Mini dance festival PŪGA
PŪGA Dance Mini-Festival | LOW AIR 10 FEST. CLOSING EVENT
December 28–30, 2021
Last year, we celebrated the holiday season with performances at home; this year, we are delighted to invite you not only to watch, but also to meet, and in doing so, to give and receive the gift of movement.
During the holiday season, Low Air Vilnius City Dance Theater | School invites you to experience:
Program:
December 28, 7:00 p.m., Menų spaustuvė
LOW AIR CHRISTMAS. DANCE + COMMUNITY
Improvisation session + disco
We celebrate the most beautiful holidays of the year by creating them ourselves—the term “improvisation,” often used in the dance community, becomes the central focus of the celebration. We invite you to an improv session where we create movement in the here and now, listening to the DJ, observing our surroundings, and watching each other.
There will be darkness and light, there will be a DJ, there will be a community—be there too! Be a participant, be a spectator—every spectator is also a participant in the improvisation.
The improvisation session is open to anyone who wants to and enjoys improvising; encouraged by Low Air—youth and adults alike.
Free. Registration required (for both participants and spectators).
December 29, 7:00 PM, Menų spaustuvė
DOUBLE PERFORMANCE EVENING. PREMIERE – the hybrid dance performance BLUE BLUE and PRE-PREMIERE – the street dance performance VYRSMAS (sketch)
FULL! Registration is closed.
Admission is free, but registration is required
Start: 7:00 PM
The dance performance BLUE BLUE is a collaborative work by five creators who met almost by chance (in truth, brought together by curators Paulius Prievelis and Birutė Bagdonienė), arising not from a planned action, but rather from a free interpretive process involving the sharing of auditory, visual, and kinetic impulses.
Human and non-human bodies moving through space engage in a continuous nonverbal polyphony that takes root not only on the stage itself, but also between the stage and off-stage reality. As if in response to a context of isolation and separation, this visually playful work can be read as a multi-layered exploration of a new reality. To what extent are we free* to create a relationship and trust what lies beyond masks and screens?
On the other hand, this work can also be interpreted much more simply: as a kinetic, chromatic, and sonic narrative, without complicating our daily lives with existential questions.
Choreography, performance: Airida Gudaitė, Laurynas Žakevičius, Ieva Lapelytė
Composers, live music performance: Simonas Nekrošius, Daina Dieva
Sound engineer: Julius Janukaitis
Dramaturgy: Kristina Steiblytė
Lighting designer: Povilas Laurinaitis
Start: 7:30 PM
December 30, 7:00 p.m., Menų spaustuvė
FESTIVAL CLOSING. Visual dance performance – GAME OVER
After touring South Korea and Germany, the GAME OVER team returns home to Menų spaustuvė for a reunion with friends, co-creators, and colleagues.
Awarded the Golden Cross of the Stage and having traveled the world, this work is “like a shower of glitter—a cascade of paradoxical, dreamlike images” [Helmutas Šabasevičius]. The artists invite you to dive into a dream, play with your imagination, and, for once, not be afraid to stay in your dreams. The audience is transported to specific situations where fabrications and subtle emotions intertwine with the reality of a dream, becoming an inseparable element of image and movement.
Celebrating safely—Passports of Opportunity are required for all events.
Vilnius City Municipality, the Lithuanian Council for Culture, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Office in Lithuania, Nordic Culture Point, and The Nordic Institute in Greenland
The organizers of LOW AIR 10 FEST would like to thank:
The festival’s main media partner: LRT
Partners: Go Vilnius, Vilnius 700, Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Union, Sodas 2123, Atletika Gallery
Sponsors: Clear Channel, JCdecaux, Media Traffic
Friends: the entire performing arts community
LOW AIR 10 FEST is part of the “www.700vilnius.lt” program.
