Chagall

The theatre performance CHAGALL takes its inspiration in the life and art of the renowned Byelorussian-French painter Marc Chagall. It is an entwinement of theatre and visual arts, as the scenography and colourfulness à la Chagall will be created live in front of the audience.

The authors of the performance are interested in exploring the relations between words and narration, and colours and abstraction. Marc Chagall, one of the biggest painters of the 20^th century, wrote his autobiography My Life (Slovene translation: Suzana Koncut; Študentska založba, 2005) when he was thirty-five years old. The book was written during turbulent times when Chagall’s artistic star was at its brightest, and while history was irreversibly erasing the places of his childhood and youth. Chagall lived in tense times, unfavourable for art. He believed that visual arts – as well as books – have to tell stories, and have to enable the audience to experience something, to evoke memories, to offer an adventure. He prophetically saw life as a circus: to survive, one has to be a clown, an acrobat, a painter …

Theatre language of the performance is inspired (dramaturgy and mise-en-scène) by Chagall’s immensely rich iconography, by his surrealistic dream world, and by his eruptively creative opus.