Riga Performance Festival Starptelpa 2024

23 May - 02 June 2024

Riga Circus

Theme: Rebels of Tomorrow

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Rebels of Tomorrow

The theme of 2024 year's festival was Rebels of Tomorrow, inviting artists to reflect on the hypothetical future scenarios – both utopian and dystopian, including the human and the machine relationship, the ubiquitous presence of technologies, AI and robots in our everyday lives, etc.

Nevertheless, it also allows to address the current socio-political issues, such as equality, sustainability, resilience and others.

The festival is a keen supporter of inter-, cross- and transdisciplinarity leading to creation of unprecedented works of art and interaction between disciplines and artists.

Participating artists

Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer (ES x PR), Heather Sincavage (USA), Llewellyn Reichman (DE), Camilla Graff Junior (DK), Ilze Mazpane (LV), Dash Che (RUS/US/FI) & Suvi Tuominen (FI), Pianka Maria Pärna (UK), stvn girard (CA), PUSHPA (LV), Lauren Barri Holstein (UK), Hester Dart & Patricia Auchterlonie (UK), Jennifer Dubreuil Houthemann & DJ Marion Faure (FR), Ivo Krieviņš & Franciska Beļāne (LV), Satadru Sovan (IN), Adriana Disman (CA/DE), Normal Babyy (LV), Drāmas dāmas (LV), Mailo Mēness (LV), Tiziana Longo (DE), Estonian Circus “Giraffe with the Flaming Neck” (EE), Alysse Bowd (CA), Human Clay Dance Collective (Anna Kushnerova et al, BELG/UK), Jolanda Jansen (NL), Meri Hietala (FI), Simona Orinska’s BUTŌ lab (LV), Saulius Leonawičius (LT), Mads Floor Andersen (DK), Katrīna Tračuma (LV), Sandris Mūriņš (LV), Ēvalds Lazarvičs (LV), Helias Dzimoulakis (GR), Engel P-luck (NL), Pablo Alvez Artinprocess (UK/PT/BE), Performance Art Course Students 2023/2024: Elīna Balode, Ieva Balode, Emīlija Berga, Santija Biezā, Aija Bley, Elīza Eikerte, Uvis Leskavnieks, Marika Mitriķe, mygluojs, Elizabete Kokarēviča, Mingaile Kola

Llewellyn Reichman "Sirens". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Aija Bley "Dust". Photo by Dace Kundrāte

Elizabete Kokareviča "On the same level". Photo by Dace Kundrāte

Elīna Balode "Pie-saiste, pie-saite". Photo by Dace Kundrāte

Mailo Mēness "Shred & Suspend: A Choreography of Imprints" Photo by Dace Kundrāte

Marika Mitriķe "nemelot ≠ teikt patiesību" / "to not lie ≠ to tell the truth". Photo by Dace Kundrāte

Jūlija Tumanovska "The Deadline XX:XX". Photo by Dace Kundrāte

Santija Biezā "WU WEI". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Camilla Graff Junior "We, animals". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Katrīna Tračuma "What do? Where ambulance?" Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Sandris Mūriņš, Ēvalds Lazarevičs, Helias Dzimoulakis "Musical introduction to Self-Culinary #1". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

The opening performance "Exovision". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Pianka Maria Pärna "Anamnesis". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Satadru Sovan "Intoxicated Fruit". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

stvn girard "Feed art, breed rat". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Lauren Barri Holstein "Holy Water Hag Mouth". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Jennifer Dubreuil Houthemann & DJ Marion Faure "Bloom". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Ivo Krieviņš & Franciska Beļāne “4x on Bikes”. Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

PUSHPA (LV) "OASIS. The sacred temple with no name". Photo by Dace Kundrāte

Mean Time Between Failures duo (Dash Che & Suvi Tuominen) "Organs". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Saulius Leonawičius "STASYS2". Photo by Anda Krauze

Human Clay Dance Collective (Anna Kushnerova et al.) "Ontological Mutany". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Pablo Alvez Artinprocess "Circles, from vicious to virtuous, PART II". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Giraffe with the Flaming Neck ''Untitled''. Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer "don’t stop talking about...". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Jolanda Jansen "Rejecting or Acting on (Our)Nature". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Meri Hietala "Womb". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

BUTŌ lab "PULSUS". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Heather Sincavage "to my small hearth, his fire came". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Ilze Maszpāne "Freedom from the Tyranny of Time". Photo by Reinis Ūdris

Hester Dart & Patricia Auchterlonie "Loomeweight". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Adriana Disman "Questions without answers must be asked very slowly"

Normal Babyy "Garderobe // But, please, think outside the box". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Drāmas dāmas "Return to the Prohibited Garden". Photo by Andrejs Krūmiņš

Tiziana Longo "MUT". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Alysse Bowd "Sugarcoated". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Alysse Bowd "Sugarcoated". Photo by Andrējs Krūmiņš

Mads Floor Andersen "Stuck in Places". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Engel P-luck "Becoming Animal". Photo by Llewellyn Reichman

Emīlija Berga "Pasaka par Nimfu Nelliju un Draudzeni Molliju". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Mingaile Kola "Greenhouse Effect". Photo by Artūrs Čukmasovs

Elīza Eikerte "Migration". Photo by Arthur Aizikovich