In Kyiv, renowned choreographer Radu Poklitaru presents the new project “DiscrimiNATION”
Already in October the “Kyiv Modern Ballet” Academic Theatre will present a new project — the one-act ballet “DiscrimiNATION” to music by George Handel and Valentin Silvestrov. The performance will take place at the ICCA October Palace on October 21.
Already in October the «Kyiv Modern Ballet» Academic Theatre will present a new project – the one-act ballet «DiscrimiNATION» set to the music of George Frideric Handel and Valentin Silvestrov. The performance will take place on the stage of the ICCA October Palace on 21 October.
The ballet «DiscrimiNATION» is a choreographic fantasy that will consist of a series of novella-parables which, at first glance, are in no way connected with one another and which will tell, non-linearly and in the most generalised way, about various kinds of discrimination. The project’s creators told Informator about this.
United by the continuous movements of choreography and inner life, by the emotions and disagreements of a human society in which, like a drop of water, the whole Universe and all of Humanity is concealed. United by ideas that will promote the values of the democratic civilised world. They will focus attention around the problems of the phenomena of discrimination and tolerance, contempt and mutual understanding, a person’s awareness of their own identity, the formation of a modern community of people which we call a nation.
The production team of the ballet «DiscrimiNATION»:
Radu Poklitaru, principal ballet master of the «Kyiv Modern Ballet» Academic Theatre, Honoured Art Worker of Ukraine – libretto, choreography, staging.
Oleksandr Bilozub, People’s Artist of Ukraine – set designer.
Dmytro Kuryata – costume designer
«At first glance, the exploration of such a complex notion as discrimination may seem a non-obvious choice for the main theme of a large dance performance. However, at the heart of all manifestations of discrimination lies the conscious or unconscious desire to make another person’s life unbearable; it is the quintessence of emotional suppression, of the humiliation of the human personality. Dance, however, is first and foremost emotional by its very nature. That is why everything vividly emotional in our life, even if with a negative colouring, is a wonderful object for study and reflection through the creation of a choreographic-directorial text – the body of a ballet performance», – Radu POKLITARU on the ideas of the new ballet.
«In the project «DiscrimiNATION» one will be able to trace an appeal to the theme of industrialisation as a new sign-semantic system and the theme of the newest forms of urban communication. The apologetics of urbanism will not only dictate a certain range of images, themes or subjects of the choreographic design, but will also prompt an intensive search for non-traditional ways of their embodiment, and hence a radical renewal of the entire system of expressive means, which will be traceable not only in the set design but also in the aesthetics of the costumes», – says Oleksandr BILOZUB, People’s Artist of Ukraine, about the features of the stage design.
According to the concept of costume designer Dmytro KURYATA, the clothing will reflect the cosmopolitanism and urbanisation of the modern world in a palette of costumes resembling the colours of a big city’s kaleidoscope – the colour of asphalt, concrete and brick.
«In the forms and silhouettes of the costumes, which are allusions to the architectural forms of cities, the so-called metaphor of the outer shell in which a living soul is imprisoned will be reflected. The structurality and geometry of urban buildings is the basis of the rhythmic-metric construction of the costume», – notes Dmytro KURYATA.
