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Expedition through the Estonian islands. So much water, the unexpected, and emotions. Grateful for this kind of work! Together with @ivetapole and @liisasaarem äel . Thank you @fondsinitium and @nordiskkulturfond

We’re a little late sharing this one 🙈 but some good moments deserve to be posted anyway! On March 6–7, we hosted the youth workshop “Ieslēdz savu balsi. Esi. Radi. Veido!” (Turn On Your Voice. Be. Create. Build!) in Daugavpils together with @fondsinitium and students from @saulesskola . During the workshop, the participants explored how art can help express ideas and experiences, and how a personal impulse can grow into a work or event that speaks to others and strengthens community. What stayed with us most was how the participants described two key takeaways: a clearer sense of how to develop their ideas, and a new way of seeing familiar places as a source of creative inspiration ✨ 📸 @saulesskola

The final residency of Third Figure within the @movingidentitieseurope program has come to an end. We spent it in Belgium, at @kunstplaatsvonk an art space in the small city of Hasselt – where we met wonderful artists and also managed to visit Antwerp several times. There, we experienced the performance 'A Rite of Spring' and briefly met representatives of the legendary @fcbergman team and powerful @williamludwiglutgens . Above all, however, in peaceful surroundings we continued working, this time with slightly different goals. More precisely, we explored what else we can do with our human-sized puppets, without trying at all costs to connect content with form. In my opinion, in visual theatre it is important from time to time to step back from content and ask yourself simple questions: - What is it that my eyes want to see? - What attracts my attention, and why? - How far can I immerse myself in the aesthetics of an image without thinking about immediate justification? And the answers don't need to be rushed. They arrive on their own. Much like in a gallery with paintings – we moved from one moving image to another and allowed ourselves to linger, even if their meaning did not reveal itself immediately. Well then – the work continues, and we keep refining our visual language. A huge thank you, @tine_deboelpaep , for your incredible support! We truly can't imagine how we would have managed without you. Stay tuned. :)) P.S. Information about the performance 'A Rite of Spring'. If you get the chance, I recommend seeing it: https://www.operaballet.be/en/programme/season-2025-2026/a-rite-of-spring⁠�

Spring is coming, but it still feels like yesterday we were in the snow, working with our brave puppets. @davvi_scene , Hammerfest, Norway. After finding the spirit within the fragments, we started asking – how do we move together? Through Aigars and Jordi's conversational language, we search for a shared dialogue between body and puppet. 📸 @danil_roekke #contemporarypuppetry #theatre #residency #workinprogress

Gomrâh in Latvia 🇱🇻 #performance#theater#multidisciplinaryartist

Paldies, mīļā, čaklā un enerğiskā @britishcouncillatvia komanda! Jūsu komandas spēks un paļāvība uz jūsu partneru darbu ir tas, no kā mēs visi varam mācīties! Paldies jums un People to People programmai par šiem 10 gadiem. @fondsinitium burtiski auga kopā ar jums un so programmu. Šie kopīgie piedzīvojumi ir un būs neaizmirstami. Paldies jums no mums un no katras kopienas, kuru jūs mums palīdzējāt stiprināt un no katra cilvēka, kurš ar prieku, entuziasmu, enerģiju un mīlestību šajos projektos iesaistījās, tie ir tūkstoši, ne simti. Līdz ar katru šo projektu jūs stiprinājāt un atbalstījāt un audzējāt arī mūs un daudzus, daudzus citus Latvijā! Lai labas lietas notiek un vairojas! Thank you @britishcouncillatvia team for this journey and this amazing experience we’ve shared with you over these 10 years! You have strengthened so many people in Latvia, so many organisations and communities, and we are proud and happy to be among them. It has truly been an honour to work with your dedicated team and to make great things happen together. Your partnership means the world to us, and the People to People programme will be greatly missed in these changing and uncertain times. Cheers to all the good things and the great work you’ve done!

On Friday it was World Theatre Day and we’ve been thinking about the impact of theatre arts on our lives 🎭 From the first meet officially as a group as part of #movingidentitieseurope back in September , our project has been a journey of passion, collaboration, and storytelling. In Riga, we began working with that initial spark of an idea with no boundaries, without fixed intention and allowed it to unfold into something tangible. This is one of the most freeing moments in any process, where everything feels possible and nothing is off limits. We spent hours in conversation, drifting through thoughts, shaping and reshaping a concept that had lived quietly in our minds for so long. Through contemporary puppetry, we searched for ways to give form to these feelings. These images are fragments from that time. 📸 @sandislazda

Today and tomorrow at the New East Cultural Institute in Daugavpils we open a two-day creative workshop for young people — a space to explore how personal experience can become art, and how art can become action. Together with artists @veronika_abdul_visocka and @edgarsniklasons , participants will experiment with movement, text, image and performance to transform ideas, emotions and everyday stories into artistic expression. The workshop invites young people to question familiar narratives, discover their own voice and explore how creativity can strengthen communities and make the world more inclusive. On the second day the workshop will also welcome Jana Geldnere, writer and interdisciplinary artist from Germany, currently in residence at the New East Artist Residency. Through collaborative exercises, dialogue and artistic experimentation we will explore how stories that often remain unheard can find new forms and new audiences. This event takes place as part of the collaboration between New East and @fondsinitium , bringing together artists and young participants to explore creative expression and community dialogue. Support: @britishcouncillatvia project (Ne)Redzamā Latvija

Registration is now open for the Moving Perspectives symposium in Copenhagen 19–20 May 2026 Join us when around 100 artists, curators, project managers and decision-makers gather at UP in Copenhagen to share experiences and develop new insights into how European performing arts environments can become more inclusive, representative and socially and environmentally responsible. The Moving Perspectives symposium celebrates the conclusion of three years of European residency collaboration in Moving Identities, where performing arts groups from a total of seven countries have developed their practice in encounters with new environments and colleagues in Copemhagen, Dresden, Barcelona, Northern Norway, Belgium, Estonia, and Latvia. Now you can sign up for two days of panel discussions between artists and institutions, discussion groups, workshops and celebrations. The symposium is a professional forum for reflection, inspiration and the exchange of concrete experiences and challenges. Supported by @creative.eu See more at udviklingsplatformen.dk or movingidentities.eu

SAVE THE DATE 19-20 May 2026 - MOVING PERSPECTIVES MOVING PERSPECTIVES in Copenhagen celebrates the completion of Moving Identities (2023-2026). It is an international symposium focusing on inclusion, representation, and institutional responsibility in the performing arts. There will be talks, panel discussions, networking, and performances, exploring how the independent performing arts sector can strengthen efforts related to inclusion, representation, and sustainable structures. MOVING PERSPECTIVES brings together approximately 100 performing artists, institutions, curators, and decision makers from across Europe. The event is intended as a professional forum for reflection, exchange, and inspiration, where performing arts professionals come together to discuss concrete approaches and challenges. REGISTRATION WILL OPEN IN FEBRUARY 2026 See how you sign up for the registration list at movingidentities.eu/symposium-2026-moving-persoectives

Novembrī, projekta @movingidentitieseurope ietvaros, uzņēmām norvēģu mākslinieku grupu @abjectifiedshow . Mākslinieki divas nedēļas Ruckas muižā attīstīja performatīvu pētījumu par cilvēka attiecībām ar tā ķermeni, balstoties četru šķidrumu (humoru) teorijā, kas cilvēka fizisko un emocionālo stāvokli skaidro caur asiņu, gļotu, dzeltenās un melnās žults līdzsvaru. Pētījumā tika aplūkots, kā šie iekšējie līdzsvari un disbalansi ietekmē kustību, klātbūtni un afektīvo pieredzi performatīvā procesā. Topošo mākslasdarbu raksturo arī darbs ar identitātes slāņiem un transformācijas elementiem, kas piešķir procesam papildu estētisku un konceptuālu dimensiju. Projekts tiek finansēts ar @creative.eu atbalstu, un tā norisi Cēsīs atbalsta arī Cēsu Kultūras pārvalde @cesis_lv . Projekts fokusējas uz starpdisciplināru mākslas praksi, identitātes jautājumiem un mūsdienu skatuves mākslas formu attīstību Eiropas sadarbības tīklā. In November, within the framework of the @movingidentitieseurope project, we hosted the Norwegian artist group @abjectifiedshow . Over the course of two weeks at Rucka Manor, the artists developed a performative research project focused on the relationship between the human body and the theory of the four humors, which explains physical and emotional states through the balance of blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. The research explored how these internal balances and imbalances influence movement, presence, and affective experience within the performative process. The emerging artwork is also characterized by an engagement with layers of identity and elements of transformation, adding an additional aesthetic and conceptual dimension to the process. The project is funded by @creative.eu , and its activities in Cēsis are also supported by Cēsu Kultūras pārvalde. The project focuses on interdisciplinary artistic practice, questions of identity, and the development of contemporary performing arts forms within a European collaborative network. Foto: Normunds Kažoks

Just over a week to go until our @performeurope supported online panel dialogues, embodied responses, and preview short dance film screenings! 🗓 27 November 2025 08:30–12:00 (London) // 09:30–13:00 (Rome & Amsterdam) // 10:30–14:00 (Kyiv & Riga) Booking link 🔗 via our website in bio. Alongside the Moving Kinship teams from Italy, Latvia, Ukraine & the Netherlands, we’re delighted to welcome our guest contributors: 
• Dr ‘Funmi Adewole — UK-based Nigerian performer, researcher, dramaturg & educator
• Carla Giunta La Spada — Archivist & activist, Casa Della Memoria, Servigliano, Italy
• Jolanta Znotina — Actress and D/deaf advocate & activist, Latvia
• Julia Bair — Ukrainian essayist & journalist We’re equally thrilled to be joined by @divoche.media — an independent feminist magazine sharing fearless stories, exploring urgent topics, and amplifying the voices, rights & resilience of Ukrainian women. 🎥 Short dance reportage film previews: 
• The Politics of Listening (Latvia)
• I Carry These Moments in My Body (Netherlands)
• Come Closer, Listen (Italy)
• UNARMED: (Ukraine) Join us to listen, witness, and move in kinship. 🤍 Illustration & Design: @nee_nee_creative ✨ #MovingKinship #PerformEurope #FeministPerformance #ArtsActivism #TransnationalArt #BeatriceAllegranti #OnlinePanel #ShortFilmPreviews #EmbodiedPractice #JusticeThroughArt #artivism #feministreportage #intersectionalfeminism