Thoughts on Yesenin

Overview

The Russian poet Sergei Yesenin, who had many colourful relationships, including marriages to Isadora Duncan and Tolstoy's granddaughter, was considered the 'last of the rural poets', writing about nature and comparing rural women to the Virgin Mary. He regarded himself a 'distanced poet', a wanderer with a fear of restraint. Taking from his final message the idea that "Life is a joke, but if there is no greatness in life, it cannot be that there is only greatness in death", the work contrasts Yesenin with the character of a clown.

- Participated in the ACA National Arts Festival 1975

Details

Title

Thoughts on Yesenin

Performance creator(s)

Wakamatsu Miki & Tsuda Ikuko Free Dance Performance

Direction/Choreography

Direction and Choreography: Miki Wakamatsu, Ikuko Tsuda

Venue

Toranomon Hall

Performance date(s)

6 November 1975

Performer(s) and staff

Performers: Miki Wakamatsu, Ikuko Tsuda, Free Dance Company
Music director: Kazuo Yura
Lighting Designer: Katsuhiko Inagaki
Stage Manager: Takao Kobayashi
Stage Designer: Ikuko Tsuda, Masako Hirano, Sota Mori

Genre

Modern

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