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The exhibition “The Beginning” by the students of Scenography Department at the Latvian Academy of Arts\u00a0which won the Gold Medal for promising Student Talent\u00a0of at Prague Quadrennial of \u00a0Performance Design and Space, is currently being shown in Riga until September 30.<\/p>\n
“The Beginning” is curated by professor emeritus Andris Freibergs\u00a0who was honored at PQ 2015 event in Prague this June and awarded\u00a0with the Scenography Mentor prize for “work that has inspired generations of scenographers”. The exhibition in Prague was design by\u00a0Monika Pormale and produced by new Theatre Institute of Latvia.<\/p>\n
The introduction of “The Beginning” from PQ 2015 programme:<\/p>\n
At the Art Academy of Latvia, we call our first-year scenography studies \u201csmall tasks\u201d even though they are a long-term investment in the students\u2019 creative thinking. The tasks are similar to the instructions directors give to acting students, asking to enact specific situations and circumstances on stage \u2013 cold, hot, slippery. The difference here is that scenography students begin with tasks that encourage them to think within the theatre space. I expect ideas that don\u2019t require big resources because I believe that, in poverty, the path of the imagination is wider and longer. How to visually represent the presence of the sea, how to create the sense of flying, how to build a stairway to heaven, what does the Juliet\u2019s balcony or Hamlet\u2019s chair look like? These exercises help students to understand the language of theatre; they make it necessary to \u201creinvent the wheel\u201d. They confirm the idea that, in theatre, everything is possible. Eventually, these small tasks give students a sense of freedom because they are like letters, words and sentences you don\u2019t have to think about once you have mastered them. Now you can focus all your attention on the \u201cbig story\u201d called scenography.<\/p>\n
Participants: Anna Ansone, R\u016bdolfs Balti\u0146\u0161, M\u0101ra Broka, Reinis Dzudzilo, Liene Pavlovska, Evija Pint\u0101ne, Dace Pud\u0101ne, L\u012bva Pu\u013c\u0137e, Ein\u0101rs Timma, Gerda \u0160adurska.<\/p>\n
Exhibition opening hours:
\nTuesday, Wednesady, Friday, Saturday: 11.00\u201318.00 (closed between\u00a014.30\u201315.00)
\nThursday: 11.00\u201319.00 9\u00a0(closed between\u00a014.30\u201315.00)
\nSunday, Monday: closed<\/p>\n
Free entrance.<\/p>\n
Address:
\nAula of the Latvian Academy of Culture
\nKalpaka bulv\u0101ris 13, R\u012bga<\/p>\n
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