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• An audio explanation of the “Five Pillars” file
  In this file, Aigars, an artist from the LV collective, gives a detailed explanation of the information contained in the “Five Pillars” file and describes how the LV collective identified the five pillars during their residency
• Dream performance collage
  This collage represents my dream scenario of a performance. The venue is located in space — a limitless, surreal environment that symbolizes freedom, and the absence of boundaries. In this world, money is no obstacle. The falling bills represent abundance and the idea that I can create whatever I want. At the center of the scene stands me, the performer, surrounded by my co-performers — dogs. Together we share the stage, while an enthusiastic audience watches and enjoys the show. The atmosphere captures a sense of joy, confidence, and fulfillment, as if this were truly the best job — one that not only pays well but also allows full creative expression. On one side of the composition, the phrase “Best Paying Jobs” appears, contrasting with “Find Your Purpose” on the other. Between them lies the balance I aspire to: doing meaningful work that sustains both creativity and life. The small plant symbolizes sustainability — a reminder that even in a dream of abundance, growth and care remain essential values.
• Useless/usefull
  I am digging. Exploring repetition as a choreographic tool, as polishing technique for digging, as getting the work done, as the basis for automatisation of work. Researching the levels of motivation and dedication depending on what type of task it is - something practical or artistically practical only.
• Dream performance in Skaņaiskalns, Latvia
  The idea of this dream performance was created during iCoDaCo residency week 3 during the community event in Mazsalaca library together with local community members. Skaņaiskalns is a special place in North of Latvia, that’s a cliff across the river of Salaca. In this place there is a very strong echo, so people go there to hear their voices coming back to them. Together with local community of Mazsalaca we imagined this durational performance where voice echo would be replaced with the movement.
• skeleton dance in the wild
  Here you can see possible dance variations after life
• We dream of the singing hill
  In this technical rider you see the requirements for a dream performance. It’s a durational piece inspired by QUARTO’s Durational Rope. We let our imaginations fly by bringing in elements from the previous weeks’ interactions with the local community. Basing this performance in the wish for community and the work cycles of rural Latvia. One major idea that has stuck with us from this process is to add a SPA day to international tours after the performances. This would allow the dancers and crew to recuperate after taxing their body and mind on stage.
• What is it what decides?
  A quick tryout to schematically depict how I make decisions, especially thinking how do I move towards my dream work. The outcome turned out to be quite miserable - other people’s dreams and other works and who knows whose decisions keep deciding for me while I am waiting for something. Maybe waiting for the iCoDaCo project to help bring out my “another me” to decide to do my dream work?
• Composition with children “The start”
  I recreated the composition task from our residency with the children I teach at a dance school. The group consists of young girls aged 8 to 10. We worked on the task for 30 minutes, using only a few objects available in the space. The instruction I gave was to change the location and position of certain objects, and, if they wished, to place themselves within the frame. During the process, I recorded videos of the activity, but since they are children, I prefer not to make their faces public.
• Composition with children “The End”
  At the beginning of the task, I placed all the selected objects in front of the group. The children were invited to enter the space one by one, in no particular order. They began slowly and carefully, but soon their playfulness took over, and the task grew increasingly dynamic. The pauses between participants became shorter and shorter until they no longer waited for one another—they simply entered the space whenever they felt like it. As I observed them, I noticed a gradual shift in focus. At first, about half of the girls seemed interested in building storylines through the objects, while the others were more drawn to movement itself—dancing, spinning, and doing cartwheels across the floor. Over time, their attention naturally moved away from the objects and toward the physical experience of being in motion. At one point, one of the girls broke the rule by bringing in an object that wasn’t originally in the studio. That small act opened a kind of “Pandora’s box,” releasing a wave of freedom in how they related to the materials and to each other. The task reached its culmination when all the girls joined together in a spontaneous collective dance, where the boundaries between object and movement dissolved completely.
• The space makes the decisions
  In this contribution I focused on how the available space and object (chair) influence my decision-making process. We became a collective working together in tandem with the plane of the camera lens. Wherever the space leads me, I go.
• Setting the stage for a collective decision-making choreography
  The video shows the perspective of the table / setting the table for a collective decision process: we are about to write a collective poem. I really prefer when there are structures to hold collective decision processes, choreographed with equality and horizontality in mind, so we can lie back and approach them with the ease of a play, with no need to fear the domination of the extroverts, or those better versed in language, or those not being afraid to take space.
• The shuttered “I” of collective decision
  Collective decision is not an easy process.
• The result of collective decision
  No need for description, photo speaks for itself.
• The consequences of collective result
  A woman’s face with closed eyes, gazing toward the sky in a space surrounded by walls of flowers.
• scheme of decision making processes
  scheme of decision making process.
• Decision making Through objects and some body parts
  Video which in an artistic way shows different decision making processes through several objects and some body parts.
• Confused Bodies Resting
  Confused Bodies Resting is an ongoing series of photos exploring confusion and rest in public space. Bodies are tired, bodies are confused and they decide to rest on the side of a road or in a tree. Or maybe it’s just confusing for those who are passing by? For now photos have been taken in Aarhus, Denmark and Liepāja, Latvia. Special thanks to photographers Elín Ramette and Laura Gorodko, as well as my dear friends Arina, Austris, Elza, Artūrs, Alise, Laura, Krista, Sintija and Romualds.
• Me as the Door
  In the image, you can see me engaging in an additional task where I tried to embody the door itself. I’m wearing a light blue, flower-patterned dress, with a subtle touch of red — a hint of temptation, inviting curiosity about what lies beneath, yet only visible to those allowed to see. Through this embodiment, I wanted to explore the idea of boundaries — what is revealed, what is hidden, and who decides who may enter.
• The Door
  I came across these abandoned doors while working on the task about signs that tell us how to behave or what to do. On these old doors, there are two signs — one in Latvian and one in Russian — both reading “No entry for unauthorized persons.” The doors are in poor condition, covered in rust, slowly overtaken by nature. It made me think: this sign once kept unauthorized people out, and now, there are no authorized people left to enter at all.
• Variations with object
  Variations with object
• The post-political body
  This video is a reflection on the movement of fat (adipose tissue) - research for my upcoming performance on “politics of wobble”, while observing textures and movements in nature and online. I am curious to explore some aspects of the body that are heavily politicized, thus cutting both the perception and the imagination. I’m interested to instead listen at the phenomenological, somatic and metaphysical level: a descent that perhaps could generate clues and speculations for healing the collective body.
• The body politic variations in the city
  This file shows a collage of 10 images created in urban environments, exploring the theme of unusual positions and movements in everyday life. The pictures were taken during the improvisation set.
• Signs for the body
  Our environment is littered with signs requiring us to act in a certain way. I spent a long walk paying attention to the different signs that impact our body in public spaces.
• Latvia
• Latvia