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IT
HAPPENED IN JERUSALEM
Premiere
took place 26th June / 27th June 2008
duration
75 min
choreography
Elżbieta
Szlufik-Pańtak, Grzegorz
Pańtak
music
Krzesimir Dębski
stage
designer
Boris Kudlička
stage
designer assistant
Arkadiusz Chrustowski
libretto
Henryk Jachimowski
costumes
Anna
Maria Klikowicz
lighting
director
Maciej Igielski
performing
artists
Kielce Dance Theatre
soloists:
Ewelina
Kubot
Maksim
Wojtiul (guest)
Świętokrzyskie
Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Jacek Rogala
Vocal
parts Jorgos Skolias
Production
Kielecki
Teatr Tańca
Coproduction
Świętokrzyskie
Philharmonic Orchestra
University
of Arts and Sciences in Kielce
The
production partially financed by Ministry of Culture and National
Heritage
A
love story of a Jewish boy and Arab girl who want to be together
despite life's adversities.
The
action takes place in Jerusalem, during turbulent events in the Middle
East. The idea od the spectacle is to give an inspiring message of love
thet can overcome religious, national and political prejudice.
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photo
M.Boruń |
Love
- among other aspects of life
is continuously present in art. Love stories, both in the past and
nowadays,are like the story written for Kielce Dance Theatre; she, Aje
Admed
a Muslim; he, Chanan Szalman – a Jew. Their youth and love
for
each other comes true in a stormy, wise way. Young dancers,
artists find fulfilment in culture, joy of life, dance and art.
This
story,
as if their own story written in a diary or a notebook was found in the
ruins of a house demolished by a missile or else a bomb as a result of
a
terrorist attack, but it’s also a sort of fairy-tale of youth
and love
emerging from a gloomy reality, the fairy-tale above any segregation,
cruelty, and
tragedy calling for reflection so life could serve life. An intention
of story is
not an idea dominated by a tragic theme, but to show how much love
needs love, youth
needs youth and man needs man in the world that has never been ordered
and curbed enough in its cruelty, the world which nowadays
is still the same, even in the one of the most present places on Earth,
in
Jerusalem, a magic, holy place for many nations and religions.
Jerusalem
Jerusalem / the
name of Jesus is in you/ Your gates open/ the Jaffa Gate,the Gate/
the Damascus Gate, the Dung Gate/ the Lion’s Gate, the
Herod’s Gate, the New Gate/ the Golden Gate closed in arches
of Grief and Mercy/ Jerusalem,
Jerusalem/ You are like the Garden of Eden, like a paradise apple/ all
roads lead to you/ come here in reflection to pick up a fruit from His
tree/
the tree of goodness/ the fruit of love.
I use the fragment of
my song,written above, to approach the atmosphere of this unique temple
of
history, the place chosen for a theatrical scene of the action, so
while being in
the theatre we could lean over history and notice in that a long list
of
great names David, Salomon, Mohammed and the most important for
Christians the name of Jesus Christ as well as all others, including
names of everybody who
stays and lives there.
The names of Aje and Chanan are among
them although they are only theatrical symbols of our needs and
desires. And we
need as much as we got – we want to live, live safely and
happily. I admit that this thought was providing
me support while I was working on the libretto text and
during projecting together with Elżbieta and Grzegorz Pańtak tasks and
forms for this ballet performance produced and directed by them, the
performance in which dance
evokes various means of expression creating a general statement. Art is
a road leading to a form; if it can find that, it carries ideas and a
plot
involving all of us who come to the theatre in the structure of stage
pronunciation the area of a mystery being equal with the
mystery of life so that we could open our mind, imagination, and
experience looking for answers. It happened in Jerusalem takes up such
tasks focusing the language of modern
ballet dance on the love story of Aje and Chanan as much as on
contemporary problems
and complexity of life that flourishes and loses in darkness hidden in
of evil that manipulates attitudes to achieve its aims goals, the evil
that justifies falsely letting the man act as he wants. This
is one of key issues about the world order; the ballet performance
joins in it, describing
with the means of dance, the beauty of life and raising life above
tragedy.
Henryk
Jachimowski
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