MILOS SOFRENOVIC // The Ghosts of Sylvia Plath - Tanztheater

This project is in loving memory of Vesna Sofrenovic (1954 - 2018), great friend, journalist and writer.
Directed by
Milos Sofrenovic
Dramaturgy by
Milica Konstantnovic Stanojevic
Music by
Vladimir Korac
Photography by
Tanja Draskic
Movement created in collaboration with the performers:
Andrea Gotovina, Luka Mihovilović, Sendi Bakotić, Maja Ožegović, Nika Ivančić
Produced by
Istrian National Theatre, Pula, Croatia
Artistic Statement:
Choreodrama "MEDUSE: The Ghosts of Sylvia Plath" is equally inspired by the poems and by the life itself of one of the most powerful female voices in the world of poetry - American poet Sylvia Plath.
Both the mundane elements from poet's everyday life, as well as those coming from her artistic practice (her poems), are put into dialogue with 5 performers during the process of genesis of this stage work.
Via his final choreographic project, the author Milos Sofrenovic in collaboration with his artistic team attempts through non-verbal / physical approach to interpret the selected verses of this tragic poetic heroine by the usage of "silent" movements which are not loosing the driving force behind the original words. Sylvia Plath, in her process of self-revelation colored by her own revolutionary sensibility, does not find in the end a personal inner peace and harmony in the post WWII society.
Nevertheless her "restlessness" out of which her complete body of work is made of, fascinatingly depicts the complex perception of the society in which one single powerful female entity attempts to secure her own well deserved place under the sun.
This stage work explores the notions of visibility, vitality and acceptability of an individual by the society (whether the 20th century or present time one) that prefers and tolerates always more the limited level of personal, revolutionary or confrontational.