Light instalation – Improvisation performance
Peter Terezakis: “Observing figures moving through boundless, immaterial volumes of rising and falling light create images in the minds of the observer-participant. My interest is what comes from the interpretation of what is seen / what is experienced as metaphors are constructed to appease the individual need to create meaning from mystery.”
Allyson Green: "We "write" with our body into the earth or sky the name of someone who is meaningful to us who has passed. Those passing spirits evoked in the lights are dancing with us."
Ilze Zīriņa: “Thinking of the opposites having something common: the light (energy) is always here with us and it has its constant pulse (time) – nothing can stop it; and a human – full of ambitions, dirt, heaviness, short time of existence. If we scratch that surface off and LISTEN – we can feel that our time here does not depend on our heartbeat. The light from us will not go down together with the light from our eyes. That brings me to association – we are the light. We will always be there.”
Peter Terezakis (MPS), Associate Arts Professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, began creating work connecting art and technology in 1974. The first installation of Heart Beats Light was in a Pennsylvania meadow, during fall of 1995. He has created inter-active works of art varying from jewelry, to interactive buildings, and temporary kinetic light installations in outdoor site-specific settings in deserts, forests, and national parks. His works have been exhibited in Canada, Greece, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States, and is held in corporate, private, and museum collections. Green and Terezakis started collaborating in 1997 and with Alan Stones in 2003. The three of them began working with Inta Balode and Olga Zitluhina in 2006. This is their first collaboration with Ilze Zīriņa. terezakis.com
Allyson Green is a choreographer, visual artist, curator, and Dean of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She has created over 130 dance theater works that have been presented in 21 countries and throughout the United States. She is thrilled to be back in Riga reuniting with great friends.
Ilze Zīriņa is working in the contemporary dance field since 1997. She holds MA in choreography (Latvian Music Academy 2001). Professional skills learned from such teachers as Olga Zitluhina, David Zambrano, Maria Munoz, Pep Ramis, Julyen Hamilton, Hai Cohen to name a few. Ilze has been a dancer at Olga Zitluhina Dance Company for 14 years. She has created numerous choreographies for drama theatre and opera in Latvia and Russia. Currently works mostly as a teacher of contemporary dance technique and Contact Improvisation locally and internationally. Ilze is more and more becoming interested into Contact Improvisation as a tool to improve professional skills and as a performing art form.