Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theater: Sailors and Whores

A Dance Performance, running time: 2 h, prime December 18, 2012
Last performed December 2, 2017

Director — Oleg Glushkov
Stage Design — Aleksei Kondratyev
Costume Design — Irina Belousova
Lighting Design — Vladislav Frolov
Dance Coach — Natalia Terekhova
Stage Managers — Olga Lopach, Yelena Lukianchikova

The dances break out spontaneously, borne out of simple everyday movements: here is a woman convincing a man, there is a man playing a fiddle… Still, dancing is not obligatory. You can simply sit around, remembering your past loves or thinking of the future one, remembering and laughing your head off, scalding yourself with hot tea. A dance is something inherent, a special method of structuring your soul.

Music by Johann Strauss, George Frideric Handel, Henry Purcell, Georges Bizet, Antonio Lucio Vivaldi and compositions by Salty Dick, Amiina, Django Reinhardt, Tosca Tango Orchestra, Auktsyon and Yablochko

Sailors and Whores is one of those rare performances that force you to feel instead of think. It forces you to be silent, but express a lot. To speak of important things without saying a single word.: Olga Abakumova, musecube.org