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Vilnius City Dance Theatre “Low Air” presents the premiere “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back” (chor. Joseph Simon). This is the first production by “Low Air” duo Airida Gudaitė and Laurynas Žakevičius featuring a foreign choreographer. Rooted in breaking, Joseph Simon’s work explores the intersections of ballet, house, and contemporary dance cultures, seeking dialogue between their distinct techniques and philosophies.

In “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back”, Joseph collaborates with four young-generation Lithuanian dancers who completed their dance studies abroad and have strong foundations in both classical and street dance. Two of them are Low Air alumni: Ugnė Irena Laurinavičiūtė studied dance at AHK – Amsterdam University of the Arts, and Vaiva Paukštė at Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam. The creative team was further enriched by Lithuanian dancers returning from abroad: Gabrielle Emily Aidulis, who studied at ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands, and Urtė Groblytė, trained in contemporary dance at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels.

Joseph Simon’s latest work “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back” emerged from his ongoing research cycle “Ballet Fantasies”. It explores alternative forms of ballet informed and transformed by street- and club dance cultures, particularly house dance. The piece explores how opposing worlds can coexist within the body. In relation to aesthetics and technique but also to questions of authority and agency, tradition and progress, and the relation to lightness and weight.

CREDITS

Performers and co-creators:  

Vaiva Paukštė, Gabrielle Emily Aidulis, Ugnė Irena Laurinavičiūtė, Urtė Groblytė

Music:

Adas Gecevičius

Outside Eye / Dramaturgy:

Liza Baliasnaja; Zoé Lecorgne 

Costumes / Scenography:

Izabelė Narečionytė

Light design:

Tomas Stonys

Citations from: 

-Pas de Quatre by Jules Perrot, adaptation by Anton Dolin with Carla Fracci, Margrethe Schanne, Josette Amiel, Kirsten Bundgaard, 1968

-Swan Lake - Pas de Quatre (Dance of the Little Swans)

-Zacharias, G. (1993) Ballett - Gestalt und Wesen. Die Symbolsprache im europäischen Schautanz der Neuzeit. Noetzel, Florian Verlag, p.87  

Production: Low Air Šokio Teatras   

Funded by: Lietuvos Kulturos Taryba

Special thanks: Vaiva Paukštė, Gabrielle Emily Aidulis, Zoé Lecorgne, Low Air Šokio Teatras, Žilvinas Beniuševičius - PRO Baletas akademija