: DakhaBrakha, ethno-chaos band – Iryna Kovalenko, Nina Garenetska, Olena Tsybulska, Marko Halanevych

Cast: Tetiana Troitska, Vyshnya, Maksym Demskyi, Natalka Bida, Zo, Tetiana Havrylyuk, Ruslana Khazipova, Solomiia Melnyk, Andrii Palatnyi, Evgen Bal, Nikita Skomorokhov, Roman Iasinovskyi

Duration of the performance: 1 hour, without an intermission

DAKH KIEV CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS

The Centre of Contemporary Arts was founded in 1994 by the businessman, benefactor, producer, director and actor Vladislav Troitskyi, who became its artistic director. The centre was opened on 12 November 1994 and gradually turned into a mighty cell of creative experimental activity, seeking a dynamic synthesis of different methods of acting and directing. One of the most important tasks of the centre was determined by V. Troitskyi: to nurture a universal actor of a new type, able to realise on a deep level each word and act of his personage, analyse the spiritual sources of creativity and acting, while remaining natural and convincing on stage. And all that without any professional training.

DAKHABRAKHA

A world-music quartet from Kiev, Ukraine, reflecting the fundamental elements of sound and soul, the Ukrainian “ethnic chaos” band DakhaBrakha create a universe of unexpected new music. The name DakhaBrakha is original, outstanding and authentic alike. It means “give/take” in the old Ukrainian language.

DakhaBrakha was formed in 2004 at the DAKH Kiev Centre of Contemporary Art by the avant-garde stage director Vladyslav Troitskyi. Theatre work has left its mark on the band’s performances – their shows have never been staged without scenic effects.

Having experimented with Ukrainian folk music, the band have added rhythms of the surrounding world into their music, thus creating the bright, unique and unforgettable image of DakhaBrakha. This helps to open up the potential of Ukrainian melodies and to bring them to the hearts and consciousness of the younger generation in Ukraine and the rest of the world alike.

Accompanied by Indian, Arab, African, Russian and Australian traditional instruments, the quartet’s astonishingly powerful and uncompromising vocal range creates a transnational sound rooted in Ukrainian culture.

At the crossroads of Ukrainian folklore and theatre their musical spectrum is intimate, then riotous, plumbing the depths of contemporary roots and rhythms, inspiring “cultural and artistic liberation”.

DakhaBrakha have given concerts and performances at numerous international festivals in Ukraine, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Austria, Slovenia, Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Belarus, Georgia, Hungary, Poland, China, Australia, the USA, Canada, Columbia and New Zealand.

DakhaBrakha have implemented joint projects with musicians of such calibre as Port Mone (BY), Kimmo Pohjonen Cluster (FI), Karl Frierson (DePhazz) (GE), Steve Cooney (IRL), Inna Zhelannaya (RU), Kievbass (UA), Djam (UA-Iran), David Ingibaryan (HU).

In March 2010, DakhaBrakha won the prestigious Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award. In March 2011, the quartet became the Discovery of the WOMAdelaide festival in Australia.

Modern technology plus medieval theatre plus live and quality music plus plain symbolism of the performance – is a rare quartet in our area. (…) In this performance, the theatre and ‘ethnochaos’ ensemble have reached that brilliant quality when world music becomes more than ‘music’, and relative theatre is more than theatre. When, finally, Wagner, with his dreams of ‘synthetic works of art’, can sleep soundly.”

- Komok: Synthetic Gogol/Newspaper -

DREAMS OF LOST ROADS

Dreams are like birds – they are free.
They are nobody’s but they are for everyone. They have no shelter, no home, they live everywhere. It is impossible to catch them, but they possess magic and miraculous power, the ability to visit each one of us.

Dreams are like swiftly running clouds, changing each moment, with their flight being like a gust of wind or a surge of waves, unpredictable. No one can hold them in any reality of our consciousness, just as no one can hold water in his/her palm.

Love and death, pain and happiness, dreams and a mysterious call of infinity, an endless number of lives awaiting us in the labyrinths of dreams, roads connecting unseen worlds, the incomprehensible worlds of our souls, our own images covered by the mystery of encounters in dreams, on these crossroads of Eternity.

Prague Crossroads 2016 – programme

Monday 3/10/2016

Tuesday 4/10/2016

Wednesday 5/10/2016

Thursday 6/10/2016

Friday 7/10/2016

Saturday 8/10/2016

Sunday 9/10/2016

Tuesday 11/10/2016

Screenings at the New Stage landing