BODY OF DREAMS in Riga!

Rūta Ronja Pakalne, Laura Kvelstein

BODY OF DREAMS goes to Riga: 13th of April 19:00 and 14th of April 15:00 at Ģertrūdes ielas teātris.

  • Directors:Rūta Ronja Pakalne, Laura Kvelstein
  • Performers:Marta Jamsja, Maria Solei Järvet, Pääsu-Liis Kens, Rūta Ronja Pakalne, Laura Kvelstein
  • Dramaturg:Alissa Šnaider
  • Sound designer:Israel Bañuelos
  • Light designer:Chris Kirsimäe
  • Stage and costume design:Pire Sova
  • Project manager:Anu Almik
  • Graphic designer:Jaan Evart
  • Producer:elektron
  • Supported by:Supported by the Ministry of Culture, Cultural Endowment of Estonia and Estonian Dance Agency through the dance artists' cooperation and development platform TantsuRUUM, Nordic Culture Point, Tallinn city, Latvian State Culture Capital
  • Big thank yous:Lumo Trade OÜ, Valmiermuiža pruulikoda
  • premiere:7.12
  • performances:9./10./15./16.12 at elektroni kunstisaal, Kopli 27. 13/14.04 at Ģertrūdes ielas teātris.
  • Tickets for Riga shows:https://git.lv/en/events/view-public/1099
  • Doors are open 30 min before the event starts.
  • Latecomers will not be allowed into the performances.

BODY OF DREAMS is a visuospatial poetry, a constellation of echoes and memories, a fast-decaying collection of visual information traveling through the archives of well defined and unfamiliar territories. Where memories are things to forget.

Physical poetry, blood's soft song, an invitation to a place where no one belongs.

Memory's labyrinth, a wavering line, a narrative etched in time, stored in archives of the mind, forgotten, reborn, intertwined.

Echoes of moments upheaved, rocks scattered, stories conceived, ground untouched, by whispers broken, raw, amorphous, undefined.

The arms of trees, soft, sublime, whispering secrets in the breeze's rhyme.

• perfect nonsense
sensible imperfection…

• hopeful, soft, radically undefined
fragile threads of memories bind…

• Silent, serene, the past unseen…

The collective body, a reservoir of dreams, houses echoes of uncharted experiences coursing through its blood vessels.

The soft mechanics of existence hum in the background, and in the liminal spaces between there and here.