{"id":3472,"date":"2025-02-28T14:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T12:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newbalticdance.lt\/?post_type=mec-events&p=3472"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:46:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:46:55","slug":"liza-baliasnaja-lithuania-germany-chiaroscuro","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/newbalticdance.lt\/en\/renginiai\/liza-baliasnaja-lithuania-germany-chiaroscuro\/","title":{"rendered":"Liza Baliasnaja (Lithuania \/ Germany) \u2013 CHIAROSCURO"},"content":{"rendered":"Tickets<\/span><\/a><\/span>\n

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Duration: <\/span>45 min.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Performance <\/span>Chiaroscuro<\/span><\/i> is part of an ongoing artistic research by Liza Baliasnaja, exploring how emotions like fear and disgust shape political subjectivity in times of social<\/span> polarization. The frightened body and its grotesque expressions are the focus of the work. By amplifying fear\u2019s somatic<\/span> manifestations, the performance leans into the emotional exaggeration characteristic to baroque period paintings. The title refers to the baroque technique <\/span>chiaroscuro,<\/span><\/i> defined by the strong contrast between light and darkness.<\/span><\/p>\n

When does care turn into violence, protection into domination, or victimhood into aggression? <\/span>Chiaroscuro<\/span><\/i> plays with the structural elements of populist discourse by embodying the social archetypes of the victimized sheep, the perpetrator wolf, and the protector sheepdog. It examines the power dynamics between these archetypes, unmasking their fluidity and interdependence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fear is difficult to contain. It travels quickly from one body to another, eventually consuming the social body as a whole. For that to happen, we don\u2019t always need a tangible threat. Fear uproots us from the present, allowing fantasy to take over. But can fear be mistaken for discomfort in the face of someone different from myself? <\/span>Chiaroscuro<\/span><\/i> delves into the political significance of staying in the liminal space between entering and exiting, being scared and being dangerous, doing and being done to.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Liza Baliasnaja<\/b> (b. Kaunas, 1994) is a choreographer and performer active between Germany and Lithuania. Her work is informed by ongoing research into themes of power, subjectivity, language and violence. Her recent performances have been presented at the festivals like Radiant Nights, B\u00e2tard, New Baltic Dance, Almost Summer\/ Feminist Futures, and Tanz.Tausch. As a performer and outside eye, she collaborated with artists like Eszter Salamon, Christine De Smedt, Lenio Kaklea, M\u00e5rten Sp\u00e5ngberg, Ula Sickle, and Lina Lapelyt\u0117 among others. She completed her dance training at P.A.R.T.S and holds a BA in philosophy from the university of KU Leuven.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Concept and choreography:<\/b> Liza Baliasnaja<\/span><\/p>\n

Performance and creation:<\/b> Gabriel\u0117 Bagdonait\u0117, Amanda Barrio Charmelo, Sidney Barnes, Dominyka Markevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, Lina Puod\u017eiukait\u0117<\/span><\/p>\n

Text:<\/b> Liza Baliasnaja and Sidney Barnes<\/span><\/p>\n

Sound composition: <\/b>Dominykas Digimas<\/span><\/p>\n

Dramaturgical advice: <\/b>R\u016bta Junevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117<\/span><\/p>\n

Costumes:<\/b> Laura Stellacci<\/span><\/p>\n

Performance coach:<\/b> Gr\u0117t\u0117 \u0160mitait\u0117<\/span><\/p>\n

Outside eye<\/b>: Andrius Katinas<\/span><\/p>\n

Production:<\/b> Be Company\/ Agniet\u0117 Lisi\u010dkinait\u0117<\/span><\/p>\n

Residency support:<\/b> Dansatelier, Kintai Arts Center, Pop-up residency at Tanzplatform Rhein-Main, Akee space for Culture, Kaunas Artist\u2019s House<\/span><\/p>\n

Supported by:<\/b> Lithuanian Culture Council, Kunststiftung NRW, Lithuanian Contemporary Dance Association, Contempo Festival\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Premiere:<\/strong> On August 7 and 8, 2024, at the “ConTempo” festival in Kaunas, Lithuania.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instagram:<\/strong> @lizaliizaliiiza \/ @be_kompanijos<\/span><\/p>\n

Facebook:<\/strong> @LizaBaliasnaja \/ @BeKompanijos<\/span><\/p>\n

Photos by<\/strong> Edgaras Cickevi\u010dius, Lucie Schulze, Martynas Plepys.<\/p>\n