Dance for a cigarette and a best friend
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Concept, direction and choreography:
Greta Grinevičiūtė
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Duration
60 min
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Tickets
Normal ticket: 50 zł
Concessionary ticket: 30 zł
About performance
In her work, choreographer Greta Grinevičiūtė focuses on a single concrete or abstract object—or on a close person and their image or memory. In Dance for a cigarette and your best friend she explores the phenomenon of friendship which, despite the passage of time and the distances that separate friends, often proves to be one of the strongest and most enduring bonds.
Friendship often outlasts the breakdown or birth of other relationships. It shapes who we are and how we change. As the choreographer notes, in friendship we drift apart and draw closer, we let others in and push them away, we reveal ourselves, show vulnerability, sometimes feel jealousy—yet we always remain connected.
The performance contains nudity and is recommended for audiences aged 16 and over.
Creators
Cast: Greta Grinevičiūtė, Aistė Zabotkaitė, Agnietė Lisičkinaitė
Concept, Direction, Choreography: Greta Grinevičiūtė
Creative Team: Birutė Kapustinskaitė, Agnė Matulevičiūtė, Agnietė Lisičkinaitė, Aistė Zabotkaitė, Morta Nakaitė, Julius Kuršis
Video: Martynas Norvaišas
Director of Photography: Nidas Kaniušas
Outside Eye: Bush Hartshorn, Sigita Ivaškaitė, Liza Baliasnaja
Producer: Rusnė Kregždaitė
Graphic Design: Dovilė Šidlauskaitė
Performance Photography: Dainius PutinasProduction: MMLAB
Partners: National Gallery of Art, Be Kompanijos, Cinevera
Funding: Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius City Municipality
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About director
Greta Grinevičiūtė is a choreographer, performer, and artist-researcher who combines contemporary dance, cinema, and embodied dramaturgy in her practice. Her choreographic language grows out of relational processes and subtle physical articulation, where movement becomes a form of sensing, listening, and remembering.
She is the co-founder of the independent dance collective BE COMPANY and one of the creators of MMLAB. In her artistic work she explores the political dimensions of experience, often addressing social, affective, and feminist themes through a poetic physicality. Her performance series Dance… and… is an intimate, long-term exploration of memory, presence, and care.
Greta also works as an actress, director, and lecturer. She is currently preparing a doctoral dissertation in the arts at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, where she investigates the relationship between choreographic cinema and resonant artistic practices.
