Promo video for the spectacle “Claudel. Rodin. The Kiss.”

An original work of physical theatre, based upon the correspondence of Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin. Devised by Natasha Mikhaylova Mandelstam, Piotr Siwek, and Diana Zhdanova, under the direction of Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva. Video from the actors’ preliminary etudes, shot at the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design. The eventual live performance will explore Claudel’s life and work as a canvas upon which we project ideas of femaleness, and interrogate our notions of artist and m