“… We classify Risima Risimkin's creative work in the Macedonian dance avantgarde who has (sometimes even for the prize of fierce critics and denials) successfully changed our views related to dance.
Sonja Zdravkova Dzeparoska “The theatre on the Macedonian ground 20 century”
“A leading criteria for Risima Risimkin is the visual moment, because of which she creates effective, impressive images, which speak for her qualities as a director..“
“She begins with the provocation to break down the concepts of shaping and to offer new ones…”
STRAVINSKY DIARY CRITICS
Nova Makedonija, Monday 15 th of March 2004
THE AUDIENCE FELT THE MUSIC IN STRAVINSKI VISUALLY
The premier of the multimedia spectacle “Stravinsky Diary”, which took place on Saturday evening in the Universal Hall, was a true stage refreshment for the Macedonian audience. The audience expressed their admiration to the artistic and ballet performance of the team from the Macedonian centre for dance, to the special guests Boris Trajanov and prima ballerina from Germany , Irena Veterova with powerful salvoes and applauding for couple of minutes…”
V.A.
Makedonija denes, Tuesday 16 th of March 2004
IMRESSIVE AND MODERN POSING OF STRAVINSKI
… The performance of the ballet “Dedication to the spring”, the one with Macedonian transcription, for the first time on our stage, placed Risima in the pleiad of choreographers who have successfully answered to the requests of Stravinsky, creating with the epithet the best…Risima Risimkin has successfully managed the challenge called Stravinsky through her quality choreographic language…
…The intensively rhythmical score with exceptionally complex music, well interpreted by the symphonises from the Macedonian philharmonic orchestra, which penetrated from the translucent curtain…
One of the most impressionable characters from the performance was definitely the character of Stravinsky's muse, in interpretation of the ballet dancer Irena Veterova, who left a deep mark on the performance and totally excited the audience. The powerful and passionate movements of the rest of the team were a perfect complement to her exceptionally soft and sophisticated movements shaped in the totally elegant performance. Veterova, who is a prima ballerina in the Vesbadian theatre in Germany, has given the performance an exceptional artistic heaviness which remained to flow as a memory and impression long time after the performance…
M.Tanevska
Dnevnik, Wednesday 17 th of March 2004
The director and choreographer of the performance, Risima Risimkin, has probably felt the music from the ballet deeply, reviewing the psychology of Stravinsky himself. The ballet choreography is based on that concept exactly, which leads us in his deep psychological battle with the Music, the Muse, the Notes and the sonatas for the Prophet, the Creator and the Beauty through the basic composer's idea. Through these seven characters Risima Risimkin creates an unusual, artistically mature work, which transfers the duel between death and birth from the heather rituals to Stravinsky's psychological profile: his disturbance caused by the Muse, his darkness in contrast with the equanimity of the music which seduces and deceives him towards herself constantly, his play with the characters living inside of him and play with the inner impressions of every creator who makes a bow in front of the Prophet and the Beauty. All of the Stravinsky's internal fight observed by the powerful Muse by the side that simply touches and causes the birth and plays with the tender note, is just one pure enunciation of the composer's chaos. Through simple image, pure choreographic movements, pastel and vivid choreography that visualises the character of each performance masterly, Risimkin renewed us with new energy which brought Stravinsky close to us as a composer – man with great imagination that is being decanted in all of his work. Through the powerful voice of Boris Trajanov and the words of Tomas.S.Eliott, we got the plot of this ballet at its beginning already. In a totally different connotation from the Stravinsky's original libretto this time. However, the connection between the two apparently different stories is original and meekly logical. At the end, after the whole exhausting fight, the Muse enlightens the artist after all and the Music was the only thing that left from all of the chaos.
An excellent performance indeed, a complete image after a long time in which the ballet was moving in a live performance of the music. The Macedonian philharmonic orchestra, together with the ballet corps, created a magical environment of unbreakable corpse which struck everybody's senses. It seems that we have superb artistic and universal potential. Vasil Zafirchev, together with the ballet dancers, got to the Stravinsky's character completely artistic and choreographic, and the orchestra, led by the conductor Le Fi Fi, seemed to respond to their challenge, which was shown through the almost blamelessly performance to one of the most beautiful acts in the world's music literature “Dedication to the spring”.
Velika S.Serafimovska
Vreme, 16 th of March 2004
DANCE IN HONOUR TO THE NEW CYCLE
… Risima Risimkin elaborated the Stravinsky ballet through the music, focusing on the internal fight of the author with himself, underlining his unsettling spirit, the eternal search for the perfect, for the muses, for the universal and cosmic music. Risima has imagined the whole story excellent, playing with the Muse (Irena Veterova), with the Music (Iskra Veterova), with the Notes (Bistra Delinikolova) of the everlasting Stravinsky, presented fantastically through the character of the actor Vasil Zafirchev…
Angelina Dimovska Dnevnik, Monday 22 nd of March
PERFORMANCE – BOUNDARY STONE OF THE MACEDONIAN DANCE HISTORY
…”Dedication to the spring” has creatively provoked the Macedonian choreographer Risima Risimkin. She gave an individual concept which is drastically different from everything we have seen before, intervening in the name of the act also. “Stravinsky diary”, in production of the Macedonian centre for dance, brought together numerous Macedonian well known artists. We can mark this performance as a boundary stone of the Macedonian dance history, because it is important from few aspects. First of all, it is a premiere performance of “Dedication to the spring” on domestic scene. On the other hand, this is the first time that an independent project is realized with performance by the orchestra. The philharmonic orchestra, led by the conductor Le Fi Fi, had a positive effect on the reception of the act, enriching the performance. Risimkin continued the established line of artistic working with “Stravinsky diary”, but at the same time made a true step forward in direction of creating the contemporary multimedia theatrical form…
…All of the people who had the possibility to be present at the performance of “Stravinsky diary” will have to agree that it is a nonstandard, ultramodern performance which succeeded to bring together the three basic theatrical expressions in a unique creative frame. Risimkin dedicated the act of Stravinsky to the composer himself.
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