Site-specific Scenography for Choreographical Performance

As a final qualification project, the author is designing the scenography for a site-specific choreographical performance in the village of Podlubovo (Republic of Bashkortostan). The performance will involve dancers and choreographers from the Renaissance Dance Theatre, and its aim is to demonstrate the symbolic connection between the collective (personal stories of collective farm workers and dancers of the dance theatre) and the life cycle of bread. This will be achieved through mythicising the space of the granary. One of the key stages in design is visual research, which has a direct correlation with the diploma. To create a competent design of the ‘stage’ space, it is vital to study the methods of coding artistic thought, and on the basis of the obtained data, to make the performance understandable to an audience unfamiliar with the history of the location and personal context.