THE RITE OF SPRING

20 September,
6.00 p.m.
Vienibas Nams Concert hall,
Rigas street 22a

VI Music and Art Festival “Daugavpils ReStArt 2017”offers:

THE RITE OF SPRING

Drums group PERPETUUM RITMICO: Guntars Freibergs, Elina Endzele, Elvijs Endelis, Mikus Balins; Contemporary dance group BURAS, manager Edite Abeltiņa; Karina Berzina, narrator.

Video: Ugis Krisjanis

„It still is night. They are sleeping. The sleep is fidgety. Because even in the sleep they are waiting the night being replaced by morning. The morning will bring the message of who is going to be chosen, sacrificed, and offered. Offered to the God of spring. Only then the earth will awake, only then everything will blossom out and bloom. Just a moment in the sleep and obscurity. Offering must happen. Only then the spring will become blessed.”

A ritual of Pagan Russia with a girl seems to be so far and ancient. But what about today? Isn’t there anyone who would be ready to sacrifice oneself in favor of others? Is the issue of the program the reality or just an imagination proving that friendship, love, treason, cruelty, violence, and surviving in the most extreme situations are here, just one step away? Even in the sleep one can feel the dizzy smell of spring, but this smell will bring a peaceful future for one of them. Two worlds – Igor Stravinsky’s great “The Rite of Spring” in the wild rhythms of the instruments and contemporary story in the book and on the screen – “Hunger Games” – in the labyrinths of dance leads to one conclusion – offering and The Rite of Spring, creating an intensive and emotionally magnified program.

Tickets: Booking office of Vienības Nam’s concerthall, opening hours 4.30 p.m. – 6.30 p.m.

Ticket price: 3.00 euro; for school children, students and seniors – 2.00 euro.

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