Far Close

it’s a performance. it’s a happening. it’s a dance event. it’s a call. it’s an action. it’s a gathering of people. it’s a game. it’s a name in the festival’s program. it’s many things, and at the same time, it’s nothing at all.

it’s far, it’s close. it’s funny, it’s sad, it’s light, it’s difficult. we could keep writing about what this is. or we could not. we don’t know where the need to describe it will lead us.

we just want human warmth and understanding. we want to sing “my armenia.” we want to go to armenia. we want to go to kyrgyzstan. and right now, i’m here. we want to go to europe, and i will go there the day after this performance in armenia, which will be played from kyrgyzstan. we want to go to russia, to the places where they didn’t wait, where there’s sorrow, where they’ve forgotten, to places, to nowhere, to nowhere.

confused? we’ll definitely untangle it.

this work will be raw, but it will cook in your hearts. we don’t promise. we don’t know. we just believe. we love. my mom always cries when i leave my childhood home. she wants her children to be close. and i want that too. but i also want my friends to be close, though they are often far away. it’s sad to write all this, but how can you not? after all, this is life, it has to be done.

what is life? what is life? what is life?

come, it will be fun. we want joy. healing joy. not looking back at rigidity and certainty. we want an experiment under a microscope. let’s finish the description. it’s all clear enough. let’s save time. let’s enjoy the mystery. nature. each other.

see you soon!

conceived and initiated by: artem tomilov

made by: everyone you will see on stage and on screen.