Music live from P.A.N.D.A Theatre, Berlin, Germany Dance live from Guslitsa Creative Castle, Russia
May, 2020
Another wonderful collaboration of May 2020. Quarantine is a creative time. The Internet allows you to broadcast music and video stream from Berlin directly to Guslitsa Creative Castle, where I performed my choreography live with live video and music stream from Berlin . Sasha Pushkin, pianist, composer played his original music. I really love Sasha’s style of composing and performing, improvising the live texture of the concert. Sasha Pushkin calls his style - "Exprovisation" - expressive improvisation. And this expression is very close to dance. Video unite two artists performing for each other at the same time at different parts of the planet.” Konstantin Grouss, choreographer, artist
“My motivation for creating music for this livestream concert was the “quarantine” situation in the world and intense feelings and thoughts associated with it. It was the second concert from the "New World" series. Its feature is not only in the uniquely created music, but also the concept of international cooperation with movement and dance. The dancer sees a live concert on his screen and instantly at the same moment creates his own choreography. And the performer is motivated by the fact that the dancer at this moment also creates somewhere in a completely different place on Earth. Collaboration with Konstantin Grouss always brings great pleasure. His creativity and real interest in the new is very motivating. Konstantin brings his ideas to the world and embodies them both in his movement and creating concepts and projects. His dance is full of his own soft, but strong way of movement that leads my imagination to the origins and philosophy of eastern martial arts, while giving one a sense of flying and lightness. And this is not only aesthetic pleasure, but also an example of attitude to life itself” Sasha Pushkin, pianist, composer