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Week 2
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Week 1
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Light is precious and short Light pollution is a global issue. For some places. Darkness is an issue when the powers cuts happen. Theater spaces are a chance to rest from the light pollution however due to the safety black outs are almost impossible. Darkness becomes illegal. The temptation is there and the complete darkness is only in the eyes for a short moment after the light is gone. Latvian collective were wild enough to go on the ice in freezing cold and windy night to do the light design with matches only. Not like a great show but what an experience. The video is speeded up, because who wants to watch the darkness? Wrong assumption, but anyway it is speeded up. So technically the light speed is also speeded up here.
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It is all in our heads Dramaturgy is about how things are put together and how they are percieved. Trying to imagine what the same thing could say and mean in various contexts. Lately also - how not to offend anybody, how not to forget anybody, how to speak about what I know and experience and not to pretend I can become somebody else. However without somebody else there is no point of being in communication, without somebody else there is no true inspiration for engaging into the dialogue. I have a neighbour Liksma, she has an amazing collection of mice. They don't get dusty because dust comes from human skin and if you live in the clean countryside air and don't bring too much of your skin into the mice place they remain clean (this is on the video). I am part of an amazing Baltic Dance Network. Baltic dance artists and organisers come together to talk, they talked in Riga among other things also about an audience. When I looked at the mice collection video I thought who is performing and who is watching. When I listened to the audio recording if Baltic people talking about the audience of contemporary dance I thought about prejudices about the audience and about the artists and what happens if those prejudices look at each other. What if they stop and everybody dances together? What happens when there is mismatch? What happens when the mismatch turns into the best match?
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Duration of time prints It was a day to pick up potatoes from the neighbour, a day in November 2025. The neighbour has a dog called Pearl. She is as fast as light speed, she likes to leave traces, lasting traces. She created a time stamp for me on the week we thought about time. She must have known that I have bad memory. Traces help to remember. Traces is something I look in dance, in the form that is the most transitory of all the forms. Once the airs stops swaying it is over. What remains is an image, a sensation, a sound, something something I don't know what. If the time gets manipulated during the dance (it always is?) it is a gift. A gift for body memory. The footprints on the car seat will fade but Pearl's joy when she left those will remain in the active body memories.
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Intensity of engagement with the audience I have been bringing contemporary dance since 2004. Most often to rural areas, to places where it has not been before and often doesn't have any repuation. Through this work I got to know how different ways of interaction function, how important it is to have lasting and sustainable relationships, how immense power of social change dance has and how challenging this work sometimes can be to the artists. In the pdf I am sharing some images of different experiences with communities. From just a tour to working as a librarian in a village of 100 inhabitants and meeting a wonderful Barishnikovs family there.
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Body politics in the dance awards Tier 4 dealing with the body politics paradoxically coincided with the National Dance Award ceremony in Latvia. The awards brings together ballet, contemporary dance, stage folk dance and commercial dance. This is the place bodies are evaluated, the ones appropriate to each genre awarded and often being looked critically by other genres. People dress up for the ceremony in a way they consider festive and pose in their fancy ways. This image with 3 iCoDaCo artists (Aigars, Inta, Agate) most likely would not not happen if not the project and if it would it would definetly be more standing up and more classic. A minuscule protest to the common representation of the bodies at the award ceremonies.
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Zooming into the unknown The moment between the first idea of a project and the start of creation is an unknown. It deserves to be zoomed into. I share a practice inspired by the 'Focusing' method of philospoher Eugene Gendlin. This is a companion text of an audio guide.
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Tier 11 - Contribution Manon Time, perception of time, conception of time, in the small details.
Five minutes to go from a neutral face to maximum scream
1 minute keeping at a max
Five minutes to go back to a neutral face
All in silence, with silence.
All tiny muscles involved.
Thanks to my collective for the act and contribution.
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Spain Tier 5 - Rebeca
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Spain Tier 5 - Nacho
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Spain Tier 5 - Mari Paula
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Spain Tier 5 - Bal
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Spain Tier 5 - Alba
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Spain Tier 4 - (21-27.04.25) Rebeca
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Spain Tier 4 - (21-27.04.25) Mari Paula
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Spain Tier 3 - Spain collective contribution
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Spain Tier 3 - (10-16.03.2025) Manon
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The Thing I Would Never Do But Did Anyways I have always felt embarrassed to use my own voice out loud, I did it and I felt like one with the noisy surrounding. I hope no one hears me singing...
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Clearing a space Individual contribution from Deborah Light.
The space is filled with objects including cables, plants, rotating fans, plastic sheets, cardboard boxes. A rotating fan wears a coat.
Three players enter and clear the space, accompanied by a city soundscape with children playing.
The sound of children continues to play in the empty space when they have finished clearing.
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Archive for whom I started to make choreography on more conscious way approximately 14 years ago. Starting from that till nowadays I have a lot of videos from working process. Many hours of trying, many hours of possible version. Physically my archive is visible in few plastic usb and hard drives. I’m not sure that one day I will look at them all. Similar with library’s, if you have it doesn’t mean that you will read all the books, or do you will read one book again ,again and again…
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Costume and action! This is a photo from the costume fiting for the instant piece perfomance that we created in the final week. My role in the exercice consist was to choose the costumes in ten minutes for the performers
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Another philosophical moment Gosh, how I missed writing down my smart ass thoughts.
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The Philosophical Moment From me to me, to you, to read, to do, to dance, to live, to join, to smile.
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Something meaningful We did something meaningful, something that matters. We imprinted our vibration, opinion and energy into the space, into the building, into the Ministry of Culture. Body politic came back to us. We gathered, we united and felt powerful! We danced.