The pioneers in this work will be represented by Olga Žitluhina, Ilze Zīriņa, Inga Raudinga and Vilnis Bīriņš – the generation that started the contemporary dance movement in Latvia in the 90s and continues to be active. “That was my environment in which I lived while dancing. I worked in Olga’s dance company, I danced with Ilzi and Inga, Vilni and I still sometimes dance together. We all still keep in close contact, even though we hardly see each other on stage anymore,” reveals Ramona Galkina, who organized a meeting of different generations.
Beginners in this contemporary dance performance are represented by the Latvian Academy of Culture (LKA) undergraduate study programs The art of contemporary dance second-year students Dita Andersone, Polina Filippova, Lelde Kuznecova, Lauris Limbergs, Anna Marija Puķe and Rūdis Vilsons. “It is my environment in which I live now,” emphasizes Ramona Galkina, who works as a teacher at LKA every day. She has created the show as a diptych – two separate rooms, in which two groups of dancers will work in parallel, until the two rooms overlap at one point. “When covid started and people went into their own bubble, I also started thinking about the difference between generations. Are we really that different?” says the choreographer.
At the beginning of the rehearsals, she worked with each group of dancers separately, but with the same topics, tasks and methods. “During the process, I realized that it is impossible to work with the same methods, because both groups are completely different – the young are together every day, so they work more as a collective, while the experienced work more as individual artists with their own interests,” says Ramona Galkina , whose chosen form of work will show the variety of interpretations of her selected themes and tasks and at the same time will also tell something more about the dance experience of both generations – values, ideals, tastes and opinions.
“A performance is like a game in which there are no winners or losers, in which everyone has their own strength and challenge, a game in which all participants, in their diversity or similarity, are each other’s continuation, support, addition, limitation, reference point or source of inspiration,” – so a performance created in the professional doctoral study program is applied for Arts LKA subprograms Audiovisual art, theater and contemporary dance within.
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