Black Box w/ DUDA PAIVA

KOSMOS LAB'19

We launched the first visual theatre laboratory in Lithuania based on the “Black Box” concept: to explore and expand the classical matrix of the theatre space for various performing arts actions – performances, interactive projects, installations, and performance art. Participants delved into methods of creating visual dramaturgy, puppet theatre, and acting with video projections.

Mentors

Mentor team

Masterclass: “Object Score”

Duda Paiva (NL-BRA) – one of the world’s best-known puppet theatre educators, choreographer, and director.

Movement Dramaturgy Workshop

Goda Žukauskaitė – Lithuanian choreographer and dancer based in Amsterdam.

Masterclass: “Acting with Video Projection”

Rimas Sakalauskas – video artist and theatre designer.

Kornelijus Jaroševičius – video artist and film director.

Lecture: “Cinema and Video Art in Theatre: Does Theatre (Not) Need Media?”

Mikas Žukauskas – television, film, and theatre director, video designer.

Lecture: “The Identity of Visual Theatre and Methods of Creating Visual Dramaturgy”

Žilvinas Vingelis – theatre director, playwright, installation and performance artist.

Lecture: “The History of Puppet Theatre and Puppetry Techniques”

Rimas Driežis – puppet theatre director, designer, and educator.

days

participants

Participants

Miglė Remeikaitė – director; Sigita Pikturnaitė – director; Motiejus Ivanauskas – director; Marina Jasinskaja – designer; Dalia Kiaupaitė – designer; Liepa Gaidauskaitė – designer; Nidas Kaniušas – projection designer; Jokūbas Tulaba – composer; Matas Saladžius – composer; Mindaugas Ancevičius – actor; Goda Simonaitytė – actor; Ieva Stašelytė – actor; Eglė Ukanytė – actor; Rūta Kumpikaitė – actor; Gabrielė Penčylaitė – actor; Kristina Marija Kulinič – actor; Kristina Maurusevičiūtė – actor; Saulė Sakalauskaitė – actor; Kamilė Lebedytė – actor; Marius Gotbergas – actor; Povilas Jatkevičius – actor.

The showcase

“How Are You?”

dir. M. Remeikaitė

How are you? A good question… But what is success, anyway?

Team: Miglė Remeikaitė, Marina Jasinskaja, Nidas Kaniušas, Jokūbas Tulaba, Mindaugas Ancevičius, Goda Simonaitytė, Ieva Stašelytė, Eglė Ukanytė.

“No Filter”

dir. S. Pikturnaitė

What lies beyond the filters of Instagram and Facebook?

Team: Sigita Pikturnaitė, Dalia Kiaupaitė, Rūta Kumpikaitė, Gabrielė Penčylaitė, Kristina Marija Kulinič, Kristina Maurusevičiūtė.

“Dizziness”

dir. M. Ivanauskas

Former classmates embark on a dreamlike journey. Their consciousness begins to collapse… perhaps because of water, long-forgotten memories, or… a fish head?

Team: Motiejus Ivanauskas, Liepa Gaidauskaitė, Matas Saladžius, Marius Gotbergas, Saulė Sakalauskaitė, Kamilė Lebedytė, Povilas Jatkevičius.

“Fury”

dir. Ž. Vingelis

Battle. Against inner death. Against a lifeless life. Against the masks of positivity and the veil of righteousness. Two unknown characters. A man and a girl. In an undefined space. Opening Pandora’s box…

Dreamer: Žilvinas Vingelis
Unconscious Scenographers: Dovilė Gecaitė, Oles Makukhin
Costume Designer: Akvilė Jančauskaitė
Forgotten Music: Andrius Šiurys
Choreographers-Consultants: Christina Batian, Ana Filipovič
Actors: Mindaugas Ancevičius, Goda Simonaitytė

This LAB is based on one thing, which is trust.

Pierre Jodlowski

LAB'24 mentor

We are proud that visual theatre is finding its place in Lithuania’s cultural field ever more clearly and firmly. We are glad that this field keeps expanding every year – from the smallest Lithuanian towns to the biggest art events.

D. Vizbaras

Producer

Kosmos LAB is one of the most meaningful projects for us; its value cannot be measured in words or numbers. Many workshop participants have continued to explore these ideas in their own creative work.

Žilvinas Vingelis

Director

It’s rare to find an organisation so open. Maybe it’s a shot to discover potential.

“Cie Mossoux-Bonté”

LAB'25 mentors

Professionals from different artistic fields together can have a dialogue here. Sharing know-how and experience between different disciplines is very favourable for the development of theatre.

Duda Paiva

LAB'19 mentor

We are in the world where adaptation is one of the keywords. We can move a lot, but therefore we need to adapt. So this LAB really prepares us for this adaptation.

Pierre Jodlowski

LAB'24 mentor

It’s a real potential. Open to do things that go further than the world.

“Cie Mossoux-Bonté”

LAB'25 mentors

It’s my first time here (in Lithuania) and I’m discovering a wonderful city, a wonderful atmosphere, wonderful people… so why not keep going with this as much as you can?

Pierre Jodlowski

LAB'24 mentor

The new generation of artists is promising, but they need a stronger foundation and opportunities to grow, innovate, and share culture with one another.

Duda Paiva

LAB'19 mentor

Beyond the theatre, beyond the technology that we are using, beyond the artistic aim, the pedagogical aim – there is an encounter. I hope that we will never replace the human encounter.

Pierre Jodlowski

LAB'24 mentor

We are looking for strange atmospheres between theatre and dance, and also deep in irrational thinking.

“Cie Mossoux-Bonté”

LAB'25 mentors

We must see light art as a separate field of art that needs to be studied.

Žilvinas Vingelis

Director

This is something so exciting because then you blend dance and you blend feet and it goes in a surreal way of thinking.

Duda Paiva

LAB'19 mentor

Projections in theatre are not that rare, but in many cases they aren’t fully explored as an equally important element...

Rimas Sakalauskas

LAB'19 mentor

Theatre saved my life because otherwise I don’t know if I would be so happy, satisfied, and full of interest and meetings like in another life without theatre.

Matteo Spiazzi

LAB'20 mentor

My dream was like… in a cellar with red curtains. Talking with an Italian guy, and suddenly came a cherry cake.

Adrian Schvarzstein

LAB'20 mentor

For me it’s very important to create the group where everybody is on the same level, including the people that work outside.

Adrian Schvarzstein

LAB'20 mentor

As a performance designer I don’t draw any line between set design and lighting design. I’m interested in the link, how light can be independent, but also amplify the scenography, and how scenography can metamorphose and serve the lighting.

Dr. Y. Abulafia

LAB'22 mentor

Light on stage can be both a character, and a set design, and a physical space, and one of the main engines for the development of dramaturgy or the narration of history.

Yaron Abulafia

LAB'22 mentor

It’s the occasion to go out a little bit of their comfort zone. Figure out their position on the stage, not only doing what they are supposed to do by definition

Pierre Jodlowski

LAB'24 mentor

Disconnection between the body and the brain is something completely dramatic, and I hope this lab shows one possible change for stage art in the future

Pierre Jodlowski

LAB'24 mentor

The showcase

23 November

2019

Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Consolation (Ramintoja), Vilnius

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