Kris Defoort & Dirk Roofthooft & Lod

According to the Russian winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), a poem is a conversation between the writer and the reader, the sharing of one another's loneliness. In 'The Brodsky Concerts', the actor Dirk Roofthooft conveys the essence of his poetry to the public. The music by Kris Defoort conveys what is not possible in words. Together they pay homage to Brodsky's poetry, its melody and rhyme, and to their great metaphysical themes: the sense of life, death, movement through time and space with or without love, and solidarity with something or nothingness, between someone or nobody. Joseph Brodsky read his poetry half singing, with the timbre and the execution of a Russian orthodox priest. Those who cannot understand the words will grasp that the meaning of his poetry is in the first instance communicated through the sounds. The poet is dependent on the language conveyed in his own poem. Just like Brodsky, Dirk Roofthooft and Kris Defoort allow the language to whisper each successive sound in their ear. In this way even they are amazed by the results of their own improvisation.