ZI temp.dance
About the company:
With the support of Latvia Culture college the dance
group is established in 2004. The artidtic director and
choreographer of ZI temp.dance is Ilze Zirina.
The way of work is to find the material through dance
improvisation.
During the process the choreographer research each
dancers’ physical abilities, way of moving, creativity
and emotional presence. Students and ex-students of
dance department of Latvia Culture college are members
of the ZI temp.dance. Some of them are successful
in professional field. The group is open for
collaborations.
In 2008 Ilze Zirina created a piece
Marathon in
collaboration with disabled dancers.The
company performs mostly in Riga, Latvia but has had
collaboration projects also in Lithuania and Norway.
Projects:
Twice in One River
( 2010 )
30 min
In
collaboration
with
Ramona Galkina.
Twice In One River in the first part of dance
piece which consists
of two parts. It
is built on rhytmical, spatial and graphic
relationship between two dancers. In associative
level it tells about impossibility to step twice in
one river.
Dancers - Agnese Bordjukova, Kristine Blisina.
Premiere - February 23, 2010.
Please, click
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see the photos.
The tame ( 2009 )
30min
Dance piece about the moments, what comes after we get
up from the velvet chairs, turn our backs, when the
lights switches off, when we shut the door and say: everything is over. Then the tame come out.
The piece was created for the second year students of
Latvia Culture college, dance department. It was
performed for three times.
Choreography: Ilze Zirina, music collage: Inga Gaile,
dancers: Laura Grase, Liga Kavace, Elina Mazure, Diana
Stepule, Inga Tutina, Agnese Kalnina.
Marathon ( 2008 )
30 min
Why we are running marathon? For what? For those who see
us? For ourselves? For prizes?
Head heavily falling down, the layer of fat sadly
playing rythm of the steps, hand is
holding Red Bull spitefilly. Is it marathon at all? Is
there anything or anyone who
can stop the sad running?
The piece is created in collaboration with the
wheelchair users. In 2007 Ilze Zirina stared to organize
regular classes at contact improvisation for mix ability
group. The atmosphere let to create a dance piece what
was performed in frames of international dance festival
Time To Dance 2007.
Choreography: Ilze Zirina, dance:
Agnese Bordjukova, Kristine
Blisina,
Baiba
Krievina,
Irina Parhomenko, Olga Semenjakina, music: Recoil,
Rosa Eivissa
Peer Gynt ( 2007)
60 min
Director:
Edvard Normann Ronning
Music:
Edvard Grieg
Choreography: Ilze Zirina
Participation at the play of drama theatre.
Collaboration project with Music, Drama and Dance school
, PEERS internasjonale teaterensemble UE,
Bjugn, Norway.
Town Of Emeralds.
( 2004. ... 2007.)
25 min
A question about the shape and content, kitchen and
emotionality, truth and pretending. Is one possible
without another? Do we need to look for the border? A
game with a sudden changes of form, direction, sound,
states of mind.
Because of different reasons the work was interrupted in
its process. The work in process was performed in Latvia
Culture college and Rundale in 2004. Still ZI
temp.dance came back to it in 2007. It was performed
in frames of international dance festival Time To
Dance 2007, Daile theatre.
Choreography: Ilze Zirina, music: MUM
,
Genrich Gasparjan, dance:
Agnese Bordjukova, Kristine Blisina, Karina Beljajeva,
Oksana Kitajeva, Kristine Pivovarova.
CW ( 2006 )
30 min
International collaboration project among five different
art forms. The conception by
Adam
Ramejkis ( UK ). The aim of CW was to create a
chain of production in witch each artist is given the
preceding piece to which they have to create. The final
performance of CW was coming together of 5 individually
created pieces. In this project Ilze continues idea
about previous piece Stairs. Performances live in
New Riga Theatre, Riga.
photographer - Adam Ramejkis ( UK ), choreographer–
Ilze Zirina ( Latvia ), composer – Daina Klibike (
Latvia ), writter – Lajla Rolstad ( Norway ),
graphic designer – Julija Zitluhina ( Latvija )
Stairs (2005)
20 min
A piece about childhood. Personal memories as wathing
slides. Feelings change as pictures.
The performance is not available in video version.
Performed at Time To Dance and VEF, culture palice in
Riga.
Choreography: Ilze Zirina, music collage: Inga Gaile,
dance: Agnese Bordjukova, Kristine Blisina, Baiba
Krievina, Daina Vintere, Ieva Klaustina
Child’s Crusade .( 2004 )
25 min
Created after Brecht poem Child’s Crusade. International
collaboration project. The subject – children in World
War Two. The piece was successfully performed in
different places like on the stage of Culture college,
Daile Theatre, Dream Factory at the brick wall, in a
museum in Valmiera, at the reception of Europa City
Hotel in Vilnius, where the elevator gave weird ,
cold light as opened it’s door and people , having good
meal behind the glass wall. All this was a great
scenography for the piece even though the situation was
weird itself.
Choreography: Ilze Zirina, music collage: Inga Gaile,
dance: Agnese Bordjukova, Kristine Blisina, Baiba
Krievina, Daina Vintere, Ieva Klaustina
Contacts:
Ilze Zirina:
ilzezirina@gmail.com
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