WalkYourChair
by
Lūriņa · Ortiz Amézquita · Pärn · Skaines
LATVIA · COLOMBIA · ESTONIA · AUSTRALIA
Premiere 23 January 2026
Performances 24 · 26 · 27 · 28 · 29 January, 18:00
Balti Jaama Tunnel
A site-specific performance for four performers, four chairs and a tunnel of pure transit.
“CPPM TRIPTYCH. POLITICAL MOVEMENT” brings together three devised performances in one evening: “WalkYourChair”, “EMIT” and “Night Watch”.
All performances were conceived in response to the curatorial frame: political movement. From these impulses, three directions emerged, three creative teams and three completely different approaches that meet on stage to create a new shared experience. The productions explore how devising strategies can transform individual perspectives into a collective movement, aligning performers toward action and opening new ways of approaching themes of political sensitivity. The evening offers an opportunity to experience and reflect on co-creation, cultural polyphony, and the diverse expressions of contemporary political theatre.
“WalkYourChair” is a site-specific performance by The Third. It all begins with an audio guide that speaks to you and offers something simple: take your chair for a walk, sit wherever you want, and see what happens if you let it lead you. What if that’s all it is: a moment, you and your chair? From there, four performers give body and breath to four chairs placed in a space meant to pass through, not to stay. A space beneath the earth, beneath the human world, where people simply cross from one side to the other, a space of pure transit. The piece opens that small fold where a chair, any chair, can mean something else when it appears where it “shouldn’t,” inviting you to look at and inhabit the space in a different way, almost as if the chair were teaching you how to be.
ARTISTIC TEAM
PERFORMERS
Dita Lūriņa · Daniel Ortiz Amézquita · Anette Pärn · Edward Skaines
PRODUCTION
CPPM | Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
SUPPORTED BY
Estonian Cultural Endowment
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Dita Lūriņa
Actress and stage director from Latvia. A graduate of the Latvian Academy of Culture, she has spent twenty-four years at the Latvian National Theatre in more than seventy roles, from Maria in West Side Story to Nastasja Filippovna in The Idiot, and now directs. Her ideal theatre joins acting, movement, dance, music and even circus into one voice.
Daniel Ortiz Amézquita
Colombian performing artist with a degree from Javeriana University, Bogotá. Actor, dancer, director, producer and researcher by turns, he leads the performance research group Cuerpos que Gritan Lab and has created Bye Bye Fabio and Manifesto Against Theatre, exploring the boundaries of representation and the encounter at the heart of performance.
Anette Pärn
Artist and semiotician from Estonia. A graduate in semiotics and cultural theory from the University of Tartu, she worked as an actress and dancer at Theatre Vanemuine and co-organised Biotoopia 2023. Her writing, from poetry to critical essays, has been recognised by the Kalju Lepik and Värske Rõhk competitions.
Edward Skaines
Australian actor, performer and devised physical theatre maker, trained at The Actors Centre Australia, Beverly Hills Playhouse, École Philippe Gaulier and ATTIS Theatre. His practice centres on physicality, clowning and movement-based storytelling across film, television and live performance.
Photographs: Kalev Lilleorg
Made within the MA in Contemporary Physical Performance Making
