CRACKS 2. MEADOW
Note: Meadow (23 min.) can be performed alone or in the same evening with Cracks (23 min.)
To book Meadow and Cracks, please, contact grete.smitaite@gmail.com
Upcoming
11.10.2024 Brunnenpassage. LT.art Vienna Festival
Previous Shows
New Works Programme, ada Studios, Berlin
Ryšiai, Arts for Mental Health Festival, Vilnius
Creative Team
Choreography and performance - Grėtė Šmitaitė
Mentoring - Ira Seidenstein
Costume design - Alissa Šnaider
Light design - Robert Prideaux
The piece tells the story of a grandfather and a meadow - a meadow from which he was taken by Soviet soldiers at the age of ten and sent into exile.
The audience is gently addressed through a monologue that seeks to acknowledge the trauma inflicted by the Soviet Union regime on the people and places of Eastern Europe. The monologue seeks dialogue. With love it asks: Are we capable of feeling each other's pain?
Reviews
"Meadow" and "Cracks" - a moving choreographic exploration of trauma, memory, intergenerational pain.
TanzRaum Berlin Magazin
After “Cracks” seeing “Meadow” one comes to feel how experiencing landscapes of the country form us. How a childish jumping in the cold river and swinging on a swing seeking to reach the sky does later become a part of one’s language of love. One realizes that part of the search of “Cracks'' and trying to find one’s expression, one’s place in one’s environment, comes from this emptiness from the part of the history that was harshly taken away, where the continuation of life between the different generations was not allowed to take place <..> - a collective trauma.
Sigita Ivaškaitė for dance.lt
