Brandon Lagaert (Belgium)
“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.
Photo: Kristina Čyžiūtė
Choreography
Brandon Lagaert
Music
Felix Machtelinckx
Costumes
Brandon Lagaert
Lights
Felix Machtelinckx
Dancers
Arūnas Mozūraitis (Lithuania), Ester Bega (Albania), Francisco Ladrón de Guevara (Spain), Hueng Won Lee (South Korea), Julija Mintautė (Lithuania), Marine Fernandez (France), Natsuho Matsumoto (Japan), Tse-Wei Wu (Taiwan)
Premiere dancers
Arno Verbruggen (Belgium), Hayleigh Smillie (Scotland), Hueng Won Lee (South Korea), Julija Mintautė (Lithuania), Laura Cornejo (Brasil), Lin van Kaam (Norway), Marine Fernandez (France), Matthew Livingston (USA), Natsuho Matsumoto (Japan), Thibault Rousselet (France)
Duration
45 min.
Premiere
November 29th, 2019, Kaunas
Shows
2019:
LITHUANIA – Kaunas