August 7 at 22.00 In Daugavpils Fortress (near the small powder cellar of Daugavpils Fortress, Nikolaja Street 2) there will be an international dance show about time – a journey from memories of the past through the present to the future. Its artistic concept combines contemporary dance and hip-hop, as well as dynamic scenography with large-format projections and mirrors.
The performance is part of an ambitious project “People Power Partnership”, which takes place in 11 European countries and at this stage German director Sigrun Fritsch and choreographer Jānis Putniņš meet various Latvian and Portuguese dancers – 16 young people with different movement experiences, who passed the project in the spring and spends two weeks in Daugavpils Fortress, working on the theme of the show, creating choreography and filming projections, which will be used both in this production and in future performances. The show is being customized (sight-specific) staging, which means part of the creation and adaptation of the content directly to the place where the activity takes place. On August 7, Daugavpils Fortress will be brought to life not only by the dynamics of movements and video projections, but also by audio recordings of the issues covered in the show in Latvian, Portuguese, English and Russian.
In the creative process, participants ask each other and themselves questions about past experiences and how it affects their present lives. If we consciously delve into the past and the environment that has shaped us, can we break out of it by choosing our own, independent path? And at what point does it become difficult to choose change because we are too cluttered with the usual truth?
The leading partner of the Creative Europe project “People Power Partnership” is the German organization “Aktionstheater PAN.OPTIKUM” and the coordinators in Latvia are the INITIUM Foundation, supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, the Society Integration Foundation, Daugavpils City and Daugavpils Fortress Culture and Information Center. Between 2020 and 2024, the partners will jointly carry out a number of high-level, tailor-made contemporary art performances on a variety of themes, highlighting the specifics of their venues and the issues facing local people. So far, such events have already taken place in Lithuania, the Czech Republic and Denmark, and the Latvian premiere is the fourth of 13 performances planned for this year.
Attendance at the show is free, starting at 22.00 and it will take place at the small powder cellar of Daugavpils Fortress (Nikolaja Street 2). The event can be attended either with a valid Covid-19 certificate or a negative test.
More information on the INITIUM Facebook page www.facebook.com/fondsinitium @pp_initium a Instagram account.
Daugavpils Fortress Culture and Information Center
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