Arts Printing House (Lithuania)

„CONTEMPORARY?“

Idea, choreography and performance:

Agnė Ramanauskaitė, Paulius Tamolė and Mantas Stabačinskas

Dramaturgy Sigita Ivaškaitė | Light design Povilas Laurinaitis
Duration 60’

Ne Teatrin Eksperimental, Tirane

E Marte, dt.22.11.2015, ora 19:00

This is probably the first time in Lithuania that three artists have cooperated to create a performance that looks at the Lithuanian contemporary dance scene with a self-irony glance, quoting cliché movements, phrases, even costume details. "Contemporary?” is focusing ironically on the processes of dance making. What does contemporary dance piece consist of? What does it talk about? Which objects are necessary and which are optional? Does audience understand what it is all about? Do we need to explain the meaning of the piece to the audience? The answer is – just do it.

Kjo është ndoshta hera e parë në Lituani qe tre artistë kanë bashkëpunuar për të krijuar një performancë që shfaqet në skenen e dansit kontemporan Lituanisez me një kendshikim vetë-ironik, duke cituar lëvizjet klishe, frazat, madje edhe detajet me kostumet. "Contemporary" eshtë përqëndruar ironikisht në proceset e krijimit te dansit. Ne cfarë pjese konsiston dansi bashkëkohor, nga cfare përbëhet? Çfarë do të flasim për..? Cilat objekte janë të nevojshme dhe të cilat janë fakultative? A e kupton audienca ate që është më e rendesishme? A kemi nevojë për t'i shpjeguar kuptimin e pjesës audiencës?
Përgjigja është: vetëm bëjë atë.

“Dance is all my life. If I should say true dancing it is very important for me. It sticks together every little piece of your life. It is also work and not easy one. Sometimes it hurts, sometimes you just feel lazy but you just cannot live without dancing.” M.Stabačinskas.

“The first visited country with the tour was Estonia. There the audience was really interesting. When we performed, they looked at us without emotions, however after the performance they came to us and wanted to talk and interact. The same happened in Berlin - half of the audience stayed to communicate with us. It was really unexpected but pleasant!“ P. Tamolė

“<…> “Contemporary?” was recognized the best performance of [Lublin] festival.” P. Tamolė

Agne Ramanauskaitė – dancer, actor and teacher who recently and very successfully tried herself as choreographer as well. Agnė received her professional degree at The Lithuanian Theatre and Music Academy (MA in acting-contemporary dance, 2009). Since graduating she has participated in various dance trainings and still improving her professional skills in different workshops.

Mantas Stabačinskas – one of the most famous Lithuanian dancers, teacher and choreographer. In almost sixteen years of his professional career Mantas created over 30 roles and collaborated with many different choreographers from all over the world. For eleven years Mantas has been a part of Aura Dance Theater (Lithuania) and now he is a freelance dancer, teacher and choreographer.

Paulius Tamolė – is a dancer and well known Lithuanian theater and television actor, recently debuted as choreographer as well. Paulius began his professional actor career at the National Drama Theater (Lithuania) in 2005. Since then Paulius has created over 10 roles in different stages and collaborated with the well known theater directors such as Jonas Vaitkus, Oskaras Korsunovas, Jana Ross and etc. In 2008 Paulius has been nominated for the theater award as the Best Young Artists of the year.

Together with his long time stage partners Mantas, Agnė and Paulius participated in the program for young artists – “Open Stage’13”, hosted by Arts Printing House and presented an ironic contemporary dance performance “Contemporary?”

* The Performance won the Golden Stage Cross as Performing Arts Phenomenon of the year (2013)