Me Two / We, the Clique (2021)

“Me Two / We, the Clique” is a dance performance for youth that has gained recognition of critics and audience with its brave, sincere, powerful stories, music and scenography.

Story of the show is built on a group of young dancers exploring their personal experience with power relations, LGBTQ+ developing identities, sexual harassment, and power abuse towards them which urges belonging to The Clique, and the necessity to share. The audience is invited to revisit teenhood through the lens of a spectator, a parent, a teacher, a decision-maker and to reflect on the boundaries of power in interpersonal and intergenerational relationships.

Information

Premiere: 2021

Duration: 70′

Idea, choreography: Airida Gudaitė

Dancers-creators: Greta Snitkutė, Arminas Kazanavičius, Rokas Bugys, Ugnė Laurinavičiūtė, Grėtė Vosyliūtė, Elena Milaknytė, Beatričė Šaltenytė, Emilija Giedraitytė, Barbora Mickutė, Aura Šriubšaitė, Saulė Bučiūnaitė, Smiltė Kavoliūnaitė

Director: Jonas Tertelis

Composer: Agnė Matulevičiūtė

Scenography: Renata Valčik, Emilis Šeputis

Light designer: Julius Kuršys

Sound director: Ignas Juzokas

Website: Arnas Razgūnas

Producer: Laurynas Žakevičius

Recommended age: N-12

Project partly supported by: Lithuanian council for culture, Vilnius city municipality, Urban dance theatre “Low Air”.

Tours

Lithuania (2021-2025)
France, Festival de Danse Cannes – Studiotrade Plateform, 2021
International contemporary dance festival “Pėdos”, Anykščiai, 2021
International contemporary dance festival “Aura”, Kaunas, 2021
Mental health arts festival “Ryšiai”, Vilnius, 2021
International festival for children and youth “Kitoks”, Vilnius, 2022
Festival “Audra” (Part of the European Capital of Culture Kaunas 2022 program), Kaunas, 2022
Germany, Westwind Festival, 2022
Festival “Erdvės”, Visaginas, 2022
Art festival “Plartforma”, Klaipėda, 2022
Vilnius international theatre festival “Sirenos”, Vilnius, 2022
Šiuolaikinio meno festivalis „Erdvės“, Kelmė, 2022
Festival “ŠA! TEATRAS”, Šakiai, 2022
Festival “Formos‘22”, Kėdainiai, 2022
Festival “Vilnius 700: JAUNI JAUNIEMS”, Vilnius, 2022
London, Sadler’s Wells, 2022
Youth theatre festival “KULTŪRIZMAS”, Šiauliai, 2023
International dance network festival “SHARING ACROSS BORDERS”, Cologne, Germany, 2023
International theatre festival “TheATRIUM”, Klaipėda, 2023
Dance festival “Šokanti Ignalina”, Ignalina, 2023
International festival “Baltic Drama Forum” , Riga, Latvia, 2023
40th Lithuanian professional theatre festival “VAIDINAME ŽEMDIRBIAMS”, Rokiškis, 2024
BIBU – Biennal performing arts for children and youth, Helsingborg, Sweden, 2024
Bodø 2024 European capital of culture, Bodø, Norway, 2024
Lithuanian season in France, Marseille, France, 2024
Festival “Vilnius Gdanske 2025”, Gdansk, Poland, 2025

Creative process on the internet

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See us live – upcoming performances

2025 11 07-08

Menų spaustuvė • Šiltadaržio g. 6, Vilnius • Lietuva

Awards and nominations

Awarded with The Golden Stage Cross Award (Best dance piece of the year for teenagers, 2021)

Nominated for The Golden Stage Cross Award (Best performance music of the year, 2021)

Awarded with the Audience award in Vilnius international theatre festival "Sirenos", 2022

Reviews

"The performance is a vivid and, probably, a challenging manifesto for Generation Z, as it affirms the spirit of freedom, creativity, determination and courage to speak about very personal topics – about the perception of oneself and one's body, (non)acceptance, about negatively intimate experiences, painful losses. There is a strong synergy and freedom of self-expression flowing among the dancers of the troupe, everyone experiments with different styles and forms of movement, complementing and supporting each other. Even visually, one can notice how strongly dance affects the body and emotional state of each performer. This confirms the theory about the close connection between the body and the psyche, and testifies that dance can become a therapy for the spirit."

E. Zirne, Menų faktūra, 2023-10-08

"This is a performance about the experiences of modern teenagers, touching on their personal (as one might guess) problems. Among them are, for example, parental divorce, lack of self-acceptance, fear of intimacy, etc. Airida Gudaitė's choreography is almost perfect, thanks to the changing tempo and interesting compositions, a space is created for the dancers to perform."

Adam Domalewski, teatrologia.pl, 2022-10-13

"It seems that this team has succeeded not in creating a work, but in living a life in which not the creativity is present, but reality, which only has a side effect. Everything else is its own pile, in which there is freedom to feel, freedom to speak, and freedom to move."

Dovilė Zavedskaitė, dance.lt, 2021-12-02

"Basically, writing and discussing, let alone criticizing, a work that is created for, about, and with teenagers can only be done by a completely heartless pragmatist or an unthinking critic. Hurting or distracting individuals who have begun to express their creative potential from the world of dance would be truly inappropriate, and in this case, even unnecessary. The choice of both the topic and the idea – to speak to teenagers in their language and to their audience – is a considerable challenge, the result of which could have been painfully disappointing and interesting only to the audience of the performers' relatives. It could have been, but it didn't happen."

Silvija Čižaitė-Rudokienė, Menų faktūra, 2021 09 15

"The dancers' courage, high skill, and positive energy are breathtaking. They believe in what they do, sharing their stories of adolescence, which are full of doubts, maximalism, joy, fear, and experienced violence, rejection, confusion, becoming aware of their sexuality, the desire to be recognized, and attempts to trust adults, themselves, and "their own." In a certain sense, the performance is an authentic nugget that we rarely see in professional theater, let alone in festival programs – fresh blood in the broadest possible sense of those words."

L. Mellena-Bartkeviča, Menų faktūra, 2023-10-08

“In the performance, the body is freed from shyness and, with this act, freed from trauma. A statement is made, followed by “Me too,” “Me too,” “It happened to me too,” and together with this shared experience, its breakthrough, collective healing occurs. “Me too” also leads to funny things, leads to play and collective joy. Here the aesthetic effect of art is felt. Purification through shared experience.”

Reinis Dzudzilo, kroders.lv, 2022-10-10

"It is precisely the connection (not a relationship, but a bond) with parents that becomes the most painful and sensitive note in this story about ending childhood and beginning adolescence. No matter what kind of parents they are, they are the ones who are needed the most, the ones who are missed the most, no matter how independent the growing up ones feel."

Goda Dapšytė, 370 Nr. 106, 2021-09-24

"There was a constant desire on the part of the creators to show that this (and perhaps all of today's) youth are people just like everyone else, with their own worries, joys, and desire to be loved and accepted. The stories heard and the movements immediately felt (some of them illustrative, but this is in keeping with the declarative expression of the performance) inspired the audience to remember personal experiences and feel like they were truly in their own "Clique"."

Aušra Kaminskaitė, Menų faktūra, 2021 09 01

"I have been convinced for some time that Lithuania, and especially Vilnius, as a center of innovative contemporary dance, exceeds all expectations, and this was proven once again by this short visit to London by Vilnius City Dance Theatre Low Air with the double UK premiere of "Game Over" and "Me Two/ We, the Clique."

Graham Watts, UK theatre critic, 2022-11-30

"A young minds clear, piercing gaze, instantly unmasking this hopelessly fake world, identifying with the expression of movement where this world is heading."

Ingrida Ragelskienė, Menų faktūra, 2022 01 27

"Me Two / We, the Clique" perfectly conveyed a diverse portrait of Gen Z teenagers – not mindless, lost in their phones, but those who have their own opinions and do not shy away from considering social, political and ecological issues, are conscious and strive for change. This performance is about being in "my crowd", a community that understands and talks about close experiences and does not seek to moralize, unless it invites you to say "me too".

Aistė Šivytė, 7md, Nr. 27 (1392), 2021-09-10

"As is usual in dance theatre, much of "the Clique" needs to be simply experienced, without trying to name it, but there are also quite a few signs and semantic references that are interesting to think about, even after the performance is over. So I would boldly assert that this dance performance is a generous, diverse, and for some, perhaps even transformative experience, raising the bar for young audiences of performing arts."

Ramunė Balevičiūtė, Menų faktūra, 2021 09 09

In the press

"After the festival for children and youth "Kitoks`22": let the kids make noise"

Markas Liberman, educational program „Scenos konTEKSTAI“ participant

“After the international festival for children and youth "Kitoks`22": it takes courage to grow up”

Emilija Statinaitė, educational program „Scenos konTEKSTAI“ participant

"Is it possible to mature without an adult role model?"

Aušra Kaminskaitė, MENŲ FAKTŪRA

"Red socks and overalls"

Dovilė Zavedskaitė, dance.lt

"After the festival for children and youth "Kitoks`22": how do children's experiences in the theater foster the maturity of society?"

Aušrinė Leitaitė, educational program „Scenos konTEKSTAI“ participant

"It has been announced who will represent Lithuania at the Cannes Dance Festival: they will highlight the voice of young people that has disappeared during the quarantine"

DELFI „More than „phones generation“ / Aušra Kaminskaitė, DANCE.LT

“Dialogue between adolescence and maturity, or The Phenomenon of one "Clique".”

Silvija Čižaitė-Rudokienė, MENŲ FAKTŪRA

"After the festival for children and youth "Kitoks`22": Mom, understand me!"

Ula Lukrecija Matulaitytė, educational program „Scenos konTEKSTAI“ participant

"(Survive) through dance"

Ramunė Balevičiūtė, MENŲ FAKTŪRA

„To be in the "Clique".”

Aistė Šivytė, 7MD