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    All Birds Sing Beautifully
    performer

  3. director, dramaturgy: Krista Burāne
    composer: Jēkabs Nīmanis
    artist: Pamela Butāne
    choreography: Kristīne Brīniņa
    conductor: Patriks Kārlis Stepe
    performers: Artūrs Čukurs, Elīza Dombrovska, Anna Klišāne, Visu putnu koris, Rūta Dišlere, Armands Siliņš

    The musical site-specific performance "All Birds Sing Beautifully" offer audiences an unusual perspective on the boundaries between culture and nature, where a conflict takes place between the cultivated and the natural, between human order and the wildness of nature. In this performance, professional artists collaborate with young people who sing in choirs. The audience, by listening to and hearing the stories about birds and humans, also contribute to the overall sound of the performance.

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    NASING SPESHAL
    performer

  5. performers: Ansis Bētiņš, Artūrs Čukurs, Jana Ļisova, Elizabete Lielmane, Mārtiņš Upenieks
    dramaturg, director: Andrejs Jarovojs
    composer: Linda Leimane
    video and costumes: Ieva Kauliņa
    producer: Ģertrūdes ielas teātris
    premiere: 29/08/2021

    “Nasing Speshal” is based on one of the longest parliamentary sittings in the history of Latvia, since the restoration of its independence. It began on December 11, 2008, continued until the next morning and, after a week-long break, was concluded on December 18, 2008, lasting 28 hours and 16 minutes in total. The agenda of the meeting included amendments to the next year's state budget and to its accompanying laws, as well as the Law on Administrative Territorial Reform. At the time Latvia was affected by the global economic crisis and by a local political crisis and, even though the measures that the government and the parliament implemented were later called a “success story”, they significantly undermined the trust that the people had in the governing bodies.

    The script of “Nasing Speshal” was created using the transcripts of the parliamentary sitting – the creative team has turned the speeches of the members of the parliament and the government into a colourful mosaic, revealing a closeup of a passionate struggle for the citizen's vote.

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    My Neighbour Jew
    performer

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    SALOME
    sound designer, performer, clarinet

  9. music theatre collective HAUEN UND STECHEN
    premiere: 25/06/2021, Théâtre de l'Athénée, Paris, France
    28/01/2022, Sophiensaele, Berlin, Germany

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    The Lost Songs
    co-deviser, performer, composer

  11. cocept: Agate Bankava, Artūrs Čukurs, Andrejs Jarovojs
    director: Andrejs Jarovojs
    performers: Agate Bankava, Artūrs Čukurs
    producer: Ģertrūdes ielas teātris
    premiere: 27/10/2020

    “The Lost Songs” are songs of the world and insecurity, dreams and reality, the small and the infinite, and the ever so important ability to retain the joy of life of a warm July on a chilly October morning. It is a performance about our readiness to delve deeper, to look at the customary through another’s eyes, to accept that which we do not understand. It is an invitation to share a dream about the longed for and necessary tomorrow.

    A dance performance that expands beyond the visible body, using voice and music as an integral part of corporal expression. Partly tap dance, partly hip-hop battle, The Lost Songs is a playful ballad for better future performed by captivating duo.

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    BAŅUTA
    assistant director, performer

  13. music theatre collective HAUEN UND STECHEN

    A hundred years after the premiere of Alfrēds Kalniņš’ first Latvian opera Baņuta in 1920, comes the opera film Baņuta – an international project that melds opera, musical performances, the conditionality of the performing arts and contemporary performativity. Director Franziska Kronfoth and dramaturg Evarts Melnalksnis bring together Latvian artists and the German musical theatre collective “Hauen und Stechen” to interpret the dramatic message, which they do without sentimentality, playing with time and shattering space into pieces. The trauma and violence of war and personal relationships is an important leitmotif – Baņuta takes part in partisan battles, bringing with her the collective experience of the women who have suffered through the wars in 20th century Eastern Europe. Nevertheless, mixing the boundaries between genres, a paradoxical sense of humour seeps into the tragedy, while characters stuck deep in the centuries strive to break the fourth wall.

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    EVOLUTION
    singer, performer

  15. premiere: 09/2019
    RUHRTRIENNALE 2019, Jahrhunderthalle, Bochum, Germany

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    ESCAPE ROOM: Myth about Freedom
    co-deviser, performer

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    Excercises with Apple and Bow
    co-deviser, performer

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    Nocturne
    performer

  21. idea and direction: Krista Burāne, Andy Field
    co-creators: Ieva Kauliņa, Erik Eriksson
    performance: Eva Kronberga, Eva Krūmiņa, Agnese Bordjukova, Ieva Gaurilčikaite, Santa Grīnfelde, Rūdolfs Gediņš, Krišjānis Sants, Artūrs Čukurs, Ivars Broničs, Ģirts Bisenieks
    premiere: 07/09/2018
    International Festival of Contemporary Theatre HOMO NOVUS

    Nocturne is a journey into the wild side of the city and encounter with the creatures that reside there. As the sun departs and darkness forms audiences are invited to disappear into the underworld, slipping through the concrete and electricity, streetlights and supermarkets in search of something other. Within the shadows and undergrowth we are drawn to a stranger and less familiar place where perspectives shift on our urban landscape. Part performance, part walk, part workshop, it is a song of the night and it’s invisible inhabitants.

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    Overruled
    co-deviser, performer

  23. premiere: 10/10/2017
    4 + 4 Days in Motion International Festival of Contemporary Art

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    My Sister
    sound designer

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    Sanctuary of Truth
    performer

  27. author: Kate Krolle
    premiere: 03/09/2017
    International Festival of Contemporary Theatre HOMO NOVUS

    By turning long abandoned factory into sanctuary and guiding audience through the sequence of ritual acts, Kate is looking for light in the dark depths of truth. Can feelings become a ritual practice? How to get rid of one’s identity without loosing the ability to feel? Immersed in subtle visual and sound landscape it’s a collective search for the meaning of life and death.

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    Tanya's Birthday
    co-deviser, performer

  29. director: Mārtiņš Eihe
    set designer and costume designer: Ieva Kauliņa
    dramaturgy: Laila Burāne
    performers: Artūrs Čukurs, Mārtiņš Eihe, Jānis Kronis, Jana Ļisova

    Spectators are welcome to change into guests at celebration of Tanya’s birthday. As usually in a big family reunion, the participants inadvertently start to reminisce about well-known as well as carefully hidden and often controversal events in family history. They develop conversations not only about the past but about the future and the community we live in.
    This performance is based on Latvian people’s memories, thoughts and reflections about Latvia in the 20th century. It summarizes into a project called "Your memories for the future of Latvia" in collaboration between Goethe-Institut Riga, theatre Ģertrūdes ielas teātris and other partners.