Theater
ACH dance performance ''YOUTH''
About this event
Dance performance "YOUTH, or the scripts by which parents and children live"
to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach
Director-choreographer and librettist – Anželika Cholina
Set designer – Marijus Jacovskis
Costume designer – Olga Filatova-Kontrimienė
Lighting designer – Eugenijus Sabaliauskas
Hairstyle and makeup artist – Dalia Žakytė-Bučienė
Pedagogue-rehearsal director – Živilė Baikštytė
The performance features 21 artists from the Anželika Cholina Dance Theatre, the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, the Kaunas State Musical Theatre, and the ACH Youth Troupe.
The plot of the dance performance "YOUTH, or the scripts by which parents and children live" intertwines fragments of the lives of six families and brings two worlds into collision – that of children and adults. It is a contrasting psychological tragicomedy where modern family life dramas are conveyed through the language of dance, set to the powerful music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
The performance "YOUTH", which has already become a sensation on the Lithuanian theatre scene in recent years and was twice in a row recognized as the most-watched dance performance in all of Lithuania (in 2023 and 2024, according to www.bilietai.lt data), continues its journey across the country and into the hearts of viewers in the new – already 27th – season of the ACH Theatre.
Full houses, tens of thousands who have already seen it, consistently strong emotional reactions from the audience, always sensitive feedback, and always thunderous ovations – "YOUTH" leaves no one indifferent, deeply touches the viewer's heart, and encourages reflection on relationships with those closest to them.
In the performance, whose central thematic axis is the not-always-simple relationship between parents and children, three dance genres have been intertwined for the first time: classical ballet, contemporary-modern dance, and street dance.
Also, for the first time in the history of the ACH Theatre, roles are created on one stage by well-known, experienced masters of performing arts, ballet soloists, actors, dancers, and 11-13-year-old children, the most gifted students from ballet, dance, and acting schools, and young artists from the ACH Theatre Youth Troupe established in 2022. As they grow quickly, each season in "YOUTH", a constantly renewing cast of young dancers, carefully prepared by choreographer Anželika Cholina herself, dances and embodies the children on the big stage.
