From A to Z There’s no relationship between what I have studied “officially” and what I am doing now. At first I was a student of the Economic Institute, then of the Culture Institute, a...
Carnival Carnival is an ideal formula of existence when everything is a theatrical performance and life is a festive occasion. All my performances are easy to arrange by the level of carnival in blood...
Theatre Sometimes they ask me, if I would like to talk on stage. It’s too late now. At one time I realized that life possesses some fascinating mysteries that you cannot express in words. There is muc...
Tradition I feel pity for the good audience that it denies the clownery. Historically, there is a great and magic treasure in this world, and that is the clown. For why, then, do we see a figure or a ...
Clown Clown is the most spontaneous creature on Earth. When you start restraining his freedom, he loses himself and whimpers like a child. Basically, it means that you offended him deeply. Clowns are ...
The internationally acclaimed Snowshow by Slava Polunin has again visited Manchester recently. Unfortunately, as I noticed from the reviews, very little seems to be known about Slava, despite his worl...
Just to what extent can you take things seriously? There is certainly a limit to the amount of tears one can shed over a particular issue. In Moscow, to my knowledge, people aren’t being given c...
I wrote The Word in 2006, and then it took two years and a Dublin Heidegger student to write a review of it. Paul Ennis is writing a Ph.D. thesis on Heidegger, “mostly on topological concerns, b...
Я не должна сказать, как дорог ты. Это загадка даже для меня, Кто должен лучше знать. И тайны той Открыть я не посмею глубины. Когда был май, любила я тебя; Казалось мне, мы вечность обрели. Я там был...
In the pictures you see, on the left, me on my first day at school in 1987, and on the right – me during my teaching practice at one of Moscow schools in 2001 (the practice was mandatory for all...