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Adhere And Deny presented ELEGY FOR KHLEBNIKOV from November 21st to November 25th, 2006.
ELEGY FOR KHLEBNIKOV, a theatre piece for ears, is a homage to the Russian Futurist poet and secular prophet Velimir Khlebnikov. Like all prophets, Isaiah or Hosea, Khlebnikov was speaking to his generation, but, also like the prophets his words resonate through all times.
Adhere And Deny constructed the poetry and theories of Khlebnikov to give the theatre piece a narrative arc to retell of his turbulent times. Khlebnikov, ahead of his times, influencing the likes of Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Brodsky as well as sound poetry, led the advance on the new poetry of the twentieth century, and participated in Russia’s upheavals: the First World War, the Russian revolution and the Civil War. Khlebnikov, the eternal iconoclast rejected all earthly and temporal governments and lived in the realm of the sounds of words, Time and Numbers. Through numbers and the unraveling of the Laws of Time he believed he could foresee the future. In 1917 he wrote, “. . . the palaces of world trade . . . reduced to ash someday.” Khlebnikov was seeing the death of one era and the beginning of the death of another, his world of 1917, but his words have an eerie echo for today. In a 1920 essay, THE RADIO OF THE FUTURE, he envisioned an expanded radio, a radio we today call the Internet with audio and video streaming. Khlebnikov comes into the light in ELEGY FOR KHLEBNIKOV.
ELEGY FOR KHLEBNIKOV was performed by Nadin Gilroy, Carolyn Gray, and Chris Sabel. It was directed by Grant Guy.
Barb Stewart
Uptown Nov. 30, 2006:
'A gorgeous meditation on the life and works of the Russian futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov, this “theatre piece for the ears” captures the sounds of Khlebnikov’s poetry and prophesies with an alluring intensity, countered with sharp humour.'
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