{"id":29309,"date":"2023-10-04T14:57:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T11:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowair.lt\/lustopia\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:34:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:34:37","slug":"lustopia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lowair.lt\/en\/theatre\/lustopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lustopia (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"29309\" class=\"elementor elementor-29309 elementor-22230\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-58557656 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"58557656\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5cef83b6 elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget-mobile__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5cef83b6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" 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data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\"><p>\u201cLustopia\u201d is a dance performance that connects different generations and bodies, an international co-production of Vilnius City Dance Theatre \u201cLow Air\u201d and Silke Z. \/ troupe \u201cDie Metabolisten\u201d (Germany).<\/p><p>Contemporary dance choreographer Silke Z. and \u201cLow Air\u201d founders and choreographers Airida Gudait\u0117 and Laurynas \u017dakevi\u010dius, together with dancers, explored the perception of one\u2019s own body, its limits and boundaries, acceptable and unacceptable body parts, movement, and utopian attitudes created by societal stereotypes, what different bodies can and cannot do. They were driven by the desire to (re)find a connection between two different cultures, six different bodies, and personalities rich in experience.<\/p><p>Can the theme of lust and pleasure be related to such characteristics as age, gender, body or disability? Does the differentiation of our gender, age or (in)abilities cause shame and insecurity that hinder our desires?<\/p><p>Lustopia playfully maneuvers between everyday pleasure, obscenity, body shaming and body positivity, consciously questioning social norms and existing taboos. The plot of the performance follows the utopia of the fusion of bodies, searching for the much-desired freedom and exploring its limits in the context of dance.<\/p><p>Lustopia is a multi-layered work for which one definition, one theme, one experience will not be enough. The audience is invited to a dance experience that inspires a celebration of human differences and the utopia of a common body.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-404d1ee e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"404d1ee\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-47a91d5 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-mobile__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"47a91d5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Information<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a46c29 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4a46c29\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fb6419e elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-tablet__width-initial elementor-widget-mobile__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fb6419e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Premiere: 2024<\/p><p>Duration: 65&#8242;<\/p><p><strong>Concept author:<\/strong>\u00a0Silke Z.<\/p><p><strong>Choreographers:<\/strong>\u00a0Silke Z., Laurynas \u017dakevi\u010dius, Airida Gudait\u0117<\/p><p><strong>Dancers:<\/strong>\u00a0Caroline Simon, Hanna Held, David Winking, Gr\u0117t\u0117 Vosyli\u016bt\u0117, Dmitrijus Andru\u0161anecas, Darius Strankevi\u010dius<\/p><p><strong>Light designer and scenographer:<\/strong>\u00a0Garlef Kessler<\/p><p><strong>Music and sound:<\/strong>\u00a0Liam Giles, Laurynas \u017dakevi\u010dius<\/p><p><strong>Costume designer:<\/strong>\u00a0Melina Jusczyk<\/p><p><strong>Manager:<\/strong>\u00a0Hanna Held<\/p><p><strong>Organiser:<\/strong>\u00a0Rica Hellige<\/p><p><strong>Asistant:<\/strong>\u00a0Franziska Nagel<\/p><p>The creation and distribution of the performance was partly financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and the Vilnius City Municipality.<\/p><p>Also by the NRW Landesb\u00fcro Freie Darstellende K\u00fcnste, Kulturamt der Stadt K\u00f6ln, Ministerium f\u00fcr Kultur und Wissenschaft in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Das nrw landesbuero tanz e. V. The partners of the dance performance are the mental health arts festival \u201cRy\u0161iai\u201d and the \u201c\u017dvelk giliau\u201d initiative of the mental health ambassadors.<\/p><p>The organizer of the mental health ambassadors project is the Institute of Hygiene. The source of funding is the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e31430c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e31430c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-861334e elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-mobile__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"861334e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Tours<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27c7e428 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"27c7e428\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-275c7345 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-tablet__width-initial elementor-widget-mobile__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"275c7345\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Bonn, Tanzgenerator Bonn, Germany, 2024<br \/>Vilnius international theatre festival &#8220;Sirenos&#8221;, Vilnius, 2024<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2a694b77 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2a694b77\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3dcf4f54 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-tablet__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3dcf4f54\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" 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data-id=\"265dab85\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-222f2a27 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"222f2a27\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67d00b80 elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget-tablet__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"67d00b80\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\u201cThe description of the performance talks about the categories of desire and pleasure, as if they were the most important here. However, while watching the performance, many more thoughts arise about the legalization of bodies, the possibility for bodies to be themselves and to occupy a place in this world that is meant for them. Not smaller, not larger, in other words, not distorted, but exactly the one that we can occupy. The place of a heavy body. The place of a body marked by time or illness. The place of a body that is safely and pleasantly touched or filled with anxiety.  One mise-en-sc\u00e8ne of the performance LUSTOPIA stuck, in which the bodies gather in one group, and their upper parts are covered by paintings. So the audience can only see the bottom \u2013 from the stomach down, down from the back. There are only dancing, walking, stretching legs and simultaneously moving pelvises. Thighs and their stories. Here the performance strips the faces and personalities from the bodies and leaves the audience to be with impersonal fragments of bodies. It is very interesting, \"That such a fragmented body image fails to garner any appreciation. Pure legs, nothing more, very beautiful.\"<\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7349a0d4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7349a0d4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7md.lt\/31927\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dovil\u0117 Zavedskait\u0117, 7md, 2024-11-08<\/a><\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-45c5efb9 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"45c5efb9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-733ecbc7 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"733ecbc7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5da7d42a elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget-tablet__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5da7d42a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\u201cThe collaboration between Vilnius LOW AIR choreographers Laurynas \u017dakevi\u010dius and Airida Gudait\u0117 and Cologne (Germany) \"resistdance\" Silke Z. \u2013 the contemporary dance performance \u201cLustopia\u201d \u2013 brought together a group of performers of different generations and abilities. Starting on an open stage, the performance invited the audience to move and explore the space and life-sized boxes, literally putting their hands into them through openings covered with material. This situation was somewhat reminiscent of the legendary VALIE EXPORT film \u201cTap and Touch Cinema\u201d from the late 1960s (although the touches offered in the performance were much more restrained). Some of the boxes, on the sides of which various leather textures were depicted in close-up, soon found themselves on the walls of the theater hall from the center of the stage, skillfully creating a situation where the audience becomes part of a larger communal body and figuratively gets under the skin. We were particularly impressed by the duets performed, and enjoyed watching the collaboration and communion that unfolded between different performers. The multilingual approach to music and lyrics is commendable. While the fundamental question of what approaches to dance are best suited to people of different physical characteristics and abilities remains largely unanswered, Lustopia has given us food for thought on the inclusivity and accessibility of contemporary performing arts.\u201d<\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b9a1aae elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6b9a1aae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sirenos.lt\/naujienos\/2024-m-festivalio-sirenos-lietuviskos-teatro-vitrinos-tarptautines-ziuri-atsiliepimai\/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0kPuXnH0WtkU0QI-FfqsHH2QMe9buqP-FFt7yc-cuzYz-4zPmQZWh_DO0_aem_2tWi5nTH92pfP0GHgkdm-Q\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sirenos, 2024-10-15<\/a><\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-39458e96 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"39458e96\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3bec798e e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3bec798e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-393c6e62 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"393c6e62\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2cc9e0d7 elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget-tablet__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2cc9e0d7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\u201cA natural somatic reaction to excessive excitement or fear is trembling. Animal behavior studies show that trembling protects them from psychological and physical damage after a frightening experience. It seems that in the dance performance \u201cLustopia\u201d by Laurynas \u017dakevi\u010dius, Airida Gudait\u0117 and Silke Z., bodies of different generations, genders, nationalities and abilities have finally found a space not only to cause themselves a frightening experience by opening up and exposing themselves, but also to take care of themselves by shaking off at least some of the generated stress.  \u201cLustopia\u201d is probably not a revolution, but at least a dance performance that brought a sense of common humanity, showing that in one way or another we all crave a donut with chocolate glaze.\u201d<\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f7f9ef1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5f7f9ef1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernardinai.lt\/geismas-istirpes-sokolado-glaiste-apie-sokio-spektakli-lustopia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ugn\u0117 Sasnauskait\u0117, Bernardinai.lt, 2024-11-02<\/a><\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d718d04 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3d718d04\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-19c4b1e8 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"19c4b1e8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70528fb2 elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget-tablet__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"70528fb2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\u201cI had to think a lot about contexts and time in the premiere of Laurynas \u017dakevi\u010dius and Airida Gudait\u0117 \/ \u201cLow Air\u201d and Silke Z. \/ \u201cDie Metabolisten\u201d in \u201cLustopia\u201d. Here, six dancers of different ages and physical data \u2013 Caroline Simon, Hanna Held, David Winking, Gr\u0117t\u0117 Vosyli\u016bt\u0117, Dmitrijus Andru\u0161anecas and Darius Stankevi\u010dius \u2013 created, according to the authors, a utopia of fusion. One of the main emerging themes in it is desire. Are we able to desire a \u201cdifferent\u201d body? But\u2026 do we have to desire everyone?  The audience who comes to the hall is greeted by the liberated space of the Black Hall of the \u201cArts Printing House\u201d. Here are three cubes made of walls of photographs of body parts, into which, as in an immersive exhibition, you can insert your hand through the cavities. Although you don\u2019t expect anything at first, you are not surprised when you touch the skin, after all, we have gathered to talk, think, see, and so \u2013 why not \u2013 touch the body. Our touch is controlled by the dancers, you avoid the feeling of discomfort - it seems like you're just saying hello.\"<\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63823522 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"63823522\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/menufaktura.lt\/recenzija\/kada-mes-nebebusime-grazus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sigita Iva\u0161kait\u0117, Men\u0173 fakt\u016bra, 2024-10-01<\/a><\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ce0dc5c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5ce0dc5c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2d32de8c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2d32de8c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70945ad7 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"70945ad7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3a378919 elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget-tablet__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3a378919\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\"Low Air latest performance, Lustopia, is a beautiful postcard against social, gender, body type and age inequality. This becomes apparent as soon as the performance begins, when six different dancers appear on stage: two young and middle-aged women, a larger-bodied, older man and a man with Down syndrome. They emerge from cubes constructed from four connected photo canvases, depicting close-up patches of uneven human skin.\"<\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2e472e67 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2e472e67\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7md.lt\/autorius\/1726\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greta Vilnel\u0117, 7md, 2024-10-11<\/a><\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d5ee5a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3d5ee5a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-25974130 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"25974130\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-53a1cbc2 elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget-tablet__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"53a1cbc2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\u201cLust prevails these days. The desire for life, the desire for another person, no matter who they are. The lightning bolt that pierces the soul when you look into the eyes of another person, the obvious desire for something that evokes in you more than a simple, already happy feeling of soul kinship.  It was necessary to answer whether desire is \u201clinked to certain characteristics, such as age, gender, body or disability\u201d. Yes, whether \u201cthe shame and insecurity caused by gender assignment, age or disability\u201d would interfere with the utopia of desire.\u201d<\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d9246e3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3d9246e3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-ton.online\/medien\/o-ton-video-lustopia-zerban-231205\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael S. 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