In the summer of 2007 the “Migrating Birds” project started in Vente, Lithuania.

This project began with a workshop in which 16 Lithuanian artists of different disciplines participated, 8 of them work and live in Lithuania the other 8 work and live in various European countries.

The main goals of this first “Conference” were,

• To exchange creative and more existential experiences and information between artists still living in Lithuania and those that have migrated

• To stimulate discussion on subjects like

  • Lithuanian Identity,

  • Emigration

  • the relationship there is with your countries Identity and your work when you have migrated.

• To create co-operative Projects on the outcome of these discussions to be shown in Lithuania and other countries.

This project is financially supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, the Lithuania Institute and the Silute Regional Council.

The participants: Bernardas Bagdanavičius (Portugal, England), Darius Laumenis (France), Mindaugas Gapševičius (Germany), Jonas Zagorskas (Poland), Linas Domarackas (Poland), Rasa Alksnytė (Belgium), Lina Kusaitė (Belgium), Bernadeta Levulė (Germany), Jolanta Rimkutė (Lithuania), Audrius Mickevičiumi (Lithuania), Artūras Valiauga (Lithuania), Artūras Šimonis (Lithuania), Beatriče Laurinkutė (Lithuania), Ovidijus Petkevičius (Lithuania), Gitana Gugevičiūtė (Lithuania), Darius Vaičekauskas (Lithuania).

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Rasa Alksnyte was born in 1975 in Kaunas, Lithuania.
1995 she’s graduated from Marijampole pedagogical College, as Primary school teacher.
Two following years studied in Vilnius conservatory, dance department and one year in Contemporary dance school P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels.
From 1990 Rasa Alksnyte participated in many dance performances of various choreographers.
She has worked with A. Nagineviciute, B. Baneviciute,J. Valenti, R. Maldom, P. Frenac…
As well in 1996 she started her own career as choreographer by creating few dance Miniatures for the New Baltic Dance Festival in Vilnius.
In 1998 she’s joined the butoh dance company ARIADONE in France led by K. Ikeda.
In the year 2000 Rasa Alksnyte established her own dance company ZANZI in Brussels.
Since she’s created number of dance performances, shown in Belgium, Lithuania and other countries.
From 2003 she is in the core team of new media laboratory FOAM in Brussels, for whom she created many food performances.