Greta Grinevičiūtė / Arts and Science Lab (MMLAB) (Lithuania) – DANCE FOR A CIGARETTE AND A BEST FRIEND
Duration: 90 min.
The performance features nudity, recommended age range 16+
“Dance for a Cigarette and a Best Friend” analyses friendship. The bond between best friends, which is not based on blood ties or romantic partnerships, often becomes one of the longest lasting relationships in a person’s life. Friendship witnesses the breakdown or formation of other relationships, influences the formation of the other’s personality and inspires inner changes. We move away and come closer, we touch and go into distance. We are naked, vulnerable, sometimes jealous, but always stay in touch.
“Dance for a Cigarette and a Best Friend” is the fourth work of choreographer Greta Grinevičiūtė from the series on a concrete or abstract object and a family member/friend and his idea or memory.
Greta Grinevičiūtė is a performer, dancer, theatre and film actress, choreographer, one of the main creators of MMLAB, co-founder of the independent contemporary dance art organisation “Be Company”, PhD student, lecturer, dance filmmaker. Greta Grinevičiūtė’s individual work mostly addresses intimacy and fragility: using the details of her own biography, Greta analyses human relationships, and more specifically, her own relationships with her loved ones in her works.
Idea author, choreographer, director: GRETA GRINEVIČIŪTĖ
Creative team: BIRUTĖ KAPUSTINSKAITĖ, AGNĖ MATULEVIČIŪTĖ, AGNIETĖ LISIČKINAITĖ, AISTĖ ZABOTKAITĖ, MORTA NAKAITĖ, JULIUS KURŠIS
Videographer (music clip): MARTYNAS NORVAIŠAS
Videographer (during the performance): NIDAS KANIUŠAS
Outside eye: BUSH HARTSHORN, SIGITA IVAŠKAITĖ, LIZA BELIASNAJA
Producer: RUSNĖ KREGŽDAITĖ
Coordinators: DOMANTĖ TYRILAITĖ, GRETA SENKUTĖ
Head of communication: RASA KREGŽDAITĖ
Head of technical team: VLAD BAJAZNYJ
Poster design: DOVILĖ ŠIDLAUSKAITĖ
Produced by MMLAB
Partners: National Art Gallery, Be kompanijos, Cinevera, Akropolis
Funded by: the Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius City Municipality
Premiere: On November 29 and 30, 2024, in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Tinklapis: https://bekompanijos.lt
Instagram: @gretagrine / @be_kompanijos
Facebook: @GretaGrineviciute / @BeKompanijos
Photos by Dainius Putinas.
