Repertoire

27 d.

11:00 h

Arts Printing House, Šiltadaržio 6 str., Vilnius

Education

Monday dance for babies

Monday dance for babies is a dance class for children of 8–14 months age and their parents or grandparents where they explore various objects and movements. Dancers-teachers lead them to dance world by trying different movements which develop coordination, balance and fine motor skills. These experiences will further lead into dance perception and interpretation, which might be expressed by children not only verbally, but also kinesthetically.

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1 d.

17:00 h

Arts Printing House, Šiltadaržio 6 str., Vilnius

Performance

Meadow

Full of secrets, colored and soft meadow in which children together with the dancer are engageed to seek adventure and look for treasures, experience joy of discovery and communication, share their impressions and emotions. The form of performance-installation allows children to explore dance and environment without limitations in time needed to get involved.

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3 d.

10:00 h

Kelmės mažasis teatras, Kelmė

Performance

Colourful games

Interactive dance perfomance for 0-3 years old children full of unexpected colourful things that invite toddlers together with the dancer to explore and discover a lot of new about themselves and the environment.

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Tour

August 05 - August 20

Edinburgh Festival Fringe, ZOO, 140 Pleasance

Colourful games

August 05 - August 20

Edinburgh Festival Fringe, ZOO, 140 Pleasance

Puzzle

August 24 - August 28

2016 2nd Beijing NEW Dance Festival, China

Miracle

September 16 - September 17

GOGOLFEST, Kiev, Ukraine

Colourful games

September 24 - September 25

MAC Festival, Barcelona, Spain

Colourful games

October 22 - October 23

Inside-Out Theatre, Beijing, China

Puzzle

October 29 - October 30

Chongqin Guotai Performing Arts Centre, Chongqin, China

Puzzle

November 01

Zhong Nan Theatre, Wuhan, China

Puzzle

November 04 - November 06

Kids Euro Festival 2016, Washington, USA

Colourful games

November 18

Talinn, Estonia

Colourful games

November 20

Haapsalu, Estonia

Colourful games

November 23

Tirana, Albania

Puzzle

February 02 - February 04

Theater an der Parkaue, Berlin, Germany

Colourful games

February 09 - February 14

Västerås, Sweden

Colourful games

March 10

DANCE HALL OF RIGA CONGRESS CENTRE, Latvia

Colourful games

May 11 - May 14

Shanghai Children’s Art Theatre, Shanghai, China

Colourful games

May 12 - May 14

Xixi Paradize Arts Center, Hangzhou, China

Puzzle

May 18 - May 18

Shanghai Children’s Art Theatre, Shanghai, China

Creation of the world

May 19 - May 21

Shanghai Children’s Art Theatre, Shanghai, China

Puzzle

May 20 - May 21

Inside-Out Theatre, Beijing, China

Colourful games

July 14 - July 23

International Arts Carnival, Hong Kong, China

Puzzle

July 25 - July 27

ricca ricca festa 2017, Okinawa, Japan

Puzzle

August 03 - August 06

Conference room, Macao Cultural Centre, Av. Xian Xing Hai, Macao, China

Puzzle

October 12 - October 12

The Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre, Gdansk, Poland

Puzzle

November 17 - November 19

Ziguzajg festival, Malta

Puzzle

November 18 - November 19

Ziguzajg festival, Malta

Colourful games

December 02

Atta festival, Istanbul, Turkey

Puzzle

December 15 - December 16

Anteprima Festival Lituano, Rome, Italy

Colourful games

December 17 - December 17

Anteprima Festival Lituano, Rome, Italy

Puzzle

January 21 - January 21

KD Mlejn festivalis, Prague, Czechia

Colourful games

January 26 - January 26

IPAY Spotlight artist program, Philadelphia, USA

Puzzle

February 03 - February 04

Safari Kid Theater Festival, Delhi, India

Puzzle

February 11 - February 11

WE Dance Finale, Hong Kong, China

Puzzle

April 21 - April 22

Hobujaama 12, Tallinn, Estonia

Colourful games

April 25 - April 25

Lutsu 2, Tartu, Estonia

Colourful games

April 27 - April 27

Posti 1, Viljandi, Estonia

Colourful games

May 12 - May 12

The Juliusz Słowacki Theatre Miniatura Stage, Św. Ducha Square 2, Kraków, Poland

Colourful games

May 19 - May 20

Shanghai Children’s Art Theatre, Shanghai, China

Twinkles

May 25 - May 27

Shanghai Children’s Art Theatre, Shanghai, China

Colourful games

May 26 - May 27

Inside-Out Theatre, Beijing, China

Twinkles

October 07 - October 07

Teatr Polski, Bydgoszcz, Poland

Colourful games

January 27 - January 27

Společenské centrum Trutnovska pro kulturu a volný čas náměstí Republiky 999 541 01 Trutnov , Czech Republic

Puzzle

May 04 - May 20

Shanghai Children Arts Theatre, China

Puzzle

May 09 - May 09

Shanghai Children Arts Theatre, China

Creation of the World

May 16 - May 16

Shanghai Children Arts Theatre, China

Creation of the World

Performances

Miracles

Contemporary dance performance for 3-6 years children. Miracles – is the story about how little lumps of cells like caviar, egg, worm or seed turn into a fragnant flower, colorful butterfly, green frog, clumsy pinguin or mighty eagle, about two different cells joining into one and growing into happy and curious human. Isn’t that a miracle?

Puzzle

Contemporary dance performance for children of 0-3 years. How does the surrounding world looks like for a small child? Is it a round yellow or blue square? Or maybe green soft hollow?

Colourful games

Creation of the World

Contemporary dance performance for children of 5-10 years. It is a story about how the world was made. What was first - stars, day or night, sky or earth, animals or birds? How did first people look like? We think it was like that...

Twinkles

Interactive dance performance-lab for children of 4-24 months full of various shining objects which invite babies together with dancers to explore light on stage and themselves through light.

Meadow

Interactive dance performance-installation for babies of 6–18 months, in which full of secrets, colored and soft meadow invites children together with the dancer seek for adventure and look for treasures.

Watchmaker

Interactive musical action performance for babies of 6-18 months, inspired by the idea of the clock and movement of its parts.

Education

Monday dance for babies

PROFESSIONALS AND CHILDREN ON STAGE

Dansema dancers together with children in three days create a dance performance „Creation of the World“ (choreographer Birutė Banevičiūtė, composer Rasa Dikčienė).

News

Dance performance „Colourful games“ for children of 0-3 years was presented in Ireland on 6-15 July.

Six cities, twelve performances, three festivals and two theatres. Dance performance „Colourful games“ for children of 0-3 years was presented in Ireland on 6-15 July. Dancer Giedrė Subotinaitė and choreographer Birutė Banevičiūtė met young spectators in Ennis Street Arts Festival, Cairde Sligo Arts Festival, Earagail Arts Festival in Dunfanagy and Letterkenny as well as in Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire and Garter Lane Theatre in Waterford. This tour was supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture.

Six cities, twelve performances, three festivals and two theatres. Dance performance „Colourful games“ for children of 0-3 years was presented in Ireland on 6-15 July.

Dance performance Puzzle is selected for IPAY Spotlight 2018 program!

Great news from IPAY (International Performing Arts for Youth) to Dansema, which is celebrating 10th anniversary. Dance performance Puzzle is selected for IPAY Spotlight 2018 program! Proud and happy to be the first Lithuanian company in IPAY. Looking forward to new encounters, collaborations and destinations!

IPAY is the premiere membership organization in the world today servicing and supporting the professional community of performing arts for young audiences. It is comprised of a growing worldwide network of artists, producers, presenters, agents, educators and students that are dedicated and involved in producing, presenting and promoting all forms of theatre, music, dance, circus, puppetry and more.

http://ipayweb.org/?page=spotlight

Dansema harvest of 2018

After starting 2018 tours in Czech Republic, United States, India and Hong Kong, Dansema has visited Estonia, Ukraine, Poland, China, Singapore and Palestine. This year's Dansema harvest includes performances in 10 countries, 18 cities, 9 international festivals (Festival Solove, IPAY, WeDance, HOOG, Safari Kids Theater Festival, Act3International, KRoki, Prapremier Festival, BIPAF). In total, 59 performances have been shown, which were seen by nearly 4000 spectators. Special visits were in Shanghai and Palestine, where we not only showed performances, but, along with local children, we implemented creative and educational dance projects "Creation of the World". We have shown this performance with 100 students from Shanghai Shangde Experimental School at the Shanghai Children's Art Theater. In Hebron and Jerusalem 40 local children, who had no previous dance experience and live in a tense political situation, participated in the project. This project was organized and supported by the Lithuanian office in Ramallah. Tours in foreign countries were not limited to showing performances. In Estonia, Ukraine, China and Singapore we conducted dance lessons for 8-14 months babies according to the methodology of Dansema artistic director, choreographer, doctor of social sciences Birutė Banevičiūtė, which impressed not only children's parents but also professionals working with children. As a result, Ukrainian choreographers and dance educators developed the idea of publishing the methodology for the early dance development of B. Banevičiūtė in Ukrainian. This project in Ukraine was very successful and received support from newly established Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. Following the methodology of Birutė, Ukrainian artists presented their first self-created dance performance for children.

Dansema did not forget the small spectators in Lithuania, too. Performances were shown 52 times in Vilnius, Kaunas, Šiauliai, Marijampolė. We attended the International Jėga/ Cool Festival of ASSITEJ Lithuania in Šiauliai. We had dance lessons for babies, with performances we visited Vilnius residence of infants with developmental delays. We have started a new cooperation with Kaunas European Capital of Culture. So we are looking forward for 2019 full of new trips and performances.

Dansema international tours are funded by the Lithuanian Culture Council.

Dansema Performance for Babies to Premiere in Kaunas

Dansema, the pioneer of dance performances for babies in Lithuania, is finishing its season with one more premiere in Lithuania - performance of musical action "Watchmaker". Usually premiering in the capital, this time Dansema invites everyone to their see their newest piece in Kaunas. The performance for babies 5 to 20 months old was inspired by the sounds of the watch mechanism - arrows, gears and alarm.

Little spectators will be greeted by fun movement and sound surprises popping out of the dancer's costume, created by the artist Medilė Šiaulytytė. Babies will be able to become participants of the performance, co-authors of movement and music, created by composer Jurgita Mieželytė as well as to create a collective musical accompaniment for the performance by exploring musical instruments. This is the first performance of this form for babies in Lithuania, also unique because it is a solo performed by a male dancer. Well known contemporary dance performers Mantas Stabačinskas and Marius Pinigis will take turns in creating musical "Watchmaker" action together with babies.

According to Dansema artistic director and choreographer “Watchmaker” Birutė Banevičiūtė, this performance was started to create in the autumn of last year, with the initiative of Kaunas 2022. The team of the European Capital of Culture was seeking to make Kaunas audience more familiar with performing arts for babies, and, together with Dansema, developed creative movement laboratories for babies and their parents. “During our tours, the tickets in Kaunas get sold out very quickly, so we decided to give Kaunas community the joy of the premiere this time. This will be our first premiere outside of Vilnius” - Dansema's choreographer speaks about traveling to the little spectators. The “Watchmaker” will premiere at Kaunas City Chamber Theater on April 14, 11:00, 15:00 and 17:00. Tickets can be purchased via Tiketa. Sponsors of the performance are Kaunas 2022, Vilnius and Kaunas City Municipalities.

Dansema Goes on a Tour in China

Dance theatre Dansema is getting ready for a tour in China for the fifth time. Choreographer Birutė Banevičiūtė and dancers Giedrė Subotinaitė, Indrė Bacevičiūtė and Mantas Stabačinskas will be visiting Shanghai on 4-20 May.

For five years, Dansema has been collaborating with the Shanghai Children Arts Theater where they will have 16 performances the famous Puzzle this year. Five years ago this particular performance was a starting point for Dansema’s collaboration with China, when in 2014 it became a first company ever to perform for babies in China. Together with the two Shanghai schools, Dansema dancers will also carry out a creative-educational project Creation of the World during which dancers with children without any dance experience will create a dance performance within 3 days. The result of the creative process will be the dance performance, in which the children appear together with the dancers, publicly presented on the stage. The project will involve 160 students from Shanghai Shangde International School, to which Dansema has been invited for the second time and 120 pupils from Changyi Elementary Public School.

Dansema team will also have baby dance workshops for babies of 8-14 months, based on the method of early dance education, developed by Birutė Banevičiūtė – pedagogue, choreographer and the artistic director of Dansema

About us

"Dansema" Dance Theater is a non-governmental organization produsing dance performances for young audience.

Since it was established in 2007 theater successfully has been touring in Lithuania and abroad (in Belgium, Netherlands, Croatia, Germany, Ukraine, Sweden, Ireland, UK, US, China). "Dansema" also organizes seminars for dancers, choreographers and dance teachers, implements educational dance projects with children. In 2009 theater became a member of the ASSITEJ Lithuania. Theater performances have been nominated and awarded by Lithuanian Ministry of Culture as the best children performances of the year 2012 and 2015.

Birutė Banevičiūtė

choreographer

Giedrė Subotinaitė

Dancer, choreographer

Mantas Stabačinskas

Dancer, choreographer

Agnė Ramanauskaitė

Actress, dancer, choreographer

Indrė Bacevičiūtė

Dancer

Marius Pinigis

Dancer, choreographer

Gintarė Masteikaitė

International tour manager

Contacts

Manager
Giedrė Subotinaitė
Phone:
+370 614 02652
Email:
info@dansema.lt

International tour manager
Gintarė Masteikaitė
Phone:
+37065771080
Email:
gintare.masteikaite@gmail.com

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