It’s been a century since writer who created the rules of games with imagination Julio Cortázar was born.
Inspired by the author, Urban Dance Theatre Low Air presents an innovative live dance installation which connects both visual and dance art.
The performance revolves around game perspective, inviting the audience to witness the collision of reality and dreams. Spectator feels as in particular situation, considers relationship with others and themselves.
Subtle feelings interfere with fiction and magic, while becoming inevitable element of movement and view.
Cortázar has this magical realism which inspired artists’ imagination for a long time.
Writer’s stories particularly vivid, and they have become a map for our motion and choreography, along with the possible storyline for the dream and reality.
For this piece young professionals have teamed – set designer Lauryna Liepaite, lighting designer Povilas Laurinaitis, musician Adas Gecevicius, dancers Airida Gudaite and Laurynas Zakevicius. Though everyone worked as directors and choreographers during creative process, on the stage we see just two dancers and live music show.
Premiere: 2016
Duration: 50’
Idea: Lauryna Liepaitė, Airida Gudaitė, Laurynas Žakevičius
Choreography, performance: Airida Gudaitė, Laurynas Žakevičius
Composer, performance: Adas Gecevičius
Scenography, costume design: Lauryna Liepaitė
Lighting design: Povilas Laurinaitis
Lithuania (2016-2025)
Ukraine (GogolFest, 2017)
International Contemporary Dance Festival “New Baltic Dance:, Vilnius, 2017
International art festival “Plartforma”, Klaipėda, 2017
International Contemporary Dance Festival “Pėdos”, Anykščiai, 2018
Italiy (Auditoprium Parco Della Musica, 2018)
Israel (Tmuna Theatre, 2018)
China (China tour: Beijing New Dance Festival, 2018)
Germany (Internationale Tanzmesse NRW, 2018)
Bulgaria (One Dance Week festival, 2018)
China (Harbin Grand Theatre, 2018)
Israel (Suzanne Dellal Centre, Lithuanian Story – Culture Festival In Tel-Aviv, 2019)
Austria (Burgenländische Tanztage, 2019)
Sakartvelo (South Caucasus Contemporary Dance & Experimental Art Festival in Tbilisi, 2019)
France (Festival de Danse Cannes, 2019)
South Korea (Seoul International Dance Festival – SIDance 서울세계무용축제, 2021)
Germany (euro-scene Leipzig festival, 2021)
United Kingdom (London, Sadler’s Wells, 2022)