{"id":7368,"date":"2022-08-21T12:08:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T18:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/?p=7368"},"modified":"2022-08-21T12:08:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T18:08:35","slug":"we-all-felt-like-kings-the-tale-of-kings-the-16th-lithuanian-dance-festival-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/we-all-felt-like-kings-the-tale-of-kings-the-16th-lithuanian-dance-festival-in-philadelphia\/","title":{"rendered":"We all Felt Like Kings: The Tale of Kings: The 16th Lithuanian Dance Festival in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laima Vinc\u0117.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

My first Lithuanian folk dance festival \u2013 as veterans of Lithuanian folk dance festivals like to say \u2013 took place in Cleveland in 1984. I danced with \u201cLiepsna\u201d from Elizabeth, New Jersey. We\u2019d dance in the church hall, just like all over the United States and Canada, young Lithuanian emigres gathered to dance in their respective church halls. I\u2019d started to dance in \u201cLiepsna\u201d just a few years before my first Lithuanian folk dance festival, when I was still a gangly teenager. I attended rehearsals with my elder brother, Vilius, and later my younger brothers, Andrius and Vincas, joined. In those days, we rehearsed to the accordion. Among Lithuanian Americans and Lithuanian Canadians, the role of the musician was particularly important because this chosen one set the tempo and mood of the dance. It was an honor for a family to prepare a child to play the accordion for the dance troupe. Emilija Sadonis, or as we called her, Emil, played the accordion for \u201cLiepsna.\u201d My brothers would dutifully suffer through high dance steps, polkas and spins, in anticipation of those hours we would all spend together later, after rehearsal was over, gathered at the bar with a beer, sharing jokes and stories. <\/span><\/p>\n

My mother and her friend, who was also named Emilija, sewed my Lithuanian national costume. They embroidered the sleeves of my white blouse with delicate stiches and fine patterns, and embroidered the collar, apron, and my vest. After performances my mother would chide me when I stepped off the stage. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Assistant Artistic Director, Tadas Varaneckas, leads the \u201cGrandis\u201d dance group.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cAll the other girls on stage are so neat and well groomed, but you are a mess! Your long hair always comes out of your braids, your apron is tied on crooked, and you always forget to tuck your blouse into your skirt,\u201d she\u2019d complain.<\/span><\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t much of a dancer\u2026 I\u2019d turn the wrong way, lose the rhythm, get my feet tangled, and worst of all \u2013 dear Lord \u2013 step on someone\u2019s foot. But still, it was fun, even a lot of fun, to dance together and experience that sense of community that brought us together as Lithuanians. <\/span><\/p>\n

The first Lithuanian folk dance festival took place in Chicago in 1957, only a little more than a decade after World War II had ended and less than a decade since the first displaced persons (DPs) crossed the Atlantic and began to settle in the United States and Canada. Rimas \u010cesonis<\/strong>, Lithuanian Honorary Consul from Rochester, New York, still remembers how he danced in the first folk dance festival.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was young back then and I cared more about dancing with the pretty girls than I did about the Lithuanian community. But by participating in folk dancing I eventually matured, and I became an active, responsible Lithuanian.\u201d<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

Ponia Birut\u0117<\/strong> from Chicago, who is \u201csomewhere between 80 and 90 years old,\u201d laughed pleasantly as she reminisced over folk dances after the war. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBack then we didn\u2019t care how our dances looked to anyone else. We had fun getting together and dancing. We\u2019d dance a polka, a waltz. We always danced to the accordion. These days they make a show out of the folk-dance festival and it\u2019s really beautiful to watch, but we didn\u2019t need all that\u2026 that\u2026 parading around\u2026 no, we just wanted to spend time together and dance.\u201d <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"This year\u2019s Lithuanian Folk Dance theme is \u201cTales of the Kings.\u201d Story motives weave throughout the program and the theme is introduced in the festival catalogue:<\/span><\/p>\n

Stories were a very important part of Lithuanian life: you became acquainted with them in childhood, and during dark and gloomy nights. And later, having grown up and tossed by fate across the oceans, we told stories to our own children. So, by word of mouth, stories traveled over the centuries, enveloping children in the world of miracles and magic. Many immigrant mothers told stories to their children to replace the longing they felt for their homeland and the beauty of their birthplace, and the secretive mystery and the inexhaustible treasure of folk wisdom. <\/span><\/p>\n

With these words, the Artistic Committee opens the theme of the \u201cTales of the Kings.\u201d The paintings of the classic Lithuanian painter Mikalojus Konstantinas \u010ciurlionis provide the visual theme. \u010ciur\u00adlionis\u2019s painting \u201cThe Tales of the Kings\u201d gives the program an aura of magic as the predominant visual accent.<\/span><\/p>\n

The dance program is divided into six parts: Prologue: The Beacon of Good Fortune, Part I: When the Rock Puntukas was Overturned, Part II: The Sun and the Moon, Part III: The Blacksmith Televelis, Part IV: Vaiva\u2019s Sash, Part V: The Bird of Good Fortune. Each of the parts opens with a film on the large screen in the arena that shows a grandmother (played by Ona Daugirdien\u0117) telling her grandson (played by Tauras Paulauskas) a story. When the storytelling segment finishes, the dancers embody elements of the story on stage through movement and dance. This is a completely original approach to envisioning the folk-dance festivals, which has come a long way since the days when Ponia Birut\u0117 and Rimas \u010cesonis danced to the accordion in those early years of the Lithuanian folk dance festivals. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Gintaras Grinkevi\u010dius was the artistic director of the 16th Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival. He graduated from the Lithuanian State Conservatory in Klaip\u0117da, earning a degree as a ballet master in pedagogy from the faculties of music, theater, and dance. Since 1994, he has served as the senior assistant ballet master and floor coordinator for Lithuania\u2019s national song and dance festivals.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1994, he emigrated to the United States and began to work as a teacher with the Chicago Lithuanian dance ensemble \u201cGrandis.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Tadas Varaneckas served as the folk dance festival\u2019s Assistant Artistic Director. Formally trained in a variety of styles of dance, he also attended the Ohio State University earning his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering with a minor in Dance. He joined the Lithuanian Folk Dance Ensemble \u201cGrandis\u201d and has had the opportunity to participate in three North American Lithuanian Folk Dance Festivals. <\/span><\/p>\n

The production director was Canadian Lithuanian Vytas \u010cuplinskas, who grew up in Toronto. He completed his degree in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts at York University. In 1989 he moved to Canada\u2019s capital, where, for four years, he focused on lobbying the Canadian government to recognize Lithuania\u2019s independence. A photographer, graphic designer, coder, lighting designer, cinematographer, set designer, film editor, director, and user experience professional, Vytas creates unique multimedia shows. Recent work includes the 2015 Lithuanian Song Festival and the 2018 February 16th event in Chicago. <\/span><\/p>\n

This year the artistic committee was made up of the following professionals: Dr. Vidmantas Ma\u010diulskis, Vitalija Ivinskis, Au\u0161rin\u0117 \u0160irvinskien\u0117, Eimantas \u017dukauskas, Elena Maurukien\u0117, Romas Janu\u0161onis. The organizing committee was led by Virgus L. Volertas and was made up of the following professionals: Kristina Volertien\u0117, Krista Bard, Deimant\u0117 Kalinauskait\u0117, Kazimieras Deksnys, Sofija Volertien\u0117, Virgus P. Volertas, Daiva Kazlauskas, Jonas Howes, Jr., Laima Liutkien\u0117.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Seated in the Temple University Liacouras Center, while waiting for the stadium to fill up and for the show to begin, I started a conversation with Rimas \u010cesonis<\/strong>, the Honorary Consul of Rochester, New York. He is of the older generation, those who were born in Lithuania or in the DP camps of Germany, and who had emigrated to the United States as children. Seated beside him was his son, Ar\u016bnas<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does the Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival mean to you?\u201d<\/em> I asked. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy son Ar\u016bnas danced with three groups, and then he grew out of a dancer into a successful businessman who sits on the MIT Board of Directors. In our family, the tradition of attending the Folk Dance Festival began with my wish to raise my son as a Lithuanian. And now he is a man who holds a high position in American society, but who is also an active member of the Lithuanian American community. We have seven grandchildren and all of them have both Lithuanian and American citizenship. Our family has successfully remained Lithuanian while living in America.\u201d <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Anilora Ma\u0161alaitien\u0117<\/strong> from Philadelphia, an old friend and contemporary of Rimas \u010cesonis, turned around in her seat in front of us and joined our conversation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur children danced in the folk-dance festivals,\u201d Ponia Anilora explained, \u201cand now our grandchildren dance. My grandchildren\u2019s mother is a real American, but all our grandchildren are what you would call, \u2018born again\u2019 Lithuanians. They love Lithuania with a passion and participate in Lithuanian events and activities with enormous passion and dedication.\u201d <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"She explained that her granddaughters understand Lithuanian but have trouble speaking. One of her granddaughters interned at a NATO program in Lithuania the previous summer. <\/span><\/p>\n

Putinas Ma\u0161alaitis<\/strong>, Anilora\u2019s husband, leaned into the conversation as well. \u201cThe folk dance festival is a way to return young people to Lithuania. Everything begins with those young people who want to dance.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

The lights were dimmed, and the program began. We ceased our conversation. To everyone\u2019s pleasure and amazement, President Gitanas Naus\u0117da strolled confidently onto the stage and delivered a greeting to the dancers and to the audience. He invited all North American diaspora Lithuanians to return to Lithuania. <\/span><\/p>\n

After the uplifting mood created by the vibrant dance performance, dancers hugged each other, thrilled and sad that the show was now over. Parents hugged children. Grandparents gushed. People shared their impressions. I walked among the dancers bedecked in their colorful Lithuanian national costumes and members of the audience, talking with anyone who cared to share their impressions with me. With some, I only managed to exchange a few words before they rushed off in the excitement of the moment, while with others I maintained a longer in-depth discussion. I made it a point to record the impressions of people of different ages, backgrounds, and who came from different parts of the country. <\/span><\/p>\n

I spoke with Erikas Adomaitis<\/strong>, a young man of 33 with a thick dark brown beard and thick brown hair that reached to his collar. Erikas told me that he was a dancer with the dance group \u201cP\u016bga\u201d from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He shared with me that he was a fourth generation Lithuanian American and that he was a descendant of Lithuanian coal miners and had been born in Pennsylvania. His great-grandparents and grandparents had immigrated to the United States from Lithuania in the early 20th century and worked hard all their lives in the coal mines. He recalled that his grandfather said, \u201cTep\u201d and not \u201cTaip,\u201d but unfortunately was unable to learn Lithuanian from his grandparents as a child. Now he was teaching himself Lithuanian by reading a bilingual edition of the Lithuanian poet Marcelijus Martinaitis\u2019s book of persona poems, The Ballads of Kukutis<\/em>. A few years previous Erikas had relocated from Pennsylvania to Minnesota where he met Nerijus Gulbickas and Darius Jankauskas, third wave immigrants from Lithuania who had come to Minneapolis to work. They invited him to join their dance group. Now he was learning not only to dance Lithuanian folk dances, but how to speak Lithuanian from them. Erikas was rediscovering his Lithuanian roots by dancing together with recent immigrants from Lithuania and was tremendously happy that this fortuitous opportunity had presented itself. It\u2019s truly fascinating how members of two waves of Lithuanian immigration, separated by a century, have befriended each other through dance. <\/span><\/p>\n

I spoke with Nerijus\u2019s fourteen-year-old son \u0160ar\u016bnas<\/strong>, who had traveled from Minneapolis with his father to watch his father dance in the program. His wild curly black hair was pulled back into a ponytail.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cI\u2019m here to support my dad,\u201d \u0160ar\u016bnas explained cheerfully. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen such a program in my life!\u201d he added with enthusiasm. \u201cIt was colorful, beautiful. I\u2019m so proud of my father for dancing in such an amazing program. It\u2019s really cool!\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYour mom\u2019s not a Lithuanian?\u201d I guessed. \u201cShe\u2019s American. Is she here?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYes. She couldn\u2019t come.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does she think about you being here at the folk-dance festival?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMom loves it!\u201d \u0160ar\u016bnas said with enthusiasm, \u201cshe was so impressed when I told her over the phone that the President of Lithuania flew here just to watch the folk-dance festival and to greet all the dancers.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

When the father and son walked off, I spoke to another fourteen-year-old, Greta<\/strong>. Her blond hair was neatly plaited, and her national costume was well put together. She danced with the group \u201cV\u0117jas\u201d from Elizabeth, New Jersey. I asked Greta why she had danced today.<\/span><\/p>\n

Greta responded in Lithuanian, \u201cI dance because I like it.\u201d <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Like \u0160ar\u016bnas, she was from a mixed Lithuanian and American family (her mother had immigrated from Lithuania and her father was American).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all so beautiful to me,\u201d Greta said about the show, \u201ceveryone put so many hours into rehearsals, and you can really see that from the results.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWould you like to return to Lithuania to live?\u201d I asked. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYes, I would, because I am from Lithuania. When I spend the summers in Lithuania, I feel completely at home. My family goes to Lithuania every other year.\u201d<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

After I wished Greta well, I recognized an acquaintance from Chicago, Ramun\u0117<\/strong>. She was dressed in a beautiful Lithuanian national costume that set off her closely cropped grayish blond hair. Despite turning 65 this year, she was still dancing in the program. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy do you dance Lithuanian folk dances?\u201d I asked. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cI\u2019ve danced since I was a little girl, and I enjoy it,\u201d<\/em> Ramun\u0117 said, but then acknowledged that she made a few mistakes while dancing and would have liked to fix them. \u201cBut\u2026\u201d<\/em> she is not able to complete her sentence because friends from her group join her and pull her off to laugh and share impressions in their circle. <\/span><\/p>\n

I turned around and saw Aist\u0117<\/strong>, a lovely brunette with blue eyes, who is 28, and from Manhattan. She danced with the New York City dance group \u201cTryptinis.\u201d I\u2019ve known Aist\u0117 since she was an infant, so I did not hesitate to ask her a few questions. My first question was why she was dancing today.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aist\u0117 smiled wide. Happily, she recounted all her reasons: \u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity to be together, to spend time with your friends, your family. This is a joyous holiday when you feel that you truly belong to a community that is like family to you, and that together you work hard to create something beautiful, something unforgettable.\u201d <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I asked Aist\u0117 if she would like to return to Lithuania.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy not? I would go back to work. I\u2019d need to have a clear goal why I was relocating to Lithuania, but yes, I admit, I\u2019d like to live in Lithuania. I\u2019d like to spend a longer time there so that I could see friends, family members, who live in Lithuania.\u201d <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I spoke with Paul<\/strong>, who lives in Brooklyn with his eight-year-old daughter, Aylin. She was dancing with the Mairionis Lithuanian School dance group, and Paul had been a parent helper for the group. This was his daughter\u2019s first folk dance festival. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very important to me that my daughter participate in Lithuanian community activities and that she feels like a Lithuanian,\u201d Paul explained. \u201cBesides, she enjoys dancing and playing with her friends from the dance group because they all attend Saturday School together. Her mother is from Moscow and speaks with her in Russian. I\u2019m teaching her Lithuanian. In school, she speaks English. She speaks all three languages fluently. When she grows up, she\u2019ll be able to come to her own conclusions about her heritage and sort all of that out.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

An olive-skinned young man with black hair strides past dressed in a man\u2019s Lithuanian national costume. I know that his name is Juan<\/em> and that he is a dancer with \u201cTryptinis\u201d from New York. He is from Colombia. I\u2019m curious to learn how he joined the Lithuanian dance group, thinking that perhaps he has Lithuanian roots? After all, there was an old and sizeable Lithuanian South American community in Colombia. Growing up, I\u2019d had Lithuanian friends from this Lithuanian emigre community in Colombia. I asked Juan about his heritage, and it turned out he is 100 percent Colombian and not a drop Lithuanian. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was a student,\u201d Juan explained, \u201cI was friends with a group of Lithuanians. They told me about this dance group and explained where to go to rehearsal. The first time I went there, I sincerely thought that I was going to dance salsa, but no, it turns out that they were doing Lithuanian folk dances. I liked the dances, and I started to dance with them. I\u2019ve been dancing a long time now, since before the pandemic. I really enjoyed preparing for this dance festival. Lithuanians are very friendly people. They accepted me into their group.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

A middle-aged couple from New York approached our group. Husband and wife, Danius<\/strong> and Judita<\/strong> danced with \u201cTryptinis.\u201d It was clearly hard for them because they both complained of back pain and exhaustion, but that didn\u2019t stop them from dancing. <\/span><\/p>\n

Judita told me her story: \u201cMy parents were World War II war refugees. The Lutheran priest Jonas Pagauna sponsored them to come to the United States from the DP camp in Germany. His church brought over 500 war refugees, both Germans and Lithuanians. My parents were Lutherans, so they kept themselves separate from the Catholic Lithuanians, who were the majority, and who organized the Lithuanian folk dance festivals and other activities. That\u2019s why I never danced in a dance group as a child. I discovered Lithuanian folk dance when I was 27 and I married my husband, who is from Vilnius, Lithuania. All three of our children have danced in many Lithuanian folk dance festivals over the years\u201d. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I asked Judita\u2019s husband, Danius<\/strong>, a restoration architect, who\u2019d now spent more years of his life living in New York than Vilnius, why he dances. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really not much of a dancer,\u201d<\/em> Danius admitted. \u201cI spend the whole time I\u2019m out there concentrating on not making a mistake or heading off in the wrong direction. But my wife really wants to dance, and she asked me to dance with her, so, knowing how important this is for my wife, I agreed.\u201d <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I joined members of the New York Tryptinis group for dinner and sat down at the long table in the restaurant across from Lina<\/strong> and Asta<\/strong>. Lina immigrated to New York from Lithuania in 2005. She was born in 1981, so she\u2019d lived through the early years of Lithuania\u2019s independence as a child. She left Lithuania so she could see and experience more of the world. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI danced in my first folk dance festival in Baltimore in 2016,\u201d Lina explained. \u201cI absolutely loved it! I fell in love with Lithuania while living in America. Here I felt that deep love for Lithuania that I hadn\u2019t felt as much back in Lithuania. I felt the patriotism of Lithuanian Americans, their sincerity, their dedication to Lithuania.\u201d <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is only my second time in America,\u201d Asta said, \u201cbut today I wrote on my Facebook page that if you want to experience the feeling of true love for Lithuania, then come to America. Here I realized that the love Lithuanian Americans feel for Lithuania is not at all put on or fake, but it\u2019s real and it\u2019s deep. It\u2019s authentic. Just in these past few days, experiencing this dance festival, I\u2019ve been so emotionally moved by people\u2019s genuineness, sincerity, generosity. I\u2019m so grateful that I\u2019ve been able to experience this. The Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival here in America has been life changing for me\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter 17 years in America, I\u2019m returning to Lithuania,\u201d<\/em> Lina said. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy did you make that decision?\u201d I asked. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor love, because I met Asta and fell in love with her, and she lives in Lithuania. But that\u2019s not the only reason. Even before I met her, I was seriously considering going back to live in Lithuania. Lithuanian society has changed radically for the better. People are much more open now, and Lithuania has moved forward so much since I left. There is innovation now, fresh ideas, energy. In America I learned how to live in a democracy. If you want to change something, then you need to go out and organize and get people to work together with you to make changes. I plan on being politically active in Lithuania. I\u2019ve already found a job and I\u2019ve already signed up to dance in the Vilnius folk dance group \u201cSugr\u012f\u017eus.\u201d I am also planning on immediately joining the Lithuanian National Guard (\u0160auliai) and getting training to fight and defend Lithuania if there is a war. I will give my oath and swear to defend Lithuania.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cLina will defend the Homeland with a gun,\u201d Asta said with a smile, \u201cand I will volunteer as a nurse.\u201d <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

After all that talk, after absorbing so many impressions and positive emotions, after having sung the Lithuanian National anthem the next day together with my fellow Lithuanians in the Freedom Park in Philadelphia, as all of America celebrated Independence Day, I reflected with satisfaction on how varied, how open, how friendly, and how strong is our global Lithuanian nation. And all of that is expressed through dance \u2013 the Lithuanian folk dances that bring all of us together, holding each other\u2019s hands in the dance circle.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A perfectly executed \u201cMal\u016bnas\u201d \u2013 Windmill dance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The article was published in \u201cDraugas NEWS\u201d, July 2022 edition.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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