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Vera Martynov

Chorus master

Ekaterina Antonenko

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Alexey Shemyatovsky

Choreographer

Nikita Chumakov

Sound designer

Sergey Kochetkov

Singer

Daria Safroshkina

Sopranos

Maria Grigorieva

Evgenia Kissina

Olga Shakhova

Ekaterina Kolomina

Mezzo-sopranos

Olga Talysheva

Maria Movenko

Alena Timofeeva

Mikhail Nor

Tenor

Artem Volkov

Pavel Gogadze

Ruslan Yarullin

Vladimir Krasov

Bass

Ilya Laptev

Dmitry Shchelkin

Percussion/Telegraph

Actor

Polina Liske

Alexander Pronkin

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SOS (The Song of Songs)

SOS THE SONG OF SONGS

The world premiere of the stage cantata SOS The Song of Songs for fourteen singers, two readers, including a percussion and a telegraph key, took place at the NET festival on December 1, 2017, in the New Space Moscow. 
On November 17, 2021, the Baryshnikov Art Center New York hosted the premiere of the stage cantata SOS in digital format. 

Initially created as a live performance, this work by artist Vera Martynov and composer Alexey Sysoev is about joint re-experiencing* a tragedy on a personal and global scale as a process of liberation from the past and discovery of new opportunities.

"Death is inextricably a part of life, and that lifelong consideration of death enriches rather than impoverishes life. Though the physicality of death destroys an individual, the idea of death can save him."
Irvin Yalom

The libretto is formed by three of the following texts: 
Song of Songs, a canonical text in the Old Testament; 
The letters of Pliny the Younger, who was a Roman politician as well as a writer and a lawyer, he lived in the first century AD; 
Vera Martynov's iPhone Notes. 
 
*Re-experiencing, or involuntary recollection, is a psychological phenomenon in which a person goes through sudden, intense, repeated experiences of the past or their elements.

Concept, Libretto, Director: Vera Martynov
Composer: Alexey Sysoev
Music Director of the Intrada Vocal Ensemble: Ekaterina Antonenko
Cinematographer: Alexey Shemyatovsky
Choreographer: Nikita Chumakov
Sound Director: Sergey Kochetkov
Technical Director: Mariam Ismailova
Poster and credits: Olga Sil

Sopranos: Daria Safroshkina, Maria Grigorieva, Evgenia Kissina, Olga Shakhova
Mezzo-sopranos: Ekaterina Kolomina, Olga Talysheva, Maria Movenko, Alena Timofeeva
Tenors: Mikhail Nor, Artem Volkov, Pavel Gogadze, Ruslan Yarullin
Basses: Vladimir Krasov, Ilya Laptev
Percussion and the Telegraph key – Dmitry Shchelkin
Performers – Polina Liske, Alexander Pronkin


The SOS (THE SONG OF SONGS) digital version has been produced by MART Foundation with support from the Nonfiction.film documentary platform and Baryshnikov Art Center.

SOS (The Song of Songs) by Sysoev, From (2022/2022), Directed by Vera Martynov,

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