There is a chair waiting for to be sat on. A hand waiting to be held. A box waiting to be filled. A door waiting to be opened. Feelings that need living and thoughts waiting to be said. There is trash and nonsense waiting to be pushed aside. There are questions that need...
On November 25-27, there was an opportunity to observe the light-theatre performance "Tempus fugit" (time flies) on the wall of Tallinn Town Hall. We reflected thoughts and feelings from the present time in 2022. For those who missed this performance, the recording of the production is located here. Authors: Tiina Ollesk, Renee Nõmmik,...
"Instead of accepting the death of civilization, we must fight for a civilization that is truly civilized" (Mann & Wainwright, Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future (2018)
Sometimes it really feels like it's hard to find yourself and your place in a constantly changing volatile world, but...
Participants of the project "BET - body, experience, time through 45+ dancers" supported by the EU Creative Europe program met from September 30th to October 4th in Samovar Theater in Kirkenes, Norway. Kirkenes is a city and the county seat of the Barents region in northeastern Norway. There is a wonderful theater with...
DAB (Dance Across Borders) is an international network of independent dance artists and organizations that promotes research and education, fostering independent collaborations between dance artists. The first event took place in New York City in 1995, followed by meetings in the Netherlands, Estonia, Sweden and France.
This year DAB returned...
This summer, the participants of the "BET" project supported by the EU Creative Europe program visited several festivals in the Baltic countries and Norway. At the beginning of August, we worked and presented our creative activities in Lithuanian city of Visaginas. This very special city is the easternmost city in Lithuania, close to...
This June we had great opportunity to visit incredible place where people live in synchrony with nature and where science and arts seems to be part of everyday life.
Creative Arts Pedagogy and the Environment Nordplus Network meeting happened at Faroe Island June 5-12th then got together students and teachers...
June 21 is the longest day, and on that day everyone had the opportunity to visit the beautiful Stameriena castle in Latvia and watch the dance performance-promenade "Razdedauch" there.
Stameriena is located 250 km from Riga in a beautiful natural environment, and the castle there is currently used as an...
"BET 45+ dancers" working session in December was held in smaller groups: Tiina, Renee, Virpi, Oleg in Tallinn and Nikolay, Toby, Solveig in Kirkenes and Olga, Ramona, Vilnis in Riga. We share a moment from working group in Tallinn (based on phrase by Fiona Millward). RAZDEDAUCH - premier in Tallinn April1st 2022. Project is financed with the support of Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, also Estonian Ministry of Culture, Latvian Ministry of Culture, Hammerfest Commune.
Keywords: Bodies, boundaries, borders, breathing, breath, bones ....different cultures and experiences, age.....being together and individual at the same time....
„RAZDEDAUCH" is new transnational collaborative dance production between partners from 7 countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, UK, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. BET – Body, Experience, Time.
Becoming present reveals the gained experience we all carry within us, with our interest for this project being to illuminate that uniqueness and capitalise our commonalities...
