Creative Residences
February-June 2016
(Un)Trapped Identity or Death? – Vilnius
This artistic work aims to analyze reasons behind the aggressive political and social discrimination against ethnic and sexual minorities in Lithuania. Finding authentic yet inconvenient personal accounts of people who have to endure social phobias, who have suffered from violence and various forms of discrimination based on their innate characteristics. Personal accounts are even more important because of their roots in a specific time. These accounts are the shared secrets of the present time. The idea of the performance aims to turn this sum of experiences into a production seeking to find the points, which would permit us to destroy the identities and citizenship concepts based on nazism and racism with the patricotic facade. We are willing to ask the question what humanism is in the modern age? Does it exist? How can we create it? Is identity based on differences? Why isn’t culture a sufficient object of identity for us?
Walk in my Shoes – Canterbury
‘Walk in my Shoes’ is a collective performance that questions both new and old perspectives on one of the most poignant issues of today: the refugee crisis.
Following the routes of asylum seekers from their homeland to the borders of Europe, the structure of the performance builds upon moments that reflect the perils of leaving home and embarking on a journey to a new and unknown territory. It will show the complex politics of welcoming and offering shelter.
From the process of preparing for the road ahead, through the “walking” itself until reaching the final destination, these stages on the journey will be translated into movement and sound mapping to create a story about displacement in which the performers’ bodies sculpt the spatial territory of emotion, struggle and harsh interactions.
The performance takes as its starting point the task of walking in someone else’s shoes. It will tell the story through the filter of empathy and the desire to try to understand this passage as a journey where identity is shaped by reactions from both sides of the imaginary border that separates “myself” from the “other”.
Following the routes of asylum seekers from their homeland to the borders of Europe, the structure of the performance builds upon moments that reflect the perils of leaving home and embarking on a journey to a new and unknown territory. It will show the complex politics of welcoming and offering shelter.
From the process of preparing for the road ahead, through the “walking” itself until reaching the final destination, these stages on the journey will be translated into movement and sound mapping to create a story about displacement in which the performers’ bodies sculpt the spatial territory of emotion, struggle and harsh interactions.
The performance takes as its starting point the task of walking in someone else’s shoes. It will tell the story through the filter of empathy and the desire to try to understand this passage as a journey where identity is shaped by reactions from both sides of the imaginary border that separates “myself” from the “other”.
Disconnection – Barcelona
If there is a phenomenon that is affecting society in the way we live, communicate and act this is the use of smartphones and other electronic gadgets. It is a phenomenon that has captured almost all citizens of our country regardless of age, social class or ethnicity, and we observe that it can be extrapolated worldwide. Clearly, we have acquired new behaviours and established rituals of behaviour toward this new use that have altered our everyday habits, affecting therefore the human condition and identity of the people, understanding it as a way of life and a heritage in continuous evolution in relation to the concept of “alive” heritage. What is our proposal? Human and social disconnection due to the continuous use of technological devices such as smartphones, tablets, etc. Research of the topic, analysis of our environment and self observation of our behaviour towards the situation, as part of our daily present.
This Home is not For Sale – Cluj
“What is left in your town? Who holds the power in your country? What does home mean to you? What is the future of this place? What are you fighting for?”
A politician, a worker, an ecologist and a farmer-turned-activist navigate their past and futures moving from 1989 to 2016. The performance explores these figures through questions of identity, community and heritage.
‘This Home is Not For Sale’ is part of the Creative Europe funded project ‘Playing Identities, Performing Heritage’ and brings together UK-based theatre-maker Harry Wilson with performers from the Faculty of Theatre & Television at The Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj.
A politician, a worker, an ecologist and a farmer-turned-activist navigate their past and futures moving from 1989 to 2016. The performance explores these figures through questions of identity, community and heritage.
‘This Home is Not For Sale’ is part of the Creative Europe funded project ‘Playing Identities, Performing Heritage’ and brings together UK-based theatre-maker Harry Wilson with performers from the Faculty of Theatre & Television at The Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj.