Vētra chose the artist’s own dance group “Rituāls”, Agra Daņiļevičs dance school “Dzirnas”, actress Raimonds Vazdikas and pianist Vestards Šimkus as the hosts of the concert stage.
This year is special – the dancer climbed the stage of the Golden Hall of the Riga Latvian Society to go on her dance step towards her 100th birthday and the 79th anniversary of her creative and stage life.
Since the restoration of Latvia’s national independence in 1990, line Storm has gone to Latvia every summer and shared his love of dance. The exception was the last years of the pandemic.
Grown generations of dancers inspired by Vijas Storms. During the seventy-nine years of the stage, she has danced in Australia, America, India, the Temple of Aphee on the island of Aegina in Greece, and the Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain at the Sadler’s Wells Theater in London. A Latvian suite was danced in the Baltic program at the World’s Fair in New York in 1964. The prayer of the people “God, Your Land is Burning!”
Vija is a cavalier of the Order of the Three Stars (1999) and the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia (2018) for significant works and merits in the development of the Latvian state.
Books and documentaries have also been written about the artist.
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