Debris company: Dolcissime Sirene

Dramatic dance performance Dolcissime sirene / wedding arised from some of the parts of the text of Ottavio Rinuccini’s Intermedi da la Pelegrina, libretto, set to music by a representative of musical humanism, a director and an organizer - count Giovanni De Bardi. It was prepared in occasion of Ferdinando Medici’s and Cristine di Lorena’s wedding. Formally, the performance is inspired freely by the text and searching for other dramatic intermediaries of plato’s idealism and life philosophy in a dramatical / musical form.
 

Choreography: Daniel Racek, Stanislava Vlčeková
Direction: Jozef Vlk 
Music and concept: Ján Boleslav Kladivo vs Jozef Vlk 
Costumes and stage design: Marija Havran 
Light design: Jozef Vlk
Production: Martina Širáňová

The message of the work la Pelegrina from the year 1589 originally was announcing the comeback of the golden age as a signal for the return of joy and life optimism - a symbolic way out of the dark middle age cage. Respect toward this meaningful ritual ceremony has helped us to prepare and create an unusual mise-en-scene for a short moment of life celebration, game of values, doubts, details, thoughts about individuality, love, morale, reality and idealism. 

Act of celebration of Medici’s and di Lorena’s wedding is in our case connected with a subjective view of protagonists on the wedding, that has entered history just like any other campaigns dealing with the struggle for power. We are looking at this event from a point of view that exposes history exaggeration and dogmatic messages capturing these moments.

The play is a contemplation of history efforts questioning and its political context to grip the attention on "the big protagonists" as representatives and definers of the truth. It is about truth maturing in each individual independently unenforced by the circumstances /maybe also never captured/. Always subjective in a way, with its own responsibility. The glory of for example the end of middle age as an apotheosis of the battle of good and bad is appearing as adequate. But the battle of good and bad was always just a struggle of individuality of an individual within himself. Politics and the struggle for political power can only get closer to this battle, but it can never become its slight component.

Date & time: 7 December 2018 at 18:00
Place: Liptovské divadlo tanca, Liptovský Mikuláš
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Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council.