Lukas Karvelis / BE COMPANY (Lithuania) — SHE DREAMT OF BEING WASHED AWAY TO THE COAST
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Duration: 40 min.
Recommended age: 12+
The performance is part of the Baltic Dance Platform programme.
“She Dreamt of Being Washed Away To The Coast” is a contemporary take on the Baltic mythology. The performance contextualises Lithuanian folklore against the backdrop of the universal human experience. It looks at the tension between two worlds: the material one, based on logic, and the one created by imagination and faith.
The starting point of the performance is the interpretation of Lithuanian legend about the impossibility of love between the sea goddess named Jūratė and a fisherman named Kastytis. But instead focusing on the tragic of love, the performance deals with the transformation of a single individual, inspired by the figure of Jūrate, who is experiencing loneliness and a conflict bodily limitations and the fluidity of imagination.
“She Dreamt of Being Washed Away To The Coast” is a transformative journey of movement from a single point to a broader space without a defined beginning or an end. Throughout the duration of the work, the dance gradually becomes more complex while the dancer moves in circular motions experiencing the confrontation between her own body and the rules dictated by the space. Complex, meditative and fluid like water, the movements create an allusion a deity chained at the bottom of the sea, trying to find balance between her axis and liberation.
Lukas Karvelis is a Lithuanian freelance dance artist currently based in Amsterdam. Upon graduating from Codarts in 2019 on a Jiri Kylian Foundation scholarship, he began collaborated with Royal Danish theatre, Münich Kammerspiele, Göteborgs Operans Danskompani, Dansatelier’s crew and Korzo Theater.
In his artistic work, Karvelis seeks to find this crucial point at which change occurs within the body as it diverges away from trauma within society and oneself. This point leads to research within the movement as he examines these moments with a curiosity about the past.
He is currently linking this movement exploration to the social phenomenon of addiction, correlating to the body and mind. Alongside his work as a performer and choreographer, Karvelis developed a movement exploration practice that examines the motion of free fall, which challenges the mover to feel the freedom from gravity in order to find weightlessness.
Karvelis was nominated for the Piket Kunst Award in 2020 and received young artist award from Lithuanian ministry of culture in 2023.
Choreography and concept: Lukas Karvelis
Dancer: Dominyka Markevičiūtė
Music: Dominykas Digimas
Costume design: Morta Nakaitė
Lights design: Povilas Laurinaitis
Mentor: Bush Hartsorn
Communication: Agnė Vidugirytė
Produced by: Be_Kompanijos
Co-produced by: / CDCN, Atelier de Paris /
Supported by: / Lithuanian Culture Institute / New Baltic Dance Festival / LT Contemporary Dance Association/
Photos by Elena Krukonytė, Donatas Ališauskas.
The Baltic Dance Platform is a biennial event held in a different Baltic capital since 2019. It consistently and purposefully showcases contemporary dance from the Baltic region and its artists in both international and regional contexts. At the same time, the Baltic Dance Platform provides opportunities for collaboration among cultural professionals and the exchange of knowledge and experience. This year The Baltic Dance Platform will take place on April 22–25 in Vilnius.
Baltic Dance Platform organizers: Lithuanian Dance Information Centre, Latvian Dance Information Centre, Estonian Dance Performance and Development Center “Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava”
Partners: Contemporary Dance Association (Lithuania), Association of Choreographers (Latvia), Estonian Union of Dance Art and Dance Education
Supported by: Vilnius City Municipality, Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture, Lithuanian Council for Culture, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Estonia.
