Idea and direction: Albert Albert, Aleksandra Konnikova
Choreography: Albert Albert, Aleksandra Konnikova, Viktoria Hloptceva, Ivan Estegneev, Evgeny Kulagin, Ekaterina Polyakova.
Music: Richardas Norvila, a song of Tiger Lylies
Stage design and costumes idea: Albert Albert, Aleksandra Konnikova
Designer: Elena Safonova
Text: Thomas Melory
Performers: Ivan Estegneev, Evgeny Kulagin, Ekaterina Polyakova, Viktoria Hloptceva, Dmitriy Egorov

“…In works of Konnikova and Albert always there is a lot of funny things. But in Past continuous created on music of one of the most wanted by contemporary dance composers, Richards Norvilla, a way of parody and ironic intonation become the moving force of the plot and a starting point of dance aesthetics. Everything is a little bit exaggerated and showed in grotesque Rabble style. A knight’s story of the times of King Arthur is being told with the accompaniment of Thomas Melory texts. And perhaps it is the opposite- what happens on the stage serves as a sharp movement commentary to the story, which is told by an excited teller, who brings the heroic figures of brave kings, knights and their beautiful lovers from the past. The narration has a sweet pathos, interesting and simple-hearted. Artistic and skilled dancers enjoy submersing into a sphere of dance parody. Perhaps, short cuts wouldn’t harm the performance: sometimes the story is stepping on the same place. But each time the part that is “stuck” comes back and continues to develop. In the end the dead heroes as if caught by some current “swim” one after another behind the wings as if behind the edges of the story. Lying on their backs, pushing back with their legs they leave the stage like waves swayed by the wind. And the carried away narrator with an ignited imagination unscrews the table leg (it becomes a sword) and carrying the table top like a shield just like another enthusiast of knight stories, Don Quixote, is getting ready for the battle. Past Continuous in English grammar means past lasting time. According the Konnikova and Albert the past has no end.”