Valeria Kripatch & Anna Korzik – Red planet (space opera) (BLR)

Red planet is a multilayer fantasy about outer space and inner world. Two people asking the same questions during the whole journey: what outer space is? And why to conquer it?

Moving outwards leads to contact with the outer world, while moving inwards brings a person to contact with himself. Or?

Valeria Kripatch is dancer, researcher, lecturer in contemporary dance, participant in international projects and residencies (Poland, Germany, Italy. Armenia, Georgia, and Russia). // http://lightness.tilda.ws/projects_en

Anna Korzik. Graduated from The Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. She is  choreographer and architect, and director of the Altana Dance Theatre which has made a major mark at a number of international choreography and theatre festivals.

Choreography and directed by: Valeria Khripatch & Anna Korzik

Dance artists: Oleg Melnikov, Maria Tsvetkova (“Doroga is Goroda” Dance Theatre , Kazan, Russia)

Visuals: Alexandra Kononchenko a Antonio Pippolo

Music: Dodoma band (Minsk, Belarus)

Set design: Igs Shelkunenko, Alexandra Sikorskaya

Lights design: George Zaborski (@georgezaborski)

Sound design: (Oree) Vladislav Popchenya

Costumes design:: Anna Korzik

Idea and management: Valeria Khripatch

Running time: 30 min

 

Olga Labovkina – Homo Miltaris (BLR)

Homo Militaris is a man at war.

No animal is as prone to intraspecific aggression as a human being. Why do we play mock battles since childhood? Why is it created a huge number of films and computer games modelling violent situations? If a person has a need for aggression, the reason can be found easily: be it racism or sexism, slaughter for profit or killing for pleasure. Is the internal war "against everybody" our natural state? In the long range, we are not allowed to know who is "right" and who is not, who is backward and who has reached a dead end or is going the wrong way. Only the maximum variety of forms, saving everything, that can be save, perception of reality beyond the borders of our own interests can launch a program of human return to his true nature and harmony.

Olga Labovkina is Belarusian choreographer and dancer. After graduating from the State University of Arts in Grodno, she worked in the period of 1999–2002 under the direction of Dmitry Kurakulov in choreography within the contemporary dance group TAD and was cast in all productions. She graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in the Research – Creative Lab of Composition of Modern Forms of Dance.  She founded and artistically led until 2018 the KARAKULI dance theatre (Minsk, Belarus). KARAKULI featured internationally, inter alia at the Susanne Dellal Centre (Tel Aviv, Israel), Teatri de Vita (Bologna, Italy), Monsun Theatre (Hamburg, Germany), Gogol Centre (Moscow, Russia), Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre (Russia), Voronezh Opera (Russia) and at different international festivals: TanzplatformBern2018 (Bern, Switzerland), Golden Mask (Moscow, Russia), Zawirovania ”(Warsaw, Poland), Zelyonka-fest (Kiev, Ukraine), Teatr (Minsk, Belarus)  etc.. She implemented her projects in cooperation with ensembles from the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland. As guest choreographer, director and lecturer, she collaborates with theatres and dance companies in the countries of the former Soviet Union and Europe.

Choreographed & directed by: Olga Labovkina

Dance: Oleg Melnikov, Maria Tsvetkova (Doroga iz Goroda Dance Theatre, Kazan, Russia)

Company directors: Lilia Bagautdinova, Ayrat Bagautdinov

Music: Dodoma band (Minsk, Belorussia)

Running time: 15 min