"Acts" by Aurora Lubos at the 2015 South Caucasus Contemporary Dance and Experimental Art Festival in Tbilisi

"Acts" by Aurora Lubos

June 07, 2015

Europe House Georgia

01 Liberty Square

0103 Tbilisi, Georgia

In June 2015 EEPAP organised the staging of Acts, a touching performance by Aurora Lubos about victims of domestic violence, during the 2015 edition of the South Caucasus Contemporary Dance and Experimental Art Festival in Tbilisi.

Lubos is an independent dancer associated with the Polish and British contemporary dance scene, and has performed in the United States, Canada, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Scotland, among others. Next she will perform in Georgia, where she will show Acts, inviting the audience to discuss domestic violence and its victims.

I believe that art can bring about change, that it can shake us up and make us reflect on the reality that surrounds us. I also believe that the reason for creating art cannot be its purely aesthetic value, but above all its content. This is why I focus on providing a structure in both my plays and workshops – I provide space to play with specific topics that we, the participants and I, are moved by. I am trying to build a framework that includes games and tasks stimulating an in-depth exploration. By improvising together we discover movements, sounds, texts, or a theatrical response to burning questions. There are times of fruitful experiments, but there are also times of errors and failure – says Aurora Lubos about her work.

The performance Acts was preceded by workshops on violence against women and social exclusion in Georgia. After the show there was a meeting between the artist and the audience. All events were held at the Europe House as part of the South Caucasus Contemporary Dance & Experimental Art Festival.

The project was organised by the East European Performing Arts Platform (EEPAP) and supported by Culture.pl.