Dance performance „The Trap“ / Rita Lira (Ukraine)

Director and performer: Rita Lira (Ukraine)

Costume designer: Louise Carton (Belgium)

Composer: Yana Shliabanska (Ukraine)

Director of photography: Denys Lisovets (Ukraine)

Video editor: Alexander Legostaev (Ukraine)

Photographers: Mauricio Saldaña (Mexico), Miri Hamada (China)

Project supported by: Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, La Briqueterie CDCN, Vitry-sur-Seine

Premier: 1^st of March, 2023 at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

Duration: 20 min

Location: @square next to Priekulė Art and Culture Center (Turgaus str. 4)

Artist presented in the framework of Aerowaves, co-funded by the European Union

RECOMMENDED for those seeking physical and mental liberation

Have you ever felt like you were stuck in space and in your own mind? It's as if you have built a trap that you can't get out of. How does this trap feel to you? How can you free yourself from it?

This performance reveals the state of feeling stuck inside oneself and in the environment, one finds themselves in. The costume, which consists of a ‘second skin’s’ cocoon from which long pieces of fabric stretch out, intertwines with the objects around the performer to illustrate this physical and mental entrapment. 

Rita Lira is Ukrainian dancer and choreographer. Born in Ukraine in 1996, graduated from Boris Grinchenko University in Kyiv with a degree in contemporary choreography. Her aesthetic borrows from contemporary art and urban dance styles such as hip-hop, house, and popping. She is also interested in documentary art.

She joined the G. Dance Theater team in Ukraine in 2017, with whom she worked for over two years. Since 2019, Rita has been teaching contemporary and urban dance. She worked as a choreographer and director at Splash Theater-Studio in 2019-2020 and as a teacher at My Way Dance Centre in 2021-2022. She is a member of the All-Ukrainian Association Contemporary Dance Platform.

In 2022, forced to leave Ukraine, she was welcomed in residency and supported by la briqueterie CDCN of the Val-de-Marne. Thanks to the Ministry of Culture's PAUSE emergency reception scheme, she spent a year in residency at the Cité internationale des arts. La briqueterie and the Cité internationale des arts are working with her to create and present her shows The Way from/to and The Trap. Rita is also taking part in the Hérodote educational program at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. https://www.instagram.com/ritalira.official/

 

Photo: from the company archive