DUST RIGA follows the daily trajectories of the smallest solid particles in the city, revealing the relationship between the city dweller and the air as a relentless process in which people, things, places and time are merged.DUST RIGA is the ash, sand and salt, inhale and exhale, traffic jam and wind direction, soot, smoke and pollen of the city, the daily rhythm of life and the neighbourhood – cloud-like structures that rise and fall, connecting the visible city to its ever-changing counterpart in the air.DUST RIGA is a fluctuation of tiny particles captured in the city’s elusive airscape, inviting the listener to be here and there, far away and close by – suddenly, simultaneously and in between.

ABOUT ARTIST
Artūrs Čukurs is a Latvian theatre deviser, performer and musician who has studied music at Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, as well as directing for object and devised theatre at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU). By working with sound, objects and materiality, in his works he inquire the relationships between the human, spaces and things in order to seek for different ways how to relate to the world around and within.

CAST
Concept, director, performer: Artūrs Čukurs
Sound artist: Andrejs Poikāns
Text editor: Marija Luīze Meļķe
Dramaturgical consultant: Linda Krūmiņa
Assistant director: Aljoša Lovrić Krapež
Producer: Ieva Briede, New Theatre Institute of Latvia
The performance is part of EU Creative Europe project The Big Green residency ‘Nature as inspiration’.