Spectacle d’ouverture de Mimos : 5000 spectateurs а la dйcouverte de l’Ukraine.

AQUI!, Fanny Cheyrou, 01.08.2011 )

Mimos’ starting show : 5000 people discovered Ukrainia.

With the starting show of Mimos, Dreams od the Lost Roads, the troup from Dakh Theatre, with DakhaBrakha band, has totaly modified the clichй of « the country next to Russia »

Dreams of the Lost Roads : from the dream to its expression

Vladyslav Troitkyi has been a producer for 20 years. 32 artists from Ukrainia, both comedians and musicians, lively and sensual, came here with him. « It was the first time that the show had been played in Western Europe » he says « but in reality, it was also the first time, last night, that the show had been played fully. It took me years to think about it, but only one month and a half to make videos, choreography, music, and a single day, last Sunday, to stage fully the show. Ideas alone fully existed. »

History written in ink of mime.

L’Ukraine a une mйmoire trиs difficile а mobiliser dans la parole et dans l’histoire officielle. La rencontre du metteur en scиne avec le public, lundi matin, nous a aidйs а l’apprйhender, mais c’est de toute йvidence le spectacle lui-mкme qui nous a permis de la ressentir, lundi soir.

It is very hard to mobilize the Ukrainian memory through words and official history. The harmony and scenario deeply linked to the story of Ukrainia thus recounted the complicated destiny of a country which was really born in 1991. Vladyslav Troitkyi sought to obtain a natural summery of the popular tone through modern means of expression. In the background, behind the musicians, mime started speaking : it spoke about the life of eight melancholic and graceful Ukrainian couples, who imparted to the show the strenght of universality, and transformed it into a real cultural testimony.

« My job ? Always to create a new world », Vladyslav Troitkyi smiles.

Today Ukrainia knows а total crisis of unity. In fact there are two Ukrainia, the Western one and the Eastern one. That is to say two different languages, two different systems of value and two different religions : « Yet, it is a one country. But people don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. In Ukrainia, the arguments that offer a positive look on the world are few. I think art is an argument. », Vladyslav Troitkyi says. With his show he seems to have defied the story of his country. A fascinating unity : the show is the construction of a musical memory, the success of the balance between several modern techniques, and the full harmony between colours and gesture. « Comes a moment when one doesn’t only look at a light, a comedian, a screen or a musician in particular : one is seized by something global. The perfect balance », a charmed spectator says, « there is just one more thing i’d like to say to the festival itself : thank you for opening Mimos with such a show, which is not a pure show of animation. You chose to kick off the festival with a artistic, moving, and cultural show, that pierces the heart and fill the eyes. »

The Ukrainian troup should move to numerous European countries, to Netherlands, to Italy, to Germany, etc. in the next few months. http://www.dax.com.ua/en

Fanny Cheyrou, 01.08.2011

Back
Go to