CONTEMPORARY SOLO PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL

LÄBU

After the Tower of Babel

a performance of listening by

DITA LŪRIŅA
Latvia

Author and performer: DITA LŪRIŅA
Author and composer: IEVA MATVEJA
Scenography: DITA LŪRIŅA
Lighting design: ROMMI RUTTAS and LEON ALLIK
Technical support: LEAH GAYER
Dramaturgical support: SANDRA KÜPPER, GIACOMO VERONESI and INGE IVASTE
Producers: JÜRI NAEL and ANNIKA ÜPRUS
Production: CPPM | Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
Premiere: 13 September 2025 Kanuti Gildi SAAL

In the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, God confuses human language, scattering people across the earth as they can no longer understand one another. “Confusion” is the perfect word for the beginning – for the starting point of this performance.

To know something at all, even to be allowed half a step closer, one must first listen. This performance is an invitation to listen deeply together. To hear the world anew. To notice both – what unites us and what sets us apart.

Do we all hear water boiling in the same way? Or does each of us perceive it differently? Do dogs bark in one universal language?

Language is not just words. It is a map for thinking differently, for dreaming differently, even for missing someone differently.

When a language disappears, is it only words that vanish? Or their meanings too? Do dreams, feelings and entire ways of seeing the world also disappear with it?

There’s nothing in the universe that doesn’t communicate.
— Dan Everett, linguist, anthropologist, and philosopher.

Dita Lūriņa

Dita Lūriņa is a Latvian actress and stage director, currently a student at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in the CPPM course. Having long believed the whole world to be theatre – or, more precisely, that theatre is the entire world, she is now learning to listen, to notice and to discover the vastness and depth that lie beyond the kid stage.

Ieva Matveja

Ieva Matveja is a student of Electroacoustic Composition at EAMT, a Latvian artist, sound explorer, electronic music producer and live performer. Her passion is to notice, approach and record the sounds that shape our world: the splash of water, the resonance of a tunnel in the city, wind in the trees or footsteps in the sand.