This will be the 11th edition of “Piena Svētki”. During this event, the festival RE! Contemporary Circus and Street will present circus and street theatre performances, as well as circus school with workshops and master classes. During the day circus school in the park will propose workshops and masterclasses of handstands, acrobatic movements and aerial acrobatics with Konstantin Kosovec from Lithuania and Lizeth Wolk and Grete Gross from Estonia.
Please, apply for master classes and workshops digitally. One can apply by sending an e-mail to mara@reriga.lv , indicating your workshop of choice, your age and occupation. Also, please add a short description of yourself and your physical preparation as well as the reasons why you want to take part in these particular activities.
Workshops will take place between 15:30 till 18:30.
15:30 Aereal ring with Lizeth Wolk
Lizeth Wolk was born and raised in Estonia, Tallinn. After many years of being involved with visual arts and music she found the circus world through a youth circus in Tallinn (Folie). In 2012 life brought her to Finland to study in Koulutuskeskus Salpaus to become an aerial artist. In 2015 she finished the school specialized in aerial hoop. On the side she likes to play around with fire, doing double staff, breathing and eating fire. Still passionate about visual art, Lizeth brings her handycraft skills into circus by building puppets, making costumes, using her paintings and by finding quirky technical solutions.
16:30 Aereal loop with Grete Gross
Grete started in year 2003 with circus at Circus Studio Folie in Tallinn. After three years of studies at Salpaus Further Education Circus department (Lahti Circus School in Finland), she is now working on several international and national group and solo projects. She concentrates mostly on aerial acrobatics, doing double-hammock as main discipline, but also researches combining different art forms, for example poetry and visual arts with circus.
17:30 Acrobatic moovement with Konstantin Kosovec
Konstantin is a self-tough circus artist from Lithuania. In his work he is combining various disciplines such as object and fire manipulation, aerial acrobatics, capoeira and Chinese pole. At the moment with choreographer qnd director Jekaterina Deineko and dancers Laima Servaite and Valerija Gneuseva he is working on his second full-length show based on The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fydor Dostoevsky. In his spare time he is regularly leading workshops in Europe and Russia
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