Contemporary dance choreographer Silke Z. and Low Air founders and choreographers Airida Gudaitė and Laurynas Žakevičius together with the dancers explored the dancers' perception of their own body, its limits and boundaries, the acceptable and unacceptable parts of the body, the movement, and the utopian attitudes created by societal stereotypes of what different bodies can and can not do. They were driven by the desire to (re)find a connection between two different cultures, six different bodies, and personalities rich in experience.

Can the theme of desire and pleasure be related to characteristics such as age, gender, body or disability? Does the differentiation of our gender, age or (in)abilities cause shame and insecurity that hinder our desires?

Lustopia playfully navigates between everyday pleasure, obscenity, body-shaming and body-positivity, and consciously questions social norms and taboos that exist. The plot of the performance follows the utopia of the fusion of bodies in search of the much desired freedom and explores its limits in the context of dance.

Lustopia is a multi-layered work, which does not need to be experienced in one single definition, one single theme, one single time. The audience is invited into a dance experience that inspires a celebration of human difference and the utopia of the shared body.

We are grateful to the Lithuanian Council for Culture and the Municipality of Vilnius for partially funding the production and dissemination of the performance.

Low Air Dance Theatre of Vilnius has performed in various Lithuanian events, festivals and biennales: International Contemporary Dance Festival NAUJASIS BALTIJOS DANCE, Vilnius International Theatre Festival SIRENOS, International Dance Festival AURA, International Festival for Children and Youth KITOKS, International Arts Festival PLARTFORMA, International Theatre Festival THEATRIUM, International Dance Festival PŪGA, MIDSUMMER VILNIUS, Theatre Festival for Youth IZEITIES TAŠKAS and many others.

Photo by Sophia Ebner