Contemporary dancer and performer from Lithuania, based in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Goda Žukauskaitė is nominated for Piket Art Prize of 2021!
Goda Žukauskaitė. Long term performance
The Piket Art Prizes were founded in the autumn of 2014. The Prizes are awarded annually to promising young artists in each of the three disciplines (dance, painting, dramatic arts).
A professional jury, always on the look-out for outstanding young talent, selects the nominees and winners in each category. This year the jury consists of President Winnie Sorgdrager (former cabinet minister, former president of the National Cultural Council), Martine Gosselink (director Mauritshuis), visual artist Joncquil de Vries, Stacz Wilhelm (artistic advisor Nederlandse Dansdagen), Isabelle Chaffaud (MEYER-CHAFFAUD), John de Weerd (programmer Zaal 3 and De Parade), and Antoinette Jelgersma (actress Het Nationale Theater).
Goda Žukauskaitė – contemporary dancer, performer, maker based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Goda is graduated from Amsterdam Academy of the Arts, Modern Theatre Dance department (2018). She is currently dancing / performing in a few companies: “Kalpanarts” (NL), “Schweigman&” (NL), working with various independent artists and organisations around The Netherlands and Lithuania.
Goda Žukauskaitė. Long-term performance “st.One 33”. Picture by Tomas Terekas
Goda has been dancing in works from Liat Waysbort, Kalpana Raghuraman, Boukje Schweigman, Blenard Azizaj, Roser Lopez Espinosa, Julio Cesar Iglesias Ungo, Uri Ivgi & Johan Greben, Keren Levi, Peter Uray and others.
Goda is also leading workshops in the Netherlands and Lithuania: Live Movement practise, Tools for a performative body, Performative Reality and etc. Currently, she is developing a method for the performance art called “Performative Reality”, doing a creative practise/research on a boat called “Vagebond” and together with 6 other artists is building a warehouse into a performance art centre “Nexus”.
Goda is mostly focused on durational, endurance, and site – specific performances. She presented performances of 4, 9, 12, 15, 33, 36, and 78 hours.
More info about Goda and her work here: www.godacome.com