doubts - is it necessary
to keep alive the aesthetics of dance when as a form it traditionally
ignores the contrasts and suffering of contemporary life?
assumptions - can we once
again work in opposition, through experiment and searching, as they did
in the beginning of the century, when the concept of dance changed
radically?
convictions - we will go
on practically defining contemporary choreography in spite of the
indifference of official cultural institutions and contrary to the
inert monopoly of classical ballet.
kinetic strives to
introduce dance to the new artistic circumstances of the post-soviet
era and to communicate through the 'voice' of movement interlinked with
contemporary literature, music and theatre. since 1994 the idea of
seeking for new theatrical and aesthetic principles has stimulated 18
productions of the company. many of them have been performed at
festivals in russia and abroad. our artistic priorities include the
development of alternative approaches to the energy of movements,
sound, words, texts, contacts and so on. the collision or merging of
different aspects, such as text, sound, movement or action, don't serve
as expectations of rational explanation. more likely those aspects form
provocative medium, where the pure abstraction of dance dissolves in
our everyday experiencies. the clash between the everyday banality of
the human body and it's poetic expression is a constant source of
themes and moods in the works of kinetic.
