In the Empire of Measures

Ateliersi explores the boundless personality of the Russian dissident poet Marina Cvetaeva by inviting the audience to a listening experience of her verse and prose pieces, to connect in an intimate vibration with her words.
In the Empire of Measures offers a multiplicity of imaginative perspectives that embody the divergent tensions of Cvetaeva focusing on the relationship between daily life and creative activity, a central dimension in the poet’s emotional universe that intercepts cardinal themes such as time management, definition of priorities, the boundary between the inner world and external reality. Though living in a state of constant emergency, Cvetaeva wrote a lot with extraordinary poetic lucidity. Starting from this relationship between wandering, poverty, and creativity, Ateliersi opens to a reflection on value and waste. The relationship with the natural elements and the cosmic connection with what lives above and below daily existence, thus emerge from the embodied verses as signs of a boundless personality in the empire of measures.
A scenic writing that crosses the author’s personal and creative life, from childhood to adulthood, passing through the intense and complex relationships with her mother and the piano, with the literary environment and the History. A fascinating universe that is revealed in the word, between music and absolute visions.