Dance + City

Drama King
Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Drama King
Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Dance plus City: the perfect union of contemporary dance and architecture in five European countries.
4 min
Concert
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Circus of Love and Lament
Riga Circus, Latvia
Circus of Love and Lament
Riga Circus, Latvia
Dance plus City: the perfect union of contemporary dance and architecture in five European countries.
4 min
Concert
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Solo
Palace of Marriage, Vilnius, Lithuania
Solo
Palace of Marriage, Vilnius, Lithuania
Dance plus City: the perfect union of contemporary dance and architecture in five European countries.
4 min
Concert
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Dance Plus City - Life
Architecture meets Dance in Lithuania
Dance Plus City - Life
Architecture meets Dance in Lithuania
Dance meets architecture in the Lithuanian capital. In the LIFE episode dancers move through different living spaces to which they give meaning as imaginary inhabitants.
8 min
Concert
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H61
Private House 61, Jūrmala, Latvia
H61
Private House 61, Jūrmala, Latvia
Dance plus City: the perfect union of contemporary dance and architecture in five European countries.
4 min
Concert
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Un Peu de Nous
Les Étoiles, Ivry-Sur-Seine, France
Un Peu de Nous
Les Étoiles, Ivry-Sur-Seine, France
Dance plus City: the perfect union of contemporary dance and architecture in five European countries.
4 min
Concert
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Dance Plus City - Movement
Architecture meets Dance in Lithuania
Dance Plus City - Movement
Architecture meets Dance in Lithuania
Dance meets architecture in Lithuania. In the port city of Klaipėda, dancers from the Šeiko company create movement between bridges, the dock and the pier.
9 min
Concert
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Gravitas

Scientific and Technical Library of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

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Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, France and Ukraine: Across five European countries, Dance plus City builds a bridge between contemporary dance and architecture. A unique way of looking at the interaction between the fluidity of the body and physical structures which, despite their omnipresence, are too often ignored in everyday life.

In this episode, the dancers move through the library of the Polytechnic Institute in Kiev, Ukraine.

The library of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute is one of the largest libraries in the world and the largest technical university library in Ukraine, located in the centre of the campus. The new building was inaugurated in 1998. Dating from the Soviet era, the exterior is a sober combination of different shapes and proportions, dominated by rectangular elements. The facades are clad in white Inkerman stone, and the staircase and basement are in granite.

The dancers who move through these spaces play a fascinating game: they imagine themselves on an alien planet, in an environment that is totally unknown to them. How does it feel to come into contact with surfaces with completely new and different qualities? Where will you find softness and malleability, or hardness and resistance? What is sturdy? what could break?

The idea that familiar objects such as staircases or tables suddenly find themselves invested with a completely different, as yet unknown, function serves as the starting point for these improvisations. The protagonists of this choreographic experiment explore not only the limits of their imagination, but also the limits of gravity.

Filmed in May 2024 in the library of the Polytechnic Institute in Kiev, Ukraine.

Country

Lithuania

Year

2023