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Direction and choreography: UGNE DIEVAITE Direction asistant : RICCARDO BUSCARINI Musical composition, live music: VIDAL Performers: AGNIJA SEIKO, MARIJA IVASKEVICIUTE Lighting design: DANIEL ALCARAZ (La Cía de la Luz) Costumes: LAURA DARBUTAITE Coproduced with Seiko dance company Duration: 50' Year of production: april of 2019 |
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concept/synopsis
Two ages of a woman. She is 19 and also 41 years old.
That woman is Salomeja Neris, Lithuanian poetess. Born in 1904 and died in 1945, to this day she remains a controversial figure. Her short life culminated in a quick death and a moral condemnation for having supported the communist regime.
Marija and Agnija are on the stage. Marija feels that her life has just begun, that there is so much time left and so much she can do. Agnija feels that there is less and less time left to live. There are so many things she wants to do before her time limit ends. Both women coexist with Salomeja Neris, converse and cohabit the space. The bodies of Agnija and Marija communicate their nature to give way to the words of Salomeja that invite us to know her universe. The movements and the gazes are witnesses of the passage of time, the historical contexts and the places.
The physical experience, the biological rhythms are crossed by accidents. Are Salomeja, Marija and Agnija the sum of their circumstances? In what degree do we live through history and to what degree does history live through us?
The night erases the limits of time and circumstances between the three women, moving them to the present moment and making visible their flickering experiences and their vision about life, personal and collective. Revealing the existence that we all share, Flicker of the night invites us to reflect on the imprint of the historical context in our actions.
That woman is Salomeja Neris, Lithuanian poetess. Born in 1904 and died in 1945, to this day she remains a controversial figure. Her short life culminated in a quick death and a moral condemnation for having supported the communist regime.
Marija and Agnija are on the stage. Marija feels that her life has just begun, that there is so much time left and so much she can do. Agnija feels that there is less and less time left to live. There are so many things she wants to do before her time limit ends. Both women coexist with Salomeja Neris, converse and cohabit the space. The bodies of Agnija and Marija communicate their nature to give way to the words of Salomeja that invite us to know her universe. The movements and the gazes are witnesses of the passage of time, the historical contexts and the places.
The physical experience, the biological rhythms are crossed by accidents. Are Salomeja, Marija and Agnija the sum of their circumstances? In what degree do we live through history and to what degree does history live through us?
The night erases the limits of time and circumstances between the three women, moving them to the present moment and making visible their flickering experiences and their vision about life, personal and collective. Revealing the existence that we all share, Flicker of the night invites us to reflect on the imprint of the historical context in our actions.
