PERSIAN MINIATURES
musical and dance performance
26.11.2008, La Fabrika, Prague
Choreographies inspired by stories by Idries Shah – Stories of dervishes written since last millennium.
About three dervishes
Jek, Do and Se are dervishes who search for the deepest truth and make a decision that they will search together. After their hard and frustrating labour, a mysterious voice spoke to them. It asked them to search in a different way. Jek must go into the country of fools, Do must find magical mirror of human thoughts and Se must find help of the water whirl genie. Finally dervishes come to success and they even gain a lot of followers, but they merely fight with one another and insist that only their own path is the right one.
To follow blindly has never lead anyone to truth…
Story of the sands
A water stream meanders through the countryside and passes over obstacles without difficulties …..until it hits the sand in which it dissapears. It must make a decision: Either give up its identity, transform its essence and commit itself to the wind which carries it over the desert or to die in the desert...
Ants
One thinks that the beautiful caligraphy over which he run comes from the pen, another one says that the pen was led by a hand so the hand is the author of the text. The third laughs and corrects others saying that the hand is just a part of the arm and it is the origin of everything. Man is like ants are – we also do not know where our origin is...
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Choreographies are created along with original music of various percusions and traditional persian instruments.
Concept and choreography: Rena Milgrom (CZ)
Music: Hearn Gadbois (USA/CZ)
Dance: Rena Milgrom and the Erfané group (CZ)
Players: Hearn Gadbois, Martin Alacam (Tur/CZ), Peter Mastroyiani (CZ), Michael Delia (USA)
- More about performers
- Photogalery of Persian miniatures show: J. Schwertner / Hana Major Sládková
- Program of Persian miniatures to download (PDF)
Your feedback: (e-mail us at renadance@gmail.com)
- Kateřina Samcová: "I would like to join in congratulating to your beatiful show. The atmosphere of the show fascinated the audience at La Fabrika, the aplause, expressed passion and thanks. I believe that after your hard work it brought pleasure. I liked the lighting, it influenced with the dance very mystic."
- Martin Drews&Mili: "Amazing!!! Many thanks!!!"
- Jarmila a Pavlína Kvapilovy:"The expression of fright at the end of Three Dervishes was excellent!"
- Klara Low:"I commented "wow!" on all of them :) Looks like it was a totally amazing show - i liked the storytelling with some of the dancing and the connection you all have with each other. Good stuff!"
- Věra Pilecká: "
„I would like to thank you a lot for yesterday´s show experience of Persian Miniatures.
I couldn´t imagine what to expected from the show, but the reality was absolutely perfect. I have never seen anything like this, beatiful merging of music and dance and when the end came I didn´t want to go home. I wanted to watch it once again. I think that my husband had the same feelings and if there is any other possibility to see another show, we would like to do so."
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