Talk about yourself

The author's project Prašćaj was created on the occasion of 30 years of artistic work of the ballet master of the National Theater in Belgrade, Aleksandar Izrailovski. In this piece of contemporary ballet, Izrailovski appears as a complete author - as a choreographer and director, author of the libretto, arranger of music and a set of noises, natural sounds and as the only performer.

Starting from his own inner world, Izrailovski tells us about himself, his memories, sufferings, illusions... Arranging picture after picture, sparingly investing in them and sometimes spending himself feverishly, he creates a character that, above all, he cannot leave indifferent. The stage convincingness of the artist and a kind of dedication that radiates from every passage is emphasized.

Although in his late forties, Izrailovski has preserved exceptional physical condition, harmony and coordination of the body and the inside, and it is somewhat inexplicable why he "suffocated" this undoubted quality with excessive and intrusive facial expressions, screams and seemingly uncontrolled expressiveness. Too authentic - yes, but at the expense of something different, elevated and sublimated expressiveness.

A few touching, well thought-out and completed segments (with the persistent ringing of the phone without an answer, like Albert from Gisela with the Yugoslav flag instead of a cloak, the miniature Krug) can be singled out from the whirlwind of images that, with often grotesque mimicry, have the appearance of a naked, delirious trance. It was shown that such an explicit disclosure of the hidden, i.e. unconscious, if that was the goal at all, and how it is a double-edged sword. After such sentences, a kind of frightening feeling remains, and the author's actions seem vague and exaggerated.