Elena Angelova*
I entered the world of “Ananda” (September 20, 2016) without any knowledge about it in advance: I walked the way lit with candles, drank from the Indian tea and thought that this is already an experience of integrity and sinking in a meditative, different from the every-day world environment. Right from the entrance there […]
Inta Balode
The article was first published in music magazine “M?zikas saule” on September 2015. Translation into English by Ilze Millere and Inta Balode
I decided to think about who dances, who thinks and who has power. Power in quite broad sense as influence, superiority and authority often holding hands with financing, visibility and fame. Power that […]
The closing lab of the current cycle of The Writing Movement Network is taking place in Riga during the Time to Dance festival. This time the network brings together writers from Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Byelorussia. One of the activities of this lab included participation of the dance class led by Branko Poto?an, […]
Elena Angelova*
Here is one text about the two performances I was able to view during the project “New Dance in the New Venue” (August 15-19, 2015) in Saldus, Latvia. Since this was an initiative, born from The Writing Movement Network, it feels kind of natural for me to write and move. Firstly, I moved from […]
Busy with kedjaKlaipeda we missed the first day of International contemporary dance festival TIME TO DANCE which is the biggest contemporary dance event in Latvia. Anyway I’m sure you know about the festival from www.dance.lv where you can read all the details about the artists and performances, and workshops and more. As regards DANCE.LV Journal […]
Elviss Zants – ELVI*
One does not understand OTRAIS** – a performance by a dancer (on stage) and drummer or in reality – a diverse percussionist (off stage). I would speculate that one feels it. Even – and that is very significant – one is on the intellectual side of art appreciation. And especially if that […]
Inta Balode
They are so young, they are just starting, it’s only second year after the school and they have their fans out of Latvia already! Baltic Bubble Riga gave Latvian dance artists great supporters abroad. I’m not exaggerating. I heard it with my own ears. Birute Letukaite from Kaunas said that to them. She said […]
On May 9 at 20:00 dance performance COME WITH ME (choreography: El?na Breice from www.dejasanatomija.lv, director: Andrejs Jarovojs, dance: Agnese Bordjukova, El?na Breice, Guntis Spridz?ns) will be presented within the program of the festival szene: BALTIKUM in Dresden, Germany. See information of full festival program here.
Reviews about performance COME WITH ME
INSTITUTE OF LITERATURE, FOLKLORE AND ART has just published the book „Theatre in Latvia”, which is the first wider publication about the theater in Latvia in English (239 pages, 80 black-and-white photographs, editor Guna Zelti?a). The aim of the publication is to give an insight about the theater in Latvia since its beginning till today. It describes the most important personalities […]
COME WITH ME
Your arms would not be able to strech as far as necessary to form an adequate gesture for beauty (You know that, don’t you?) So, beauty remains in the impossibilities of the body. Einstürzende Neubauten
Contemporary dance performance Come With Me at Gertrude Street Theatre is created by Andrejs Jarovojs in collaboration […]