Sveta Grigorjeva

Sveta (Svetlana) Grigorjeva (born on January 16, 1988 in Tallinn) is an Estonian choreographer, dancer, and poet. Interviews Lately, I have been practising a sort of single-book fidelity in my reading, taking up each new work and trying to dedicate myself to it without reading anything else on the side. I neither know nor want to read multiple works in parallel like Virginia Woolf; it feels as though reading time stretches out in a peculiar way, and you lose that pleasant journey alongside a single book, that certain immersion into a language and internal world. And I do not really care to read books that primarily convey a "story"; I expect the medium itself to be engaged with, and I expect this not only from literature but from all art forms. Influenced by Donna Haraway, I have also discovered 1970s American feminist science fiction, especially the works of Marge Piercy and Joanna Russ. I never would have thought I would ever voluntarily read science fiction, but you see, anything is possible! So yes, I read a lot, because what else is there really to do in this world? "Mis pooleli? Vastab Sveta Grigorjeva", ERR, 29 January 2019 Poetry I wake up in the middle of a wild sunrise in the East. With three cats. Our whole family is crazy about cats, we love animals more than people. It is in our genes. It is what unites us. Is not knowledge that kills after all. So I live in ignorance, because it is easier for me that way. Fake news? I don't know any news. Everything has been known for a long time. And if not, what difference does it make? Nothing that hurts can be cured... Why are Russians hated like that everywhere, my aunt asks. I am in Russia for the first time in 27 years. After the first time. After all, we have always helped everyone, but we are hated like that everywhere. I am not going to say that I learned a slightly different history. Radically different from what she was taught in her day. I am not going to use the word occupation anymore. The first time was already painful enough. "Raske realism" ERR, 12 September 2019 the word is free let us assume that it is but it still does not grant health insurance my mother is the one around whom there are always pigeons because she feeds them, untangles their legs which are sometimes tied together with a string or metal out of spite toward other women who hate her for it pigeons bring viruses after all parasites we all want to be so healthy, healthy to live long, long, long I am the first in my family to have a higher education I am not sure that my parents could have forked out to pay for three years of bachelor's and two years of masters just like that but until the word is free one could also think about what else might be free a right to health? a right to education? no rights, no justice either "Lihtne realism" ERR, 10 September 2019 mommy tell me what is wrong with me poetry fucks me more than men poetry fucks me more than men mommy tell me why it happens to some girls evenings I read weeping sad men's poetry dreaming that I too might write one day so sadly In the collection "kes kardab sveta grigorjevat?", p. 29 External links Sveta Grigorjeva Category:1988 births Category:Living people Category:Choreographers Category:Dancers from Estonia Category:Poets from Estonia