"Le Sacre" was presented on 27 and 28 September in Beijing at theatre Fringe Festival.
In the last period "The Rite of Spring" seems to be my main signature as a performer. First there was Teatr Dada von Bzdülöw with "Le Sacre"...
The
intriguing spectacle by Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre was played in Beijing,
closing this year’s theatre Fringe Festival. Has the lost, original
version of “The Rite of Spring” by Stravinski after a hundred years been
finally brought into the daylight?
According to the libretto
created by Leszek Bzdyl that’s exactly what happened. The play script
tells about a great discovery made by the researcher and professor of
the Massachusett Bard Collage, Jeff Perec, who, while cataloguing
documents donated post mortem to the Collage by the descendants of
Mikolaj Roerich, has found pieces of correspondence between Roerich and
Stravinski, the creators of “The Rite of Spring” – the mythical ballet
which, at the beginning of the 20th century, turned upside
down the concept of contemporary music-body movement performance. In
their letters the librettist and the composer mentioned the original
version of “The Rite of Spring”,
it’s radical concepts and ways of expression, and about the significant
philosophical and musical differences compared to the spectacle staged
in 1913 in Paris.
The performance by Dada von Bzdülöw is a
dialogue with the creators of “The Rite of Spring”, a dialogue about
breaking the chains of conventionalities. Conventionalities, which once
broken and shattered form a new quality, just to become a
conventionality again. The music used in the play written by Mikolaj
Trzaska, is also a dispute with, as Trzaska said „greatly written, but
(…) pompous” musical work of “The Rite of Spring”.
Following the “Invisible Duets”, “Le
Sacre” was the second play, performed by Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre in
China, and just as the “...Duets” was very well received both by the
audience and the critics. The project of Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre’s
participation in the Fringe Festival was carried out thanks to
cooperation of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Embassy of Poland
in Beijing.
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