idea, choreography, performance: Agnese Bordjukova

idea, dramaturgy: Rasa Niurkaite (LT/UK)
music: Edgars Rubenis
video: Ivars Šmits
set design: Anda Skrējāne
lights: Rainers Kornhubers
technical support:  Kārlis Lapiņš
creative producer: Zane Estere Gruntmane


The performance is based on the research about human personality development.

Each of us has some part of our personality hidden from us. From the very first moment we start interacting with people – the society – we start learning things about them and most importantly about ourselves. Gradually we realize that not all parts of our personality are desirable and trying to stay a member of the society one tends to deny those qualities of oneself. Those qualities are being suppressed and hidden. But they do not disappear.

Jungians introduced the concept of the shadow – the part of our psyche that holds all those qualities we chose to deny. The shadow consists not only from those unacceptable parts of us that one could call negative but most importantly the shadow holds the vital energy, spontaneity and freedom we lost in the process of growing up.

Why we so easily forget our Childhood’s dreams and become just a function of the society ourselves? The individual in our society is gradually deprived of the moral decision as to how he should live his own life and instead is ruled, fed and educated as a social unit. We were interested in discovering the ways of getting to know the shadow part of ourselves in order to rediscover the freedom of living our own lives. It’s a long and difficult process but the first step is accepting your shadow. More one tries to deny that part and cultivate the “acceptable light” side, more restrain one feels – the brighter the light, the darker the shadow… How long the shadow can be denied before it takes over?

Anatomy of Dance is a contemporary dance company created in 2007 (Riga, Latvia). It is the only independent dance company who regularly creates and perform productions collectively and as individual artists. Collective main trajectory is the research of movements and choreography, and dance synthesis with other arts forms and disciplines. Company’s productions have been nominated  for Latvian Theatre Award “Spēlmaņu nakts”. www.dejasanatomija.lv

Agnese Bordjukova - choreographer, dancer and contemporary dance teacher. Graduated Latvian Academy of Culture 2007, Contemporary dance choreographies' department. Since 2007 she is one of the participants of dance company “Anatomy of Dance” (www.dejasanatomija.lv). She has created several performances “3/4 Water” (2012 @ Ģertrūdes ielas teātris), “Dunkans – weirdoes or prophets?”(2013), “Wild Trilogy” (2015) in a collaboration with production company “Pigeon-Bridge” with a support of platform for the Nordic-Baltic dance community.

Producer: “Pigeon-bridge” is a contemporary performing arts production company with an aim to produce and to create art works that question human caused cataclysms in its wide extent. The company enriches Latvian culture scene with the new art forms, putting the emphasizes on interdisciplinary performances, develops and encourages the quality of brave ideas, supports independent artists to bring their work on a stage. Pigeons build bridges to make successful networking and knowledge exchange through the meaningful art.

The company consciously is working in the independent field in order to create an alternative opportunities to manifest the contemporary art forms and languages.It is a platform which encourage a cultural diversity and contribute the development of a new structures of collaborations. The main meaning of “Pigeon-Bridge” is to be a BRIDGE which connects brave ideas with curious artists, arts professionals and arts disciplines itself; which takes of the boarders of existing territories and questioning and searching for a new perceptions; it is a meeting point for artists, producers and the witnesses of events - audience.

Co-producer: “Cita Abra” is a non-formal education, artists residency and culture centre in Cīrava. “Cita Abra” Culture Mill has been more than 50 events up till now in together with local and international artists. Several concerts, interactive art events and performances has taken place there over 2 years.  www.citaabra.lv

Financial support: State Culture capital foundation of Latvia, Nordic-Baltic mobility programme, Liepaja Municipality institution „Culture Department”

Venue: Experimentalstage

Produced by PIGEON-BRIDGE, Co-produced by Cita Abra, Anatomy of Dance