The idea of this video came to me immediately after seeing the building. I felt how its construction resonates with my movement vision. All my rehearsals were done with the building. The construction was built in 1973 by Soviet female architect Alla Onishenko. People dreamed about space flights and a glittering future for everyone in those days. Nowadays, we call this epoch Earlier Soviet Modernism. Then I learned that the building was threatened with destruction as many other Soviet modern facilities in our country. The City Council wanted to construct a new shopping mall in its place. With my dance video, I want to manifest the end of the brutal destroying of our meaningful treasures and to support a few public organizations that fight for unique architecture in Ukraine.
Made in collaboration with Tanya Bohdanova & Yana Remneva, FAAF.