SKALBINIAI (2018)

Choreographer: Jacob Bray (UK)

Performers: Ingrida Čepanonytė (LT) Aistė Jančiūtė (LT), Kristina Marija Kulinič (LT), Karolina Latvytė Bibiano (LT) and Amy Robyn Lyster (UK)

Costume design: Kristina Čyžiūtė (LT)

Premiered: 15 July, 2018, Kaunas Žalgiris Arena, Bosca Amphitheatre, Lithuania

Commission from: MagiC Carpets platform

Project implemented by: Kaunas Biennial 

Funded by: Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Lithuanian Council for Culture, Kaunas municipality 

Partners: Folkestone Fringe, Contemporary Circus festival „Cirkuliacija”, Kaunas – European Capital of Culture, 2022

All photography: Nanook Multimedia

Video by: Jonas Jakūnas

SKALBINIAI is the first presentation of KAUNAS BIENNIAL international emerging artist residency project MagiC Carpets – a piece of contemporary dance theatre that brings together five young female performers. Different topics of female empowerment, exploration of space/body, pop culture and storytelling are explored in the performance through the individual performers’ views and experiences are conveyed using the language of contact improvisation, contemporary dance, spoken word and performance art.