Go back RE RIGA!: “107 Ways to Deal with Pressure” by Kanta Company (work-in-progress)
04.08.2022.
Let’s go further with introducing to the RE RIGA festival 2022 artists and their shows! August 17 –21 it is – the extended weekend of the Re Riga! festival! The full program of the festival you can find HERE. And now meet and greet work-in-progress “107 Ways to Deal with Pressure” by Kanta Company.
Full festival program – HERE.
About the “107 Ways to Deal with Pressure” (work-in-progress)
This show is a tool to talk about pressure. Feelings of stress and pressure are part of being human – everyone experiences them. Unreachable expectations, stress, burnouts – in modern day life these factors are treated as normal. What’s more, the situation in the world, the pandemic, climate change, and all kinds of uncertainty in our lives only pile on more pressure on top of personal problems. It seems impossible to live these days without a constant feeling of pressure.
That’s why it is important to talk about these topics publicly so that we can avoid more serious problems in the future and break the stigma of sharing these kinds of things. We want to help the audience realize they are not alone, and equip them with ways to deal with pressure, to use it as a source of strength and inspiration instead of something that makes us weak.
Foto: Donatas Ališauskas, Ieva Martusevičiūtė
About the company
Kanta Company is three circus artists from three different countries – Finland, Lithuania, and USA – who aspire to create entertaining but thought provoking circus. Onstage is where we feel the most alive – circus forces us to be present. By bringing everyday situations and issues onstage we want to give the audience new perspectives on their lives via the transformative experience of circus, creating a world where the everyday is extraordinary, and the real becomes surreal.
“107 Ways to Deal with Pressure” list:
- ignore
- procrastinate
- doing everything else except what you have to
- complaining
- fake it till you make it
- disappearing/disconnecting
- making yourself exhausted
- becoming obsessed
- hiding your insecurities with humour
- seeking outside approval
- self deprecation
- meditation
- breathing
- talking
- alcohol
- smoking
- moving
- running
- escaping
- hiding
- staying still
- paralyzed
- shouting
- splitting things in to small chunks
- planning
- over planning
- not sleeping
- being angry at others
- crying
- laughing
- going to see a show
- buying stuff
- comparing yourself to other people
- putting insta stories
- gambling
- making goals
- making goals that are too big/unachievable
- failing
- failing on purpose
- being a victim
- bragging
- buying a dog
- rebelling
- changing your career
- thinking if you could be an animal
- fantasizing
- living in imaginary world
- having imaginary friends
- keeping secrets
- lying
- telling other people secrets
- lying to yourself
- doing something radical
- cleaning
- making a mess
- making lists
- hitting rock bottom
- smashing stuff/smashing rooms
- shooting
- axe throwing
- being violent
- fighting
- sweating
- watching TV
- arguing
- picking fights about things that dont matter
- blaming other people
- scapegoating
- ordering fast food
- screaming
- ctrl z
- ctrl c ctrl v
- swimming
- puking
- not eating, losing appetite
- eating a lot
- driving fast
- reckless behaviour
- listening music
- going to the nature
- never leaving nature
- staying in your house forever/very long time
- avoiding home
- partying
- changing your mindset
- changing your surrounding
- counting
- melting
- pressure someone else
- doing lots of things but badly
- exceeding one thing and not doing anything else
- doing things without purpose
- having very strict routine/schedule
- making rules
- downloading apps which suppose to help
- watching movie
- reading books
- reading facebook comments
- doom scrolling
- dying
- faking an illness
- becoming sick
- giving up
- pressing your face
- acupuncture
- pressure points
- “going through the motions”
Tickets: free
Duration of the show: 45 min
When:
August 20, 3,30PM
Where: Sporta 2 quarter
