Go back RE RIGA! FESTIVAL: “OUROBOROS” BY DMITRIJS PUDOVS
01.08.2024.
Geometrical juggling show for teenagers – “Ouroboros” by Dmitrijs Pudovs (Latvia): Everything that begins leads to an end, so it can start anew. Then we return to the beginning. Like a snake biting its tail.
When: Saturday, August 17 at 15.00 and 17.00
Where: Vērmane Garden, Riga
Age: All audiences
Duration of the work-in-progress: 40 min
Free entrance
About the work-in-progress “Ouroboros”
Before the beginning of everything, there is an empty nothingness. In world history, as in mathematics, music, and circus, everything exists in a specific context and space, with definitions, melodies, and relationships changing through mutual interaction. A cyclical, endless movement. Everything that begins leads to an end, so it can start anew. Then we return to the beginning. Like a snake biting its tail.
“OUROBOROS” is a contemporary circus performance addressed to teenagers, which combines circus and music to tell about mathematical figures in connection with the development of world history. The show was created to bring mathematics, famous for its dry complexity, to life with the help of circus and music. In the emptiness, a point appears, translated into circus language as a contact juggling ball, further developing into a sinusoid and eventually returning to the point. Thus, the name of the show “OUROBOROS” was born. In Greek, “ouroboros” translates to “tail-eater,” symbolizing a snake (sometimes a dragon) coiling in a circle and biting its own tail, continuously destroying itself to be reborn anew.
The performance was created with the support of the State Cultural Capital Foundation as part of the “Latvian School Bag” program.
About the artist
Dmitrijs Pudovs has been performing as a fire artist and juggler in various events in Latvia and abroad for more than 10 years. In 2006, Dmitrijs founded the juggler and fire artist company “Fire Spirit.” Since 1997, Dmitrijs has been passionate about martial arts of the East — he has 16 years of experience as a coach and holds a C-level jiu-jitsu martial arts coach category. From 2007 to 2010, Dmitrijs improved his skills at the circus studio “Arlekīns” with Mihail Basmanov.
At the Riga Circus School, Dmitrijs helps students master the basics of juggling, as well as balance disciplines such as balance boards, stilt walking, and unicycling.
Publicity photos: Davide Garrone
Artistic information:
Artist: Dmitrijs Pudovs
Director: Antra Leite-Straume
Composer: Toms Kagainis
Dramaturgy: Ance Strazda
Mathematics consultant: Līga Zaķe
History consultant: Inita Priekule
Producer: Renāte Saulīte
ABOUT THE RE RIGA! 2024 FESTIVAL
By attending this show, you agree:
– to be photographed and/or filmed,
– to give permission to use your likeness in promotional and/or marketing materials.
Accessibility:
– in a wheelchair
– for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing (hearing loop)
