Ode to Joy / HOMO NOVUS

Embodied performance which translates Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ode to Joy into Sign Language

Creative Team: Amanda Coogan, Lianne Quigley (Ireland) and the Latvian Association of the Deaf (Latvia)

Place: Kokaru Hall, Mežparka Lielā estrāde, Ostas prospekts 11

Language: Sign

Tell Daddy / HOMO NOVUS

1:1 performance where you can tell Bush the things you would like to say to your father

Creative Team: Bush Hartshorn (GB)

Place: Festival Centre Bergs, Marijas street 11

Language: English & any language, participant's choice

Additional Information: Please arrive on time

The Nutcracker: Vegetable Ballet

Highly visual musical performance without language restrictions

Creative Team: Borsch (Czech Republic)

Place: Latvia Puppet Theatre, Krišjāņa Barona iela 16-18

Language: No language

Air Reservoir: a Dystopian Poem / HOMO NOVUS

Performance has a visual part, sound and involves participation

Creative Team: Beate Poikāne (LV)

Place: Skatepark in Uzvaras parks, Riga

Language: Latvian, English. 29.08. sign language translation

Additional Information: Free entry with prior registration

Over time: bog bodies dance / HOMO NOVUS

Participatory performance - LARP in swamp in Ķemeri

Creative Team: Linda Boļšakova (LV)

Place: Ķemeri National Park

Language: In Latvian and English

Additional Information: Visit only by bus organized by the festival

DUST RIGA. Catalog of fine particles of the city / HOMO NOVUS

Audio performance with a view of Riga

Creative Team: Artūrs Čukurs (LV)

Language: Latvian

Additional Information: Free entry with prior registration

Ķengarags Parade / HOMO NOVUS

Seemingly simple walk with performative elements

Creative Team: Reinis Boters (LV)

Place: Meeting point Tram No 7 final stop in Ķengarags

Language: Very little language

Additional Information: Free entry with prior registration

MIKE / HOMO NOVUS

A long-durational performance, where you are invited to lie, sit or stand and to move freely in the space

Creative Team: Dana Michel (Canada)

Place: Festival Centre Bergs, Marijas street 11

Language: No language

Y: Slow TV Cinema / HOMO NOVUS

24h binge watching marathon of slow films made by Czech, Latvian and Dutch artists

Creative Team: Y Events (Czech Republic)

Place: Riga Circus Small stage "Horse Stables", Merkela street 4

Language: No language / Czech, Latvian, English a.o. subtitles

Le Sacre du Printemps / HOMO NOVUS

Highly visual contemporary dance performance

Creative Team: Dewey Dell (Italy)

Place: Hanzas Perons, Hanzas street 16A

Language: No language

SUPER NIGHT SHOT / HOMO NOVUS

Magical journey through the night time streets of Riga. A film that begins exactly one hour before you come to watch it

Creative Team: Gob Squad (Germany, United Kingdom)

Place: Splendid Palace, Elizabetes street 61, Riga

Language: In English

Symphony of Solitude - S.O.S.

Surreal and playful performance installation. With humor and empathy, sound and images, the performance sheds light on loneliness, togetherness and the strange dynamics of neighbors

Creative Team: MØR collective (Denmark)

Place: Riga Circus Arena, Merķeļa Street 4

Language: There is very little text in the performance, and the text is in English