DANCING WITH DARKNESS (2002)

Actress: Sanja Krsmanovic Tasic
Dramaturgy and Direction: Dijana Milosevic
Set design: Nesa Paripovic
Light design: Radomir Stamenkovic
Costumes: DAH Teatar
House/table: Nikola Tasic- ARBOS
Dolls: Vera Vecanski
Assistant Director: Jelena Dakic
Texts: Madelin Gins, Helen Keller, Sanja Krsmanovic Tasic, Dijana Miloševic
Song Lyrics: Lao Tzu, Jelaluddin Rumi
Music: Tina Milivojevic

Through dealing with the reasons of the loss of an old performance "The Helen Keller Case", this performance deals with the meaning of loss in general: the loss of senses, the loss of a country, the loss of perceiving reality in a generally accepted way, the loss of identity.

Through different aspects, from the personal point of view of the actress who speaks in her own name, through the point of view of the historical but also fictional character of Helen Keller, a kind of a subconscious monologue emerges expressed through the character of a weird scientist that expresses "stories from the void".

Her stories pose a question: what does the emptiness that remains after loss contain? What is the sense of loss: the absence or the presence? Does loss contain the potential for new life?

"What has no sound nor touch nor form nor decay, likewise is tasteless, eternal, odorless, without beginning or end, beyond the great, stable, by discerning that, one is liberated from the mouth of death." Katha Upanishad, 3.15 "There is no doubt that in this time in history Western Civilization is suffering from a great sickness of the soul. In the face of all this global chaos, the only possible hope is self- transformation." M. Some