A research based dance performance

Planned premiere: 2022 April (Amsterdam)

Ana Chrona: Dance Fiction - is a live dance documentary that takes place in a futuristic set up and is narrated by two dancers and a fictional artificial intelligence character Ana Chrona.

They go over ten years worth of real and fictional memories, dance and personal archives in a wide range of formats: from analog to digital, pixelated, scratched, forgotten; audio messages, interviews, gossip and failed desires - constructing a Time Machine.

This is a living chronicle of a generation of artists born in the post Cold War 90s, in the Wild Wild East, bringing their post-soviet hipster identities into a promised Western dream, all while dancing their new virtual bodies into a speculative post-pandemic hope.

The artistic research for this work is supported by Lithuanian Dance Information Centre, Bitės Dance Platform, Lithuanian Council for Culture and SNDO (School for New Dance Development).

image collage by Bartė Liagaitė

photo by Tom O'Doherty