A project by Dirk Roofthooft and Kris Defoort
Based on the Nobel Prize winning work of Joseph Brodsky
 
What happens if you feel like the espresso at the bottom of your cup is the only black spot on the horizon?*

According to the Russian Nobel prize winner Joseph Brodsky, a poem is a conversation between the writer and the reader, who share two solitudes with one another. In The Brodsky Concerts, actor Dirk Roofthooft communicates the essence of Brodsky’s poetry to the audience. Kris Defoort’s music reveals that which is impossible to say with words. Together they create an homage to Brodsky’s poetry, to its melody and rhyme, and to the great metaphysical themes that his poetry invokes: the meaning of life, and of death, with or without loved ones, you move through time and space, at one with something or nothing, being between someone or no one.

Première La Bâtie-Festival de Genève, September 2010