In the dance performance "Verpete", Erik Eriksson and Krišjānis Sants weave space, music and audience into an intimate, swirling dance of balance and trust. The audience is invited into a world where the very sense of time and space seems to boil and dissolve in movement.

VĒRPETE

Choreographers, performers: Mārtiņš Miļevskis (vibraphone), Rihards Lībietis (guitar)

Producer: Latvian New Theatre Institute / Laura Stašāne, TUVUMI

, "Vērpete" (liet. In "Vērpet", the creators and performers Erik Eriksson and Krišjānis Sants start with the movement of a rotating couple in space, more familiar in games, folk and sports dances. The performers, twirling hand in hand, transform a familiar movement into a precise, fast, confident dance. "Vērpete" is accompanied by live vibraphone and guitar music, creating an enveloping soundscape. The audience shares the same space with the performers, many of whom have described their experience as being surrounded by a force of nature or an element perceived with the body rather than the mind.

Performance Vērpete premiered at the 2015 Homo Novus International Festival of Contemporary Theatre and has been critically acclaimed by both critics and audiences alike, including in 2016.

About the artists:

Erik and Krišjānis met in Brussels while studying at the P.A.R.T.S. dance school and have been collaborating on numerous projects ever since. 

Erik Eriksson (SE) holds an MA from the Danish National School of Performing Arts (2022). He works in Sweden, Latvia, Belgium and Finland as a performer, teacher and choreographer who is interested in sharing the physical sensations of dance. 

Krišjānis Sants (LV) holds a Master's Degree in Scenography from the Latvian Academy of Arts (2018). He is a member of the duo IevaKrish and together with Ieva Gaurilčikaitė-Sants (LT/LV) he creates performances focusing on the tactile communication of space and rhythm and a contemporary interpretation of traditional Baltic polyphonic singing. As a performer, Krišjānis works internationally with Fieldworks / Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki. 

Mārtiņš Miļevskis is a versatile percussionist, who has played with several well-known Latvian bands, such as H2O, Astro'n'out, Otra Puse, the folk group Auļi, as well as the Riga and Liepaja orchestras.

Rihards Lībietis plays acoustic guitar and composes music, and has released four albums with his instrumental band "Rihards Lībietis Orchestra".

Date of the event 01 05 2024

Duration - 50 minutes

Venue. 2 (Siaurojo geležinkelio depres teritorija)

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