From November 18 to December 1, 2023, the Riga Circus Residency program hosted Aino Mäkipää (LT/FIN) from Kanta Company. During the residency the artist worked on her solo performance “Gandras” (“Stork”) in collaboration with composer Mantvydas Pranulis. The main circus discipline of the upcoming performance is Chinese pole acrobatics. Based on its specificity, the artist…
Riga Circus invites you to the work-in-progress performance of “Jostka”, the solo project by Alexis Akrovatakis. ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE The artist who’s the first one of our Residency Program has been developing material in the historic elephant house and horse stables of Riga Circus, creating his interpretation of animal captivity, redefining freedom, as the path…
Myrto Petrochilou – at Rīgas cirks residency programme We are happy to welcome at Rīgas cirks residency programme Myrto Petrochilou – a dance and circus artist from Greece. Myrto will work together with Daphne Tsiouni (music composition and live performance) and Florentia Chatzis (graphic design and visuals). The “project [9]” focuses on how space, objects and…
