Visual Street Theatre
KOSMOS LAB'20
We left last year’s “black box” to seek out new cultural experiences in public spaces. Under the theme “Reality and Fiction: The Dramaturgy of Imagined Images in the Context of Social Life”, participants explored three genres of improvisational acting: Italian commedia dell’arte, Philippe Gaulier’s French clowning, and contemporary street theatre.
Mentors
Mentor team
COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE workshop
MATTEO SPIAZZI – Italian actor, director, and drama teacher. A professional in mask theatre and commedia dell’arte. He has performed on the stages of both classical and contemporary Italian theatre. He leads creative workshops at universities and art academies in Verona, Ecuador, Tartu, Minsk, and Kyiv.
STREET THEATRE workshop
ADRIAN SCHVARZSTEIN – actor of mixed heritage, comedian, and director of circus and street theatre, who developed creatively throughout Europe. He also performs and sings in operas and Baroque music ensembles. His distinctive trait is blending all these experiences into a single performance, and chaos, surprise, and innocent provocations have made him one of the world’s most renowned street theatre artists.
CLOWNING workshop
MARIJA BARANAUSKAITĖ – artist and professional clown. The first Lithuanian to graduate from the “Philippe Gaulier Clown School” in Paris. Also an actress with the company “RED NOSES Clowndoctors”. She teaches at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, gives clowning classes, and leads individual workshops.
Creative workshop
LINAS JURKŠTAS – director, playwright, and street artist. Co-founder of the “Bad Rabbits” art collective, as well as a member of the European Federation of Street Arts and the international street theatre troupe “Third Hand Group”.
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DAYS
15
PROFESSIONAL ACTORS
Participants
Ana Filipovič, Agnieszka Mlodzi Swiatu, Eglė Grigaliūnaitė, Gabrielė Penčylaitė, Gintautas Ulmis, Justina Kaminskaitė, Kajetana Ageikinaitė, Marija Augutytė, Marius Gotbergas, Mindaugas Ancevičius, Paulina Simutytė, Rasa Kulytė-Polini
The showcase
MUSEUM PARALLEL VILNIUS
dir. Linas Jurkštas
Workshop participants rehearsed intensively for a week with director Linas Jurkštas to prepare a street theatre performance, but in Vilnius’s public spaces they encountered information of enormous scale, significance, and nature — information that had been hidden from the city’s residents and visitors for many years… What kind of Vilnius do we actually live in? A scandalous veil of lies forced the creators to halt rehearsals and instead establish an independently operating museum — a place where the TRUE History of Vilnius, with a capital H, could finally be revealed.
The creators describe the newly founded museum as follows:
This is, without question, the first genuine museum of TRUE History (with a capital H!) in Vilnius. Pet a goat, discover the truth, buy a souvenir, and cast off the veil of lies. These attractions — and a heap of other important things — await you at the PARALLEL VILNIUS Museum. You will be welcomed and served only by the most educated masters and oracles of History (once again, with a capital H, of course!). We call them guides; you will call them friends. Don’t let your collective cultural subconscious wither — come and water the fields of your knowledge. Let your thoughts flourish and climb around Historical (capital H!) pedestals and columns. Leave the darkness behind. Step into the light.
CREATIVE TEAM: Director Linas Jurkštas; Artist Dovilė Gecaitė; Ana Filipovič, Agnieszka Mlodzi Swiatu, Eglė Grigaliūnaitė, Gabrielė Penčylaitė, Gintautas Ulmis, Justina Kaminskaitė, Kajetana Ageikinaitė, Marija Augutytė, Marius Gotbergas, Mindaugas Ancevičius, Paulina Simutytė, Rasa Kulytė-Polini.
The showcase
2020
Konstantinas Sirvydas Square, also known as “Prancūzparkis”