STANDS WHAT FALLS

STANDS WHAT FALLS

Between Borders That Unite and Divide



Author and Director: Andrejs Jarovojs
Co-authors and Dancers: Edvards Kurmiņš, Mārtiņš Emīls Aržanovskis
Set and costume designer: Dana Deineko
Dramaturgy Assistant: Ilvita Liepiņa
Music and sound: Normunds Balodis

Produced by: Ģertrūdes ielas teātris
Premiere: 05/06/2026
Duration: 1h

Financial support by: State Culture Capital Foundation, Riga City Council

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Ģertrūdes iela 101a

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05/06/2026
19:00
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Two brothers, nearly inseparable—playmates, sparring partners, and each other's closest companions. They know one another as intimately as a reflection, noticing every difference, every smallest detail. Yet that same closeness makes them eternal rivals, forever testing each other, forever probing the boundary between where one ends and the other begins.

They help one another, support one another, use one another as a tool, an obstacle, a hindrance—doing everything they can to maintain balance and avoid direct confrontation. But who, exactly, benefits from this fragile truce?

Something ancient awakens in their rivalry—an archetypal story of the boundary that unites and the boundary that divides. How much can we give and receive without losing balance? Love, loyalty, jealousy, and betrayal intertwine within their bodies. The struggle becomes as intimate as an embrace. The performance explores the boundaries between people—the impulse both to maintain them and to cross them at the same time.

Two bodies. One us


Latvian Ministry of Welfare supports the European Social Fund project “Support for Social Entrepreneurship” No. 9.1.1.3/15/I/001.