credits

Concept and choreography: Anna-Marija Adomaitytė
Collaboration on choreographic writing and performance: Mélissa Guex and Victor Poltier
Sound and light design: Gautier Teuscher
Outside eye: Pierre Piton
Administration & production: Gaëlle Marc
Production: A M A
Coproduction: La Bâtie-Festival de Genève, L’Abri-Genève
Distribution: Olivier Stora
Support: Bourses SSA - Société Suisse des Auteurs pour la création chorégraphique, chorégraphique, Pro Helvetia, Fondation suisse pour la culture

A M A / Anna-Marija Adomaitytė

Pas de deux

Lithuania, Switzerland The Twenty22

With 'Pas de deux', Anna-Marija Adomaityte challenges the classical representations of a duet.
On a deep blue floor, a woman and a man perform the gestures of a couple. The surrounding audience hear their breath quicken, perceive an impatient hand, a fading gaze… One suspects evasion in these frantic movements transformed by exhaustion, which jeopardise the pas de deux itself. Like a gust of wind blowing away all-powerful romanticism, Adomaityte’s Pas de deux attempts to set the duo free from programmed madness.

Biography

Anna-Marija Adomaityte focuses her choreographic research around the different forms of social violence and how the body reacts to them. Born in Lithuania, Anna-Marija studied Contemporary Dance at La Manufacture (Haute école des arts de la scène). Based in Geneva, Anna-Marija develops various dance projects with her company A M A. Her first solo creation, workpiece, was presented in Lithuania, Switzerland and France. Her new dance piece, Pas de deux, explores how predetermined societal norms affect a couple’s love relationship. Pas de deux premiered in La Bâtie – Festival de Genève fin 2021. Currently, Anna-Marija Adomaitytė is an associate artist at L’Abri-Genève.

She also holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from ECAL (École cantonal d’art de Lausanne).

Anna-Marija Adomaityte

Springback writer Jordi Ribot Thunnissen met Anna-Marija Adomaitytė to talk about 'Pas de deux'

Performances

3 December 2022 Pas de deux at Tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf Düsseldorf, Germany Find out more

4 December 2022 Pas de deux at Tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf Düsseldorf, Germany Find out more

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