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Dance Day: The City as a Body<\/p>\n
The New World | Naujininkai<\/p>\n
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On April 29, we invite you to celebrate International Dance Day together in a lively, physical way. Through movement, play, and unexpected choreography that takes place not on stage but in \u201cundiscovered\u201d parts of the city, let\u2019s experience the city as a body.<\/p>\n
We start to celebrate Low Air 15th-anniversary and invite everyone to experience the city with their own bodies. \u201cThe City as a Body\u201d is one of the anniversary programs, which, on the occasion of International Dance Day, is coming to the Naujininkai district\u2014the \u201cNew World.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s celebration of Dance Day takes us to Naujininkai\u2014a neighborhood where different eras of the city, culture, and rhythms of life intersect. Historical paths, traces of industry, community histories, and contemporary changes create a multi-layered urban landscape, and throughout the month of April, the bodies of dancers from the \u201cLow Air\u201d dance school and theater serve as instruments of inquiry, allowing us to explore these spaces. Through movement, we will explore this \u201crelationscape,\u201d where the body reads the city, remembers what the city has forgotten, and creates what does not yet exist.<\/p>\n
Certain locations in Naujininkai and their vitality since the beginning of spring inspire a deeper exploration: the chapel pole with a sculpture of St. Nepomuk, which once stood by the old Rod\u016bnia Road, marked the city\u2019s boundary, and from these hills the panorama of Vilnius first opened up. Workshops, factories, and workers\u2019 quarters sprang up along the railroad; the western part of the district was called “chimneys”, and the eastern part\u2014”the New World”. In the 20th century, Naujininkai became an important residential area for workers and railway employees; during the Soviet era, it grew into a dense neighborhood of high-rise apartment buildings. Military units have been stationed here since ancient times, and today the district retains its strategic importance\u2014a NATO integration unit is based there. It is precisely these layers of the city and moments in its history that have inspired creative research and movement experiments in Naujininkai, and this month\u2019s explorations are just beginning.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s discover new areas in the neighborhood together and experience the rhythms of the city through our bodies, movement, and dance. Everyone is welcome to join us\u2014both dancers and spectators.\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Main event location and time:<\/p>\n
April 29<\/p>\n
6:00\u20138:00 PM starting point: Naujininkai bus stop (where the Naujininkai cat awaits those leaving and returning home among books symbolizing the creators of Vilnius from various nationalities).<\/p>\n
The starting point’s location on the map \u2013 https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/yQMa46aAHby6Symr6<\/p>\n
The event is free and open to everyone.<\/p>\n
Text based on the Naujininkai community publication: About Us<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2013\u2013<\/p>\n The event is part of the Low Air 15th-anniversary program.<\/p>\n The event is funded by: Vilnius City Dance Theater Low Air, Vilnius City Municipality, Lithuanian Council for Culture<\/p>\nRegistracija<\/h2>\n
Registruokis \u012f rengin\u012f<\/h2>\n