‘Parade of Flying episodes’ is a performance where objects, configurations and choreography is based on a fragment “Dream of Flight” from Gaston Bachelard’s essay “Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement” (1943).

Parade of Flight Episodes is part of Beate Poikāne’s master’s research in scenography.Performance (45 min) took place in ‘Tu jau zini Kur’ concert hall in Tallinas street quarter, Riga, on 30 and 31 of May, 2023.  The work was created together with artist and choreographer Laima Jaunzema and sound artist Andrejs Poikans. Performers – Laima Jaunzema, Clea Filippa, Beate Poikane.

As a sub-theme of the masters thesis, is the human desire to fly and repetition of this motif in history, that in the work is explored in a metaphorical and direct way. “Parade of Flight Episodes” is a performance that takes scenography as a point of departure in the creative process and explores the possible outcomes of such an approach. In the artistic study, the theme is carried out on an associative and visual level, taking into account the images described by Gaston Bachelard, supplementing them with other visual references and connecting them with personal experiences. The artistic means of expression of contemporary theatre are studied, focusing on visual dramaturgy, performing with objects and objects – performers.

The work outlines the repetition of the human dream to fly as an inexhaustible motif of the imagination, which takes on different fantasy formations through time. Just as the everyday world is affected by inventions, the world of dreams and imagination is also formed in connection with the fantasies of the individual and society about the possible and the impossible.

Scenography reveals itself in choreographical composition that explores the body’s relationship with objects, attempting non- hierarchical way of stage relationships. The sound composition of the show was created thinking about the rising, floating and falling dynamics inspired by Deniss Smalley spectromorphology sound shape diagram and Bashlar’s ‘Dream of Flight’. Composition  is mainly dominated by synthetic timbres, leaving the listener’s ear open to associative connections.

Supervisor – Kaspars Groševs

Scenography: Kinetic sculptures / objects (electronics, paper, wire, wood), video projections, costumes.