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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЖОВТЕНЬ 201 7 WWW. UNWLA.ORG 23 The Tychy na poems were interspersed with contemporary Zhadan poems performed as songs by Zhadan and the Dogs. Zhadan’s energy was matched by a colorful background with red and yellow light- ing. The dynamic music was a way to bring the poems to heart, to feel them th roughout our bodies with the band accentuating the words. The two pieces of the performance converge in a poignant moment when Zhadan picks up a book bound in red cloth, a relic from Tychyna’s time that he brings into the pre- sent. Bob Holman also participa tes in the Zhadan songs by singing English - language interpretations of each song. Some of the most powerful lines describe Stepping over corpses, Walking with these refugees, This train’s got apocalypse for destination. And the description of the smell in the train, like “death and cinnamon,” is simultaneously beautiful and terrible. A poem by Zhadan, “Take Only What Is Most Important” formed the coda of the piece performed by Yara actors. It ends memorably with the following lines: unedited lists of th e dead, so long there won’t be time to check them for your own name. The performance ends with a powerful song, “Know Your Rights,” woven into the lessons from Timothy Snyder’s book On Tyranny and originally set to music composed by the Clash. The book’s f irst line echoes the show’s theme: “History does not repeat, but it does instruct.” And we have learned from the events in 1917 that history can indeed be carried forward to 2017. Zhadan both inspired the audience to dance and incited them to political act ion. The show’s overarching message is “do not sit still.” The combination of two time periods, an expansive set, and the use of the band makes this Yara’s most ambi- tious show yet. Zhadan and cast perform “Know Your Rights.” (Photo by Lee Wexler)
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