{"id":12,"date":"2019-08-21T08:04:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T08:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/seiko\/public_html\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:50:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:50:47","slug":"apie-teatra","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/seikodancecompany.com\/en\/seiko-dance-company\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0160eiko Dance Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are an independent team of artists, established in Klaip\u0117da in 2012. The contemporary dance we create takes many unique forms. Our strengths lie in openness to various art forms and a desire to share the benefits of dance with the local community. Our performances are notable for their interdisciplinarity, minimalist aesthetics, connection to music, unexpected spaces and community involvement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A permanent troupe of 8 dancers is led by artistic director <strong>Agnija \u0160eiko<\/strong> and producer <strong>Goda Giedraityt\u0117<\/strong>. The focal point of our work includes dance and music performances, productions for children and site-specific performances. The company annually receives national nominations and awards and participates in festivals and on theatre stages in Europe, China, the USA and other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Among many choreographers that join us for various projects, we had a privilege to host Palle Granh\u00f8j (DK), Dalija Acin Thelander (SE), Maciej Ku\u017ami\u0144ski (PL), Alban Richard (FR), Rachid Ouramdane (FR), Vittoria De Ferrari Sapetto (IT \/ BE), and Daphnis Kokkinos (DE\/GR).<\/p>\n<p>Since 2017, we have been a part of <a href=\"https:\/\/seikodancecompany.com\/en\/klaipedanse\/\">Klaip\u0117DAnse<\/a> project that unites Lithuanian and French contemporary dance artists. As a part of this program, we organize seminars for the Klaip\u0117da city community, dance professionals, and work on an annual joint performance with our partners from France.<\/p>\n<p>Our unique approach to dance, openness, community-bonding power of movement and the eagerness to take on creative challenges are the foundation of our strong, ever-growing and creative dance company.<\/p>\n<p>Company&#8217;s activities are financed by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuanian Council for Culture, Klaip\u0117da City Municipality, Neringa City Municipality and French Institute of Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p>\u0160eiko Dance Company is part of <strong>ASSITEJ<\/strong> \u2013 International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are an independent team of artists, established in Klaip\u0117da in 2012. The contemporary dance we create takes many unique forms. Our strengths lie in openness to various art forms and a desire to share the benefits of dance with the local community. Our performances are notable for their interdisciplinarity, minimalist aesthetics, connection to music, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seikodancecompany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seikodancecompany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seikodancecompany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seikodancecompany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seikodancecompany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/seikodancecompany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1945,"href":"https:\/\/seikodancecompany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/1945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seikodancecompany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}