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| THE STORY. CONCEPTION. – PHYSICAL THEATRE ''INZHEST'' | ||||||
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The physical theatre "InZhest" (till 2002 - "Zhest"( "the Gesture" in Russian) was founded in 1980 by the students of the Minsk Institute of Culture - by Slava Inozemtcev, Galina Yeryomina, Tatiana Tsurko, Sergei Masyko, Sergei Shvec with the participation of a Bulgarian student Ivan Minchev and others. Since that time more than 15 performances were presented to the audience. Every new performance turned out to be a new stage (as if at school) in mastering the art of the corpeal theatre. Having made a start from the classical mime ("A Kaleidoscope" 1980, "Ways and Walls" 1981) we came to a carnival, buffo theatre (comedia del'arte "A Cheerful Soul" 1982, "Adventures of a Brave Soldier Shveik" 1983). As to "Adventures of a Brave Soldier Shveik", unfortunately, it was staged only two times and then banned by the authorities of the Institute of Culture as a great number of "political mistakes had been found out. Later on, there was a careful investigation of the clownery in such performances as "Drops" (1986) and "It's not Funny" (1987), afterwards - a serious studying of the body improvisation and fighting arts of the East in the play "A Game without Rules" (1988). Meanwhile, we made improvisations and presented such performances like "happenings" just in the streets, parks and indoors. After that there was a phantasmagoria in the manner of "a social art" - "Still Waters Run Deep" (1990), then - the tragicomedies "A Traditional Kitchen of Rewkew Island"(1993) and "A Secret Rendezvous" (1995), combining theatrical and movement traditions of the East and the West. Thus, step by step the creative principals and special preferences of the theatre "Zhest" were formed. In general they can be presented in the following way: - we stage the plays only what we like irrespective of fluctuations of interests of audience and authorities; - we are not restricted by literary, drama, genre and stylistic frames; - body is primary and it is the most sufficient value what we posses; - people should be always surprised and amazed.Your excessive confidence can be really harmful in comprehending of a surrounding world; - grotesque, buffo, carnival, archaic, ritual and primary theatrical forms as well as modern synthetic art, improvisation and various forms of psychophysical training are included into the sphere our interests. As from 1995 the actors of the "Zhest" theatre have been working out an original system of training which was called "Dances of Animals". 1998 a performance "Reversio" (Part I) was staged on the basis of that training. A Latin word "reversio" means "a return back", "a reflexive process", "a rotation movement in a circle" or "a movement in a circle". Theatre "ZHEST" was on tour, took part in international theatrical festivals and joint projects in Belarus, Kiev , S.-Petersburg , Moscow , Riga, Odessa as well as in Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Poland, organized in Minsk the festivals of mime “Blazan”(1987,1989), the festivals of physical theatres “X-Tradition”(2001,2002) and Butoh dance projectes with theatre “Tatoeba”(Germany-Japan) in 1999 and “SU-EN Butoh company”(Sweden) in 2001. The "Zhest" theatre had the opportunity to learn the BUTOH DANCE technique at workshop Yumico Yoshioka in Germany and since that the theatre uses this technique and style in different joint projects, such as: "OstWest" (1998, Bonn, Germany), "Ex...it!" (1999, Germany, Poland), "Things-time-theatre" (1999, Holland), festival of performances "NAVINKI" (1999 and 2000, Minsk), "Festival sztuki bialoruskiej" (Poznan, Poland, 2000), Winter and Summer Camp by SU-EN Butoh Company(2001, Sweden-Belarus) , “Art Session”(2001,Vitebsk), “Karagod”(2002,Gomel), “Resonant Wave”(2002,Berlin) etc. Slava Inozemcev since November,2001 take part in the international Butoh dance project" TEST LABOR of TEN PEN Chii" by Yumiko Yoshioka and Joachim Manger i Shloss Broullin (Germany). In February,2000 the actors of "ZHEST" and musicians of group "PLATO" by help from Theatre of the young spectators realize the Butoh- action "YOLKA U". On Mai.27.2001 we celebrated our twentieth anniversary with new performance – "DK DANCE". From that time we are called "InZhest". |
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