Olga Labovkina Biography

Diana Vishneva. The performance became the winner of the year at the contest of young choreographers Context. Diana Vishneva, and since then has been finalized and expanded. Photo: Yana Gorbacheva Yana Gorbacheva, photographer: “For the first time I saw the production of the young choreographers of the CONTEXT festival in the year. Since then, it has transformed, increased and supplemented with new details.

Now the audience does not sit in the auditorium in front of the stage, but move behind artists in three locations: in one large room there are three different scenes. The performance begins with the fact that in the darkness the dim light gradually lights up and the naked bodies of the dancers are visible. There are three of them, they are mechanically dressed, look around and become part of the surrounding world.

But at some point, the world fails, first individual objects, and then the whole ghostly room begins to swing. Photo: Yana Gorbacheva, a mysterious object that migrated from the wow in the year - air wigwam, a design in the form of a tent filled with air and light, with which artists do not particularly interact. There were also airy flakes, with which the dancers fill their shirts in the chest area until it “explodes”.

The difficult relationships in the triangle were added: the artists take turns kissing each other, and then point each other with their fingers, blaming something. And a completely new third scene appears, where Olga Labovkina soars into the air over her partners and spectators. And in the end there was the most spectacular way to bow after the performance that I saw.

Olga literally flew out to the bow. " Photo: Yana Gorbacheva Olga Labovkina, choreographer and performer: “Before going to the stage, you need a setup. For me, this is an internal swing of my swing, gaining courage, because for me an artist must have courage. He may not have other qualities, he may not even have a high intelligence. Although I respect the intellect. But there should be courage and some kind of inner risk with oneself, it is probably important, and you must first calm down, then concentrate, and then swing these swings.

Photo: Yana Gorbacheva, it is this production that is very specific, especially the first part. It seems that all reality is leaving there, and you lose all the supports, so this sweded state of consciousness should be present there. Maybe this is not for all work. Now in these shows and in Minsk it worked with me like this. ” Photo: Yana Gorbacheva Ivan Sachkov, performer: “This is a sign for me - one of the first so large -scale projects, which lasts, moreover, for several years.

Initially, even before my participation, it was a small duet of Olya and Sasha. To the CONTEXT festival. Diana Vishneva, he developed in a trio. Then the performance grew up, changed, the versions of 5, 15, 25, 40 minutes and finally took the form in which it exists now - full -format work carried out in several locations and lasting more than an hour. Photo: Yana Gorbacheva is also important for me that “air” is our joint work.

Olya is an unconditional ideological inspirer, a person who forms the main idea, tracks the smallest details, but also gives a certain degree of freedom and the realization of his own thoughts in creating vocabulary, searching through improvisation. The play contains scenes that we have in the process of joint technical classes that we held as part of the Summer Space residence in the OK16 space in Minsk.

Photo: Yana Gorbacheva plus such “nomadic” productions, in my opinion, in the fact that in every new space it lives differently than in the previous one. At the Air Bakery was some kind of “cozy”, with an amazingly warm, calm, slightly detached viewer, this is only my feeling. There are scenes in the play when the viewer has a choice for whom to follow.

So one of the days I was left almost one on one with several spectators.

This is every time a very exciting moment, but probably one of the most intimate ones. Photo: Yana Gorbacheva Air is what unites us, but also carries a huge amount of metaphors in the language. So we tell more than one story. Let those who can come to this freedom for interpretation. Photo: Yana Gorbacheva Alexander Filippov, Contractor: For me, this performance is a call for myself every performance.

With each show, a performance inside opens and is something new and unexpected, as in the interconnections of personal bodily, the relationship between us three, Olya and Vanya, and in interaction with the viewer. The energy of the viewer is direct and felt when it is open and when it is skeptical, wary. At the bakery, the audience reacted well, warm. I met the eyes of the viewer, who watched what was happening with genuine interest.

The choreography in the production was created by searching for bodily reactions to various tasks that Olga proposed: improvisations in some framework and tasks - somatic, conditional, physical.For me, this setting about life and existence, search and loss, about the possibility of being impossible, that everything has an ultimate goal only in the minds and way of perceiving reality surrounding you, that an unshakable faith in something or a certain can become something more, or become a trap and leave you at a half ...

photo: Yana Gorbacheva