More Than Naked
Why would anyone undress on stage? What can a naked body say? What can twenty naked bodies say? In more than naked, twenty naked dancers make their flesh wiggle, wobble, and crack. Their bodies slap against each other, sweating and snapping to dance floor hits and lavish sounds. Twenty people on stage are more than […]
The Stories of Migration
THE STORIES OF MIGRATION is a performative installation about people who decided not to leave their country when their family members and people closest to them had decided to emigrate towards better economic and political conditions. Placed into different public squares, the faceless illuminated figures playback the monologues of people who deem themselves as stubborn, […]
SAUNA
In SAUNA Barbara Lehtna looks into the paradox of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) transforming a young society, that’s still in the midst of finding its own identity in the context of culture wars in social media. The ever-increasing engagement with the digital transformation of human conduct is probed through participatory performance where the […]
Together Forever
TOGETHER FOREVER examines the different love languages of the “generation of freedom”, born in the same year as the country they live in. The work seeks to untangle the phrase “together forever”, coined by the different genres of Western pop culture, in the context of teenagehood in an Eastern-European society. The modern ideas of (queer) […]
Exercises of (be)longing
EXERCISES OF (BE)LONGING is a one-on-one telephone performance happening live. An audience member is asked to pick up a package that contains five envelopes with phone numbers of five strangers. The performance starts in the evening at a set time for each audience member: the audience member calls the stranger, opens the envelope, and surrenders […]
In the name of love
I often feel quite lonely in an urban environment. It seems like everything just happens in the city and nothing really depends on my existence. Often the days melt into one: the coffee milk is spoiled, there are new neighbors in the stairwell, it’s again Spring and the street-cats are expecting kittens and the city […]
So Who Will Remember Me in the End?
The question posed in the title of this work derives from a moment when I started to think about my own death. Or actually about what comes after me. After all, we all have people who are not with us anymore. Or are they? In our memories? But what if we remember them differently than […]
In The End It Was All Ok
I often feel quite lonely in an urban environment. It seems like everything just happens in the city and nothing really depends on my existence. Often the days melt into one: the coffee milk is spoiled, there are new neighbors in the stairwell, it’s again Spring and the street-cats are expecting kittens and the city […]
Monstera Deliciosa
Monstera Deliciosa is a creeping vine with huge, serrated leaves that has been a popular decoration in clinics, schools, libraries, apartments, and private homes for more than 30 years. Under favorable conditions, the monstera grows rapidly and expands to fill the space around it. Nurturing plants and the well-being of others – the invisible day-to-day […]
Cantus Firmus
“Cantus Firmus” brings four women together on stage as they seek ways to protect a local Latvian bog endangered by a female oligarch’s plans to develop a spa in the middle of it. Within a richly layered musical composition, their concerns intertwine with questions about how much agency an individual can – and should – […]