Caravan. 19 days in Desert of Taklamakan

„Caravan. 19 days in Desert of Taklamakan is a performance, based on a book by Austrian explorer, writer and photographer Bruno Baumann, whose travels have taken him to nearly every corner of the world. In 2000 Baumann became the second man in over a century to trek across the infamous Taklamakan desert in Central Asia, when he re-created the ill-fated 1895 expedition of the famous Swedish explorer Sven Hedin. Baumann uncovered startling new findings about Hedins' legendary expedition, but nearly paid for it with his life when his own caravan met with a similar disaster. Performance is a visually meditative story about the historical expeditions through Taklamakan (Sven Hedin in 1895, Bruno Baumann in 2000) multimedial trip, accompanied with touching music by ethnomusician Ugis Vitins, sand animation, little caravan scale models, who becomes live on the screen during the show. Actors: Juta Vanaga (Latvian National Theatre), Aigars Apinis, Edgars Samitis (New Riga Theatre) Director:Andrejs Jarovojs Set, models, costumes: Ieva Kaulina Music: Ugis Vitins Light design: Egils Kupcs Producers: United Intimacy

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Entertainment

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• caravan
• taklamakan
• bruno baumann
• jarovojs
• united intimacy
• ieva kaulina