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A dance performance dedicated to adolescence

@gigi.use* spends her free time watching birds and (sometimes) people. @ecccka is a true gamer who can spend hours on end in the strangest positions. Although his personality is hard for the outside world to fathom, he reveals his true colors in the world of online gaming. @ugnekavka – a disciplined punk: an exemplary girl in her parents’ eyes, but her rebellious side comes out when she experiments with her hair. And @a.carlocarloo is the life of the party among friends, someone who likes to test boundaries, which is why his jokes sometimes cross the line into bullying. Although they’re all different, they’re all connected by the same world of memes.

The play plays on the double meaning of the words “meme” and “meme.” It allows us to discuss identity, relationships with others, and the contradictory power of humor—its ability to bring people together and unite them, but also to divide or hurt them. The choreography also follows the logic of meme creation—the content on stage is constantly observed, reworked, and transferred into new contexts, acquiring new meanings each time.

Striking a balance between humor and sensitivity, playfulness and painful experiences, the performance explores what the language of memes reveals about ourselves: what matters to us, what we value, what we condemn, what we fear, and what we dream about.

So who am I? The one who laughs? The one people laugh at? The one who watches everything? Or maybe the one whom no one really knows?

*Follow the dancers on Instagram.

Choreographer, Concept Creator: Ema Senkuvienė
Dancers: Gintarė Marija Ūsė, Edvardas Kažarnovičius, Ugnė Kavaliauskaitė, Carlo Adrian Bibiano
Lighting Designer: Vilius Vilutis
Costume Designer: Lukas Svirplys
Producer: Judita Strumilaitė
Artistic Director: Agnijas Šeiko
Production Team: Greta Seiliūtė, Gabrielė Dirmaitė, Darius Berulis
The theater’s activities are partially funded by: Klaipėda City Municipality, the Lithuanian Council for Culture, and Neringa City Municipality