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HOMO ALIBI - FESTIVAL -
ACTION OF CONTEMPORARY NON-COMMERCIAL THEATRE Riga, May 1 - 6, 2000
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translated from Latin - other, alternative Producer: New Theatre Institute of Latvia Idea: Aims: · to attract younger generation of spectators by offering alternative and different theatre art Venues:
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New Riga Theatre Audience: · theatre professionals in theory and practice and all those who are interested in new trends of the contemporary theatre Participants and program: May 1,
16:00 and 20:00 "How I Ate up a Dog" new sentimentalism Director, artist, actor - Evgeni Grichkovets, Kaliningrad (Russia) "Russian "new sentimentalist", who tells the stream
of consciousness like story, which seems to be created within the
performance." "There was an abyss between what was being told on the stage
on the one hand and what was felt by the new world on the other, before
the appearance of Grichkovets. Grichkovets ripped up this furuncle and
dared to blab it out in his performances. If you wish, he is the one who
teaches the young generation to talk." "I would like to start with the words: "The intention of
the performance came to me when..." or "I nurtured the idea of
the performance..." or "From the very childhood I felt the
necessity..." And this will be the truth." Grichkovets got double award "Golden Mask" in 1999 - as the
best innovative performance in Russia and the special award of Russian
critics. May 3, 18:30 "Plantain" nearly intrinsically free dances PO.V.S.TANZE, Moscow (Russia) Choreography, dance: Alexandra Konnikova, Eugenia Kozlova,
Elena Golovasheva, Taras Burnashev, Albert Albert In 1997 in Moscow several nearly independent dancers founded the company PO.V.S.TANZE that exists as a freelance group of dancers and is engaged in experiments in the field of performance, improvisational dance and choreography, emerges with own projects and in the same way in joint projects with musicians, artists, designers. Until now they have participated in more than ten performing arts projects, among them - Russian-German collaborative project Na Zemlje (choreographer Sasha Waltz) which has been presented in Germany, Belgium, France, Denmark, Switzerland. The first night performance of the Plantain - April 13 in Moscow. The Plantain is conceived as a dance performance for five dancers working on the principle of joint choreography when the dance is a product of joint improvisational creativity. On the one hand, it is alive dance arising on the basis of reactions of a body on environment or on a psychological situation, image or idea. On another hand, comprehension of space and rhythm of everyday movement or gesture and transformation them in dance. The Plantain is a story about young folk who have grown up and is living beside a road. Someone is getting adult, someone is learning to drink, someone is dreaming on a better life and greater cities... But nobody goes anywhere. Is it possible to live beside the road and not to go?
contemporary tragedy Producer: Oskaras Korshunovas Theatre, Vilnius (Lithuania) Director: Oskaras Korshunovas Set designer: Jurate Paulekait Composer: Gontars Sodeika Actors: Dalia Brenciute, Remigijus Vilkaitis, Rasa Samuolyte, Gytis Ivanauskas, Dainius Gavenonis "In close frame, like the family, I can tell very well what interests me in the world: being left out and the working mechanism of exclusion and how one can become independent of all of this and how lonely one can be despite being a social creature,"- says young German playwright Marius von Mayenburg (1972). The Feuergesicht is the fourth play he has written and has won him a
Kleist-Award in 1998 and the Award of the City of Heidelberg. The first
production of the Feuergesicht was staged at the famous Das Baracke
Theater by Tomas Ostermayer.
the play for voice and piano Director, actress: Birute Marcinkeviciute (Lithuanian
National Drama Theatre) Birute Marcinkeviciute (1969) has graduated St-Petersburg Theatre Academy (1993) and has studied Japanese traditional Nihon Buyo dance, Noh theatre and Butoh dance in Japan (1997/98). From 1996 she works on independent theatre and dance projects and her productions have been successfully performed at international festivals. Among them - theatre-dance projects Train People and Airplain People, based on traveling experience and personal poems from her first poetry book Lost Letters. The Words in the Sand - mono-performance based on S.Beckett's Happy Days - suddenly brought an international success to the young actress - during 1998/99 it was successfully performed in Lithuania, Japan, Germany, Denmark, Belorussia, Moldova, Russia and won several awards at the International festivals of mono-drama. "Young actress B.Marcinkeviciute surprised creating such a
wide spectrum of feelings and colours of Vini's character. Everybody
could discover a part of himself in this character, and for the first
time, probably, to see all the colours in the rainbow of human
life." "...The costume of Vini gradually transforms into the
memories. They are, at the same time, her prison and her space (...).
When the human being finds himself in the point of Death? When the
moving in the point of death is the only thing left? In the final scene,
the skirt transforms into the sand of the memories, where Vini
disappears... Birute Marcinkeviciute with her personage created the
capacious metaphor of human solitude."
The theatre companies invited to participate in the framework of the project Noncommercial Theatre Action HOMO ALIBI are selected according to the following criteria: - they are independent professional companies producing experimental
and innovative performing arts projects; Tickets From April 20 in New Riga Theatre, Daile theatre Supported by: Culture Capital Foundation
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