“When you look at the dark for a long time, it starts to reveal contours.”
The performance is a person’s inner journey, a confrontation with one’s deepest darkness. It’s an encounter with a force that draws you in, making it very difficult, sometimes even impossible, to break free. At times, this darkness becomes so overwhelming that it turns into a desire to simply not exist. However, if you dare to face it, the darkness can become recognisable. Then, the outlines of concrete feelings and emotions emerge, allowing them to be named, accepted, released, or simply allowed to be. While the darkness may not disappear, you can always find something to help you endure it, survive, move forward, and balance it with light. That something is your own body – your beautiful body that can dance. Ultimately, the desire to live is driven by the desire to act.
“Through a play of light, darkness, dance, words, and music, we create a story about approaching and encountering the Other – elusive yet always so close”, shares Dovilė Binkauskaitė.
“To turn inward is to see the full contents of your heart… both light and darkness. Each of us carries our own shadow: it is our fear, envy, insecurity, anger, disappointment, loss of meaning and doubt. According to Carl Gustav Jung, the shadow holds that part of us which we do not acknowledge as our own, do not identify with, and do not develop. Pushing it away only makes it grow even stronger. Yet, the shadow is still a part of us. It is essential to pause, recognise, accept, and learn to be true to the Self we have found. It is not easy, but it is the first step towards liberation”, observes Gintarė Radvilavičiūtė.
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