Brigita Gedgaudas is an emerging, interdisciplinary, trans*, and diasporic-Lithuanian artist working in so-called Toronto. Exploring interconnections between experimental realms of dance and the digital, their practice asks questions regarding how cultural heritage, nature, and technology impact the formation of the self. Brigita’s practice is highly influenced by his engagement in the queer street dance style, Wh/aacking, the performance collective, PriXm, and the Lithuanian folk dance group, Gintaras.
As a dance artist Brigita has screened/exhibited/performed at Trinity Square Video, OCAD U, Ada Slaight Gallery, the Bentway, the AGO, in Sage Theatre’s “Ignite Festival”, and in Meaningful Movement’s “@profile: the chain collection”. Their work will be shown in Diasporic Futurisms’ database, “Temporal Tempest” and Ignite Gallery’s “Chat BG TEA”. Brigita has also received awards from Vtape and grant funding from The Canada Council for the Arts.
Using glitches as mechanisms for queering Lithuanian folk dance, Brigita is interested in translating the body between physical and digital worlds through interactive and immersive installations. Imagining digital space as a landscape for queer worldbuilding, glitched bodies of Lithuanian folk dance are used as a guide for choreographic decisions as Brigita investigates the generation of a new, queer Lithuanian tradition. Embracing indeterminacy and multiplicity, Brigita engages with in-betweenness as they explore gender, diasporic identity, pagan worldviews, vertical dance, and new media.
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