Dana Sideros: photo, biography, poetry

The virtual age changes people. The real world gives rise to many reflections in it. A person hides the name with pseudonyms. Real life stories, reflecting in the distorted mirror of fantasy, give rise to pseudo-images. In the world of literature, this is encouraged - to live as it is to create. In this way, incognito, and unveiled on the website LIVEJOURNAL their works by the poetess Kustovska Maria Viktorovna, who writes under the pseudonym Dana Sideros and the nickname LLLYTNIK. However, the young lady - "Joker" often pleasantly surprises his admirers with lines that are deep, original, philosophical.

Two biographies

In 1985, in Bulgaria, in the small seaside town of Beloslav, a virtual poetess Dana Sideros was born. Her biography is connected with the family's relocation to the USSR. Then Dana turned 2 years old. Since 2003, the girl lives in Moscow. Poems from the nineties exclusively in Russian. Dana Sideros worked as a graphic designer in the now closed almanac "The End of the Epoch". So, the mission of the young virtual Bulgarian is to hide for the time being the fact that her real hypostasis is from Russia writing poetry.

In the same 1985, when the company Coca-Cola came out with its products to the market of the USSR, Madonna released a CD Like a Virgin, and Secretary General Gorbachev at the April plenum for the first time pronounced the word "perestroika" in Kazan, another girl, Kustovskaya Maria Victorovna, was born.

The poet graduated from the art school and up to the present time works as an illustrator. In 2008 she published the first collection of poems. Criticism noted her "surprisingly peculiar feeling of language". She is a laureate of the poetic award "Nova", a participant of poetic concerts and festivals. In 2014, Maria was awarded the "Debut" prize in the nomination "Dramaturgy".

Answering the correspondents' questions about the future fate of the "split personality", the poetess, to the delight of the fans, decided to use the pseudonym of Dan Sideros, not stopping the publication of new products in LIVEJOURNAL.

Who is she?

Maria - a man without a shot and writing from the heart. This she is close to her readership. She is a hero of our time, a girl who came to "make herself" in a metropolis. The poet is not attached to any kind of mercantile spirit, preferring a level of poetry to regalia.

Ironically, regarding the projection of Goethe's famous quotation on himself, that the one who has nothing to lose is terrible, Maria claims that she is exactly that.

The personal position of the creator, who does not destroy his talent in pursuit of fetish of fame, is today the only honest one for the acting poet. True recognition itself finds worthy people. The publication of collections for Maria Kustovskaya is not an end in itself, but a consequence of creativity.

The work is a business card

In literary circles they started talking about her when the public became aware of one of her poignant poems. Critics remember the presented name of the author - Dana Sideros.

From these verses goosebumps run to the skin. Here there is imagery, a three-syllable foot with the first stressed syllable (dactyl) seems to fall into the beat of the heart of the reader. What a piercing start to this work! It author-original raises the subject of children of the indigo generation and parents - mundane, ingrown with roots and zombied with a complicated life, stupefying the daily bread.

This verse is worth hearing to every parent, open the video, where they announce: "Dana Sideros" The children are leaving the city "", and listen attentively as a young woman, the author of the work, reads him with inspiration.

For the thinking listeners, it will tell not about the physical escape of children (although this, unfortunately, happens), but about the categorical rejection of the morality of the older generation, their way of life.

Maria Kustovskaya, a poetess known as Dana Sideros (pictured below) delivers the idea of the poem to her listeners, at the only true level - intuitive, which is revealed with the help of a metaphor.

This is the bitter truth that shock many parents. It says: for the organization of children's life, the logic and experience of the elders in the 21st century ceased to be primary.

The generation of the indigo is higher than their level of intelligence, the experience of the fathers is needed by them not as a road map for life, but only as an additional reference book, nothing more. With this it is necessary to put up with the elders and not rashly to rush "to break about the knee" of the personality of their children.

The second collection, the first verse

Her first collection of "Jokes End" was remembered and loved by readers of the thin and heartfelt rhyme poem "Orpheus".

An event in the culture was the publication of the next collection on behalf of Dan Sideros "The Apprentice of a Fool". The title of the composition is chosen to be pointlessly unpatched, but Kustovskaya got them not in the eyebrow, but in the eye, in a new way presenting themselves to the poetic community. It includes works long disassembled on the Internet by its admirers for quotations.

Opens his poem "Fifty", sounding like a verdict to the fifth race ("fathers"):

In the iamba lines it is said that Evil and Good in the world are 50 to 50, the contrast between being and existence is heard. It's bitter, on opposition, there is a statement of an abominable existence in a society that has not developed the generally accepted moral foundations that did not educate its citizens. Everything about this Dana Sideros says, again, intuitively, her metaphors are sharp and embossed, like the brush of Vrubel.

The author does not give any recipes for the "recovery" of the social environment, it would be too vulgar and unfair on her part as a poet, whose task is to make the reader realize: you can not, after all, run "to other cities" all your life!

Maria Kustovskaya invites the bustling, people rushing between Good and Evil people, finally stop in their flight and look into the eyes of the truth, horrified at the plagues of society. After all, all the harmful manifestations of human nature: greed, deceit, cruelty - not congenital. We came to such an ugly existence (not being, by no means), hammering children's brains with unnecessary trash instead of education. And now from generation to generation we reap dividends in the form of sociopaths. After all, Makarenko warned that education should go one step ahead of education.

Further on the "Fool's Apprentice"

And this is only the first work from the collection! However, his subsequent poetry does not disappoint the reader. In one of them, Dana Sideros prays to the Lord, that he does something with the impersonal industrial machine of the state "with incessant mouths", "ingrown phone tubes," with an atmosphere where depersonalized people are reduced to cogs, are deprived of the possibility of creativity.

These words sound like a revelation, because it's not a secret for anyone that modern society and so-called "democracy" have long been obsolete. The existing model, in fact, more than two hundred years. Media magnates make from him an untouchable "sacred cow", as they are paid for it, and corrupt politicians do not even try to create something new. Today, the division of the "right" and "left", attempts to control the world with the help of competing parties, lags behind the demands of civilization.

Let's once again think over the metaphors under which the signature stands - Dana Sideros. Verses are addressed to all of humanity ("billions of us"). Indeed, it is high time to wrap the wounded organ of the flawed world order with the cotton wool, pumping money into the pockets of the gray cardinals.

After all, our powerful civilization is capable of real miracles today. And at what pace is the society now developing! If any of us built an ideal society, then it would be adequate to progress for five years, and then again would become a straitjacket for the new generation.

Scientists of the American project "Venus" have calculated: refuse now all the governments from their power and erase all the borders on the earth - in just fifteen years across the planet one can create one prosperous civilization! What a comfort it would be for all people! In a word, Dan asks: "Lord, could you do something with them?".

Other verses of the collection

However, not only the thoughts of the future captivates his readers the poetess, writing under the pseudonym Dana Sideros. Author Maria Kustovskaya and the present does not create poignant cloying and lulling poems. After all, in the world around us for a hundred years, not only foolishness, but hypocrisy, and hypocrisy are saved.

A little bit of talking about the third power. Especially as the above verses, in part - about it. The fact that the human justice system is far from true justice was said, and independently of each other, by the ancient Greeks and Indians. And both of them defined interpreters of intentionally intricate legislation as sinners and defined them in perspective into hell. Has it become fairer in our time?

"It's time to say the words" - such a non-trivial idea is expressed by the poetess. What is behind it? Let's try to explain, because it's worth a lot of sense.

The problem was once exhaustively written by Fyodor Tyutchev: "The thought spoken is a lie." After all, most people do not express their true goals and desires in words, but hide them. Wisdom says that in the beginning of creation there must be a Word. Obviously, it should not be false. People of the sixth race will definitely have to overcome this.

Dana Sideros. "Wall of the Living." Staging the plot

Talking about Maria Kustovska only as a poet would be incorrect. In her creative portfolio there are also prose works, and a published play called "The Wall of the Living." It feels something eternal that should not be trampled by the civilization: a spirituality that allows people not to forget that they are people.

This touching work immerses us in the mystery of human existence. We will retell its brief content. In a small town there lives grandmother Taisa and her grandsons - twenty-year-old Ksenia and her older brother Anton. It so happened that their mother died. They have another uncle, the son of Grandma Taisa, Vladimir, who lives on the other side of the country.

The first scene of the play takes place in a cafe where grandmothers and grandchildren are invited to the wedding of their relative, second cousin Ksusha - Lera. In the cafe on the walls hang portraits of artists. Ksusha notes that on one wall are live artists, and on the other - those who have died. She clarifies her guess at the director of the institution, dressed in "trousers and a gray shirt." The man, smiling, says that such an order, indeed, he introduced. At the wedding with the grandmother, there is a clouding of consciousness, she cries loudly, telling others that she is at a funeral feast. Her grandchildren are taken home.

A man reveals himself before his death

Grandmother Taisa, she felt that she would soon die. She spoke on the eve of this to her girlfriend - a neighbor of Rae, who advised her to hang on and wait for her son Vladimir to come. However, promising to visit his mother, he does not hold back the word.

Thais has problems with consciousness and with memory, she presents herself as young. First, seizures are temporary. She is hired by a nurse - a soulless, unpleasant, elderly, but strong woman, Irina.

Doctors say that it remains for Grandma Taisa to live only a few days. Ksyusha decides to call his uncle Vladimir again, to come and say goodbye to a dying native person. However, he shows the laziness of the soul, not burning with the desire to leave his home, his comfort zone. Then from the lips of the indifferent, loving grandmother Ksyusha, in excitement words are broken that are worth their being quoted.

During these days, Taise for a while seems that she is a nineteen-year-old girl, then a ten-year-old. A quiet, kind, silent grandmother surprises her grandchildren who are only now learning about her difficult biography. She lost herself in time, again experiencing in the eyes of Ksenia and Anton those events that survived: Stalin's repressions, arrests, sentences of guards, poverty. She again endures the hardships of the war: bombing, the death of her husband, a military man at the front, hunger, empty tea without sugar ...

Final of the play

Ksyusha succeeded, nevertheless, to reach out to the uncle's soul. He came and said goodbye to his mother. Family drama has shown a certain truth: if a misfortune happens to a native person, each of his relatives shows what he stands as a person.

The play ends with a wake-up, taking place in the same cafe as the wedding. Ksyusha replaces in the frame a portrait of a living actress on her grandmother in her youth.

After the funeral, the owner of the cafe notices this, however, after thinking, he leaves a portrait on the wall.

Metaphors from Dana Sideros

For poetry lovers, the lines of the poetess in one touch, half-awake awaken bright, memorable images. "Poplars sentenced", "leather bound", "shelter for homeless books", "censer - paternal strap", "happiness is always silly and awkward" - such business cards leave its readers Dana Sideros.

Her poems are melodic and give an opportunity to quickly imagine all this. Everything created by brightness and uniqueness does not go away from memory!

Conclusion

It's nice to realize that in our vain time people like good-quality, modern-hearted literature. This is evident from the number of responses in LIVEJOURNAL, which are bestowed with warmth and gratitude by Dana Sideros. The reviews are very important for the poet-demiurg who creates his own world in them, already ready for evolutionary changes and hungry for them. Therefore, dear readers, do not skimp on them on the kind words that inspire.

In the still small but capacious poetic world of Maria Kustovskaya there is a part of her soul, inspiration, a nerve. He is attractive, you can go there for touching the soul rhymes, like spring water. She also receives plays. It would be desirable that those of them that are written "in the table" soon pleased the admirers of her work.

Good luck to you, Dana Sideros, the joy of creativity and women's happiness! You are not one of those poets for whom silence is gold, create!