PERFORMATIVE SONGS I.

“THE SHAPES OF THE THINGS”

In his creative work as a librettist, composer or director, Andrej Kalinka works with people. By shaping their movement, speech, singing, acting or playing musical instruments, he works with time, rhythm, movement, relationships.

During his residency in Artport, he didn’t work with actors, dancers, musicians, performers, but only with material around him in the studio. After many experiences with music, movement, and words, he is exploring and searching for the basics. The basics of time, movement, relationships and contexts, thinking, imagination, stories.

What role does our sight, hearing, experience, education, information, emotions have? When do movement and relationships arise, how does time change the meaning of what we see, what we hear, what we imagine, and what we create? Andrej roughly shapes raw material, often impersonal, emotionally...