CPR Performance Archive

GIVING VOICE 11 - MAISTERNIA PISNI (UKRAINE) [April 2009]
ON SUNDAY MORNING

TUESDAY 21 APRIL, 9PM

The artistic activity of Maisternia Pisni – the ‘Workshop of the Song’ – locates itself on the borderline between theatre and traditional music, and oscillates around processes taking place within human consciousness, as well as around fundamental principles that shape changes within culture. In such a context, the singing becomes a service and an instrument providing access to traditional ways of thinking and paths marked out by generations.

“Sunday… morning...” - a moment of being, when consciousness awakes, dawn, the sun has just risen, the time of not-doing, so time is very present…on Sunday…morning.

The Ukrainian songs of the Maiden Ritual of the Year, on which the performance is built, came to us in the memory of our body. They didn’t ask us if we wanted to sing it, if we understood …in any case nowadays such songs with no pragmatic meaning maybe help us to live.

There is no narrative ‘plot’ in the performance. It is a Story of Time, of Tree, of Songs.

The Maiden plot is always one the same:

She is waiting, He is leaving.Going all his life.

On Sunday morning it is snowing.

But actually there IS plot:

“On Sunday morning… she stood on the footbridge…”

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