Doggy Rugburn is a visual dance performance with 8 dancers of Aura Dance Company and a carpet as its centrepiece.

The Doggy Rugburn world 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.


They buy therefor they are. They consume to exist.

We shuffle through our days covered in dust and regret.
While the carpet burns our skin and the air poisons our lungs.

It’s taking a long time to die.

“Motion goes beyond the normal human movement.
The performance becomes an exploration of the unexplored possibilities of the body.
It is a completely different modern dance performance.
In it, physicality and its beauty triumph.
And it is, indeed, infinitely beautiful.”
— journalist Deimantė Dementavičiūtė-Stankuvienė

Choreography: Brandon Lagaert
Music/sound design: Felix Machtelinckx
Light design: Vladimiras Šerstabojevas
Rehearsal director: Carson Reiners
Artistic advice: Mateo Dupleich Rozo
Costumes: Kristina Čyžiūtė
Pictures: Kristina Čyžiūtė

Performance and creation/original cast: Arno Verbruggen, Hayleigh Smillie, Heung Won Lee, Julija Mintautė, Laura Cornejo, Lin van Kaam, Marine Fernandez, Matthew Livingston, Natsuho Matsumoto, Thibault Rousselet

Dancers second cast: Arūnas Mozūraitis, Ester Bega, Francisco Ladrón de Guevara, Heung Won Lee, Julija Mintautė, Marine Fernandez, Natsuho Matsumoto, Tse-Wei Wu

Dancers third cast: Ester Bega, Heung Won Lee, Julija Mintautė, Marine Fernandez, Natsuho Matsumoto, Kris Dao Nicholls, Pepe Jaimes, Chih-Yuan Yang

 

Doggy Rugburn has won the 𝐂𝐎𝐌 • 𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐍 • 𝐀 Best Performance Award at the 𝐂𝐎𝐌 • 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐀 Festival in Alytus, Lithuania.

Doggy Rugburn has won the 𝐂𝐎𝐌 • 𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐍 • 𝐀 Best Performance Award at the 𝐂𝐎𝐌 • 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐀 Festival in Alytus, Lithuania.