or The Project of Human Spirit Transition.
- directing Nenad Colic
- director assistant Ilija Ludvig
- with Ioana Cristtescu, Oana Tudor Sandra, Daniela Eugenia Voicu, Antoeneta Zaharia
- text A. Artaud "Theatre and Its Double", "The Theatre of Cruelty", I. Ludvig and actors` personal texts
- music arrangement Nenad Colic and Ilija Ludvig
- translators into Romanian Roxana Crisan, Diana Doni
- executive producers Roxana Crisan (Fundatia Culturala Contemporania), Leonid Doni (CIAC)
- technical assistant Mihai Pacurar
- premiere Centre for Contemporary Arts, Bucharest March 22, 2001
- supported by Fundatiei META, Just Sons Studio, Tetrului Odeon, Tetrului Bulandra, Studioului de Teatru Casandra, Teatrul Studetesc Podul
- co-production Blue Theatre & Centre for Contemporary Arts, Bucharest
During February and March 2001, Blue Theatre realized a co-operation with the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Bucharest, Romania. The director of Blue Theatre Nenad Colic and actor and assistant Ilija Ludvig realized together with four Romanian actresses the performance Let`s Dance Tutuguri or The Project of Human Spirit Transition. This project represents the exchange of experiences between people coming from countries in transition, and their personal seeing of that process.
"The society is one of integral topics of theatrical reflection and research. Whether we wanted it or not, producing theatre, and living in some society, puts us in a paradoxical situation. Theatre draws the energy from life, and each society, even the best one, the most developed one, sometimes having best intentions, censors that life.
However, things don`t look that black. If we observe them through the history of theatre, we can see that it was theatre itself to, in an incomprehensible way for the society, tear the life and its juices, both intellectual and organic, off that very same society, relying on spirit and vision of one man, an individual who was resistant to general trends.
For the past ten years, in Belgrade, in Serbia, as for the past about sixty years in the greatest part of Eastern Europe: "This is not life (worthy of a man)!", could be heard. Since the fall of the Berlin wall, the macro-project of the modern world has started, defined as "the new world order", which should "direct" to life this part of the world, the part of Eastern Europe.
"The road to life" is only a micro-project which is a part of this macro-project, and which is called "transition". Before the world`s macro-project, the idea of transition was exclusively related to the area of economy. But is economical transition possible without having some kind of "human" transition, which precedes it? Probably it is, but were we ready for it? Does that leave any consequences? Probably it does. What kind of consequences are they? We don`t know that yet. Or we do? Could they be seen already today?
To make it completely clear, the author of these lines, as an individual and a citizen, feels himself a sufferer of the dictatorial regime which lasted for ten years on the territory of today`s Yugoslavia, so he has a positive attitude towards the modern world`s macro-project like this. But being an artist and a director of a theatre that has an anthropological and experimental discourse in its work, I am free to reflect on something that I am a part of. This should be one of the basic democratic principles. Or will we slave to the taboos for ever?" |
