THE DANCE OF DELHI

by Ivan Vyrypaev

Translation - Galin Stoev

Director – Lyuboslav Nedelchev

Set and costumes – Nikolina Mincheva

Composer – David Kokonchev

Cast: Yoana Kircheva, Margarita Kostova, Kameliya Hatib, Mihail Ludin, Nadya Derderyan, Nina Goranovski

„The Dance of Delhi“ – The Laughter of Liberation

The Dance of Delhi (2010) is a theatrical text in seven parts, in which the same people meet in the same place – a hospital visitors’ room. These are seven stories about the witnesses of a dance born from the pain of the world. A dance that should not be watched, but listened to.

In each of these stories someone loses a loved one, but to their own surprise feels nothing. After every movement, after every action, we understand: pain does not exist. It is a reflection, a game of the mind, the shadows of clouds upon water. Death does not destroy, because, as Socrates says, it is a sleep without dreams. What remains is the only reality: love – not as a feeling, but as an essence, as the pulse of the universe.

Ivan Vyrypaev, born in 1974 in Irkutsk and currently living in Poland, is one of the five most-staged contemporary playwrights in Europe. The founder of Teatr.doc, he is among the leading figures of the new experimental wave in Russian drama. For him, theatre does not need false pathos, but honest conversation.

„We are moving towards a new kind of communication“ – says Vyrypaev. „I would call it communication between energies and consciousnesses. The viewer comes to the theatre because they need dialogue, living feedback…“

And when we understand this, when we stop being afraid, expecting, clinging, then we can laugh – because we are free.

Rehearsal photos - Tihomir Hristov