Next to Abyss / 2024 / Paris
Dance horror on the music of Angelina Rud
Next to Abyss is a multi-genre dance performance for a dancer, pianist and video installation. A dance horror inspired by filmmakers such as David Lynch and Alfred Hitchcock, it explores concepts such as the "horrible" or "otherworldly". Stylistically, the work straddles the line between expressionism and surrealism, while flirting with cinematography and visual art.
The project invites the viewer to go through an existential experience, encountering a bare emotion extracted from the political context of everyday life. This emotion is being placed in the body of the dancer and the body of the musical score. These emotional states will be abstracted from their context and explored through different artistic tools.
The authors of the project will refer to specific moments when people go beyond the limits of their usual behavior: being in a state of nightmare and otherworldly fear. The artistic form of the project will balance between the recognizable and the beyond scary. Something you can neither name nor give a familiar explanation for. But at the same time you can't help but look in that direction, falling under the magnetic influence of the transcendent.
The performance consists of several parts (dreams), which alternate with each other to form a single metaphysical corridor of events.
Dreams (chapters from the diary of David Lynch):
1. Finding love in hell
2. My log turns to gold
3. The most wonderful happy ending
4. Next to Abyss
5. People rise and fall
Choreography & dance - Olga Tsvetkova
Music - Angelina Rud
camera - Sylvain Oger & Oleg Tsiplakov
This project is the laureate of the residency program of the French Institute at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris.
with support of French Institute in St.Petersburg
Announcement:
Olga Tsvetkova to Show Dance Horror in Paris
About the project:
Next to Abyss
Olga Tsvetkova
Dance horror on the music of Angelina Rud
Next to Abyss is a multi-genre dance performance for a dancer, pianist and video installation. A dance horror inspired by filmmakers such as David Lynch and Alfred Hitchcock, it explores concepts such as the "horrible" or "otherworldly". Stylistically, the work straddles the line between expressionism and surrealism, while flirting with cinematography and visual art.
The project invites the viewer to go through an existential experience, encountering a bare emotion extracted from the political context of everyday life. This emotion is being placed in the body of the dancer and the body of the musical score. These emotional states will be abstracted from their context and explored through different artistic tools.
The authors of the project will refer to specific moments when people go beyond the limits of their usual behavior: being in a state of nightmare and otherworldly fear. The artistic form of the project will balance between the recognizable and the beyond scary. Something you can neither name nor give a familiar explanation for. But at the same time you can't help but look in that direction, falling under the magnetic influence of the transcendent.
The performance consists of several parts (dreams), which alternate with each other to form a single metaphysical corridor of events.
Dreams (chapters from the diary of David Lynch):
1. Finding love in hell
2. My log turns to gold
3. The most wonderful happy ending
4. Next to Abyss
5. People rise and fall
Choreography & dance - Olga Tsvetkova
Music - Angelina Rud
camera - Sylvain Oger & Oleg Tsiplakov
This project is the laureate of the residency program of the French Institute at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris.
with support of French Institute in St.Petersburg
Announcement:
Olga Tsvetkova to Show Dance Horror in Paris
About the project:
Next to Abyss
Olga Tsvetkova
