Name: Deca (Children)
Start: 2022-10-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
Location: National Theatre

Organization

Stage director

Irena Popović Dragović

Set designer

Miraš Vuksanović

Costume designer

Selena Orb

National Theatre Belgrade

Orchestra

Belgrade National Theatre Orchestra

Others

Children's choir Nade

Deca (Children) -  (Children)

Belgrade

Serbia

National Theatre

Deca (Children) Popović Dragović

Public

Children

Approved

Bass

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

Oboist

hornist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Harper

Saxophonist

Trombonist

Harpsichordist

Accordionist

Bassist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Conductor

Librettist

Choreographer

Lighting designer

Dancer

Actor

Chorus master

Video designer

Dramaturge

Translator

Sound designer

Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

Hairstylist

Other

Stage Manager

Choir

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

Broadcasting

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Illustrator

Extra

Countertenor

Singer

Soprano

Contralto

Bass-baritone

Tenor

Mezzo-soprano

Baritone

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

COMPOSER AND DIRECTOR'S WORD (excerpt)

In the music I composed for "Deca", I tried to find the color of the collective voice, i.e. Milena's being. The complexity of Milena's poetry and its layering gave me the space that this collective voice can be both operatic and ordinary, that it can be childlike and that it can be perfect in its imperfect color. The voices in "Deca" are a unique combination of the incompatible, and it seems to me that we get one overtone that floats through spaces and simply refuses to be defined and caught in the trap of classical analysis. 

Milena's children are weak human children... spoiled, crying, angry, stumbling, trembling, hopping, delirious, dazed, wandering and all want everything... Screaming human children...

In a position where we compose for children, we very often fall into the trap of adapting the music, and I really think that's wrong. Through the verses that I quoted, Milena writes about the fact that that child is us who forgot, hid, wrapped up in some false norms and codes of conduct. When I write that is I compose about them, I become the same jumping and screaming child, liberated, happy... The very act of creation then becomes a game and a joy without any mystification and anxiety, and I just want that creative whirlwind to never end and last a hundred thousand million days and a hundred thousand million night...

English

РЕЧ КОМПОЗИТОРА И РЕДИТЕЉА (извод)

У музици коју сам компоновала за „Децу“ покушала сам да пронађем боју колективног гласа тј. Милениног бића. Комплексност Миленине поезије и њена слојевитост ми је дала простор да тај колективни глас може бити и оперски, и обичан, да може бити и детињи и да може бити савршен у својој несавршеној боји. Гласови у „Деци“ су јединствен спој неспојивог и чини ми се самим тим добијамо један надглас који плови кроз просторе и који напросто одбија да буде дефинисан и ухваћен у замку класичне анализе. 

Миленина деца су слаба људска деца... покварена, уплакана, бесна, тетурава, дрхтава, скакутава, помамљена, омамљена, потуљена и сви хоће све... Вриштава људска деца...

У позицији када компонујемо за децу врло често улазимо у замку прилагођења музике и заиста мислим да је то погрешно. Кроз стихове које сам цитирала Милена управо пише о томе да то дете јесмо ми који смо то исто дете заборавили, сакрили, увили у неке лажне норме и кодексе понашања. Када пишем тј. компонујем о њима постајем то исто скакутаво и вриштаво дете, ослобођено, срећно... Сам чин стварања онда постаје игра и радост без икакве мистификације и тескобе и само желим да тај стваралачки вртлог никада не престане и траје стотину хиљаду милион дана и стотину хиљаду милион ноћи...

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Children by Popović Dragović, From (2022/2023), Directed by Irena Popović Dragović,, National Theatre, Belgrade, Serbia

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