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contact Gonzo\u00a0<\/em>(Japan) and Latvian dancers in Gr\u012bzi\u0146kalns Attention! This is an outdoor event. Please wear appropriate clothing, also in the case of rain.<\/p>\n Authors and performers:\u00a0Yuya Tsukahara,\u00a0Masakazu Kobayashi, Takuya Matsumi, Keigo Mikajiri,\u00a0Dmitrijs Gaitjukevi\u010ds, Aldis Liepi\u0146\u0161, Krist\u012bne Vismane, Eva Vanc\u0101ne, Sergejs Tarase\u0146a, El\u012bna Lutce, Roberts Muci\u0146\u0161.<\/p>\n The evening will start with a video installation and the centre ‘Koka R\u012bga’ and will then take the viewers for a walk through the streets of Gr\u012bzi\u0146kalns. It will end in one of the neighbourhood’s fascinating courtyards.<\/p>\n Artist collective\u00a0contact Gonzo\u00a0<\/em>from Osaka have gained popularity in Japan and around the world with their unique movement vocabulary and physical contact improvisation performances that might look like ‘Fight Club’ with an elegant choreography added to it. The guys from\u00a0contact Gonzo\u00a0<\/em>will work with seven Latvian contemporary choreographers and dancers from the young generation. Their studio will be the Gr\u012bzi\u0146kalns neighborhood in Riga with its streets, parks and squares. They will aim to realize the project\u00a0Dance Moves Cities’\u00a0<\/em>ideas of widening the conventional practices and territories of dance and try to use both the visible and invisible parts of this Riga district as their centre for the performance.<\/p>\n Founded in 2006, contact Gonzo<\/em> is an improvisational performance group based in Osaka, Japan. The collective has developed a specific mode of contact improvisation that borrows from sources ranging from martial arts to internet trends. Based on both physical strength and agility, and trusting relationships within the group, contact Gonzo<\/em> powerfully balances elements of contemporary dance, performance art, and urban and popular cultures. Dispersing and occupying public buildings, theaters, museums and alleyways around the world, their work is typically a series of arresting encounters that teeter on an edge between violence and tenderness. contact Gonzo<\/em> has been presented in Japan, Singapore, New York, Moscow, Rio, Reykjavik, Zurich, Budapest and Ljubljana among other places.<\/p>\n Besides being a company, contact Gonzo<\/em> is also a name of a method they have developed by Masaru Kakio and Yuya Tsukahara starting on 2006.<\/p>\n In recent years contact Gonzo<\/em> became the focus of increasing attention in both the performing arts and contemporary art scenes that led to participation in international exhibitions and arts festivals and international dance festivals around the world.<\/p>\n Currently contact Gonzo<\/em> consists of four members with different backgrounds, including\u00a0 Masakazu Kobayashi, Takuya Matsumi, Keigo Mikajiri and Yuya Tsukahara.<\/p>\n Video from\u00a0contact Gonzo’s\u00a0<\/em>performance at MOMA:<\/p>\n
\nMeeting point: Koka Riga, Kr\u0101sot\u0101ju street 12
\nSaturday, 23rd August at 19:00
\nSunday, 24th August at 19:00
\nDuration 1h
\nFree entrance<\/p>\n