Premiere took place on 1 June 2013

Choreographer Vladimir Varnava

Music

Arditti String Quartet – Gyorgy

Ligeti – Quartet Sostenuto molto calmo
Arditti String Quartet – Gyorgy

Ligeti – Quartet Come un meccanismo di precisione 
Gyorgy Ligeti – Six Bagatelles 
Rubato. Lamentoso 
Gyorgy Ligeti – Musica ricercata
Henryk Górecki – Kwartet Nr. 
Iggy Pop – The Passenger
Soap&Skin – Voyage Voyage

Set designer Pavel Semchenko

Lighting designer Igor Fomin

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CAST

Vladimir Varnava
Vladimir Dorokhin / Konstantin Matulevsky
Marina Zenkova / Evgeniya Shtaneva

The ballet is based on the novel by Amélie Nothomb called “Cosmetics of the Enemy”. This is a story about a passenger sitting in an airport lounge, Jérôme Angust, who meets a bothersome stranger there.

The companion introduces himself as Textor Texel from Holland and starts telling a strange story of his life, starting with childhood pathologies and ending with the fact that he raped and 10 years later killed Jerome’s wife. Then, as a result of the painful feelings of guilt, Texel is now asking the unfortunate widower to kill him … the story text is transformed by the method of free association into the genre of ballet.

The story of a maniac murderer, told in 5 chapters and 2 jokes, addresses the split consciousness of the main hero fettered by the fear of accepting his own integrity. Only death may release him from his inability to live.