“You do some work to thank to your land, your family, yourself as to gift of person…” (S. Kovalevych)
“Any water cannot quench love…” (The Song of songs)
Woman recollects her life. Remembering – looking through. Water of the time washes you and carries into unknown places the whole your life – love, death, fate… What remains? Only voice… Voice which cannot be divided into spiritual, folk, secular, but what exists in human as the whole. In the same way as human being has one heart.
Idea and direction:
Sergiy Kovalevych
Sound direction, performing:
Natalia Polovynka
Material:
sacred songs of ancient Ukraine,
Ukrainian folk song,
baroque music (chants),
classical romances
Musical form (classical concert in 3 parts):
² „Glorifying” (sacred songs, chant);
²² „Wedding” (folk songs);
²²² „Praising” (romances);
Coda „Ark” (the chant “Flood”)
the songs of wind and sky
wind wind
these songs were sung for me by the wind
songs prayers songs destinies songs cries
songs holy-days
the wind sang for me all my life
songs of the wind on the verge of the road on the verge or the sky on the verge of the field
standing quietly
talking to me
child girl woman angel dove white dove
love romance chant
narrow colorful ribbon of the verge
my thougth inmost diary
inner cover of inmost blood vessels
baroque concert of my voice in the world
once
light-winged Skovoroda said
that “the beautiful is hard” but
later
having lived a big piece of life
having walked on white foot
all over the sacred pathes of the singing field of Ukraine
shaking down the silver dust of the roads
he understood that
“the beautiful is
light”
lightness
childish prattle “leleka”1 flapping
“lele moja le”2
joy happiness serenity there is no sadness
unconditioned singing it is the voice of heart
the song flows by itself
and air! much... much air!
these are songs of pain pain is river
river of time which whashes you and
brings into obscurity
all your life love death destiny
there is judgement Last Judgement... merciful
song high grave of human grief
time leaves only the bank of the river... river-bed
voice that exists in you solely
these lonely songs which are heard
only by high graves and blue sky
for whom we sing?
Tonka ta vysoka na lystia shyroka
nashcho zeleniye?3
if you stay on the grave and breath to the full
sing to the verge of heart
than the difference disapears
between you and those
ancient people
this and that worlds
anyway you see the essence of world
serene world!
I stay over the song as over the water
rano-rano4 our heart grows becomes higher than the sky
we sing passionately because this is indeed
the passions! –
“Kvitka-nevista”5 – the sign of unknown the sign of bride
separate on the earth on nobody's earth
the story of song on the verge of heart
very simple to the verge
it is just sung in pause
viewing every word as gold ornament
which will have to be given back in exchange for
one word of truth
just the prayer I believe in what I do
1 leleka - stork
2 “lele moja le” – as an expression of joy, delight, amazement
3 thin and high with wide leaves
for what it grows?
the quotation from Taras Shevchenko poem “Po dibrovi viter viye”. The matter concerns a poplar which is bowed to the very ground by strong wind
4 rano-rano – words from many songs which mean “very early”
5 flower-fiancée
Conditions for performance
Kvitka-nevista:
Form: mono-performance
Duration: 1 hour 15 min.
Number of participants: 3
(- actress,
- director,
- light designer)
Space
White space with wooden floor or “white space” made by means of the theatre: white fabric attached to the floor and white back drop.
Space should have 2 levels (the stage and platform in front of the stage).
Wooden platform (appr. : height 0,15 meter, width 1 meter, length -2,5 meters).
Piano (or grand piano) + stool,
wooden chair.
Light
4 lights (direct lights on actor), 2 lights (to light the back wall), and rest lights – spot lights for all the space. There should be a control panel for light as in the theater and person who works with light.
Audience - up to 200. |
