DUB

Attention: The performance features loud music, and the dancers during the performance talk in French, English, and a Congolese dialect.

“DUB should not be understood literally as a creation set to this kind of music, more as a reference to the process of appropriation which is often prevalent in this music, in urban dancing and in my work in particular. The rationale consists of using the quoted movement as a first step but then immediately proposing something that hijacks, lengthens, twists or breaks it. A dub pulls its musical passages from acoustic reggae, distorting it, first highlighting the drums and the bass, blending it with electronic sounds, thereby creating far off acoustic spaces and new electro-atmospheric tonalities. Applying the same rationale to movement, I experiment with it and am constantly developing it in my pieces.”

Amala Dianor

Dub, the affirmation of a clear, contemporary form, joyful and collective, within the temporality of the stage.

In this creation, the dancers will be invited to move, to adapt, and to transform their habits. In the choreographer’s process, the studio is a sort of utopia, a space to rest, a place where differences lead to abundance, and people are seeking ways to share, to explore, to be free. For this piece he will be examining his own process, working with very young generation Z dancers. The associated artists will be attempting to see what happens with the dancers whose work, seen perhaps in a festive context — will be mostly in the solo form – working together in a long form piece in a common physical space.

The piece will no doubt bring up a number of important questions. What are we willing to give up to exist inside a group? What happens if we try to move together while staying true to our individual selves? How does the physical encounter with the audience, be it educated or neophyte, affect each performer’s practice? How does the piece connect reality and representation?

Using this transposition of reality into digital as well as stage spaces, Amala Dianor is interested in exploring how these practices fit into contemporary dance history, extracting the essence of a new vision of the world, constructing an incarnate visual utopia, free of artifice, and especially based on this group of young, talented dancers.

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Awir Leon / Composer
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The festival “New Baltic Dance” is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture, the Vilnius City Municipality, the Lithuanian Culture Institute, and the EU.