Thursday, 13 August 2009

A different talent

Kseniya Simonova, winner of Ukraine's version of 'Britain's got Talent' doesn't sing crap covers of Mariah Carey tracks or perform dull break dance routines. Her act goes rather deeper emotionally and artistically. Indeed, she reduced judges and audience members to tears.

Her talent is to tell stories by manipulating sand with her hands. In something akin to stop-motion drawing objects appear, morph and fade as her hands cross the board. The non-stop speed which she goes about creating the scenes of her tales and the way a series of seemingly arbitrary and careless flicks of the hand can suddenly turn into something as definite as a group of trudging, miserable humans is truely beautiful.

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