Belgrade premiere of the performance
I SING LIKE A BIRD
February 25, 26 at 20h
Cultural Centre REX, Jevrejska 16
scenario and directing Nenad Čolić
with Jelena Martinović, Marko Potkonjak, Maša Jelić, Dejan Stojković
set, costume, booklet Ivana Čolić
pr manager Dubravka Vujinović
instructor of classic Indian dance Violeta Purhmajer (Venurati)
text
H. Hesse - "Steppenwolf", "Essays", "Pilgrimage";
I. Heilbut - "Mission of Hermann Hesse In Our Time"
literature
H. Hesse - "Demian", "Narcissus and Goldmund", "Sidartha", "The Glass Bead Game", "The Art of Idleness", "Self-Will"; K. Ristić - "The Trap of Possessiveness"
music
Traditional spiritual music of antient India - Bhajan, Traditional song "Svilen konac", W. A. Mozart - 40th Symphony, Prince - "Purple Rain", "Te Amo Corazon"
dances
Classic Indian dances Bharata-natyam, Radjahstan
co-production
Plavo pozorište &
Festival Stadt Deiner Liebe/Neues Theater Halle/Kulturinsel Halle
premiere
Festival Stadt Deiner Liebe/Neues Theater Halle/Kulturinsel Halle
July 24, 2006
supported by
Festival Stadt Deiner Liebe/Neues Theater Halle/Kulturinsel Halle
Belgrade City Council - Culture Department
Ministry of Culture of Republic of Serbia
as well as
NIMAX, Delta Generali, REXIM trade - Bittburger, BG elektronik
we owe special thanks to
Centre Veda in Belgrade, Ranko Trifković
I SING LIKE A BIRD is a verse from Goethe’s poem ``The Singer``. Fifteen years old Herman Hesse recited this poem while studying and serving in the evangelistic monastery of Maulbronn when his tutor criticized him for reciting it too proudly and too freely. Young Hesse wrote it down in a letter to his parents from which it can be seen that this was one of the first barbs of the repression of the outer world, which was painfully taken by truth and freedom loving sensual being of Herman Hesse.
I SING LIKE A BIRD is an expression of our spiritual need. This is one more performance by Plavo Pozoriste that has been based on contradictions of the question of freedom. This time from the viewpoint of a European citizen whose life emits senselessness and confusion, insanity and dream, like the life of all the people who do not want to lie to themselves any more. Herman Hesse’s feeling of pain that threads its way through all of his works and reverberates through his life as a cry of civic freedom, was our inspiration and our comfort.
I SING LIKE A BIRD is an adventure of a group of artists who do not leave their ground but go on a pilgrimage following the footsteps of Herman Hesse and so arrive to the magic theatre where everything is possible, under condition that you previously leave your problematic personality in the cloakroom. It is possible to erase the boundaries between culture and spirituality, it is possible for joy to oppose to the centuries of fighting, it is possible for emancipation to develop, in spite of xenophobia and possessiveness.
I SING LIKE A BIRD is a story that leads to salvation. A writer encounters characters from his novels. They help him to experience inner change. So as to make this happen he must want the change and must go through all of his inner wide space. If he remains on the narrow piece of his being he is going to be ruined. Spiritual change is one of the most difficult human temptations. Its reward is growing up.
I SING LIKE A BIRD is a process of meditation within which we tried to influence the cliché of our mental and body system that has been shaped exclusively within coordinates of European tradition. Following the traces of our writer we also set off towards the East. We learned and acquired basic knowledge in the field of Indian traditional and spiritual music and Indian classic dances Bharata-natyam and Rajasthan. For us, it was an important acting and human experience. It helped us enter a different civilization space where we encountered many principles and laws we had known little about up to then. It all enriched our lives very much and inspired certain changes in our attitude towards the theatre work.
I SING LIKE A BIRD is a performance that has been searching for ways of devotion, ways of trust, ways of compliance. It seems to have found them. Not even love is so far now.
Our thanks go to Herman Hesse.
Plavo pozorište, 2006
Nenad Čolić |
