Aino Mäkipää and Kestas Matusevicius from Kanta Company are joining this residency to work on their respective solos – Gandras/Stork and Prelude.

Gandras/StorK by Aino Mäkipää
Gandras is Lithuanian for stork.
The stork, with its elegant yet raw appearance, is always moving between several homes.
It reminds the artist of her own life, where she travels and performs with the circus, without having a permanent home.
The set designs a stork’s nest, and tells the story of the stork from a human point of view based on stories collected from people who live close to the stork.
A work in progress presentation will take place on 29th June.

Prelude by Kestas Matusevicius

Prelude – a show with a beginning that never ends. The main character is “the actor Liudas”, who struggles to start his show.
Preparation, anticipation and postponement are the main axes of the performance, which unfolds as an absurd comedy in front of and behind the curtain.
A work in progress presentation will take place on 29th June.

This residency was made possible with support from Statens Kunstfond/Danish Arts Foundation, Odense Municipality.