PETER AND THE WOLF. REINTERPETATION - DESCRIPTION
Peter and the Wolf. Reinterpretation was first created in 2014, at Warsaw's performance art festival WarSoVie (see below). The last version of the project was put up in the City Greenhouse in Magdeburg (as commissioned by Sinuston music festival) in the shape of a matinee family show. That version became a repertory piece (with fixed cast and fixed choreography) of Koncentrat AG and as such is to be presented from 2016 onwards.
The project introduces the contemporary dance discource into public space and for the audience of all ages, through a creative dialogue with the tradition of the classical dance and music. The original Peter and the Wolf, by Prokofiev is more than an inspiration for the work – it is a living and powerful material of music, dance, narration which we remodel and dialogue with trough the methods and techniques of contemporary dancemaking.
Concept, choreography, direction: Rafał Dziemidok
Light, space, costumes: Ewa Garniec
Musical adaptation: Oliver Schneller
Performers: Florian Bücking, Rafał Dziemidok, Brtosz Figurski, Magdalena Jędra, Tatiana Kamieniecka, Raisa Kröger
Premiere: 01.11.2015, Magdeburg, Sinuston Festival
Producers: Koncentrat Association
As a format production, the project was so far staged in various public spaces in Warsaw, Bilbao, Vilnius and Tartu, every time with a different set of local performers, after a 5 day period of rehearslas/workshops.
Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf is a creation exceptionally well fitting the definition of classic art given by Susan Sonntag in Notes on Camp. It is beautiful, understandable, without subtexts, it does not call for expression other than the one included in the aesthetics and the style of the composition as well as the virtuosity of performance.
In Peter and the Wolf. Reinterpretation. project, that narration is confronted with working methods and taste typical for contemporary art (deformation, reduction, casuality). Is the coexistence of the classical and the contemporary in one art piece possible, if all the attributes of the classical art are by its contemporary counterpart wholly negated?
Furthermore, in a broader context, art in general (classical, contemporary and camp) is in culture of today an isolated thread, whose presumably main consumer - the ordinary audience - does not love, like or respect. Thus artists of all genres and streams of high art, create for themselves, their producers and a narrow click of connoisseurs, clumsily, yet heroically trying to convince everybody around that it makes sense. One can say, that art per se, regardless if it is classical or contemporary became an unwelcome narration, a narration of "the other". What will become/remain from the clash of the two mutually exclusive artistic streams with the element of a common passer by?
Production supported by culture.pl