Hammer. HOROS Dance Festival at Hanzas perons

Hammer is a reflection on how the years we spend working shape who we are. It explores how time settles into the body and how the body experiences it. The audience enters a space where time is not measured but felt—a place where dance emerges from the gentle oscillation between balance and surrender, between weight and weightlessness. Here, the heaviness of labor becomes a pathway to the lightness of movement.

The performance explores time as a physical experience. At a moment when screens and endless streams of information consume our waking hours, Hammer reminds us of a different kind of temporality—one that is felt through the body rather than measured by clocks or machines. Silence, stillness, and the breath of work tell their own stories, intertwined in a swirling dance.

A meditative experience—like walking into a forest or sitting beside a campfire.

The festival's name, HOROS (derived from the Greek words χορός choros – dance, and χώρος choros – space), belongs to a contemporary dance festival initiated and curated by the dance organization Tuvumi. The festival aims to promote the development of contemporary dance in Latvia. Since 2022, HOROS has been held in Aizpute; this year, it takes place in Riga.

The theme of this year's festival is "Among People. What Remains."

Tickets for Hammer, presented as part of the HOROS Dance Festival on July 31 at Hanzas Perons, are available through the Biļešu Paradīze ticketing network. Ticket prices will increase as the performance date approaches.

Festival passes are also available, as well as one-day tickets covering all performances on either July 30 or July 31.

Recommended age: 16+
Performance language: No spoken text
Free admission for children: Not available

Supported by: The State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, the Riga City Council, Hanzas Perons, and Pillar.