Bosque / Woods premiere in Vilnius (Lithuania) at the international contemporary dance festival New Baltic Dance.
The performance that pursues the idea of collective practice and explores impermanence and instability of the body, nature and climate. Inviting local participants to join in, inverted bodies change the city landscape and question the ways in which a body can resist, persist. The bodies’ struggle to remain upside down calling attention to the struggle of nature itself – the city concrete, the lack of nature, the climate changes, the missing trees and the forgotten woods.
Bosque / Woods is a Big Pulse Dance Alliance co-production, the project selected for the Big Pulse Open Air Programme, co-produced by Naujasis Baltijos Šokis/New Baltic Dance (Lithuania), International Dance Festival TANEC PRAHA (The Czech Republic), Sismògraf Dance Festival (Catalonia – Spain) and Julidans (The Netherlands), co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the EU. Production and Management together with Linha de Fuga Associação Cultural (Portugal). This presentation is happening with the support of Perform Europe as part of the Woods project.
The performances dedicated to 700 years young Vilnius, presented by CAFFEINE.
In collaboration with the great local volunteers: Agnė Ščiukaitė, Ana Filipovič, Brigita Rackovskytė, Edmunda Bagdonienė, Eglė Songailaitė, Eglė Varkojūtė, Ieva Garlaitė, Ignas Šmitas, Ineta Gabreliūnaitė, Inga Ulevičiūtė, Kaja Piechówka, Kamilė Mikonytė, Marija Baranauskaitė, Marius Eidrigevičius, Mark Liberman, Miglė Keblaitytė, Oskaras Venckus, Saulė Degutytė, Vilius Grižas, Vilma Radzevičienė.
Photos by Dmitrijus Matvejevas.