The (impossible?) dialogue between the contemporary and the classic
Dance
Dovydas Strimaitis / Still Waiting
A DUET
choreography Dovydas Strimaitis
with Clara Davidson, Ibai Jimenez
light design Lisa M. Barry
costumes Taylor Wishneff
sound engineer Maxime Jerry Fraisse
music Adolphe Adam – No. 20 Allegro feroce (Giselle, London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas)
production Still Waiting (FR), Be Company (LT) funded by Lithuanian Council for Culture co-production CCN-Ballet national de Marseille, les Espaces Mimont
with the support of Théâtre de Vanves, Montévidéo, Lithuanian Culture Institute a special thanks to Austė Zdančiūtė, a Cultural Atachée of Lithuania in France, to Daniel Alwell and Aya Sato
A pas de deux of daring choreography based on the Petit Allegro movement of classical ballet: sometimes tradition becomes a fetish to blindly follow, other times one is expected to annihilate it.
Dovydas Strimaitis is a Lithuanian artist living and working between France and Belgium. He was a dancer at the National Ballet of Marseille, where he collaborated, among others, with Peeping Tom and choreographers Alessandro Sciarroni and Lucinda Childs.
running time: 45′
non-verbal show
national premiere
