9 January, 6.00 pm:
Contemporary dance performance “Whirl”.
Krišjānis Sants, Erik Eriksson (Sweden)
Mārtiņš Miļevskis (vibraphone), Rihards Lībietis (guitar)
In the dance performance “Whirl”, its creators and performers Krišjānis Sants and Ēriks Eriksons (Erik Eriksson, Sweden), using the spinning partner movement found in games, folk dances and ballroom dances, create a contemporary dance performance characterized by precision, speed, trust and excitement. Turning through space hand in hand, the two performers, while at once splitting and reuniting the audience freely wandering around them, create dynamic patterns of repeated movement. The movement of “Whirl” demands a paradoxical commitment to support one another, constantly splitting apart, collaborating through opposition and not letting go. The performance is accompanied by the dense and enveloping live soundscape of vibraphone and guitar performed by Mārtiņš Miļevskis and Rihards Lībietis.
“Whirl” is an experience that many spectators, sharing the space with the performers, have described as being in the middle of a natural force, perceived more through the body than the mind, overtaken by an inexplicable sense of elevation.
“Whirl” premiered in 2015 at the “Homo Novus” festival and has earned the highest praise from critics and audiences alike, including the 2016 “Spēlmaņu nakts” award for “Achievement of the Year in Contemporary Dance”. The performance was revived in 2022 and has been widely shown in Sweden, Lithuania and Latvia.
Performance duration: 50 minutes without an interval.
There are no seats in the performance.
