Idea and choreography Agnietė Lisičkinaitė | Performers Sigita Juraškaitė, Greta Grinevičiūtė, Airida Gudaitė | Music composer and performer Žygimantas Gudelis GON | Stage design Guoda Jaruševičiūtė | Costume design Rūta Kyguolytė | Light design Julius Kuršis | Production AIROS Dance Theatre | Video Marius Paplauskas

Premiere December 2, 2017

Reality of the third millennium + variety of communication opportunities online + active information flow >> resulting in a unique Z generation.

– Doesn’t like strict rules and restrictions

– Can’t imagine their life without smart technologies

– Interested in innovations

+ Parents and Teachers

– Can see the good side of virtual reality

– Sense that reality is much more interesting and lively

>> grow up Z generation

– Educated innovative thinkers

– Ready to make this world better

For that to happen, we need to accept each other + create a dialogue + form strong relationships. Where are we now? Dancing.

COME&SNAP.

Agnietė Lisičkinaitė is a Lithuanian contemporary dancer, choreographer, performer and teacher, who graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre with a bachelor’s and master’s degree. She’s a member of the Lithuanian contemporary dance association since 2016, and is well-known as a performer of AIROS dance theatre and Low Air urban dance company, also she had performed in Tony Vezich’s performance Inspite Everything/All (2014). A. Lisičkinaitė made her debut as a choreographer in 2014 with the piece Popular Problems (Art Printing House, Vilnius). After that, she made several contemporary dance miniatures like Honour for grandmothers (Kaunas artist house), City Map (Art printing house). In 2017, A. Lisickinaite was invited to create a dance piece for teenagers in one of the famous Lithuanian dance theatre AIROS.

One of Lisičkinaitė’s performance – NAU – was represented in the Bee Gathering festival, Vilnius, in 2016. Now this young Lithuanian choreographer is mostly working with a project titled B&B, which was born in a residency program in Ireland, 2015. Two years later, B&B creator A. Lisičkinaitė, along with her colleague G. Grinevičiūtė, represented the duo in Berlin’s Litauen tanz festival and the Vides deja festival in Latvia. These young creators also had a two-week residency at the Vermont Performance Lab, USA. A stage performance B&B Dialogue was nominated for the main Lithuanian theatre award, the Golden Stage Cross, for the best 2016 dance performance of the year. Agnietė Lisičkinaitė is mostly interested in communication between different art fields: “I think that dance is everything and everywhere, we just need to find an angle to see it!”.

AIROS Dance Theatre was established in 2013 by the Lithuanian choreographer and director Aira Naginevičiūtė after more than 25 years of her experience on the professional stage. Within a very short time of the company’s existence, choreographer Aira Naginevičiūtė staged three complex, large-scale philosophical dance theatre productions Chimera’s Beads (2013), Glass Gardens (2015) and Towers of Melancholy which premiered on April 15-16, 2016, in Vilnius. The site-specific project Hour of the Wolf was created in 2013.

The AIROS Dance Theatre has already been honoured by three nominations of the highest theatre award in Lithuania – the Golden Stage Cross: in 2013 for Chimera’s Beads in the category Choreography (2013) and in 2015 for Glass Gardens, the categories for Choreography and Dance, for the best dancer Goda Laurinavičiūtė. In 2016, the AIROS Dance Theatre started its international career. On the 18th of March, 2016, Chimera’s Beads opened the Experimental Theatre Biennale in Shenzhen, China. Two shows (March 18-19) were performed on the Shi Xia theatre stage of the Futian Culture Hall in Shenzhen.

Choreography, performance Živilė Virkutytė | Video artist Ed Grimoldby | Music Jūra Elena Šedytė and Andrius Šiurys | Ligh design Povilas Apulis | Video Povilas Baltinas | Project partners Arts Printing House, Hull Dance, Lithuanian Embassy in UK, Lithuanian Culture Institute, Finnish Institute London | Supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture, European Commission

Premiere November 3, 2017

The starting point of the performance was the story of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone. The tale of the Rosetta Stone is a fascinating one. Three languages were present: the known Demotic, Ancient Greek and the unknown Egyptian Hieroglyphic. The two known languages were used to decipher the third more mysterious language: the Egyptian Hieroglyph.

In our performance we realized this through two forms of expression - movement and light to decipher the recesses of human communication.

What cannot be expressed with one form, the other form explores. In that way further meaning is created in the theatrical context. The stage becomes the “Stone”, where two languages meet, where the same idea is expressed using different tools.

Imagine you’re a bacteria in the process of evolution, that one day you become a human body with all its difficult structures and ways of living. You have very basic understanding of yourself, your surroundings. However, there’s no other way for you but to grow, expand, leave waters, move to lands, multiply, think. There is a split between emotion, logic and intellectuality. One time you’re a small floating bacteria in the wide waters, the other – you have two feet walking upon the desert...

Video artist Ed Grimoldby uses Isadora software that has been created by Mark Coniglio specifically for work with dancers. Choreographer Živilė Virkutytė also used some anthropology, cognitive psychology ideas to develop her ideas. By invoking visual arts, movement and body as the translator of human experience, the creators of the show invite the viewer to connect with his emotions and not be afraid to get to know and explore his emotional intellect.

Živilė Virkutytė is an award winning performer, choreographer and dance artist, often interested in interdisciplinary art and hybrid theatre. For the last three years she has been intensively building her portfolio as a movement artist. Currently she is drawn to an idea of exploring and evoking emotional intellect through dance, as well as researching movement as a holistic form of art. This approach entitles to examine not only different dance forms, but also different art forms, look for inspirations outside the arts world, like science and technology. Her practice contain a list of workshops and dance intensives in Europe. A collaboration with Paris butoh and contemporary dance company with a result of premiering ‘Senseless’ in Auditorium Saint-Germain and Bastille Design center this year. An establishment of a butoh dance company OKARUKAS in Lithuania, debuting with a full length performance at prestigious Aura International Dance festival in October 2017. Resident at Arts Printing House, creating, choreographing and performing ‘Rosetta’ with Ed Grimoldby in November 2017. She also was a resident at Machol Shalem dance house in Jerusalem in April 2018, where together with a filmmaker Ieva Šakalytė, started a new project “Goof-off”.

Grim Visions (Ed Grimoldby) is an international award winning artist specializing in the deployment of infrared motion tracking in performance and the creation of live interactive visual design. This combined with contemporary performance results in a composite medium of digital dance, wherein a performer’s actions, gestures and motion affect the environment he or she performs in. Through the combination of physical and digital mediums a new form of expression is discovered. Our work explores the tension and duality between the organic and the digital. Both visual design and movement are created together, resulting in a harmonious performance in which the visual world is a much part of the choreography as the movements chosen.

Choreography Birutė Letukaitė | Music Joaquínas Lópezas „Chas“ | Lights Vladimiras Šerstabojevas | Costumes Birutė Letukaitė, students of image design of Kauno Kolegija | Dancers Abel Hernandez Gonzalez (Spain), Aime Sanchez (Mexico), Antonia Koluiartseva (Russia), Evgeniy Kalachov (Russia), Gintarė Marija Ščavinskaitė (Lithuania), Julija Mintautė (Lithuania), Juan Madero (Mexico), Mei Chen (Cina), Marine Fernandez (France), Niels Claes (Belgium), Oksana Griaznova (Lithuania), Julia Gómez Avilés (Spain), Alexandre May (France), children of AURA dance studio | Video Marius Paplauskas | Suported by Ministry of Culture of the Respublic of Lithuania and Lithuanian Council for Culture

Premiere February 24, 2017

“I want daily bread from your feeding hands“ – the sores of society embodied in the dance. Family, conceived as the most save space, shelter from the outside hardships unfortunately becomes the place of the biggest wounds. Smashed hopes of woman, children hungry for love and safety, men who were looking for happiness in brutal way and failed. Plenty of lives suffocated by misunderstanding and broken by violence. Here are no winners. But. There’s Hope traveling with the beating heart from generation to generation.

AURA Dance Theatre promotes contemporary dance in Lithuania. It was established by Birutė Letukaitė in 1980 and was registered as Kaunas City Theatre in 1995. It has been managed by the prominent chorographer up till present. During the years of its existence, the theatre created and shaped the face of Lithuanian contemporary dance and trained a great number of professional internationally claimed dancers. AURA is constantly working on various international projects, cooperating with foreign and Lithuanian choreographers and artists in various fields. AURA represents the Lithuanian contemporary dance abroad and constantly shares innovative ideas with the dance world. International dance festival Aura, which has been being organised in Kaunas for 27 years, has eventually become an integral part of Kaunas city culture.

Choreography Birutė Letukaitė | Lights design Vladimiras Šertabojevas | Costumes Birutė Letukaitė | Music Antanas Jasenka | Dancers Ema Senkuvienė, Blake Seidel (USA)

Premiere November 4, 2017, Session House, Tokyo

He and She. Man and Woman. Both of them creating the relationship – they attract and push away, find and lose. Who is dominant in this research – femininity or masculinity?

AURA Dance Theatre promotes contemporary dance in Lithuania. It was established by Birutė Letukaitė in 1980 and was registered as Kaunas City Theatre in 1995. It has been managed by the prominent chorographer up till present. During the years of its existence, the theatre created and shaped the face of Lithuanian contemporary dance and trained a great number of professional internationally claimed dancers. AURA is constantly working on various international projects, cooperating with foreign and Lithuanian choreographers and artists in various fields. AURA represents the Lithuanian contemporary dance abroad and constantly shares innovative ideas with the dance world. International dance festival Aura, which has been being organised in Kaunas for 27 years, has eventually become an integral part of Kaunas city culture.

Choreography and performance Clara Giambino (France) and Blake Seidel (USA) | Lights design Vladimiras Šertabojevas | Costumes Kristina Čyžiūtė | Music Conga de San Benito “Chuchumbé”, Pajarillo jilguero “Ampersan”

Premiere November 25, 2017, Florencia, Italy

Dance piece inspired by famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, her passion for Diego Rivera and journey to eternal peace.

AURA Dance Theatre promotes contemporary dance in Lithuania. It was established by Birutė Letukaitė in 1980 and was registered as Kaunas City Theatre in 1995. It has been managed by the prominent chorographer up till present. During the years of its existence, the theatre created and shaped the face of Lithuanian contemporary dance and trained a great number of professional internationally claimed dancers. AURA is constantly working on various international projects, cooperating with foreign and Lithuanian choreographers and artists in various fields. AURA represents the Lithuanian contemporary dance abroad and constantly shares innovative ideas with the dance world. International dance festival Aura, which has been being organised in Kaunas for 27 years, has eventually become an integral part of Kaunas city culture.

Idea, choreography and direction Salvo Lombardo | Optimization Lucia Cammalleri and Daria Greco | Performers Lucia Cammalleri, Mei Chen, Daria Greco, Oksana Griaznova, Abel Hernandez, Evgenii Kalachev | Sound design Fabrizio Alviti | Lights Luca Giovagnoli | Costumes Kristina Sviderskaitė | Production Fabbrica Europa Festival (Florence), AURA Dance Theatre (Kaunas) | In collaboration with Anghiari Dance Hub, Kilowatt Festival, Le Murate / Progetti Arte Contemporanea, Lithuanian Culture Institute, Consolato Onorario della Repubblica di Lituania | Production coordination Giedrė Bagdžiūnaitė

Premiere May 11, 2017, Florencia, Italy

Twister is co-production of Fabbrica Europa Festival and Aura Dance Theatre. This work is built around the Twister game that in a completely cross-generational and cross-cultural way has developed an excuse for many generations to revisit the concept of physicality and proxemics through a game.

The performance questions the concept of physicality and of a body as a relation territory and uses the choreographic language as a glue of social experience that leads to the formation of a temporary community where bodies are an extension of human relationships, social dynamics, cultural products and life experience of each performer.

Salvo Lombardo, starting with a series of Twister games between two groups, intends to put up a choreography, based on connections and micro-narrations deductible from that experience, favoring a share of performer’s personal memories, both motor and biographical, which re-enactment lies in improvisation and repetition.

Salvo Lombardo is an Italian performer, choreographer and director who moves between theatre, dance and visual art. His works were staged in the main Festivals and Theatres in Italy. In 2015-2016 he was resident choreographer at Anghiari Dance Hub where he worked at the project Casual Bystanders. In 2017 he is associated artist to the Festival Oriente Occidente and to Fabbrica Europa Festival and guest choreographer at Aura Dance Theatre of Kaunas (LT).

AURA Dance Theatre promotes contemporary dance in Lithuania. It was established by Birutė Letukaitė in 1980 and was registered as Kaunas City Theatre in 1995. It has been managed by the prominent chorographer up till present. During the years of its existence, the theatre created and shaped the face of Lithuanian contemporary dance and trained a great number of professional internationally claimed dancers. AURA is constantly working on various international projects, cooperating with foreign and Lithuanian choreographers and artists in various fields. AURA represents the Lithuanian contemporary dance abroad and constantly shares innovative ideas with the dance world. International dance festival Aura, which has been being organised in Kaunas for 27 years, has eventually become an integral part of Kaunas city culture.

Idea, performance Austėja Vilkaitytė | Art work titles: Mountain Morta Petkevičiūtė, Austėja Vilkaitytė | Salt Circle, Salt palette, Baseball bat, Coal skateboard, Lavazza Blue coal sculpture Barbora Matonytė | Lily menstrual cup, Amulette menstrual cup Punch Down Brigita Rimkutė | Diva menstrual cup C Fold, Lunette menstrual cup Laura Motuzaitė | Organic menstrual cup Lukas Šilinskas | Tinder national sash Viktorija Morkūnaitė | Tinder canvases, ribbons Deimantė Bielskutė | Costume Ieva Užaitė | Folk Artist Genadijus Mikuckis | Music artist Miša Skalskis

Premiere 2017/2018

In the piece ‘Emotional Trilogy’ Austėja Vilkaitytė combines the genres of dance, performance and installation. In the performance cycle, the structure of which is loosely based on the antique drama theatre, the artist uses images and motives from Lithuanian ethnography and contemporary popular culture. Personages from different time-spaces meet in the piece: Eglė the Queen of Serpents, Antigone, the warrior princess Xena, „Ruki Vverh”, SEL and others.

The performance cycle ‘Emotional Trilogy’ is extended into the continuously changing installation/theater spectacle, which gains new features and functions in time. The artist comments about the static conception of time in the epic genre and the dominance of male personages in it – by using emotional and erotic “logics” she turns the usual power relationships upside-down.

Emotional Trilogy created and presented in Contemporary art center (CAC), Vilnius 2017/2018. Performances of SENSATIONS project took place in the institution such as: Contemporary art center, TITANIKAS gallery, Kabinetas project space, Žeimiai Manor House queer festival “Sapho”, Klaipėda Culture Communication center, Arts Printing House, Nida Colony, DANSEatelier in Copenhagen, Centre d'Art Contemporain in Geneva.

Austėja Vilkaitytė (was born in 1985, Lithuania) graduated from Iceland Academy of the Arts, BA in Contemporary Dance. She studied dance at SEAD, Austria and TEAK, Finland. Now Austėja is pursuing MA in Choreography specialized on New Performative Practice at DOCH university, Sweden. Her work was shown at visual arts institutions as well as dance and theater platforms in Lithuania and abroad. A. Vilkaitytė received Young Artist Award by Ministry of Culture in Lithuania in 2016.

Austėja works in the fields of dance, choreography and performance. Her interests are new forms of dance, choreography, hybrid performativity, conquering both visual arts institutions and dance venues, creating site-specific places. She finds black box and theater as a phenomenon, a performance, a body and container of energies and history to be communicated with and researched. In her artistic practice, Austėja approaches New Eastern European identity, feminism, dance history, personal archive and memory, also today’s consumerism from perspective of the ancient, emotions, ‘expressionistic’ dance.

Concept & choreography Sakurako | Music Phil Von | Interpretation OKARUKAS dancers

Premiere June, 2017

A stone I died and rose again a plant;
A plant I died and rose an animal;
I died an animal and was born a man.
Why should I fear? What have I lost by death?
Rumi

“Hereafter” is the story of a group of individuals waking up from the oblivion of a dream into a reality of here & now. The bodies thrown into the unknown without a trace of memory are trying to remember the past, foresee the future remaining present in the present. Recalling forgotten memories they form the still image resembling a painting of Delacroix “Liberty Leading the People” which further transforms as they undergo various metamorphoses. They strip away socially & culturally imposed artificial identities to find what lies beyond.

The human condition is the main subject matter investigating the issues of individual versus collective & mutual interdependency. The cornerstone of the choreography is a strong presence & authentic body movements beyond conditioned patterns & interference of the mind.

Okarukas is the only butō dance theatre in the Baltics founded by Sakurako (LT/FR) & Phil Von (FR) uniting a team of young talented Lithuanian artists, actors and dancers. Sakurako is artistic director and choreographer of Re-United Now-Here in Paris and Okarukas in Vilnius.

Sakurako is a Lithuanian origin Paris based conceptual/visual artist & performer, creating works balancing at the edge of performance art, theatre and dance. After graduating from Fine Arts at Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Sakurako intensively studied martial & Japanese traditional arts and well as contemporary dance butoh (jap. 舞踏) with various masters in Japan.

Today Sakurako is working worldwide and performing at major venues: Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico City), Le 104, Auditorium Saint-Germain, Le Cube, Théâtre du Temps, (Paris), OT301, Paradiso, Oostblook Theatre, Oude Kerk, (Amsterdam), Mažasis teatras, Menų Spaustuvė (Vilnius), SCCA Center for Contemporary Arts (Ljubljana), UrBANGUILD (Kyoto), etc. as well as festivals: La Nuit Blanche (Paris), Kultūros Naktis (Vilnius) Juli Dans (Amsterdam), Rappongi Art Night (Tokyo) ,City of Women (Slovenia), Modern Panic (London), Gogol Fest (Ukraine) and Venice Art Biennale’11 (Italy).

Choreographer Birutė Banevičiūtė | Creative team Mantas Stabačinskas, Marius Pinigis, Gleb Hollander | Dancers Mantas Stabačinskas, Marius Pinigis | Music Andrius Stakelė, Rene Aubry | Lights Aurelijus Davidavičius | Supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture, LR Ministry of Culture | Partners Arts Printing House, ASSITEJ Lithuania

Premiere 2017

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are, up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky – says the song. What if little star twinkles on the ground or inside of curious babies, discovering world and themselves. The dance performance „Twinkles“ is full of various shining objects which motivate young audience together with dancers to explore light on stage. So the performance becomes laboratory for babies to enjoy sources of light and movement.

Twinkles has already toured in Shanghai Children Arts Theater and Inside-Out Theater Beijing, performed at the International theater festival for children Kitoks (Lithuania) and International circus festival Hoog (Estonia).

Dansema Dance Theatre, founded in 2007 by the initiative of current artistic director, choreographer Birutė Banevičiūtė, was the first to produce professional dance performances for young audience in Lithuania. Since 2009 theater is a member of ASSITEJ Lithuania. Dansema has presented its production for children in 25 countries all over the world. Dansema performances are nominated and awarded by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture as the best performance for children of the year.

Choreographer Agnija Šeiko | Dancers Benas Šarka, Beata Molytė, Aleksas Mažonas, Marius Pinigis | Cellists Mindaugas Bačkus, Gleb Pyšniak, Jurgis Karbauskas, Karolis Vaičiulis | Costume design Lina Andriukonė | Light design Povilas Laurinavičius | Video RGB Pictures

Premiere May 4, 2017

Choreographer Agnija Šeiko has masterfully designed a surprising harmony of dancers and cellists when performing one of the most popular musical pieces in the world. An aristocratic ballerina Beata Molytė, shaman of theatre Benas Šarka, actor-mime Aleksas Mažonas, and contemporary dancer Marius Pinigis are all like four forces of the universe, guided by four cellists through different seasons of the year.

The famous classical opus by Antonio Vivaldi sounds fresh and contemporary since it’s being deconstructed in accordance with unexpected choreographic ideas.

Agnija Šeiko gained her BA in choreography at Klaipėda University in 2001. Five years later, she completed her studies of choreography at the Rotterdam Dance Academy (the Netherlands). In collaboration with different artists, Agnija creates interdisciplinary projects employing original music, sculptural installations and video projections.

Agnija is the initiator of Fish Eye Artists Group and the artistic director of PADI DAPI FISH Dance Company. In 2012, for her performance No Space at The Parking Lot, she was awarded with the Golden Stage Cross for her work promoting contemporary dance. Besides this, she was named the Artist of the Year by Klaipėda City. In 2016, she was awarded with Borisas Dauguvietis Award, as having an active social position, and a search for innovative artistic forms.

PADI DAPI FISH Dance Company promotes and fosters contemporary dance, focusing on such fields as dance and music plays, site-specific art, inclusive theatre, dance education, and theatre laboratory. The team – which has received the highest awards in stage art – started their creative path in Klaipėda, and went on to spread the geography of their plays throughout many countries in six years, talking in the universal language of dance without any restrictions, censorship, or political, cultural, ethical, religious and social limitations.

The repertoire of PADI DAPI Fish includes sensitive, captivating plays that stimulate creativity for kids, as well as relevant, provocative, courageous, ironic and emotional productions for grownups.

Authors of idea, choreographers, dancers Niels Claes & Gintarė Marija Ščavinskaitė | Sound designer Andrius Stakelė | Costumes One Wolf | Production PADI DAPI FISH Dance Company

Premiere September 17, 2017

We all want to find our place in society, whether we’re talking about the colour of one’s skin, sexual orientation, disability, differences between the sexes, or someone’s homeland. The dance performance “Aside” delves into the issues of self-expression, rejection, searching for human connections, and trying to be understood. The precise, continuous, sensitive movements of two dancers merge perfectly with stark electronic music to portray fragile new efforts to build relationships. The spectators are drawn to the intimate atmosphere onstage, making everyone breathe in the same rhythm, while the dance duo that was announced to be the best in 2017 wins the audience over with flawless technical execution.

Niels Claes (BE) graduated Fontys dance academy and in between 2010-2013 worked in the project Sally Maastricht, dansgroep Amsterdam and Polish Dance Theatre. He had the chance to work with various choreographers like Andonis Foniadakis and Jo Stromgren. For the “Atelier” festival of Polish Dance Theatre he created his first work “Maathai”. After he worked in various projects in Germany, Israel and the Netherlands (2013-2015). From 2015 until 2017 he worked in Lithuania for Kaunas Dance theatre “Aura” performing works by Birutė Letukaitė, Vilma Pitrinaitė and others. For the dance platform “On Aura’s Trampoline” he created his second performance “Thurst”.

Gintarė Marija Ščavinskaitė graduated choreography studies at Šiauliai Conservatory (Saulius Sondeckis art school). In 2013 she has received Bachelor‘s Degree in Dance Pedagogy and Choreography at Vilnius University of Applied Sciences, and since then she has worked for Kaunas Dance theatre “Aura”. She danced choreographies by Samuel Mathieu, Pia Holden, Anne Ekenes, Paul Hess and others. She had toured and performed in different countries like Norway, USA, Italy and more. Since 2017 she started her personal career as freelancer, teacher and choreographer.

PADI DAPI FISH Dance Company promotes and fosters contemporary dance, focusing on such fields as dance and music plays, site-specific art, inclusive theatre, dance education, and theatre laboratory. The team – which has received the highest awards in stage art – started their creative path in Klaipėda, and went on to spread the geography of their plays throughout many countries in six years, talking in the universal language of dance without any restrictions, censorship, or political, cultural, ethical, religious and social limitations.

The repertoire of PADI DAPI Fish includes sensitive, captivating plays that stimulate creativity for kids, as well as relevant, provocative, courageous, ironic and emotional productions for grownups.

Agnija Šeiko is the company’s artistic director.

Author of idea, choreographer, dancer Oksana Griaznova | Music Ignas Andriuškevičius | Light design Vladas Šerstabojevas | Partner ŠELTERIS alternative stage arts venue | Production PADI DAPI FISH Dance Company | Video Aistė Matuzaitė

Premiere November 15, 2017

In the register of the state each one of us is identifiable by a unique sequence of digits – a personal code. What can it tell about the individual behind the digits, and what would happen if one were to extract the digits from their common system and apply them to construct new meanings?

This solo performance is based on personal research of Oksana Griaznova and is performed in diverse variations of the sequence of eleven digits – dancer's personal code. Mathematical choreography evolves into a playful setting, alluring spectators to emancipate their imaginations and to discover their own story where they are unlikely to look – amid the numbers of their personal code.

PADI DAPI FISH Dance Company promotes and fosters contemporary dance, focusing on such fields as dance and music plays, site-specific art, inclusive theatre, dance education, and theatre laboratory. The team – which has received the highest awards in stage art – started their creative path in Klaipėda, and went on to spread the geography of their plays throughout many countries in six years, talking in the universal language of dance without any restrictions, censorship, or political, cultural, ethical, religious and social limitations.

The repertoire of PADI DAPI Fish includes sensitive, captivating plays that stimulate creativity for kids, as well as relevant, provocative, courageous, ironic and emotional productions for grownups.

Agnija Šeiko is the company’s artistic director.

Director of choreography Laura Geraščenko | Scenography Angelina Furmaniuk – Savickienė | Costume Designer Lina Andriukonė | Music Composed by Kristijonas Lučinskas | Dancers and actors Elinga Serapinaitė, Justina Jukonytė, Greta Jankauskaitė, Kristupas Biržietis / Jonas Viršilas

Premiere October 21, 2017

SPACE OF MOVEMENT Dance Company presents “Cloud Catcher” – an interactive performance of dance and movement, created for babies from 6 to 18 months old, and their parents.

The story follows the voyage of life from its inception until birth, from the lullabies and fairy tales, sung and told for the unborn baby by their mothers and fathers, until babies very first sensations, motions and movements, touch, awareness, playing and being.

The concept of the performance is to create a place that is warm and gentle, where babies can be as they like, were they are entertained by sound, image and touch.

Performance director, choreographer leading the dance company Laura Geraščenko: “The sounds and music bring back the baby to the feelings and experiences in the womb. Already in the womb, the baby can recognize sounds. He hears voices of his parents, music, stories his mother reads. Even more, the baby favors the sounds and words he heard before he was born, in the womb. What we also built upon, while creating the performance, was the babies natural state of movement – it is the way he learns of the world, and it is with great curiosity that they react to a moving, dancing person just besides them. Colours encite specific emotions, touching various surfaces transmit nervous impulses, and the motions of the babies are echoed by the dancers-actors. These things help in the physical and emotional development of the baby, in a place where they can feel safe and free. That is exactly what we seek for in “Cloud Catcher”.

The performance is influenced by the studies and works by Dalija Acin Thelander (Polish director of dance performances for babies).

Laura Geraščenko graduated Dance Bachelor and Master Degree Studies at Klaipėda University Art Academy Dance Faculty, Lithuania. Practitioner of body and movement therapy, studied at IMBT London, (Integrative body and movement therapy of London institute), UK. From 2010 until 2017 was a member of group “Žuvies Akis“ and PADI DAPI FISH dance company. From 2012 Member of Lithuanian Dance and Movement Therapy association. Choreographer and actor in Klaipeda Drama Theater production „Simple stories about madness“ (directed by Darius Rabašauskas), Lithuania. Choreographer of “The Little Match Girl“ – family play of dance and movement, adapted from H.C. Andersen. Actor in PADI DAPI FISH dance company production “Forgotten Princess“, nominated for Lithuanian Golden Stage Cross 2017. Children dance Studio “Space of Movement“ director. SPACE OF MOVEMENT Dance Company founder, director and choreographer. Director-choreographer of dance and movement play for 6-18 month babies “Cloud Catcher“.

Idea, choreography Vytis Jankauskas | Dance Greta Grinevičiūtė, Giedrė Kirkilytė, Sigita Juraškaitė, Giedrė Stankevičiūtė | Scenography Sigita Šimkūnaitė | Lighting designer Povilas Laurinaitis | Music Rocketnumbernine, Rattle, Vitalic, Thomas de Pourquery

Premiere 2017

Agony is a transitional state in between something or someone dying, soon disappearing, and birth – emerging of an element which is not yet here. The makers of the performance ask the age-old question of what does it mean to be human? Are we just creatures of nature, sufficient in ourselves? Or could it be that humans are destined for more, for notions like holiness or even something that is not existent yet and therefore we don’t know what to call it?

Dancer, choreographer, dance teacher Vytis Jankauskas is one of most famous artists of Lithuanian contemporary dance scene. In 1997 he started Vytis Jankauskas Dance Company as a platform for developing his creative visions and ideas. He has created 13 dance performances, which were presented in Lithuania and abroad. His works have become an important part of Lithuanian contemporary dance history. Vytis Jankauskas was twice awarded with the highest theatre award in Lithuania – the Golden Stage Cross for the best choreography of the year.

Vytis Jankauskas Dance Company was founded in 1997 and was one of the first contemporary dance companies established in independent Lithuania. Over 20 years the company has become a distinctive phenomenon of contemporary dance scene in Lithuania. Its performances are a consistent exploration of accurate, clean and expressive language of movement. Vytis Jankauskas dance company were twice awarded with the highest theatre award in Lithuania – the Golden Stage Cross for the best choreography of the year.

Activities of Vytis Jankauskas Dance Company aren’t limited to creative artistic work. The Company collaborates with other non-governmental organizations, initiates and implements various educational dance projects both in Lithuania and abroad.