moscow 2015
push/pull
A hotel is a place where temporariness is felt in everything.
People don’t live here — they merely reside from time to time. Accidental connections, brief revelations, unintended encounters — in this disposable micro-world, nothing is permanent. Others were here before you; others will come after. You yourself appear here only for a moment, and by entering the space of collective stories, you plunge into an alluring sense of impunity, adding a fragment of your private present to this shared past. For a short while, you can become someone you never dared to be before.
It is no coincidence that hotels were important to Vladimir Nabokov — as a metaphor, as settings for many of his texts, and as his own temporary homes, where he spent many years in exile. His characters, following their author, accumulating and materializing their lived time in space, left it behind in order to begin life anew — to transform, to reinvent, to forget.
In the dance performance, plots and motifs from Nabokov’s works drift through imagined rooms, corridors, and lobbies, while the guests take on the identities of his characters — rootless, without their own stable selves.
concept — Tanya Chizhikova, Olga Dykhovichnaya
choreography — Tanya Chizhikova
scenography and costumes — Olga Dykhovichnaya
composer — Roman Kutnov
assistant Choreographer — Yura Chulkov
producer — Sergei Kadaev
dance:
Maria Isaeva, Ilya Karpel (Viktor Vybornov), Dmitry Konovalov, Katya Pogrebkova, Alexei Kirsanov
People don’t live here — they merely reside from time to time. Accidental connections, brief revelations, unintended encounters — in this disposable micro-world, nothing is permanent. Others were here before you; others will come after. You yourself appear here only for a moment, and by entering the space of collective stories, you plunge into an alluring sense of impunity, adding a fragment of your private present to this shared past. For a short while, you can become someone you never dared to be before.
It is no coincidence that hotels were important to Vladimir Nabokov — as a metaphor, as settings for many of his texts, and as his own temporary homes, where he spent many years in exile. His characters, following their author, accumulating and materializing their lived time in space, left it behind in order to begin life anew — to transform, to reinvent, to forget.
In the dance performance, plots and motifs from Nabokov’s works drift through imagined rooms, corridors, and lobbies, while the guests take on the identities of his characters — rootless, without their own stable selves.
concept — Tanya Chizhikova, Olga Dykhovichnaya
choreography — Tanya Chizhikova
scenography and costumes — Olga Dykhovichnaya
composer — Roman Kutnov
assistant Choreographer — Yura Chulkov
producer — Sergei Kadaev
dance:
Maria Isaeva, Ilya Karpel (Viktor Vybornov), Dmitry Konovalov, Katya Pogrebkova, Alexei Kirsanov
