Location: Skånes Dansteater Östra Varvsgatan 13a,
Date: September 2
Time: 7.30 pm
Price: 200 :-
Supporting members: 150 :-
Student/Senior/u 26 years: 100 :-
The sound volume in the performance is intended for people over 12 years.
Allow yourself to be tossed into a whirling force field
Vērpete is a powerful experience where you are sucked into a living force of nature. Here, every rotation and movement feels like part of something bigger – a vortex in which we are all interconnected.
Inspired by Baltic dance and folk music, Swedish-Latvian duo Erik Eriksson and Krišjānis Sants invite us to join them in their whirling world of movement. Hand in hand, they spin across the floor with constant interplay of trust and tension. Like a rotating vortex, they split the audience apart at one moment, only to draw us back together as part of a shared flow in the next instant.
Live music from vibraphone and guitar creates an immersive soundscape that follows the rhythm and pattern of the dance. Vērpete is not merely a performance – it’s hypnosis beyond the everyday, an experience that grips you, sweeps you away and leaves you moved.
Credits
Choreography, dance & set design: Krišjānis Sants and Erik Eriksson
Music: Mārtiņš Miļevskis (vibraphone), Rihards Lībietis (guitar)
Costumes: Ieva Gaurilčikaitė-Sants
Production: New Theatre Institute of Latvia & Tuvumi
Photo: Matiss Markovski
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