Greta Pundzaite

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Italy (residence), Lithuania (citizenship) °1994
research interests: Visual and Performing Arts, Physical Movement, Theatre, Dance, Socio-cultural Communication, cognitive neuroscience
affiliation: Faculty of Fine Arts; Vittorio Gallese's Lab of Social Cognitive Neuroscience (Department of Medicine and Surgery – Unit of Neuroscience), University of Parma (Italy) |Centre of Theatre Studies (School of Arts and Humanities), University of Lisbon (Portugal)
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Greta Pundzaite (b.1994, Lithuania) is an emerging artist and a researcher writing in and for experimental physical/dance theatre. With academic and professional backgrounds in the fields of communication and information sciences, cinema, dance and physical theatre, built in home country Lithuania, Croatia, Portugal and current living country Italy, Greta's work leads to the practice of transdisciplinary research-based creation techniques and the use of symbiosis between multi-layered academic and creative. A PhD student in Arts at the University of Lisbon (with a grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal) currently carrying out research at Vittorio Gallese's Lab of Social Cognitive Neuroscience (University of Parma (Department of Medicine and Surgery – Unit of Neuroscience), Greta joined contemporary dance studios at the preschool age, graduated from arts-reinforcing high-school in Lithuania, in 2017 started her studies of Creative Communication and became a member of VU Physical Theatre where she studied and worked with performance along with choreography and various established movement techniques as well as experimental movement and (contact)improvisation. Theatre's work was presented and received awards in festivals in Lithuania, Canada, Colombia and Morocco. 

 

Greta was 2 times awarded Traveling Studentship Grant and was studying in the Academy of Dramatic Art as well as in the Faculty of Political Sciences in the University of Zagreb (Croatia)and in the Theatre and Film School as well as the School of Communication and Media Studies in Lisbon (Portugal). She was also awarded the Travelling Postgraduate Grant for an internship at the cinema production company “Rosa Filmes” (Lisbon, Portugal). 

 

Her current projects circulate around body language and the study of its potential. 

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  • How to Make Performing Arts Survive Time and Become an Accessible Archive: An Attempt to Register Performing Art’s Creation (2021) author(s): Greta Pundzaite published in: Research Catalogue
    While the momentariness of performing arts might be one of the most (if not the most) fascinating aspect of the art form allowing to experience the fragility of live events and creatures themselves, the context they depend upon, it is also approached as a great obstacle for a smooth evolution (or rather enriching and intriguing transformation) of the art form. It is believed that not having a medium that allows registering and archiving pieces of creation causes a constant loss. Having in mind that a certain amount of loss of any art form is inevitable, the performing arts situation is understood as quite unbalanced, or rather, problematic from the artist’s point of view. It is believed that not being able to access the history of creation (not from a historical but (more or less) direct contact with the creation point of view), tangles, straitens the potential of an artist, makes him/her feel the gaps of collective memory. By contemplating authenticity, repetition, difference, continuity, context and interconnection, creation is addressed as a collective and complex process. A piece of performing arts itself is approached in the same way (consisting of various interconnected elements), suggesting a similar approach towards the registration process. Work consists of the initial version of performance registration structure/system CYCLE and the essay ‘How to Make Performing Arts Survive Time and Become an Accessible Archive: An Attempt to Register Performing Art’s Creation’.
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  • CHOREOGRAPHIC NATURE. A DISTANCED LOOK TOWARDS MOVEMENT (DANCE MOVIE 'NON-BREAKING SPACE' (2021) | ESSAY) (2021) author(s): Greta Pundzaite published in: Research Catalogue
    NON-BREAKING SPACE is a dance movie revealing the vulnerability of creation process to its context when questioning the nature of movement and looking at choreography through a zoomed-out lens. Thirteen minutes lasting continuous floating in sound, colour, shape and time starts with an impulse of a meandering line through drawing and of a floating thought through text imposing the interconnectedness and shared choreographic characteristics. The movie continues with moving mass, however, maintaining a distanced look towards movement.
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  • FERRY EXPERIMENT: READING LINE AND SOUND | PHYSICAL MOVEMENT LAB (2021) author(s): Greta Pundzaite published in: Research Catalogue
    Ferry Experiment: Reading Line and Sound aims to grasp movement in different artistic elements and trace their interconnection. A sound of a ferry trip Lisbon-Berreiro is recorded as if from two differing ears of a passenger. One traces the movement of detailed noise inside while the other lowers itself to the machinery and gives an impulse of the repetitive swing of moving water. A drawing is created as a result, dismounted to its detail and used together with the sounds as a continuation searching itself in the movement of a body.
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  • The Role of Sound as a Component of Urban Experience (2021) author(s): Greta Pundzaite published in: Research Catalogue
    The Role of Sound as a Component of Urban Experience is an audio-video essay that approaches urban sound as study material for sensorial analysis. An experiential experiment is carried when retransforming/playing with sensorial components of an urban dweller. Research focuses on the record of urban sound in relation to image and its proximity to cinematic/cinematographic experience. Playing with sensorial components reveals not only their influence on our ever-day perceiving of urban space but also the aesthetical nature of casual walks in the city. In other words, an analytical approach to urban sound reveals how cinematic everyday urban experience is or how cinema's sensorial base finds itself in the one of an urban dweller.
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  • I'M NOT FROM HERE (2021) author(s): Greta Pundzaite published in: Research Catalogue
    I'M NOT FROM HERE is a journey to the sensory depths of memory, early years of life and associated rituals. A piece of text in two languages (one of which is Lithuanian, the mother tongue and the original language of the text) is presented along with the physical shape of named memories and sensorial experience of the text. 212 km railroad line connecting child's home with adult's one becomes the map of 2 hours 30 minutes lasting journey of thoughts.
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