Wed, 10 Jul 2024, 20:00
July 10 at 20:00
"When the body has a memory" | Festival's Bicentennial Club
Venue: Community House | NIDA
Presentation of the performance "The Wandering Dunes", a meeting with the Greek choreographer Daphnis Kokkinos (Germany), and the author of the idea, the choreographer Agnija Šeiko.
The performance is set in 2020, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Pina Baush (1940-2009), the founder of dance theatre aesthetics and movement. That is why choreographer A. Šeiko invited to Neringa the long-time dancer, assistant and choreographer of P. Bausch's company D. Kokkinos, who together with Sheiko Dance Theatre presented a dedication to the great artist. Kokkinos upholds the tradition of Bausch's movement and aesthetics, and creates performances based on her aesthetics.
The performance was created in Nida, in the natural setting of the Great Dune, with the involvement of not only 10 professional dancers, but also the Nida dance collective Kalnapušė and the community of Neringa in the creation process.
We invite everyone who participated in the creation of the performance and experienced the spectacle, which writer Sondra Simanaitienė described as a reflection on the student's relationship with the Teacher and a carnival of people close to Pina, to come to the meeting.
"Each dancer was an angle, a colour, a character trait in the life of Pina. Each colour, figure, composition, like the sands of the sand, like patches of white sky, like living grass, like the mast of a ship, rolled naturally on the surface of the unique Curonian Spit, without changing or disturbing anything, only gently blending into the colour of the landscape and giving us, the passers-by, squatting quietly on the sand, a sight of wonderful beauty.
The Nida folk dance group "Kalnapušė" took part in the performance, conveying the psychological dignity of the people of this place - what it means to live in the land of shifting sands."
Premiere of the documentary film "Salan".
Meeting with the filmmakers and the festival team.
Neringa liked the metaphor of an island, so to reflect what has been happening in Neringa for decades, we decided to take it up a notch. In this case, the association with the festival, beginning with the letter "n", may be in the imagination. For example: 'Neringa', 'defiance', 'nobody', 'anxiety', 'nervousness', 'distance', 'amazement', 'home', and so on.
This documentary tells the story of the festival's twenty years of growth, transformation, and change for the people who have created this musical phenomenon in Neringa.
The event is free of charge.
SPONSORS: the LITHUANIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL, the Municipality of NERINGOS CITY
PARTNERS: the Sheiko dance theatre, the museums of Neringos, Agila, the public library of Neringos municipality V. Miliūnas, the International Centre of Translators and Writers in Nida.
ORGANISER: "Violoncelli Music"