LIMITED LIABILITY ATTRACTION

KARAKULI Dance Theatre

– is not a set of people and relationships, but rather a set of collective and individual processes. We are a group of independent creative units, experimenting with movement, with meanings that our body can show. We demonstrate different ideas, objects, images, nuances, the value of which changes in the visual context of the game ... We are practicing the love to dance and performance and observing a common ground with other forms of art.

In 2008 KARAKULI dance theatre was created by Olga Labovkina.

The statements created by the theatre were presented at such festivals as "IFMC" (Vitebsk), "the Gold Mask" (Moscow), "Zawirovania" (Warsaw), "Zelyonka-fest" (Kiev), "Teart" (Minsk), "Plastforma" (Minsk), "M@rt-Kontakt" (Mogilev) etc. In cooperation with the choreographer Sibrig Docter (Sweden) created the performance “Where The Water Flows Uphill”, it was awarded at the International Theatre Festival “Belaya Vezha” in the nomination “Experiment”(Brest) . In 2010 KARAKULI dance theatre was invited by Svenska institutet (SI) to Stockholm for acquaintance with culture of Sweden. Visit of events of the Northern Dance Platform festival became the main dancing impression.

In December, 2014 КARAKULI dance theatre was invited by "Teatri di vita” to Bologna (Italy) . There were organized 4 solo evenings and 2 performances "One in a Square" and "Limited Liability Attraction" were shown.

The theatre continues its development, being in a process of creation of new works, taking active part in actions in Belarus, and also touring with performances to Kiev, St. Petersburg, Moscow.

The statement (2012)

The statement "Attraction with limited liability" is an attempt to look at the relations of a man and a woman from different point of view, to understand differences of perception of situations and actions, to visit several stages of development of the relations. All events between them are compared to an attraction where nobody takes responsibility, nobody knows the scenario and nobody is insured.

The main characters are under sensitive supervision of two curious characters personifying as guardian angels or as the highest powers of destiny. The angels entertain themselves with constant interfering in the relations, developing a course of events, interrupting, changing the plane, thereby finding their own conflict. Their conflict is a loss of consciousness.

The play was first presented and close the International Theatre Forum "M@ RT-contact". Later it was performed in Kyiv, Grodno, Vitebsk and Minsk (within the framework of the 1st Triennial of Contemporary Art and the Festival of plastic Theatre “PLASTforma”), in Teatri de Vita (Bologna, Italy)