A Chimerik 似不像 project by Brigita Gedgaudas

Presented by SummerWorks Performance Festival 2025

Be Vardų, Be Kojų, meaning “Without Names, Without Legs” is an ongoing, iterative exploration in queering Lithuanian folk dance.

Using live-motion-capture, the solo performer interacts with eight aliens, made from glitched scans of specific male and female folk dance steps. These new, queer/alien bodies in digital space act as generative errors, creating new knowledge as they twist reality, delving into speculative fiction. The soloist, presenting as a pagan Lithuanian ‘woman’, is transported after performing a ritual with these aliens, causing a realization within themselves that they are not, in fact, a woman but a non-binary, agender person.

This transition into queerness is witnessed not only emotionally, but physically as elements of the queer street dance, Punking/Whacking/Waacking, continue to shift gestures connoting ‘maleness’ or ‘femaleness’ within folk dance to something more queer – a demonstration of coming into one’s own.

Company: Chimerik 似不像Design/Creative Costume Design: Brigita GedgaudasLithuanian Cultural Advisor: Tadas VaraneckasDramaturg/Producer: Caroline MacCaullMovement Mentor: Ashley ‘Colours’ PerezNew Media Mentor: Immony MènComposer: Sergei KofmanTechnical Costume Designer: Charlotte CarboneNew Media Operator/Project Assistant: Eilish Shin-CulhaneOutside Eye: Jasmine LiawTechnical Support: Sammy Chien

This project is made possible with generous support from Canada Council for the Arts and Charles Street Video.

• Tactile Tranducers are available in limited quantities for all performances, with priority given to Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, on a first-come first-serve basis.

Advisories

Sensory: Loud sound, strobing lights/projections.