Performance within Rasa project
«On Sunday morning»
maiden ritual
«Sunday, morning...» - a moment of being, when consciousness awakes, dawn, the sun has just risen, time of not-doing, time when the Time is present – NE-DILYA*, holiday. Free and not divided existence of soul, which is sanctified by Eternity.
Ritual is always correlated with time. Ukrainian songs of maiden annual ritual, on which the performance is based, came to us in the memory of our body. They did not ask us if we want to sing it, if we understand their unpretentious simplicity, if we have grounds to this sacred singing. We already went from the place where these songs were born. Probably we are penultimate people, who are able to perceive the Knowledge, which goes from the depth of the ages, from the depth of the Time itself. In any case nowadays songs have no pragmatic meaning, maybe help us to live. Maybe they are ache of the Earth or our Earth itself, which follows us.
There is no narrative plot in the performance. It is a Story of Time, of Tree, of Songs.
Maiden plot is always the same:
She is waiting, He is leaving, the whole life he is going.
On Sunday morning it is snowing.
And actually the plot is “On Sunday morning… she stood on a footbridge…”
Sergiy Kovalevych
The performance is based on the “objective drama” of the person (Grotowski, Gurdziev, Klim).
Actors
Ulyana Gorbachevska
Olena Kostyuk
Natalia Polovynka
Author of the idea, director
Sergiy Kovalevych
Musical director
Natalia Polovynka
Costumes
Ulyana Gorbachevska
Polygraphy design
Olena Kostyuk
* NE-DILYA (Ukr.) - Sunday, NOT-DOING
Conditions for performance
On Sunday morning
Duration: 1 h. 15 min.
Team:
3 actors
Director
Light designer
Administrator
Space – as it is in Brzezinka (one-level orthogonal space, square 140 ì2 (sides: 13 m x 11 m), with wooden floor.
1 wooden chair.
50 kg of clear wheat.
Light – 10-12 color lamps (with control pannel as it is in theatres) and person who works with light.
Audience – no more than 200. |
