Be Vardų, Be Kojų
Be Vardų, Be Kojų is a theatrical dance-tech piece created by Brigita Gedgaudas, produced by Chimerik 似不像. Be Vardų, Be Kojų was premiered at the Summerworks dance festival in Toronto, in August of 2025. I composed the score for this piece blending elements of experimental electronic music, ambient, disco, techno, and traditional Lithuanian Folk music.
See more about the piece at: https://summerworks.ca/show/be-vardu-be-koju/
From the program:
Be Vardų, Be Kojų, meaning “Without Names, Without Legs” is an ongoing, iterative exploration in queering Lithuanian folk dance.
Using live-motion-capture, the solo performer interacts with eight aliens, made from glitched scans of specific male and female folk dance steps. These new, queer/alien bodies in digital space act as generative errors, creating new knowledge as they twist reality, delving into speculative fiction. The soloist, presenting as a pagan Lithuanian 'woman', is transported after performing a ritual with these aliens, causing a realization within themselves that they are not, in fact, a woman but a non-binary, agender person.
This transition into queerness is witnessed not only emotionally, but physically as elements of the queer street dance, Punking/Whacking/Waacking, continue to shift gestures connoting 'maleness' or 'femaleness' within folk dance to something more queer - a demonstration of coming into one's own.
See more about the piece at: https://summerworks.ca/show/be-vardu-be-koju/
From the program:
Be Vardų, Be Kojų, meaning “Without Names, Without Legs” is an ongoing, iterative exploration in queering Lithuanian folk dance.
Using live-motion-capture, the solo performer interacts with eight aliens, made from glitched scans of specific male and female folk dance steps. These new, queer/alien bodies in digital space act as generative errors, creating new knowledge as they twist reality, delving into speculative fiction. The soloist, presenting as a pagan Lithuanian 'woman', is transported after performing a ritual with these aliens, causing a realization within themselves that they are not, in fact, a woman but a non-binary, agender person.
This transition into queerness is witnessed not only emotionally, but physically as elements of the queer street dance, Punking/Whacking/Waacking, continue to shift gestures connoting 'maleness' or 'femaleness' within folk dance to something more queer - a demonstration of coming into one's own.