Latvian Actor Egliens Turns to Music Amid Health Struggles – Exclusive Interview with “Kas Jauns” Magazine

Latvian Actor Egliens Turns to Music Amid Health Struggles – Exclusive Interview with “Kas Jauns” Magazine

Egliens announced last year that he was leaving the Latvian National Theater, where he had been since 2000, but now he has turned to a new occupation – he composes music. “We are currently in the process. Together with my wife Dita and my colleague Gundars Grasbergs, we are making a new play with the … Read more

Latvian Actor Egliens Turns to Composing Music Amid Health Struggles

Latvian Actor Egliens Turns to Composing Music Amid Health Struggles

Egliens announced last year that he was leaving the Latvian National Theater, where he had been since 2000, but now he has turned to a new occupation – he composes music. “We are currently in the process. Together with my wife Dita and my colleague Gundars Grasbergs, we are making a new play with the … Read more

The Golden Era of Latvian Stage Dance: Moss, Zagata, and Spura – A Concert Review by “Dancis” Artistic Director Rolandas Juraševski

The Golden Era of Latvian Stage Dance: Moss, Zagata, and Spura – A Concert Review by “Dancis” Artistic Director Rolandas Juraševski

Three choreographers who created Latvian stage dance in the second half of the 20th century, which we can no longer experience in this century, only to see in old film footage, pictures, hear in the memories of contemporaries and see in a concert organized by “Dancis”. The idea and management of the concert belongs to … Read more

The Function of Theater as a Mirror of Society: A Conversation with the Minister of Culture

The Function of Theater as a Mirror of Society: A Conversation with the Minister of Culture

We start the conversation with the Minister of Culture by perpetuating this knowledge in the classical theater art setting, where one side is represented by the production, the other by the audience. Photo: Pauls Zvirbulis/TVNET Theater has the ability to be a mirror of society – depicting or referring to current events and problems. However, … Read more

Artistic Director Role and Leadership in Latvian Theaters: Insights from Senkov

Artistic Director Role and Leadership in Latvian Theaters: Insights from Senkov

“It wasn’t even a disagreement,” Senkov clarifies to host Ines Vaikule. For us, I think, that management model did not match.” He adds that there are very few artistic directors left in theaters in Latvia, and the very word “artistic director” presupposes leadership. “If the manager is not given any opportunities to lead or to … Read more

Coordinating Brand Choices for Evening Wear: Tips and Insights

Coordinating Brand Choices for Evening Wear: Tips and Insights

Then here I have to say that sentence “layers of layers” – because here it is all taken and pulled together. You can see that there are modern things. It would not always be desirable to gather all that is expensive together, because it is not the price that creates their overview. It should be … Read more

Jānis Kubilis: The Legendary Latvian Actor and his 100th Birthday Celebration

Jānis Kubilis: The Legendary Latvian Actor and his 100th Birthday Celebration

The masterful acting of Jānis Kubilis delighted the audience of the National Theater for half a century. In his creative life, the actor received not only the endless respect and love of the audience, but also many official awards. Although a generation has grown up that has never seen him on the stage of the … Read more

The Remarkable Career of Jānis Kubilis: From Nereta School to the National Theatre

The Remarkable Career of Jānis Kubilis: From Nereta School to the National Theatre

Jānis Kubilis studied at Nereta school, later at Smiltene dairy school. After the war, he returned to Neretva, from where he went to Riga to continue his education. He had planned to enter the Conservatory, but the brilliant performance of Žanis Katlapas in the play “The Lost Son” changed his mind, and Kubilis, together with … Read more

Actor Mārtiņas Egliens Reveals Health Struggles and Decision to Leave Theater in Exclusive Interview with “Ieva” Magazine

Actor Mārtiņas Egliens Reveals Health Struggles and Decision to Leave Theater in Exclusive Interview with “Ieva” Magazine

“I have signed an agreement from July 2. Otherwise, my sick leave would run out and the theater would have to start paying me a salary. But for what exactly?!” Egliens, who worked in the theater since 2000, reveals in an interview to “Ieva” magazine. This decision did not come easily, and in the last … Read more