Concept-video-direction: Peeter Jalakas
Concept-choreography: Sasha Pepelyaev (Moscow)
Assistant choreographers: Tatiana Gordeeva (Moscow); Daria Buzovkina (Moscow)
Music: Sergei Zagny (Moscow) and P. I. Tchaikovsky
Music performed and recorded by: NYYD Ensemble (artistic director - Olari Elts; conductor - Toomas Vavilov)
Costumes: Reet Ulfsak
The cast:
Actors: Liina Vahtrik; Tiina Tauraite; Erki Laur; Juhan Ulfsak; Taavi Eelmaa
Von Krahl Theatre's performance is not another interpretation of a known story and in that sense it has nothing in common with "The Swan Lake".
The performance is like a collage - a reflection of "The Swan Lake's" characters and social, artistic and aesthetic motifs.
Sasha Pepelyaev and Peeter Jalakas:
"We are interested in "The Swan Lake" as a symbol, as a final, closed system, questioning the possibility and necessity for it to change or to be changed. We have given up the story, the distribution of roles and canonical solutions to the scenes. We have used lots of opposites (black and white, man and woman, fire and water, individual and group, up and down, fiction and documentary, etc) and parallels (dancing, flying, swimming, decoration of oneself and others, sport, documentary scenes, etc.).
Tchaikovsky's music that has been especially arranged for this performance (author Sergei Zagny) creates the atmosphere where the daydreams and disappointments from the fairytale are associated as a matter of course with dream situations, odd occurrences, locomotives, steam boats and everyday life where Prince Siegfried, who sets free Odette, is reminiscent of the classics of revolution. Maybe he is not a prince after all, but the evil wizard Rotbart. And maybe setting free does not mean freedom."