I AM BASHO

12 April, 19.00 on stage of Novgorod Philharmonic Hall

OFFICIAL FESTIVAL OPENING

UPSALA circus, St. Petersburg

“I AM BASHO”

Director — Yana Tumina

Director-assistant — Alexander Balsanov

Composer, sound designer — Anatoliy Gonye

Light designer — Boytsova Yana

Stage Designer, Technologist, Actor — Nikolay Khamov

Costume designer — Anis Kronidova

Video Mapping — Polina Syrovyatkina

Circus Trainer, Stunt Coordinator — Yaroslav Mitrofanov

Circus Trainer — Kashina Natalia

Assistant Director — Maria Michelson

Performers — Alexey Popov, Alexander Balsanov, Nikolai Grudino, Elnara Evdokimova, Yaroslav Kormanovsky, Anton Kornyakov, Sofia Krylova, Stanislav Vashkevich, Maxim Mustafin, Olga Filimonova, Maxim Sukhodrev, Alexander Chulkov, Anton Selivanov, Feofan Chistovsky

Duration – 45 min.

Age – 6+

«I am Basho» is an experimental inclusive performance by Yana Tumina, Alexander Balsanov and the artists of Upsala-Circus. A poet lives in every person, and poetry is a universal language, which all people can speak without exception. Inspired by this idea, director Yana Tumina produced a play based on the Japanese tercets — haiku. This is a performance about beauty, which can be expressed in just three lines.

Children and teenagers children with disabilities and without them take part in this performance together with professional actors — each of them talks about the beauty that he or she sees around and inside himself/herself, discovering in himself/herself the future poet – student of Matsuo Basho.

In 2018, the performance became the winner of the Russian National Award «Golden Mask» for «Experiment» nomination and the winner of the Harlequin National Award for «Best Performance», «Best Director», and «Best Composer».