The nature and the narrative of this show are best described with an excerpt from Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut: …There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message describing a situation, a scene. We Tralfamadorians read them all at once, not one after the other. There isn't any particular relationship between all the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

RB&Co is a project born from the research of contemporary dance improvisation art in Kyiv. The base for this work was created by seven consecutive festivals of dance improvisation PushOK and 21 dance events The IMPRO STORE, curated, inspired and organised by Ruslan and Marina Baranov. The team of Tralfamadore is formed of professional dancers who have been taking part in, and contributing to these events for a number of years.

Tralfamadore was presented at Contemporary dance festival ZelyonkaFest 2018 (Kyiv, Ukraine).

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Day pass: UAH 280 / € 9 (valid for all performances happening on 23 June)
Three-day pass: UAH 650 / € 21 (valid for performances happening on 21, 22 and 23 June)

Genre: Contemporary dance with contact improvisation

Director and choreographer: Ruslan Baranov. Performers: Olha Kebas, Viktoria Horshkova, Maryna Baranova, Violetta Matiushenko, Ruslan Baranov. Sound: Viatcheslav Los.