ROOM ROOM ROOM

Curators
Alexandra Konnikova, Konstantin Grouss

Participating choreographers
Konstantin Grouss / Vera Priklonskaya / Ilya Belenkov / Hilary Bryan /
Po.V.S. Tanze Dance Company (Alexandra Konnikova & Alberts Alberts) /
Anna Garafeeva / Daria Buzovkina (PERICULUM project) / Alexander
Andriyashkin, Vadim Kartashev (MERA project) / Andrey Andrianov /
Denis Boroditsky / Andrey Davydov / Larisa Venediktova

Producer
Producer — Konstantin Grouss


Structure of the festival

During an evening the 3 performances are presented 3 times, each in its own
room. The performances start at the same time and end at about the same
time. Thus the audience, joining one of the 3 groups, can visit each of the
choreographers.
Each performance includes a conversation with the audience and small snacks
from the authors.
Each evening was repeated twice.

About the project. The concept of ROOM ROOM ROOM

"What if the room is a symbol of personal sublime space, and performance is
the most intimate space where we venture to speak frankly about what we
believe is important?
Settling dance and performance in a simple room, we invite you to be our
guest. Being in close proximity to the audience, the artist reveals the
internal process, the hidden springs that determine the form of the
performance.
In each of the 3 rooms there is an independent action, the short piece of
existence. Each performance creates a unique context. Each viewer gets a
unique experience."

Alexandra Konnikova

"Dance and Contemporary dance in particular is mostly associated with
theater and becomes a subject for an appropriate analysis. Theatricality is
inherent to the dance since originally it was inseparable with it. Dramatic
theater has grown from dance and now theatre is largely associated with
drama.
Contemporary dance as an art combines with the use of the human body, not as
a tool, but rather as the material from which you can create works of any
configuration. So we leave the theatrical point of view and, keeping an
indispensable contact with the audience, move to the sphere of contemporary
art with its free interpretations of classical canons and an independence
from particular technique.
The festival gathers artists of contemporary dance, which hold various ways
of working with a body and composition and create their own independent
language and the way of action. The viewer is invited to watch and compare
three performances during one night, combining them into united space by his
presence."

Konstantin Grouss