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Dance Colony is a search and the research platform for previously undiscovered movement territories

20/02/2025

The power and strenght lies in friendship, the 10th “Dance Colony” only confirmed this. It was a week full of challenges – not only for those who sweated in the dance classes, but also for those who sweated while being isolated and only listened about the dance through dancers. 🩶

This winter dance summit not only strengthened our bodies, but also tempered our souls. Thank you for your determination, for your support, and for each of you contributing to this unique experience.

🤸🏼‍♀️🪼 We thank Natalia Iwaniec for your long-term exploration of the gaga movement together, Sophie May for your hiphop, house and improvisation classes, for the polyphonic partnering we say thank you to the inspiring duo “IevaKrish”. We thank choreographers Eric Oberdorff and Silke Z. for new creative ideas, methods and presentations of the creative residency process.

Thank you, chef Dovydas Zenkevičius, for the most vivid experience of cooking together. Marius Kazakevičius, Antanas Skridaila, Andrey Motorichev, for the captured memorable images, Vasilisa and the whole Nida Art Colony team for the warm welcome. 🫶🏻

Simas Višniakovas for being there, when we needed your help the most!

With infinite gratitude – thank you all! It was very delicious!❤️❄️

16/02/2025

Celebrating the Day of Restoration of Lithuania’s independance!
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The history is alive, today with our eyes and bodies, running to the future.
Vardan tos Lietuvos!🤍

Pictures: Marius Kazakevičius

13/02/2025

Dancing through the 10th edition of the Dance Colony.
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Workshops with Ieva and Krish (LT/LV), Eric Oberdorff (FR), Sophie May (FR), Natalia Iwaniec (PL).

🫶🏻Pictures: Marius Kazakevičius

11/02/2025

Yesterday we started the 10th edition of the annual winter dance summit Dance Colony!🪼

As always – had a little walk to the sun clock, said hi to beautiful Nida and started the dance week with Ieva and Krish “Polyphonic dancing” workshop and Gaga with Natalia Iwaniec.

🫶🏻 Pictures: Marius Kazakevičius

30/01/2025

S C H E D U L E.

Get ready – C O L O N Y winter dance summit '25 | #10 edition starts in less than two weeks!
Get to know the schedule and get ready for a full week of dance.

Early bird price – until January 31 (tomorrow!)

program ☞ https://dancecolony.lt/program/
registration ☞ https://dancecolony.lt/registration/

22/01/2025

STUDIOTRADE EUROPEAN DANCE NETWORK | PITCH & BUILD
Studiotrade

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Studiotrade is a European dance network of choreographers, producers and dance organizations. It enables an international exchange for research, creation and introduction to new markets and contexts for dance artists and generates a worldwide dialogue about alternative art and cultural mediation developed by artists.

The workshop will be curated by three field professional producers, festival organizers, and artists from within the network: Eric Oberdorff (FR), Silke Z. (DE) and Laurynas Žakevičius (LT) who will dive into a playful environment of Pitching and presenting your ideas to the “real” programmers—topics like: building partnerships, networking within the performing arts field, presenting your work and much more. Jump in and start your journey into the European dance network Studiotrade.
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Nida, February 10-16, 2025
registration ☞ https://dancecolony.lt/registration/

15/01/2025

POLYPHONIC DANCING / TOGETHER APART | IEVAKRISH 🇱🇹🇱🇻

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DUET IEVAKRISH
Artist duo IevaKrish consists of internationally working dancers/choreographers and set designers Ieva Gaurilčikaitė-Sants (LT/LV) and Krišjānis Sants (LV). Their practice uses a hybrid of choreography and scenography to create implicitly immersive and tacit experiences. Communication plays a crucial role and is the content of their work which varies in a wide range of form and media – from direct guided experiences between artist and an individual audience member, to elaborate interactive events bringing together larger groups in spectacles and installations of polyphonic dance, choreographed sound and shared food. Their works have been presented in Latvia and abroad. In 2021 IevaKrish received Latvian Dance Award as Best Choreographers. Both run a performance art company TUVUMI that aims to create a shared art environment between Latvia and the Baltic as well as the Baltics and Europe.

POLYPHONIC DANCE
During their time in Nida, IevaKrish will share their practice of polyphonic (multipart) dancing, a method inspired by and borrowed from the Lithuanian singing tradition of sutartinės, which has been reimagined as a movement and dance practice.
This approach delves into a dynamic interplay between two moving bodies, which are neither fully synchronized nor entirely independent, but instead exist in a tightly interwoven relationship of complementary rhythms.
The workshop will explore themes of coexistence, individual and collective timing, negative space, rhythmicality, presence, and an awareness of the surrounding space and environment.
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Picture: Markovskis

Nida, February 10-16, 2025
registration ☞ https://dancecolony.lt/registration/

08/01/2025

CREATION PROJECT “THE LONELY GODS” | ERIC OBERDORFF 🇫🇷
C O L O N Y winter dance summit '25 | #10 edition

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French dancer, choreographer, film-maker and stage director. Éric Oberdorff sees his presence as an artist as that of a privileged observer of his environment, questioning the physicality of the bodies and their connections to the world as poetic transmitters. After practising martial arts, he studied dance and spent sixteen years travelling the world as a performer. In 2002, Éric founded the Compagnie Humaine, with which he creates interdisciplinary projects integrating choreography, music, image, text, visual and digital arts. he accompanies his creation work by multiple actions towards the public, with particular attention to people in precarious social situation.

Regularly invited to create pieces for companies, opera houses and festivals in France and abroad, his works have won numerous international awards, including the 2018 Fedora Prize and the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale – 2022 Biennale Musica.

CREATION PROJECT “THE LONELY GODS”
Strength and violence are solitary gods. They give nothing to memory.
- Albert Camus - ‘L’Été’ (1954)

During my week’s residency at Nida, I want to share a process of research and creation with the dancers, focusing mainly on the writing of movement, both individually and collectively. I’m working on this project for a choreographic piece called ‘Les Dieux solitaires’ (The Lonely Gods), on a theme that is both intimately linked to the history of humanity and still cruelly topical in our modern societies: violence.
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Picture: Anna Oberdorff

Nida, February 10-16, 2025
registration ☞ https://dancecolony.lt/registration/

06/01/2025

HIP HOP FREESTYLE, HOUSE | SOPHIE MAY 🇫🇷
C O L O N Y winter dance summit '25 | #10 edition
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Multidisciplinary creative and Martinican native, Sophie May draws inspiration from a diverse range of artistic circles. Her journey began with hip-hop, but she quickly developed a passion for house and ballroom culture, which have since become integral to her artistic expression.

By combining her unique knowledge and skills to create something truly special, Sophie May’s singularity and sensibility shine through in every piece she creates, leaving a lasting impression on all who experience her work.
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Nida, February 10-16, 2025
registration ☞ https://dancecolony.lt/registration/

18/12/2024

GAGA | NATALIA IWANIEC 🇵🇱
C O L O N Y winter dance summit '25 | #10 edition
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From deep listening to the body to physical sensations. It’s a framework for discovering and strengthening the body and adding flexibility, stamina, agility and skills including coordination and efficiency while stimulating the senses and imagination. Natalia’s classes offer a workout that investigates form, speed and effort while traversing additional spectrums such as those between soft and thick textures, delicacy and explosive power, understatement and exaggeration.

Natalia is guiding dancers through awakening numb areas, increasing awareness of habits and improving the efficiency of movement inside multilayered tasks. Dancers are encouraged to connect to pleasure inside moments of effort.
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Nida, February 10-16, 2025
registration ☞ https://dancecolony.lt/registration/

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