Ep 10 ~ Aurora Lagattuta ~ The Playful Leader

Honor The Feminine Podcast

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Aurora Lagattuta is both childlike and witchlike. Her highly embodied pieces often use multiple lanuages, poetry, song, abstract narratives, video and live scuplture with dance and theatrical movement. Her work has been described as being, “bizarre and beautiful” as well as “transformational” and “otherwordly” by the Huffington Post. She has created works ranging from community projects to ensemble and solo performances for site-specific and theatre venues across U.S.A., Europe and Asia. Throughout these travels, she has studied various dance and theatre modalities to develop my own particular dance theatre language that exposes the beauty of the eccentric and expressive body.

Her aesthetic vision provides a trancelike and repetitive dream language that expresses the repressed aspects of the awkward and fragile body. This vision encompasses several foci: 1) isolated gestural textures; 2) exploration of contrasting emotional worlds—vacillating between violence and gentleness, strength and fragility, and anger and forgiveness; and 3) exposure of the exquisite diversity of the human experience.

She has been awarded residencies at Bali Purnati in Bali, Indonesia; La Caldera in Barcelona, Spain; Palacio de Festivales and Espacio Espiral in Santander, Spain; and Forn de La Calc in Catalunya, Spain. She was a P.O.R.C.H. (Ponderosa Ongoing Research Collaboration Happenings) recipient at Ponderosa in Germany and achieved a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012 for her solo, Inside the Whale. She has danced for various companies in NYC, Portland, Germany and Spain, most notably were with Meg Stuart in Germany and Marta Carrasco in Spain. This past fall 2015, she performed her solo, Inside the Whale, at the United Solo Festival in New York City where she was awarded, The Best Multi-Media Solo Award and the United Solo Award. The United Solo Award took Lagattuta’s solo to Warsaw to be performed at the United Solo Europe Festival at Theatr Syrena in Warsaw, Poland. She holds a B.A. in Theatre Directing as well as the Theatre Award of Excellence from Fordham at Lincoln Center, New York, City; 2008.

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