{"id":4559,"date":"2026-02-11T14:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newbalticdance.lt\/?post_type=mec-events&p=4559"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:00:09","slug":"robyn-orlin-pietu-afrikos-respublika-unplugging-archival-journeys-3-for-volmir","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/newbalticdance.lt\/en\/renginiai\/robyn-orlin-pietu-afrikos-respublika-unplugging-archival-journeys-3-for-volmir\/","title":{"rendered":"Robyn Orlin (South Africa) \u2013 IN A CORNER THE SKY SURRENDERS \u2013 UNPLUGGING ARCHIVAL JOURNEYS … # 3 (FOR VOLMIR <3)..."},"content":{"rendered":"Tickets<\/span><\/a><\/span>\n

Duration: <\/b>70 min.<\/strong><\/p>\n

ATTENTION: There are scenes in the performance in which the dancer appears nude. Recommended age range 12+<\/b><\/p>\n

Performance Language:<\/b> English.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rewind … Manhattan lower east side … 1994 …<\/span><\/p>\n

When I was living and working in New York I was struck by the survival instincts of the homeless. Inlower east side Manhattan there was always traffic of large cardboard refrigerator boxes in many of thestreets, which often broke out into vicious street wars. Different attitudes were used to preserve andinhabit these ‘cardboard homes’. At this same time I was struggling to find a space to make my workand decided to join the ranks of the homeless and use a cardboard refrigerator box in which to work ….and so my solo , ‘in a corner…. ‘ was born, and was performed in New York , Chicago, South Africa and Australia ….<\/span><\/p>\n

Fast forward … Berlin 2001 \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

I am visiting the jewish memorial …. as I was walking through the different cement cylinders, I started tofeel lost, anxious and a sense of panic …. I remember looking up to the sky and slowly finding my wayout with the help of the sky …. I remember as I exit the memorial my piece with the box and wonderingif the piece would have a life in Europe …. thought placed on the back burner of my brain, neverthinking more about it \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Fast forward … Berlin 2020 …<\/span><\/p>\n

Corona arrives on our doorsteps …. I watch how everybody is coping or not … I quietly keep looking upat the sky for clarity ….. I use Zoom to try to connect with the outside world …. there is a moment thatthe boxes that appear on my monitor are no different to the cardboard boxes on the Manhattanstreets or the Jewish Memorial in Berlin….. but the situation is a little different (we cannot leave ourboxes), but the coping mechanisms similar \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

After recreating this solo with Nadia Beugr\u00e9 in 2022 at the Montpellier Dance Festival, then in 2024 for Marta Izquierdo Munoz at La Place de la Danse, Robyn Orlin revived this seminal piece in 2025 for Volmir Cordeiro.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Johannesburg-born dancer and choreographer of Lithuanian and Polish Jewish descent,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Robyn Orlin<\/b> founded the \u201cCity Theatre & Dance Group\u201d in 1988. Since \u201c<\/span>Daddy, I have seen this piece six times before\u2026\u201d<\/span> (1999), which won a Laurence Olivier Award, Orlin\u2019s pieces have been performed all over the world.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDaddy, I have seen this piece six times before\u2026\u201d is<\/span> a richly satiric portrait of race relations, confrontations and the threat presented by democracy to Western \u201celitist\u201d dance forms. Perhaps the pinnacle of Orlin\u2019s socio-political expression and achievement is the commission by the Paris\u00a0Op\u00e9ra\u00a0of “L\u2019Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato” (2007) where she had \u00e9toiles and ballet dancers pulling down tutu\u2019s supremacy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nicknamed in South Africa as “permanent irritation”, she reveals, through her work, the difficult and complex reality of her country. She incorporates various artistic expressions (text, video, plastic arts …), in order to explore a certain theatricality that is reflected in her choreographic vocabulary.<\/span><\/p>\n