“Ordredesordreordredesordre”. Photo by Kemel photography

Lithuanian dancer and choreographer Vilma Pitrinaitė (b. 1985), currently residing in Belgium, learnt the basics of dance at Kaunas Dance Theatre Aura. She continued to improve her dance skills in France: between 2005-2007, she studied at the Avignon Dance Conservatory, in 2007–2008, she studied choreography at the CDC Toulouse, and in 2009-2010 – within the Ex.e.r.ce programme at the CCN Dance Centre in Montpellier. Between 2010-2012, Pitrinaitė studied directing at the School of the Théâtre National de Strasbourg, where she met playwright Thomas Pondevie. Together they founded the troupe WE Compagnie, the performances of which combine elements of theatre, dance and documentary.

As a dancer, Pitrinaitė has worked at the Kaunas Dance Theater Aura and performed in the troupe La Zampa in pieces by choreographers and directors Karine Ponties, Philippe Grandrieux, Mossoux-Bonté and Hubert Colas.

As a choreographer, Pitrinaitė has created eight dance performances so far. One of her first works with WE Compagnie, Miss Lithuania (2015) was invited to the Aerowaves Spring Forward festival, and her duet Match (2017) was included in the Atlas programme of the festival Impulztanz. Currently, Pitrinaitė works and conducts seminars in Lithuania, France and Belgium, and her performances have already travelled to Austria, the Czech Republic, Israel and the United States.

One of the newest performances created by Pirtrinaitė in Lithuania is Ordredesordreordredesordre (2019). While creating this performance together with the dancers of the Šeiko Dance Theatre, Pitrinaitė set out to look for harmony between scientific and artistic research. The choreographer conveys the dynamics of order and its opposite – disorder, chaos – by combining two sources of inspiration that are not, at first glance, connected: research in the field of biological systems and the biography of Ian Curtis, the frontman of the British post-punk group Joy Division. The chaotic but at the same time systematic movement of particles is associated here with the processes observed in nature and with the human conception of stability as harmony, the basis of everything. However, according to the authors of the performance, only imbalanced molecules start communicating with each other. Does this apply to humans as well? It seems that exactly such a choreographic experiment is presented in the performance Ordredesordreordredesordre.

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