Dance performance „Doggy Rugburn“ Šokio teatras „Aura“ (LT)
Choreography: Brandon Lagaert
Music: Felix Machtelinckx
Costumes: Kristina Čyžiūtė-Svirskienė
Lights: Vladimiras Šerstabojevas
AURA dance theatre: Arūnas Mozūraitis (Lithuania), Ester Bega (Albania), Francisco Ladrón de Guevara (Spain), Hueng Won Lee (S. Korea), Julija Mintautė (Lithuania), Marine Fernandez (France), Natsuho Matsumoto (Japan), Tse-Wei Wu (Taiwan)
Supported by: Lithuanian Ministry of Culture and Lithuanian Culture Council
Duration: 45 min.
Premiere: 2019-11-29, Kaunas
Location: Culture Factory (Bangų str. 5A)
“Doggy Rugburn” is a parallel world that resembles ours but where time is elongated and stretched out. It’s inhabited by a group of beings called “The Rugburners” that have the ability to shape shift using their eccentric bodies. Just like us they struggle with the fixation of the ownership of objects and the never-ending fight for territory.
Brandon Lagaert (°1992, Ghent, BE) studied acting at SKI in Ghent and enrolled in the Contemporary Dance Education of the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp in 2012. The following year, he joined Peeping Tom for the production of Vader. He is currently also part of the cast of Moeder and Kind.
Apart from working with Peeping Tom, he collaborates with a wide array of artists, for example with L’école de Théâtre Physique de Strasbourg, where he carries out experiments with film. He has also been working on developing himself as an all-round artist in different disciplines, including theatre, dance, film, directing and more. This work is housed under the name ‘Kaiho’.
After the creation of Vader, he created the performance Subdued with some of the material left unused. With this performance, he was awarded the ‘Outstanding Performer Award’ at the Copenhagen International Choreography Competition. In 2016, Brandon received a BILL Award for young up and coming Belgian artists, in the ‘Visual Arts’-category.
Kaunas dance company AURA is the only one municipal theatre of contemporary dance in Lithuania, established in 1982. AURA took part in various international events, represented Lithuania’s modern dance in 27 foreign countries (Austria, Great Britain, Greece, Canada, France, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Germany etc.), performed at more than 160 festivals. AURA has about 50 city, national and international awards, also received excellent feedback from both domestic and foreign press.
Artistic director Birute Letukaite was awarded with the Golden Stage Cross for the choreography of performance “Aseptic Zone or Lithuanian Songs” in 2006 and in 2008 she became a government cultural and artistic prize winner. In 2013 B. Letukaite has got the 2nd Golden Stage Cross for the significant input to the contemporary Lithuanian dance art and Kaunas city Culture and Art award.
Photo: Kristina Čyžiūtė