Love Song (2014)
Odeon Theatre, Vienna, Austria / Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Russia
Concept and choreography: Andrey Kaydanovskiy
Music: Jacque Brel, Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley, Dmitry Cheglakov
Costume Design: Karoline Hogl
Dramaturgy: Richard Schmetterer
The smallest details, any smell, word or song can recall our memories. They force us to relive a particular stage of life or a love story and make us comprehend the world of senses differently. If the event is bright enough, a mental spiral appears and draws us deeper into the whirlpool. The memories get distorted and exaggerated, happy moments are seemed more exalted, the pain is worse, thus there emerges a picture that is a little bit of reality, but at the same time it helps us to clarify the events and correlate them in time.
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