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JĀNIS PUTNIŅŠ//
A dancer reaches upward in magenta stage light in UNFOLDING
Direction / Movement / Film

THE BODY.THE IMAGE.

Selected work — UNFOLDING

Movement, image and environment form a unified narrative language.

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Between
body & image.

UNFOLDING explores inner tension, recognition and the unstable relationship between how we see ourselves and how we encounter another person.

Close-up of a performer in blue-green stage light
UNFOLDING
Choreography & video / Jānis Putniņš
Aktionstheater PAN.OPTIKUM
3 dancers / 45 minutes
Team
Dancers
Sofia Missionario de Santos, Adrian Herrera Rubias, Kien Trinh
Choreography & video
Jānis Putniņš
Music
Tobias Schwab
Lighting
Tim Weseloh
Assistance
Dagmar Ortmann
Production
Aktionstheater PAN.OPTIKUM

UNFOLDING / Trailer

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Dancers occupy platforms at different heights beneath large projections
02 / A shared space

BODY.
IMAGE.
ARCHITECTURE.

Separate worlds.
A shared space.
UNFOLDING / Video still
Sigrun Fritsch extending an arm against an open landscape in MISSING FACE

MISSING
FACE.

Choreography / Video

Jānis Putniņš

A newly discovered Iranian family history opens an exploration of memory, identity and the traces experience leaves in the body. Dance, film, sound and space become a landscape the audience moves through.

Project credits
Concept
Sigrun Fritsch, Janis Putnins, Mahsa Mohammadhosseini, Leonie Fritsch
Dance
Sigrun Fritsch
Choreography & video
Jānis Putniņš
Music
Leonie Fritsch, Mahsa Mohammadhosseini
Lighting
Laurenz Fritsch
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UNFOLDING film portrait in blue lightUNFOLDING close-up in red light
“What keeps repeating within us — and what allows another possibility to emerge?”
UNFOLDING / JĀNIS PUTNIŅŠ
Direction
Movement
Choreography
Film

Creating movement-based works across film and performance.

I’m a Latvian choreographer and video artist based in Freiburg, Germany. My work brings together movement, film and spatial images, across stage productions, installations and work in public spaces. I create with professional artists and people from different communities, exploring how bodies, images and places can tell a story together.

Freiburg, Germany.
Selected work with Aktionstheater PAN.OPTIKUM.

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