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Untitled Movement Lecture (2022)
Premiere
September 7, 2022
H2O Architecture and Media Center, Riga, Latvia
Team
Idea, choreography: Līga Ūbele
Co-choreographers: Marģers Vanags un Kitija Geidāne
Scenography, costume and light designer: Andris Kaļiņins
Composer:Toms Mikāls
Light operator: Oskars Timbars
Performers: Marģers Vanags, Kitija Geidāne, Sabīne Neilande, Laura Gorodko, Arina Buboviča, Aigars Larionovs, Roberta Gailīte
Production: Dance collective LDM5, Patrīcija Kolāte, Helēna Sarkisjane
Photographer: Toms Harjo
Supported by: State Culture Capital Foundation, Riga City Council, Latvian Dance Information Centre, Choreographers’ Association, Art Center Totaldobže
Also perforemed at
Contemporary Thursdays at Art Centre Totaldobže
Baltic Dance Platform 2024
Review
Untitled Movement Lecture is a movement-based work inspired by John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing. The piece follows the structure of Cage’s text, shaping both the choreography and the light.
Seven dancers, sound, and a circle of light share the stage. Movement is reduced to standing and walking, allowing attention to shift towards duration, repetition, and subtle change.
As Cage writes, “Most speeches are full of ideas. This one doesn’t have to have any.” The work stays close to this approach, keeping its materials simple and open.
Repetition plays a central role. Over time, actions may begin to dissolve into something less defined. As director Māra Gaņģe notes in her review, “Maybe when something is repeated for a long time, it no longer gives any new information and gradually becomes nothing?” The question remains open - whether “nothing” is ever truly empty, or simply something we are not used to noticing.
