On November 27, the Bryantsev Theatre of Young Spectators will be present a performance of The Idiot, by Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigawara. Despite the fact that, formally, the performance is not related to the Ballets Russes repertoire, we feel that in the level of its innovation and execution this is an absolutely a ‘Diaghilev phenomenon’. The work was staged in 2018, its première taking place in the autumn at the Chaillot Theater in Paris. The choreographic language includes classical ballet, butoh, and elements of free dance. Saburo Teshigawara’s first profession was as an artist and he himself designed both the lighting and costumes.
The 67-year-old dancer and choreographer will dance throughout with one partner - the universal embodiment of woman, and not only the character Nastasya Filippovna - performed by Rihoko Sato. In the image that Teshigawara himself represents, several conflicting characters are collected: he is both Prince Myshkin and Rogozhin. The artist ponders events and even meditates; for a short time he goes into the story, and then a musical theme arises - “Forgotten Waltz” by Shostakovich: simple but incredibly expressive music. By the force of influence on the senses, one can draw a parallel with Stravinsky’s music. The minimalism of the dance is amazing, it is simultaneously detached yet infinitely expressive. Teshigawara is a unique phenomenon, a universal artist, open to all styles. He says that he knew that it was impossible to create an actual choreographic analogue of Dostoevsky’s novel, but that it was this ‘impossibility’ which became the key for him to create the work.
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