Since the start of the war in Ukraine, exiled Russian artists Elina Kulikova and Dima Efremov have set out to "tell the story" of the conflict through three manifesto concerts, which can be enjoyed together or on their own. "In these performances, we speak, or rather sing, in the first person, as witnesses and unwitting accomplices in this war," explains Elina Kulikova. Drawing on the iconic piano romances of 19th- and 20th-century "great Russian culture" in Un Champ brûlé, folk songs in Un Endroit perdu and orchestrating a rave in Une Nuit blanche, they explore many facets of pain. Through music, poetry, autofiction and documentary writing, they tell us what it's like to grow up and live in a totalitarian state, and evoke the brutal realities of war, but also offer us a way out through protest and resistance.
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