BTO: Greta Grinevičiūtė A Dance for Washing Machine and a Mother

Name: BTO: Greta Grinevičiūtė A Dance for Washing Machine and a Mother
Start: 2025-04-11T19:30:00+03:00
Location: Ehkä-tuotanto

Schedule

Fri, 11 Apr, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+03:00

Location

Ehkä-tuotanto | Turku, LS

“I dance for the washing machine and for you because I do not remember any of our conversations. I don’t even know if there were any. People say that you loved me. But I don‘t remember nor being together with you, nor your voice or your touches. I only have old photos. I look at them, I see your sad face and I keep reminiscing the only memory of you. And I am getting scared, because maybe the things that I remember never even happened. Therefore I dance. I dance for you. Because we will never get to talk again, but maybe we can still dance together.”
“What is the first memory of your mother?”, – such a banal question, but for some it is an unknown. In this world where mothers are either goddesses or monsters from hell, not to have any picture of a mother at all is hard to imagine. How does one put it together? Is it needed at all? How does one live without a portrait of their mother?
In 2018 choreographer and dancer Greta Grinevičiūtė started a triptych with the performance “Dance for a vacuum cleaner and a father”. Now she is presenting the second part, which continues to analyze the family bond. G. Grinevičiūtė collaborates with contemporary dance creator and performer, lecturer Andrius Katinas, who in this performance appears in videos made in Helsinki or as a voice in a phone call. Their collaboration at the time of the first quarantine not only kept the idea of this work alive but brought a new form to it that also echoes with Greta’s relation to her father.
Choreographer, Dancer: Greta Grinevičiūtė
Choreographer, Dancer: Andrius Katinas
Composer: Agnė Matulevičiūtė
Playwright: Kristina Steiblytė
Playwright: Sigita Ivaškaitė
Cinematographer: Vytautas Plukas
Video artist: Nidas Kaniušas
Producer: Rusnė Kregždaitė
Producer: Vilniaus city theatre „Meno ir mokslo laboratorija“ (MMLAB, Art and Science Laboratory)
Partially funded by: Vilnius City Municipality and Lithianian Council for Culture
Premiere: 14 November, 2020 (live-streamed online)
Supported by: LKT and Vilnius city Municipality.
Duration: 47 min.
Age recommendation: 16+
Language: English
Dates and times: 11.04 at 19:30 in Ehkä-production / Contemporary Art Space Kutomo.
Tickets: 20€/16€/12€: https://ssl.eventilla.com/dance_for
Baltic Take Over (https://baltictakeover.com/) is a performing arts festival co-curated by the New Theatre Institute of Latvia, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, and the Lithuanian Dance Information Center, this time in collaboration with Tehdas Teatteri and the New Performance Turku Biennale. Baltic Take Over is made possible in collaboration Ehkä-production, Barker-Teatteri, Viinatehdas and Aurinkobaletti. Baltic Take Over 2025 has been supported by Baltic Culture Fund, Nordic-Baltic Mobility Grant for Culture, Embassy of Estonia in Helsinki and Estonian Ministry of Culture.