o teatro que eu amo... por Slava Polunin

What Is My Kind of Theatre?
or
The Theatre I Love

- It is a kind of wedding cavalcade,
where I try to marry everyone to everyone;
- It is a theatre of ritual magic
and festive pageantry,
constructed on the basis of images and movements,
games and fantasies,
that are the common creation of the audience and the people of the theatre;
- It is a theatre which inexorably grows
from dreams and tales;
- It is a theatre of hopes and dreams,
full of longing and loneliness,
losses and disillusionment;
- It is a theatre which always changes,
which breaths spontaneous improvisation
and cares scrupulously for tradition;
- It is in the vein of contemporary
multi-layered synthesis,
on the boundary of life and art;
- It is a theatre that works in an epic-intimate alloy
of tragedy and comedy,
of absurdity and naivity,
of cruelty and gentleness;
- It is a theatre which escapes
definition and the unequivocal
understanding of its actions,
as from attempts
to usurp its freedom.

Slava Polunin