"Dance for a Cigarette and a Best Friend" analyses friendship. The bond between best friends, which is not based on blood ties or romantic partnerships, often becomes one of the longest lasting relationships in a  person's life. Friendship witnesses the breakdown or formation of other relationships, influences the formation of the other's personality and inspires inner changes. We move away and come closer, we touch and go into distance. We are naked, vulnerable, and sometimes jealous, but always stay in touch. 

"Dance for a Cigarette and Best Friend" is fourth work of choreographer Greta Grinevičiūte from the series on a concrete or abstract objects and a family members/ friends and their ideas or memories. 

Greta Grinevičiūte is a performer, dancer, theatre and film actress, choreographer, one of the main creators of MMLAB, co-founder of the independent contemporary dance art organisation "Be Company", PhD student, lecturer, dance filmmaker. Greta's individual work mostly addresses intimacy and fragility, she analyses human relationships. 

MMLAB (Arts and Science Lab) is professional theatre based in Vilnius, Lithuania. It was founded as a platform for creative projects where artists and scientists collaborated to explore new theatrical forms and subjects. The key MMLAB strategy is experimentation - both in artistic expression and thematic exploration. Now MMLAB supports and presents emerging and established young artists, collaborates with the national and state institutions, and maintains strong international partnerships across Europe and beyond. Each MMLAB project engages a growing number of artists, and the organization has gained recognition among both critics and audiences. Creators are also experimenting by creating installations in unconventional spaces, such as underground passages or old kindergartens. The MMLAB showcase in Riga is the first complex presentation of newest MMLAB productions abroad.