Grėtė Šmitaitė
Grėtė Šmitaitė has been doing the creative mentorship program with Ira Seidenstein in 2021-2023. During this time, with Ira's support as a mentor, she has developed and keeps internationally touring solo pieces "Meadow" and "Cracks".
She has developed a practice "Humor and Dance" that she keeps teaching in Lithuanian Academy for Theater and Music and for professional performers in Germany, Lithuania and Switzerland. She has also used the four articulations to develop dance, theater and clown workshops and pieces for children.
Do you know, when you speak to your dearest person and you know that you are lieing but you don’t know how to stop? Ira guides you out of there. To the moment where tears run down your eyes and maybe you will stumble and fall seeking to own your voice but you can’t lie any longer.
It cuts through the fake, the fear, the habit.
You put down your vision into practical and daily training tasks. You start at latest 9 a.m., establish a rhythm of working, learn to encourage yourself, start seeing the history of performing arts as a strongest river to dive in, analyze, copy and get nurtured by. It lets you realize your culture, get through all that doesn’t kill you, get stronger and everyday keep moving towards the wholeness of what you are able to give to this world - be it a huge opera in a royal theatre, a dance to your grandpa, a set of philosophical articles or a workshop that makes children laugh and dance and feel alive. Ira takes you seriously and respectfully wherever you are at and whatever makes you burn to create and share. You do it with inner truth and stick to practicing, noticing, correcting. This guides you through the waves that come.
If you meet Ira or his associates - practice with them. Learn the tasks. Practice on your own.
It will sharpen you, give you voice, fire and anchor you.