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Footprints in Time (2025)
Premiere
September 13, 2025
“Ēdas mill”, Kuldīga parish, Latvia
Team
Choreographers/ performers: Sabīne Neilande, Laura Gorodko, Aigars Larionovs, Nauris Miķelis Goba, Mārtiņš Emīls Aržanovskis
Composer: Freya Algiz (EST)
Production: Dance collective LDM5, Sintija Boldiševica
Photographer: Kristaps Ungurs/ Anne Marija Gulbe
Supported by: State Culture Capital Foundation, Free Riga, Bistro “Bukstiņš”, Kuldīgas Jauniešu Māja
Also performed at
Ēda Mill and Iron Manufactory: a 17th-century industrial complex gradually overtaken by nature, where vegetation reclaims the architecture and landscape
KM12: the former State Paper Printing House in Riga, founded in 1919, later functioning as a Soviet model printing facility. Now abandoned, the building bears the quiet imprints of human activity—faded signs of purpose shaped by time, silence, and subtle natural decay.
Review
Footprints in Time is a site-specific contemporary and vertical dance performance that explores the lasting impact of human presence on natural and urban landscapes. Through a choreographed walk across historically and environmentally charged locations, audiences are invited to reflect on the traces we leave behind and how time, nature, and absence shape the stories held within a place.
The performance merges movement and aerial dance, using alpinism equipment and nets to interact with the vertical and horizontal planes of each space. Choreography is designed in close dialogue with the environment, highlighting its unique physical and historical characteristics. The result is an immersive experience that encourages awareness of ecological and cultural continuity, sustainability, and memory.
By entering these spaces through dance, the performance transforms forgotten places into living stages and invites audiences to reconsider their relationship with the environment—not as something distant, but as a shared imprint in motion.
