Rain_In pivo veritas

The most poetic ballet in the theatrical repertoire, deeply philosophic and realistic at the same time. It is realistic in spite of no stage settings at all used in the performance, and the properties are restricted to one suitcase appearing for a couple of minutes on the stage and white umbrellas displayed for a few more minutes.

Neat hairdos or the hair hidden under the caps, cotton dresses with collars (becoming to all girls without exception!), or pants of the "before-jeans" era with suspenders…. Everything conveyed in "The Rain" dance may be taking place anywhere but in the certain decades. Perhaps, our grandmothers were very young at that time, while half of the world admired the beauty of our great grandmothers.

The life of that time flies fast like rewinding - unceasingly, orderly, like the meaningful and vigorous Bach preludes with fugues of "Well-Tempered Clavier". The people on the stage are divided into the male and the female groups showing interest in each other, everyone has to feel for his or her second half and support. From time to time, this course of events slows down and the separate pieces of music are introduced. Every time, it is a new, bright ethnic song representing a separate history of some couple, some trio, even an individual person in the crowd. By the way, this performance offers countless ways of choreographic problem solution, "a crowd has to be made of 18 people on the stage".

And though the vibrant soundtracks are the most exciting ones, it is better to slow down and feel the tenderness evinced by brother as he lulls his sister to sleep knowing that life will separate them at some point; the exhausting tension of the two men who are trying to win over the heart of the strong woman pursuing her own way; the patience, the playfulness and the quiet happiness. And in the end, as the individuality of all those people yields the life as such, it feels very hard to lose them.

Premiered on the stage on October 3, 2007