Before the show began the hall had been plunged into darkness. After several bars of alarmingly pulsating music Vitaly Kalpidi's voice began to sound immediately setting an emotionally tense tone to what was happening. A second voice soon joined him as a doppelganger shadow — Vladislav Drozhash...
Before the show began the hall had been plunged into darkness. After several bars of alarmingly pulsating music Vitaly Kalpidi's voice began to sound immediately setting an emotionally tense tone to what was happening. A second voice soon joined him as a doppelganger shadow — Vladislav Drozhashchikh. Gradually the voices merged. Then the protagonist’s part split in two, the authors read the chapters one by one. The voices were laid on the background of electronic music that was supporting the surreal atmosphere, while at the same time an image began to appear on the screen — a fluid color abstraction that combined several projection layers. (This is how all editing software works now). Those were flowing streams of color, smudges and washings of paint — dynamic improvisations that surprised, first of all, by the fact that they seemed alive. The image on the screen seemed to "breathe". Every time unpredictable combinations of color shades, incomprehensible transformations of colorful structures, which were achieved thanks to the original technology of "liquid diapositive" developed by Pavel Pechenkin, contributed to the effect of novelty of the video sequence. The diapositive poem ended with choreographic improvisation: in the finale, the heroine's part entered with an angelic voice while at the same time a female figure covered in mirror foil appeared on the platform in front of the screen. Abrupt movements, reflections of a metal suit captured by beams of powerful strobe lights — that was the last thing that stroke the audience's imagination.
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