Events

PREMIERE | Contemporary dance performance ONOS
 February 27 at 7 p.m. Klaipėda Culture Factory
 Tickets > https://bit.ly/ONOS_Bilietai

Jos Onos —
those O n o s
viSOS O N O S
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Onago
On—a—go
Ego On
O
No
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Four ONOS. Four invisible beams and crumbling floors.
Four form space.
Create the architecture of the body and relationships. Fragile, rebellious, intimate.
Protesting, waiting, breaking the silence, reconciling, pa/iš/at-laiko.
Collecting the unspoken details of history.
Through their bodies, they allow what remained invisible to return.
Onos revive the lost vibrations of voices.
Onos (re)create today.

Sheiko Dance Company performances are unexpected, multi-layered stage narratives that combine contemporary dance, music, and visual arts. In the performances TRAVELING CHURCHES, UŽPUSTYTI, INDIGO. DAS SCHLIEMANN PROJECT, the theater highlighted the potential of dance to transfer relevant questions of history and identity to the contemporary stage.

The new work ONOS continues the line of dance archaeology. This time, the creators turn to the world of Lithuanian manors, the everyday life and fates of the women who lived there. Choreographers Agnija Šeiko and Lina Puodžiukaitė-Lanauskienė, together with their creative team, explore how silences, losses, and interpretations of history have shaped our postcolonial identity and erased our sense of belonging to a community.

In the performance, ONOS’s body becomes architecture—movement connects space, its elements, and the inner world of humans. ONOS—as a common denominator—attempts to gather the scattered fragments of lost history and restore the voices of those who lived and will live.

Choreographers: Agnija Šeiko and Lina Puodžiukaitė-Lanauskienė, dancers
: Gintarė Marija Ūsė, Ugnė Kavaliauskaitė, Ema Senkuvienė, Marija Ivaškevičiūtė
Composer: Kristijonas Lučinskas
Set designer: Sigita Šimkūnaitė
Costume designer: Sandra Straukaitė
Dramaturg: Goda Dapšytė
Lighting designer: Andrius Stasiulis
Producer: Judita Strumilaitė
Production team: Rasa Morkūnaitė, Darius Berulis, Oksana Liukovič, Vilma Ramašauskaitė, Gintarė Marija Ūsė, Edvardas Kažarnovičius

The performance uses intense lighting.

The project is funded by: Lithuanian Council for Culture, Klaipėda City Municipality, Neringa Municipality
Partners: Nida Culture and Tourism Information Center “Agila”, M.K. Čiurlionis National Art School, Klaipėda Culture Factory.
Special thanks to: Dalia Puodžiukienė, consultant on manor architecture, and Kristina Petrauskė, historian and
museum curator Duration: 60 min
Photo: K. Meliauskas