Rate dancing comes in a wide variety of genres and styles, but folk dancing is more characterised by its abundance of circles than anything else. All over the world, folk dances use circles. The circle is a transcendent symbol of spirituality, of the divine. Folk dances also claim to be such, but the performance will seek to find out how much folk dances are authentic and how much they are really folk dances. 
 

Suk, spin the wheel, spin it to one side,

Tell me, maiden, are you going to be mine?

I won't turn the wheel either way

Don't say, my boy, that I will be yours.

You did not come to me on your horse,

You did not give me your ring

You did not come to me on your horse,

You did not give me your sister's ring.

 

Dovydas Strimaitis (born in 1997) is a Lithuanian contemporary dance artist living and working in France and Belgium. At the age of 12, Strimaitis started to learn different styles of dance: line dancing, show dancing and finally contemporary dance. In 2015 he enrolled in the Bachelor of Dance at Codarts (The Netherlands). From 2019 to 2022 Strimaitis was a dancer with the National Ballet of Marseille. In 2024, Strimaitis received the Golden Stage Cross Award as the best choreographer of the year for the dance performance "Duet". 
 

The dance performance "Suk Suk" is the first joint performance between Strimaitis and the Sheikh Dance Theatre, and is a part of the Franco-Lithuanian creative cooperation programme "KlaipėDAnse", which has been running since 2017.