MEDIA HAS SAID ABOUT AURA:
The performance („Kaunas Photo RECYCLED“ and Kaunas Dance Theatre AURA project „Forget the Camera“) revealed professionalism of AURA dancers, fingerprint of creativity, openness for an experiment ...
Justina Zubaite
menoduobe.com, November 22, 2009
A clear, not tangled choreography with rational amount of visual graphics and a great conformity of dancers let audience hover in the labyrinth of their own minds, to see interiors in the space and the space in interiors.
Enrika Striogaite
kulturpolis.lt, October 6, 2009
... AURA is the oldest modern dance troupe in Lithuania with consequent dance practice. … For AURA it was always characteristic high technical skill, avoidance of empty dance effects and irony …
Helmutas Sabasevicius, dance critic
balsas.lt (Vilnius, Lithuania), May 11, 2008
Kaunas Modern Dance Theatre Aura is one of the very few places in Lithuania where the audiences have a chance to see truly contemporary art. In Lithuania art tendencies in many areas are often lagging behind, often we see what in other countries is no longer making news.
Gintariushka, blogger on culture
menuduobe.lt, February 20, 2008
The dancers demonstrated strong technique. ... AURA delivered a performance that was a VIDF highlight. Lithuanian dancers fascinated everyone with performance of narrative passionate Extremum Mobile.
Gail Johnson, dance critic
The Georgia Straight (Vancouver, Canada), March 29, 2007
In its studio Kaunas Modern Dance Theatre AURA has raised the best modern dancers in Lithuania, whose technical and article skills have been acknowledge by Lithuanian and foreign dance critics and teachers.
Gintare Dailydyte, journalist
15 min. (Kaunas, Lithuania), March 06, 2007
Having come onto the stage at once after the famous Finnish dancer Tero Saarinen, who is undoubtedly one of the best dancers in the world, the Lithuanian dancers fascinated everyone with their performance of the narrative and passionate production Extremum Mobile. To open the doors of other European festivals is the destiny of AURA.
Jerome Remy, programme director at Les Boreales, Caen, France
Literatura ir menas (Literature and Art, Vilnius, Lithuania), December 12, 2003
The production Extremum Mobile by Kaunas Modern Dance Theatre AURA was the most interesting showing at this year’s festival. … The performance of the Lithuanians has cast a powerful spell. First of all, by the beauty of movement, fluency, elegance and gracefulness. Not often such gentleness is ever used in modern dance.
Dorota Mrowka, dance critic
Gazeta Wyborza (Warsaw, Poland), July 2, 2003
Since the beginning of its existence AURA has been the leader of modern dance in Lithuania that could be proud of its dancers having the best technical background, most diverse repertoire, unbelievable ability to survive in the most inauspicious circumstances.
Vita Mozuraite, dance critic
Lietuvos rytas (The Morning of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania), October 15, 2002
Kaunas Modern Dance Company AURA who began organizing the international modern dance festival ten years ago was for a long time the icebreaker for modern dance in Lithuania.
Aira Nagineviciute-Adomaitiene, dancer and teacher
Teatras (Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania), 2001
… Exceptional potential of AURA. … Harmony of music, light and stage design in Extgremum Mobile.
Orjan Abrahamsson, dance critic
Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm, Sweden), October 30, 2001
The AURA dancers are inquisitive and receptive, ready to work patiently and creatively. I enjoyed seeing the dancers who were improving for the better every day, becoming more and more perfect professionally.
Jeffrey N. Bullock, choreographer
Kauno diena (The Day of Kaunas, Lithuania), January 8, 2000
Thanks to the efforts of Birute Letukaite Kaunas has become a city of international modern dance.
Birute Vaitiekunaite, journalist
Kauno dienas (The Day of Kaunas, Kaunas, Lithuania), October 2, 1999
In my opinion, the Dance Theatre AURA is truly professional, it has no equals in Lithuania.
Claude-Yane Roulin, choreographer
Kauno diena (The Day of Kaunas, Lithuania), August 13, 1997
… the theatre world had good reasons to be proud of having the only ‘growing’ theatre of this kind that has mastered the drastic and subtle movement of modern dance.
Markas Zingeris, novelist
Laikinoji sostine (The Temporary Capital, Kaunas, Lithuania), March 21, 1996
This modern dance company from Lithuania has a freshness and passions for their art that many western companies have lost. … Their talent and commitment goes straight to the head and has attracted choreographers from all over the world – from Scandinavia, Italy, London and New York, to come and work with them.
South Wales Evening Post (Great Britain), March 17, 1995
Kaunas, the second largest city in Lithuania, has a long tradition of modern dance that begins with the influence of Isadora Duncan. In 1980 Birute Letukait, who studied with teachers continuing the Duncan tradition, formed a studio and company, AURA Modern Dance Theater. In 1989 the first festival of modern dance was held here …
Heili Einasto, dance critic
Dance Magazine (New York, USA), March 1992
AURA’s work was the highest point of the evening…
Stadtteil Zeitung (Duisburg, Germany), April 16, 1991
AURA has become the real leader of Lithuanian modern dance.
Audronis Imbrasas, dance critic and manager
Literatura ir menas (Literature and Art, Vilnius, Lithuania), November 9, 1991
With the persistence of chorographers like these who have continued to experiment against all odds, the coming years should bring fresh political and artistic energy to the Baltic States.
Bonnie Sue Stein, dance critic
Dance Magazine (New York, USA), September, 1990
Poetical compositions, radiating joy, bright moods, speaking of sincerity and naturalness, genuine human relations…
Galina Inozemtseva, dance critic
Soviet Ballet (Moscow, Russia), May 1990
