Time to dance returns with the festival’s most personal topic

Festival curator and choreographer Olga Zhitluhina says: « Contemporary dance is becoming particularly personal this year. The family is not just a shared address – it is a movement that comes between people. Dance is our language where family stories can be spoken deeply. »

Festival performances in Riga will be on view from June 10 to 12 on several stages at the Arts Center Noah and in the youth garden. Spectators will have the opportunity to meet Latvian dance artists – wonder, Lipor, Muskar, Olehno and Zvonarjov’s families – as well as international guests, whose works will cover the family theme from different cultural perspectives.

June 10 and 11 in the festival program Noah Let’s see the Japanese artist – Yukio Suzuki, Nao Ashimines, their daughter Soras and dancers and applied for Riga With landscape. Norwegian artists, sisters Anne Katrine and Liva Hanne Haugen will offer a show Sisters foreverthat will be the trilogy of the family Sisters (2003) and Sisters after 11 years (2014) The closing show. Czech and Slovenian tandem Kristin Pulmova and Zhigan Krajnchan with daughter, Olek Voicik and Laura Vlada with their daughter from the Canary Islands, as well as Estonian-Norwegian artists’ pair Kuli Rosna and Kenneth flak with their daughter show the festival’s new works.

Special experience will be the opportunity to watch Agate Bankava’s latest show at the late evening of June 10 In the mycelial network – The kingdom of mushrooms that we are close to and always present, whose research allows to see new opportunities for cooperation and existence. In turn, on the evening of June 11, at the end of the show program Noah There will be traditional Music and Dance Ad-Lib with Stanislav Judin and musicians from the association Bm/c. Everyone is invited.

Outside the festival programs in cooperation with the Foundation Initium, On June 12, youth park will feature a dance show created by Italian artist Beatrice Alegranti. Perform Europe the traveling project Moving Kinship within the framework.

June 13 and 14 Time to dance We will go to the Stāmeriena Castle and the Park, where we can experience master classes and watch the dance – both the performances and other performances in Riga are created directly for the Stāmeriena program.

The festival program will be complemented by master classes, public discussions, free dance sessions with musicians and conversations with spectators. The whole week will be an experience that not only allows you to watch, but calls for a participant.

Tickets are available Ticket paradise at the box office and on the Internet www.bilesuparadize.lv

More information on the website www.ikaiksdjotfestivals.lv and festival Facebook on the page.

The program includes free activities as well as a dance master class for parents with children.