Program
Cry for Silence. Tao Te Ching staged by choreographer Olga Tsvetkova and composer Anton Svetlichny is a synthesis of choreography, performance, live and electronic music.
Performers:
German Stroganov
Georgy Grishchenkov
Valentina Lutsenko
Sergey Medvedev
Natalia Bril
Anastasiia Ivanova
Sofia Makarova
Bogdan Kochurov
Ivan Sachkov
Ivan Belozertsev
Musicians:
Denis Kirillov
Natalia Solovyova
Anna Serdyukova
Roman Vikulov
Tatiana Lukina
Vasilisa Haddad
Alexander Mankovsky
Elena Kozlova
Filipp Samutin
Regina Shteynman
Philip Buin
Svetlana Stepanova
Aleksei Govorov
Yuliya Romashko
Details
The ballet’s title refers to the Chinese treatise Tao Te Ching — the most famous and most influential monument of Eastern philosophy about the harmony of the universe. The keynote ideas of the Tao served as the semantic framework of the performance about the inseparable and harmonious coexistence of elements essentially alien to each other: evil and good, white and black, movement and immobility, sound and pause, the living and the non-living. Cry for Silence represents an experience of inner vision, an intuitive attempt to return to the feeling of the original wholeness of the world, which has not yet disintegrated into opposites.
Composer Anton Svetlichny is working on the music for the production: his compositions have largely influenced the idea and concept of the future ballet. In the score of the performance, live instruments are combined with electronics, minimalism with bell ringing, and rigid mechanical rhythms with a soft state of flow and superfluidity.