NEW THEATRE INSTITUTE OF LATVIA

contemporary performing arts in Latvia and abroad

The project “Theatre Expanded” has entered its second cycle where the focus is on collaborations between artists and experts of other fields.
Six emerging artists from Latvia – choreographers Krišjānis Sants and Ieva Gaurilčikaite, dramaturg Jānis Balodis, director Māra Gaņģe, actress Dace Šteinerte and dramaturge Laura Lapiņa – from February till May will engage in the exchange and training programme and develop new proposals for artistic interventions.

Through research and artistic interventions „Theatre Expanded II” will explore and test the potential for the collaboration between performing art and other fields (education, science, economy, politics, social sciences, technologies etc.) in order to create new products, services, organisations, structures, ecosystems or possibly even new realities. The programme aims to give performing artists new insight into the potential and future development of contemporary performing arts, new skills that would help to engage in international and interdisciplinary projects, as well as inspire them to look for unconventional ways in their professional practice.

On February 22 in Vaba Lava Tallinn the six artists will attend the workshop of Berlin based artist Chris Kondek, on March 15-17 they will go on exchange trip to Helsinki to meet with Paavo Järvensivu from bios.fi, Pekko Koskinen from Economic Space Agency, Kira O’Reilly from MA programme Ecology and Contemporary Performance at the Theatre Academy of Helsinki and on April 6 in Tallinn they will attend the lecture and workshop by Kai Lehikoinen from research centre TeaK at the University of the Arts Helsinki.
In May the six artists will carry out the artistic interventions in collaboration with invited dramaturgs and experts from fields other than performing arts.

Theatre Expanded is a programme by the New Theatre Institute of Latvia in collaboration with Vaba Lava in Estonia and support from The Central Baltic Programme 2014-2020, the Ministry for Environmental Protection and Regional Development and State Culture Capital Foundation.

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