Saulėirjūra

An opera-performance by:
Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė and Lina Lapelytė

Curator: Lucia Pietroiusti
Producer (tour): Caroline Smith
Production Manager/Stage Manager: Erika Urbelevič

Imagine a beach – you within it, or better: watching from above – the burning sun, sunscreen and bright bathing suits and sweaty palms and legs. Tired limbs sprawled lazily across a mosaic of towels. Imagine the occasional squeal of children, laughter, the sound of an ice cream van in the distance. The musical rhythm of waves on the surf, a soothing sound (on this particular beach, not elsewhere). The crinkling of plastic bags whirling in the air, their silent floating, jellyfish-like, below the waterline. The rumble of a volcano, or of an airplane, or a speedboat. Then a chorus of songs: everyday songs, songs of worry and of boredom, songs of almost nothing. And below them: the slow creaking of an exhausted Earth, a gasp. (Lucia Pietroiusti)

Upcoming tour

30 May-1 June 2024
Singapore International Festival of Arts

Past

14-19 February 2024
BLC Business Leaders Centre, Kaunas

14-21 December 2023
Vilnius Taxi Park, Lithuania

7-8 October 2023
BITEF Festival Belgrade

15-17 September 2023
La Villette, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Festival d'Automne à Paris in collaboration with Pinault Collection

19-27 August 2023
Taipei Arts Festival

23-25 June 2023
Cork Midsummer Festival

19-23 May 2023
Wiener Festwochen

16-19 March 2023
Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires

27-30 January 2023
Fundación Teatro a Mil / Santiago a Mil International Festival, Chile

6-8 January 2023
Sydney Festival

5-13 December 2022
Vilnius Taxi Park, Lithuania

10-12 November 2022
Alkantara Festival, Lisbon

4-5 November 2022
Teatro Municipal do Porto - Rivoli

12-23 October 2022
Teatre Lliure, Barcelona

15-19 September 2022
Israel Festival

9-11 September 2022
Wiesbaden Biennale

10-28 August 2022
Kiasma, Helsinki Festival

23 June-10 July 2022
LIFT Festival, Serpentine, Back to Earth, We Are Lewisham at The Albany, London

4-5 June 2022
Reykjavík Arts Festival

25-29 May 2022
O. Festival for Opera.Music.Theatre, Rotterdam

25-27 March 2022
Klarafestival, Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Brussels

15-22 December 2021
Vilnius Taxi Park, Lithuania

19-21 November 2021
New European Theatre Festival, Moscow

2-14 November 2021
Malmö Konsthall

14-16 October 2021
The Hammer, MOCA, and CAP UCLA at MOCA, Los Angeles

6-9 October 2021
The Momentary, Bentonville, AR

30 September-3 October 2021
Arcadia Exhibitions, Arcadia University, Philadelphia

15-26 September 2021
BAM – Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York

1-2 September 2021
Athens Epidaurus Festival

17-18 July 2021
POWER NIGHT, E-Werk Luckenwalde

22 June-4 July 2021
Teatro Argentina, Rome

29 May-1 June 2021
CPH Stage/Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen

9-11 October 2020
Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen, Hanover

13-16, 18-19 & 21-24 August 2020
Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Zurich, Switzerland

7-8 March 2020
Borealis, Bergen, Norway

11 May-31 October 2019
Sun & Sea (Marina), Lithuanian Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Golden Lion for Best National Participation

Contact

Tour enquiries
Lucia Pietroiusti, Curator
luciapietroiusti@gmail.com

Erika Urbelevič
Production Manager / Stage Manager
erika@sunandsea.lt

Media requests
Lina Vaitiekūnaitė,
Jogintė Bučinskaitė
media@sunandsea.lt

All other enquiries
info@sunandsea.lt