Miss Lithuania

With this “Miss Lithuania” impetous, disoriented and unbridled, Vilma Pitrinaite, who does not lack temperament, aims fair and strong
https://www.froggydelight.com/article-16103-Miss_Lituanie.html

The performance invites you to cheer on Miss Lithuania as she goes through the stages of the Miss World contest: Traditional Dances, Beauty with a Purpose, Interview, Performing Talent, Bikini Contest. At first glance she is an idealistic girl, armed with national pride and conviction. But isn’t her authenticity a product of pop culture? Isn’t she there to win attention, to arouse suitable and marketed emotion? As the contest proceeds, Miss Lithuania becomes entangled between her conditioned desire to represent her country, and to be a role model, and her nstinctive quest for liberation from conformity. This leads to a series of transformations: from virgin into openly sexual video clip dancer, from role model into primitive warrior and from patriot into some kind of absurd leader.

« While misses are more celebrated for their beauty (and their silence?), this proposal chooses to place the speech in the mouth of one of them. Putting the word in a place where we do not expect it moves our gaze and ivites us to consider a (European) reality from a new angle. As one takes power, Miss Lithuania speaks up to exhaustion, until the words are no longer able and the body alone can complete and end the act that looks like a sacrifice» – writes Estelle Moulard-Delhaye

Conception et performance: Vilma Pitrinaite

Dramaturgie: Thomas Pondevie

Coaching : Davis Freeman, coaching Dina Khuseyn

Lights and technical direction : Florian Leduc/Léa Maris/Fanny Perreau / Zoltan Molnar

Vidéo: Evaldas Šemiota, Vilma Pitrinaite

Full show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQPsnk2XXjg&index=3&t=4s&list=PLYa6M0o9XGPgBwuqyCCtYp2z5nHUCW-Zy

Articles in Lithuanian: http://www.laikas.lt/lt/info/15813/arlietuva-laimes-mis-pasaulis-2014-rinkimus-interviu-su-sokeja-choreografev-pitrinaite/ http://www.dance.lt/lt/353907/sokio_naujienos/straipsniai/7-vilmapitrinaite http://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/kultura/26/42862/_naujajame_baltijos_sokyje_savo_darbus_rodys_ir_uzsienyje_gyvenantys_lietuviai.