MUSIC PERFORMANCE "SPORTO GRUPĖ"

Wednesday, November 29, 6:00 p.m. Musical performance „Sporto grupė” will take place in the Siauliai State Drama Theater.

Link to tickets: https://shorturl.at/kAKQV

The idea of the musical performance „Sporto grupė” was born in the gym while playing basketball. Listening to the sounds of balls being hit out of sync, the shouts of the team members – it all sounded like one big unstaged concert – this is how the impulse arose to start a five-year journey into the research of „music through sports” and „sports through music”.

The work, which grew out of fragments of experiences found in gyms, playgrounds, blogs, video diaries and advertisements, touches on the experiences of a modern person in a world governed by the „laws” of self-search, self-creation and continuous improvement. On the one hand, such great attention to individuality, body and inner beauty is a sign of social development and high culture. On the other hand, when we understand self-realization as acting and not being – perhaps it turns into another source of stress and existential anxiety?

In the game „Sporto grupė” various rules and images of the world of sports are merged. An ensemble of six DIY[1] instruments spins in a stuffy space permeated by trained bodies, their pulsing veins and temples. Trainers for different muscle groups sound like unique musical instruments.

Idea: Gabriele Labanauskaitė
Concept: Gailė Griciūtė, Viktorija Damerell
Texts: Gabrielė Labanauskaitė, Viktorija Damerell
Music: Gailė Griciūtė
Action: Greta Štiormer, Victoria Damerell
Scenography and costumes: Victoria Damerell
Instrument design and engineering: Sholto Dobie
Instrument production: Rufcuts Studio
Production of costumes: Suoma Pilinkute
Lights: Julius Kuršis
Sound: Ignas Juzokas
Sports group: Vaidas Bartušas, Denisas Kolomyckis, Justina Mykolaitytė, Agnė Semenovičiūtė, Jūra Elena Šedytė, Gintarė Šmigelskytė
Producer: VšĮ „Operomanija”
Duration: 60 min.

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The event is part of the contemporary art and fashion festival VIRUS’28.

The festival is financed by: Siauliai City Municipality and the Lithuanian Cultural Council

Organizer: Siauliai Art Gallery

Main information partner: Lithuanian National Radio and Television

Partners and sponsors: news portal „Etaplius”, AB „Šiaulių bankas”, UAB „Laurema”, UAB „Gorila reklama”, AB „Vilniaus Pergalė”, „Soya Asia”, KĮ „Polifonija”, State Drama Theater of Šiaulių, Šiaulių Didždvaris Gymnasium , Šiauliai Athletics and Wellness Center, MO Museum, Lithuanian National Art Museum, Šiauliai State College, Šiauliai Technology Training Center, dance troupe „NUEPIKO”, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius College of Design, Krakow Art School, Krakow Fashion Week, Estonian Academy of Arts, Latvian Academy of Arts, UAB „Virginijus ir Ko”, Šiauliai „Dagilėlis” Singing School, Lviv Fashion Week

Festival design author: Marius Žalneravičius