“Halloween Phobias” premiered on the threshold of Halloween night. This ambient play was presented for the first time at the “Art Factory LOFTAS” where was merged into a fairy-tale like Halloween party afterwards.
The play takes place in a uniquely designed and constructed stage with a multi-layered structures. The costumes and scenography are made by the designer Robertas Kalinkinas. read more…
“Marko (Kavoli Cabaret)” is the first purely drama play of Gytis Ivanauskas, who is well known for the dance performances. In this play four members of theatrical family are facing big changes, each of them has to make critical decisions.
Fateful evening and next morning. To flee for the better future, or to stay where your roots are? Is it possible to escape at all? It takes bravery escape and bravery to stay read more…
Chamber dance performance “The Birds”, which is based on Contemporary Ballet motif, is a new project of Gytis Ivanauskas Theatre. Modern costumes created by Tomas Bagackas visually corresponding with stereotypic look of birds: friableness of feathers, multicolour scale of tones, freedom feeling. Performance author, choreographer read more…
Seems simple, ordinary meeting with a friend for cup of coffee may finish normally, tragically, violently, silly, hopelessly, sadly or even comically. Usually we do not think what if this meeting would have the different end, would happen something that we do not expect. The story based on pure accidents, emotions, stylized body language and contemporary dance – it is Gytis Ivanauskas Theatre play “Dialogues”. The body language of dance will express not only love and hate, but a female place in society and search of perfection. Long-standing stage … read more…
“Premiere” is a contemporary performance art creation that tries to take remains, leftovers and traces of a particular action as a frame for a theatre act, as a starting point for researching the theatre as a medium. We approach to the issue of theatre action from the point of observing what is left from a certain experience, what does body remember from the act that finished before this performance started and both visible and invisible signs left by something lost. We are listening to the echoes of movements, memories and … read more…
In this installation project of music-dance-video – one part dance performance „The red shoes“ actors are looking for individual access to their role. They creating homicidal characters, which experience naive puerility and brutal cruelty all together. „ It is an interpretation, of bright, white and very feminine fairy-tale, which horrible ending is relevant to any of us”, – this is how Gytis Ivanauskas, the director, choreographer and actor of this show, presents it. The sense of aesthetics and whiteness is given to the show by large cubes which were … read more…
Gytis Ivanauskas Theatre actors are waking up St. Catherine’s Church for story of love. At one of the most beautiful Baroque monuments in the Capital, you will see adaptation of the play “Men in white skirts” – “Reviving Bodies”.
Surrounded by rich decorations, suddenly greeted by Michael Gallasso music, one by one sculptures in the altar are reviving and walking down the stage to tell their story by dance. They are “speaking” about search and pursuit of love read more…
8 square meters is the symbolic space of “madmen”, where everyone lives in his imaginary world, speaks the language only he understands, hears the sounds familiar only to his ears.
Six people of different fate are living in their own micro worlds. They are locked in the 8 square meters cell, with cold metal floor. They all share a single desire and passion – to dance. The only way to survive in this mad world is to dance tango.
The performance “I love you so much” is like a manifesto of a child conveyed through the lips of a grown- ups. The performance is full of symbols and daily life paradoxes. Here what is private becomes public, what is feminine becomes masculine, and maturity becomes childish innocence. Childhood revives in mature characters: one minute you can see a woman with a cigarette in her mouth holding a childish bag and starting crying like a child, who did not get his promised candy. Best friends mess with each other while … read more…
This is the second dance performance of the young Gytis Ivanauskas theatre. Choreographer Gytis Ivanauskas together with his companions from the previous show „Hallmark“ – actors/dancers Edita Užaitė, Brigita Urbietytė, Evaldas Taujanskis as well as Eimutis Kvosčiauskas are breaking the stereotype of what is really “feminine” and “masculine”. The spectator here finds himself in front of paradoxical, explicit sometimes even infantile scenes where you can notice love, passion and competition between human beings and not just men or women. Skirts are here chosen as a form and artistic solution … read more…
In 2004 Gytis Ivanauskas has completed his master studies in Lithuanian Music Academy and obtained a qualification of actor dancer. Gytis Ivanauskas entered the professional stage in year 2000, where he played the teenager Kurt in M. von Mayenburg play “Fireface” which was directed by Oskaras Koršunovas. Biggest roles that made him famous are Romeo in “Romeo and Juliet” by W. Shakespeare (director Oskaras Koršunovas) and Raskolnikov in “Crime and punishment” by F.Dostojevskij (director Gintaras Varnas). G. Ivanauskas also takes part in various dance projects, created scenography for his … read more…