{"id":1741,"date":"2016-09-12T07:05:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T04:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.dance.lv\/eng\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2018-03-20T13:38:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T11:38:08","slug":"latvian-and-bulgarian-collaboration-in-dance-performance-wordless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dance.lv\/eng\/latvian-and-bulgarian-collaboration-in-dance-performance-wordless\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvian and Bulgarian collaboration in dance performance “Wordless”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inta Balode<\/strong><\/p>\n

On September 16 and 17, 2016\u00a0Latvian Contemporary Dance Choreographers Union\u00a0is presenting choreographer\u2019s Elena Jacinta\u2019s dance performance \u201eWordless\u201d which will be shown at Gertrudes Street Theatre <\/a>at 19.00. One of the performers is Elena Angelova from Bulgaria. If\u00a0international choreographers are working in Latvia quite often, then having a dancer from abroad is still quite rare thing.\u00a0Because of that I decided to ask couple questions to Bulgarian Elena (yes, a choreographer is also Elena)\u00a0whom I met last year for the first time.<\/p>\n

Inta Balode: This is not your first performance in Latvia, last year you danced with Elena Jacinta in Saldus Arts school during a project “New Dance in a New Place” organized by our journal. Is\u00a0trio “Wordless”\u00a0a continuation of the ideas you worked on with Elena before?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elena Angelova:<\/strong> Yes, even in the titles of the pieces \u201eTongue\u201d, \u201eTongue: translations<\/a>\u201d and \u201eWordless\u201d one can see a certain focus on the language. The general idea is similar, that the dancer tries to embody the language in a non-illustrative way. However, there are some differences: in \u201eTongue\u201d we were working more with the rhythm of the language; in \u201eWordless\u201d we are searching for a language in order to support and connect with each other. This new piece is a very much understandable continuation of Elena Jacinta\u2019s choreographic work. \u201eWordless\u201d is probably more extrovert and complicated in a way that we are three dancers on stage, creating different body languages through which we communicate with each other and the audience.<\/p>\n

Inta: How did you\u00a0meet Elena? And what made you agree to be part of her work once again?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elena:<\/strong> So first there was \u201eTongue\u201d in Sofia, created as Derida Dance Center\u2019s residency in October, 2014. That\u2019s when I discovered Elena Jacinta as a very intelligent choreographer who knows what she wants, but at the same time looks carefully for and at dancer\u2019s interpretation of the material. We shared a very harmonious process there. This style of work made me want to take part in \u201eWordless\u201d although I didn\u2019t know what the piece was about beforehand.<\/p>\n

Inta: You also write not only dance. This peace deals with “dance words”. How could you compare verbal words with dance words? Is there any need to compare those? I am asking because the piece in a way suggests it. What does this\u00a0juxtaposition bring?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elena:<\/strong> Dance words shouldn\u2019t illustrate verbal words \u2013 that is for sure, but I think yes, there is certainly a connection based on associations. In the piece we haven\u2019t worked with the term \u201cdance words\u201d, we are focusing more on language and movement, rather dance and words. We try to be in conversation with each other and throughout the process we\u2019ve developed a language, in which we speak, we listen, we interrupt, we overlap. \u201cWordless\u201d deals with connecting and disconnecting through movement.<\/p>\n

Inta: I know you are not staying very long in Latvia but still you are spending time with people from dance community. Did you get some sense of how dance field functions in Latvia? How it is if you compare it with Bulgaria?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elena:<\/strong> The sad thing is that I am about to leave just when the season starts, so I really haven\u2019t got the chance to see much. Although I get the feeling that the dance community here is quite supportive and functional.<\/p>\n

Inta: Even if dance events have quite significant variety still some trends are always visible. How would you describe trends and hot issues in <\/strong>Bulgaria right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elena:<\/strong> In Bulgaria I think that most of the artists are following their own thing without comparing to anyone and this is a trend by itself. I would be very happy if there was more listening to each other and more merging between different art fields. But I am optimistic that this is a process that is already beginning and will develop further. Education and space for contemporary dance have always been hot issues in Bulgaria and Derida Dance Center in Sofia has proved very solid way of working on it.<\/p>\n

The dialog between institutions and contemporary artists is another hard problem in Bulgaria and maybe that\u2019s why many artists are now searching or working on alternative new spaces for productions. I think that the scene actively works in this direction now and there are meaningful events that are yet to come.<\/p>\n

Take a look at Elena’s writing about two performances she saw during the seminar \/ festival “New Dance in a New Place” –<\/p>\n

http:\/\/journal.dance.lv\/eng\/on-two-performances-in-saldus-corpuss-by-elina-lutce-and-krista-dzudzilo-and-summer-feet-in-saldus-by-moa-m-sahlin\/<\/p>\n

Elena Angelova<\/strong> is a dancer and dance and theatre writer from Bulgaria. She begins her dance life with classical ballet and later on continues studying dance theatre and contemporary dance. During this time she paralelly dives into another subject \u2013 theatre studies and theatre management, which she graduates in the Bulgarian National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts, followed by a Master o…<\/span>f Arts degree in \u201eTheatre art\u201d. Currently Elena writes actively about the dance and theatre scene in Bulgaria. Her articles, interviews and reviews have been published in the most major Bulgarian medias for culture. Elena has been working for Bulgaria\u2019s oldest International Theatre Festival \u201eVarna Summer\u201d. Nevertheless Elena\u2019s interests include dance both as a theory and practice. As a dancer she takes part of two Elena Jacinta\u2019s productions, \u201eTongue\u201d and \u201eWordless\u201d. She also dances in other choreographic projects with Bulgarian choreographers such as Mihaela Griveva (\u201eSlipstream\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Bez v?rdiem \/ Wordless”, <\/strong>September 16 an 17, 2016 at 19:00 at Gertrudes Street Theatre<\/p>\n

Choreography: Elena Jacinta<\/p>\n

Performed by:\u00a0Aliise Putni?a, Elena Angelova and Elena Jacinta<\/p>\n

Sound artist: Andris Ratnieks<\/p>\n

Costumes: Anete Agneta Kri\u0161janova<\/p>\n

The dance performance has no narration or storyline; it is an ever changing dialogue between the dancers. Many images emerge from this dialogue, leaving the impression of talking in an invented language, intricate, yet simple, uttered without being spoken out loud. This language has its own rules and structure that exist only during the performance and the audience members are invited to experience it without looking for a story or a logical explanation.
\n\u201eWordless\u201d is a full-length contemporary dance piece, which is partially inspired by the ideas from Umberto Eco\u2019s book \u201cThe Search for the Perfect Language\u201d, which tells about different attempts in the history of Europe to find the original universal language. The performance is based on the movement research aiming to develop a \u201elanguage\u201d that engages the dancers\u2019 body and mind, as well as their emotions and feelings. This bodily dialogue that will unfold in real time is an attempt to discover that common language which makes it possible to communicate without words.<\/p>\n

Elena Jacinta<\/strong> is an independent choreographer and dancer who studies dance at Birkbeck College, University of London and received a master\u2019s degree in Choreography and Performance (MRes) from the Roehampton University in London. As a dancer she worked with a number of choreographers in the UK, and her own dance works have been presented at dance festivals, such as Edinburgh Fringe (2011), Resolution! at The Place in London (2013 and 2014), \u201eTime to Dance\u201d festival in Riga (2014) and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

The following artists took part In the research and development stage of the project: dancers Alise Putni?a and El?na Lutce, sound artist Gosh Snobo, photographer Viesturs L?cis and video artists Carlos Del Mazo and Crow Wings.<\/p>\n

The tickets can be purchased at \u201eBi?e\u0161u serviss\u201d and at Gertrudes Street Theatre before the performances.<\/p>\n

The performance has been created with a financial support of the Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia and the Riga City Council, supported by Gertrudes Street Theatre, Dance Studio “RITMS”, Dance Centre “Cukurfabrika”, Eduards Smilgis Theatre Museum, Rekords and Decallaboratory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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