26 gruodžio, 2019 Sun and Sea, 2019

An opera-performance
by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė and Lina Lapelytė

Imagine a beach – you within it, or better: watching from above – the burning sun, sunscreen and bright bathing suits and sweaty palms and legs. Tired limbs sprawled lazily across a mosaic of towels. Imagine the occasional squeal of children, laughter, the sound of an ice cream van in the distance. The musical rhythm of waves on the surf, a soothing sound (on this particular beach, not elsewhere). The crinkling of plastic bags whirling in the air, their silent floating, jellyfish-like, below the waterline. The rumble of a volcano, or of an airplane, or a speedboat. Then a chorus of songs: everyday songs, songs of worry and of boredom, songs of almost nothing. And below them: the slow creaking of an exhausted Earth, a gasp. (Lucia Pietroiusti)

Direction and scenography: Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė
Lyrics: Vaiva Grainytė, translated from Lithuanian by Rimas Užgiris
Music and musical direction: Lina Lapelytė

Producer (tour): Aušra Simanavičiūtė
Curator: Lucia Pietroiusti
Production Manager/Stage Manager: Erika Urbelevič
Technical Director: Lique Van Gerven
Sound Engineer: Romuald Chaloin Galiauskas
Singing Performers: Svetlana Bagdonaitė, Evaldas Alekna, Aliona Alymova, Teresė Andrijauskaitė, Milda Andrijauskaitė-Bakanauskienė, Arūnas Arlauskas, Marco Cisco, Nabila Dandara Vieira Santos, Saulė Dovydėnaitė, Auksė Dovydėnaitė, Claudia Graziadei, Sandro Hähnel, Elisabeth Holmer, Lucas Lopes Pereira, Artūras Miknaitis, Yates Norton, Eglė Paškevičienė, Vytautas Pastarnokas, Salomėja Petronytė, Kalliopi Petrou, Ieva Skorubskaitė, Elisabetta Trevenzuoli, Annapaola Trevenzuoli
Communication: Lina Vaitiekūnaitė, Jogintė Bučinskaitė

The libretto of the piece has been translated into English, German, French, Italian, Greek, Icelandic, Polish, Russian.

More info:
→  www.sunandsea.lt
→  Sun & Sea (Marina) album
→  Libretto (EN)

Upcoming tours

→ 4-15 September 2024
Malta Festival Poznań

Past

→ 30 May-1 June 2024
Singapore International Festival of Arts → 14-19 February 2024
BLC Business Leaders Centre, Kaunas → 14-21 December 2023
Vilnius Taxi Park, Lithuania → 7-8 October 2023
BITEF Festival Belgrade → 15-17 September 2023
La Villette, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Festival d’Automne à Paris in collaboration with Pinault Collection → 19-27 August 2023
Taipei Arts Festival → 23-25 June 2023
Cork Midsummer Festival → 19-23 May 2023
Wiener Festwochen → 16-19 March 2023
Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires → 27-30 January 2023
Fundación Teatro a Mil / Santiago a Mil International Festival, Chile → 6-8 January 2023
Sydney Festival → 5-13 December 2022
Vilnius Taxi Park, Lithuania
→ 11-12 November 2022 Alkantara Festival, Lisbon
→4-5 November, 2022
Teatro Municipal do Porto – Rivoli
→12-23 October, 2022 Teatre Lliure, Barcelona → 15-19 September, 2022
Israel Festival → 9-11 September 2022
Wiesbaden Biennale → 9-28 August 2022 Kiasma, Helsinki Festival → 23 June-10 July 2022 
LIFT Festival, Serpentine, Back to Earth, We Are Lewisham at The Albany, London
→ 4-5 June 2022
Reykjavík Arts Festival
→ 25-29 May 2022
O. Festival for Opera.Music.Theatre, Rotterdam
→ 25-27 March 2022
Klarafestival, Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Brussels
→ 15-22 December 2021
Vilnius Taxi Park, Lithuania
→ 19-21 November 2021
New European Theatre Festival, Moscow
→ 2-14 November 2021
Malmö Konsthall
→ 14-16 October 2021
The Hammer, MOCA, and CAP UCLA at MOCA, Los Angeles
→ 6-9 October 2021
The Momentary, Bentonville, AR
→ 30 September-3 October 2021
Arcadia Exhibitions, Arcadia University, Philadelphia
→ 15-26 September 2021
BAM – Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York
→ 1-2 September 2021
Athens Epidaurus Festival
→ 17-18 July 2021
POWER NIGHT, E-Werk Luckenwalde
→ 22 June-4 July 2021
Teatro Argentina, Rome
→ 29 May-1 June 2021
CPH Stage/Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen
→ 9-11 October 2020
Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen, Hanover
→ 13-16, 18-19 & 21-24 August 2020
Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Zurich, Switzerland
→ 7-8 March 2020
Borealis, Bergen, Norway
→ March 2018
Staatsschauspielhaus Dresden, Germany
→ 11 May-31 October 2019
Sun & Sea (Marina), Lithuanian Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Golden Lion for Best National Participation