Performance Wandering time

Performance «Wandering time»

Once Time was given to all living things as a punishment. But the only creature who has never reconciled themselves to the loss of Eternity was and still remains a human being…

The performance “WANDERING TIME” appeals to images inspired by the relationship between Time and a human being. These relationship are always ambivalent, painful, tragic and eternally conflicting. Actors of Laboratory have embodied in plastic compositions their experience and emotions of losing Eternity, physical perception of time flow, finiteness of life and people’s loneliness in the Universe. This performance resembles a dialogue between a human being and Time, which penetrates his whole existence, provokes fear and anxiety but after all gives a long hoped-for peace.

“Time appears in front of us in different images: it turns into a rough river, which is hard to ford, then it tickles your feet like a small rill, then it dashes downward into a waterfall. You turn around and see yourself as a child, splashing in a puddle. And now, Time is turning into a caring mother, who is leading you by the hand to a Cradle. Sometimes she turns away from the path, sometimes she takes a short cut. Now and then we rush her, willing to outran her, and with every step we are becoming one body… one light… one life with her… But her careful invisible breathing mostly scares us. And we believe this is only us alongside whom She could wander...” Lidia Kopina, director

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Creators

Idea and direction – Lidia Kopina

Starring – Lidia Kopina, Tatiyana Zhukas, Kseniya Samoylova / Anastasija Klee, Maria Davydova, Tatyana Kargaeva, Ekaterina Bessmertnaya

Composer – Alexey Nadzharov

Light designer – Oleg Strashkin

Reviews

"... It is a universal sympathy for humanity in general and for man in particular, for his struggle with death, recognition of his temporary incarnation and an attempt to change the course of events, to assert his own self, the futility of conquering the earth. Much of what we have seen leaves the right of the spectator to complete the picture, to form his own personal vision, but it remains clear that the play is about the soul, spirit and eternity."

Yana Bashlykova

"A wonderful, witty, subtle, energetically strong performance about universal humanity - about the unequal struggle against time, about the inevitable meeting with death, about the choice of life's path. Deep philosophical statements in the universal language of body movements and facial expressions. It is impossible to determine what exactly creates such a powerful impact: things - raw earth, branches, simple masks - music - the rhythm and melodies of psychedelic rock - or bodily manifestations, shamanic dances, drama without words. Any attempt to reconstruct the performance is a search for a logical explanation of magic, the mystery of human nature, the riddle of existence. "Wandering Time in this sense is the best manifestation of visual art, each of the spectators receives a deeply personal existential experience that is difficult to verbalize; it is easier to look and feel, to become part of the performance."

Valentina Tataurova

«This show is the world of Dali skipping and screaming in the Chapelle Sixtine. It’s the synchronicity and swift symmetry of dance with the mystery of a misty Celtic animist ritual. It's a sandpit bacchanalia in the middle of a pristine all-white coronation. Astutely tilted lights conjure up slender Egyptian goddesses and highlight the sculpted folds of Roman togas as six feminine ghosts stroll, yell and cavort about magnificently. It is a great showdown of emotions. Fear fisticuffs Empathy. Beauty, primitive and pure, parades ever so lightly, while Anger cannibalises itself right before your eyes. Meaning has a good ol’ joust with Triviality. The Self runs back-and-forth between the Other and itself in search of keys and clues on how to live a tad better and see a little further in the darkness before Time, that merciless toreador, envelops it in its cloak of darkness. Wandering Time is at once very estranging and heart-warming, both alien and soothingly familiar, like a long-overdue but unexpected glance in a mirror. The Time treadmill is on though, and gathering pace; the only solution is to enjoy the moment, every moment, and what better way to do so than by swinging by this delightful show?»