ON SEEN

Category: YOUTH, EMERGING ARTISTS

ON SEEN is a solo work about the ever-changing body and its reality, shaped by gazes, cultural habits and daily repetitions. Gender here is revealed not as a given, but as a formation that has settled over time – an embodied habit that determines how bodies are seen and understood. What seems self-evident begins to slip, change, and take on other forms.

The body is in constant flux here: between different forms, states and modes of visibility. Movement is dismantled and reconstructed, allowed to decompose, overlap and lose clear boundaries – as if looking through misted glass.

Choreography unfolds like compost – from layers, remains, rhythms, tension and excess. Movements briefly form, disintegrate, and reunite, like waves that break into foam and reassemble.

In place of a clearly defined identity, a shifting terrain opens up, where different expressions overlap, merge, and lose boundaries. The work remains in this instability. With the possibility that the body will not calm down. With a reality that could still be different.

Ugnė Irena Laurinavičiūtė is a dancer, performer, and choreographer of the younger generation. Her solo work is inspired by her dance studies in Amsterdam and her experience working with the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company. The piece explores the constantly changing body and its reality, shaped by gazes, cultural habits, and everyday repetitions. In 2024, Ugnė Irena graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Dance from the Amsterdam University of the Arts. She has worked with artists such as William Forsythe, Thomas Hauert, Ioannis Mandafounis, Mario Lopes, Isabel Cordeiro, Emio Greco, Pieter Scholten, Adam Jönsson, Joelina Spiess, Airida Gudaitė, Joseph Simon, and others.

OPEN FRAME CREATIVE is an open creative platform that brings together artists and creators from different disciplines. It is a meeting point for movement, text, performance art, and visual practices. The platform functions as a space for creative processes, collaboration, and the development of ideas—from initial experiments to mature artistic projects.

The Emerging Creators Program is supported by Baltisches Haus.