The contemporary dance festival “Horos” started already at the gates of the Aizpute factory “Key to Kurzeme”, taking the audience on an unknown journey through the territory of the factory, where the works of future dance artists and choreographers of the Latvian Academy of Culture (LKA) are performed in various places.
In the first part of “Signāls SOS”, students revealed the feelings of the study time. “It’s often difficult to tell people how you feel, what you worry about, what you think about, what your problems are, what you went through. It was my visual answer to the people I want to tell about my problems,” explained the LKA student Polina Filippova.
The name of the festival “Horos” is borrowed from the Greek words meaning dance and space, and the atmosphere of the factory gives a new scenography to each dance performance. “Horos” is definitely future-oriented, as a platform where new things are created, and the newest of the newest things are those created by students,” emphasized Krišjānis Sants, a member of the “IevaKrish” association, dancer, choreographer. “We thought that students usually work more in a conventional space in a theater on stage, so to give them a kind of a little push with an invitation to go to placemaking and transfer their works to a post-industrial space or still an industrial space seemed very important to me, because when I stopped being a student , I stopped creating works in black boxes on stage. That’s why we invited them here.”
“Each work that is created, for example, on stage, or any work in general, transferred to another environment, acquires a new context. The environment also acquires a new context together with the work of art or dance choreography. How with movement and dance you can highlight architecture , how architecture can complement your choreography, that’s the wonder why it’s interesting to experience dance somewhere else, not only in theaters,” explained Ieva Gaurilčikaite-Sants, member of the “IevaKrish” association, dancer, choreographer.
The most visually impressive performances, where the factory environment forms an impressive scenography, took place in the boiler house and attic, in the coal slag pile.
Choreography students of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater brought an explosive surprise to the audience when they drove into the factory with a car and staged a jandalin with cross-dressing, exaggerated sexuality and a sea of garbage in the dance performance “Car.Star.Bar”.
“We have our own idea about our life, which can be fabulous on the outside, but ugly on the inside. And about the interaction of all that. Fabulous on the outside and trash on the inside,” said Ugne Lučauskaite, a student of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, about the play.
“And with this work, we also want to break the idea of modern contemporary dance, because contemporary dance is everything to us. How you simply take out the garbage from the car or drink water, for example, is also a movement. We want to show that contemporary dance is not only very specific movements, it can be everything,” emphasized Aura Šrjubšaite, a student of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater.
On the other hand, on the west side, the future dance work “Oblique” of the association “IevaKrish” was performed at the Aizpute Culture House, the rhythm of which was inspired by Lithuanian sutartina chants.
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2023-08-21 16:48:20
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