This interest is not so much driven by an intellectual desire to create work which is complex and multi-layered, as well as by the increasing ability of the dancers to deal with such tasks, as by her observation of nowadays Russian life, where complexity is daily reality. 

In “Celestial Bodies” Olga Pona expands the idea of complexity into different dimensions and at the same time she tries to preserve a sense of clarity by dividing the dancers into small units: solo’s, duets and trios.

Is there a story? There might be, when the piece is finished. But more important is to give the spectator the opportunity to make personal choices, to see what is important for you to see, which is probably the only way to discover the simplicity of complexity.

Choreography: Olga Pona.   Duration: 50 min. 
Dance: Maria Gerasimova, Maria Greyf, Olga Sharova, Tatiana Lumpova, Julia Abramova, Tatiana Menshenina, Vladislav Morozov, Andrey Zykov, Artem Sushchenko, Michael Abramov, Artem Udyanskiy, Vladimir Vdovenko.
Costumes, set: Olga Pona. Light: Vladimir Karpov

During the Fall of 2007 and early Spring 2008, Olga Pona has been working on a new piece "Celestial Bodies". An excerpt was performed at the Tseh-festival in Moscow in December 2007 and a try-out performance of the full piece will be in Chelyabinsk on February 26.
"Celestial Bodies" has 11 dancers and the premiere will be at the TanzBremen Festival in Bremerhafen, Germany on March 6. 2008. "Celestial Bodies" is co-produced with Theater im Pumpenhaus, Münster, Germany, where the piece will be performed on February 11 + 12.

During the past ten years, Olga Pona has developed an increasing interest in working with complexity in terms of choreography as well as movement language.  

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