Vilma Pitrinaite – choreographer, dancer (LT/BE) started her career in Aura dance theatre, after studied choreography in France, at CDC de Toulouse and Ex.e.r.ce, CCN de Montpellier as well as theatre directing in the School of National Theatre of Strasbourg .
Her first piece, conceived while studying, was staged at festival JT14, Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris and festival Premières, Maillon, Strasbourg. Her solo “Miss Lithuania”, premiered in New Baltic Dance Festival’14, was presented in Aerowaves Spring Forward festival, nominated as the best act of the season in Confluences theatre, Paris, toured around Europe and in USA. In 2016 she returned to “Aura” as a choreographer of a dance piece “Pandora”.
Recently Vilma presented ”Somaholidays”, which won the “Fortunos” award and was nominated for the highest Lithuanian Golden Cross Award in the section “Best Dancers”. Performance “MATCH”, duet with Emilie Gastineau/USA, was premiered in “Brussels dance!” festival in March 2019. In 2019 Vilma also created a piece for “Seiko Dance Company“ in Lithuania. “MATCH 2”, together with Sabina Scarlat, will be premiered in the festival TB2 in Brigittines, Brussels, 7 and 8 of June 2021 ( due to covid-19 premiere is postponed) and is invited to Edinborough Fringe festival, Italy and Poland.
Vilma colaborated as a dancer and actor with companies such as:
Aura dance company “Medeas”, “The thief’s journal”, “Somewhere White”, “Aseptic Zone or Lithuanian Songs “, “Mindaugas”, “Extremum Mobile”
