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The quarantine rooms, which have been waving in Lithuania for a year, are trying to convince you that a single viewer is enough: the eye of an all-seeing camera. Thus, the Golden Stage Cross awards were delivered on March 27 – International Theater Day without applause from the peers sitting in the room: the audience was represented by the mirror images of the winners by the cameras that filmed the ceremony.
The solemn evening was opened by LNOBT CEO Jonas Sakalauskas, who was pleased that for the second year in a row the Golden Stage Cross Awards ceremony was being entrusted to his theater, and wished that both performers and spectators would return to theaters as soon as possible.
Subsequently, the Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys congratulated the theater performances on the International Day of Distance Theater. Recall Most Successful Award Entries in 2020 Featured theater artists had to walk between mirrors, but the Golden Stage Cross Ceremony program remained unchanged: 15 nominations, “Boris Dauguvietis Earring for New Forms of Stage Expression and Thanksgiving Award for Lifetime Creation.
This year’s Golden Stage Cross winners:
Leader
Dalius Abaris for the production of the opera “Flying Dutchman” (Klaipeda State Musical Theater)
The role of women
Aistė Zabotkaitė for the role of Alisa in the play “Alisa” (Lithuanian National Drama Theater)
The role of man
Sergei Ivanov for the role of Jacques Austerlitz in the play “Austerlitz” (State Youth Theater)
Set of actors
Ensemble of actors in the performance “Respublika” (Lithuanian National Drama Theater and Münchner Kammerspiele)
Scenography
Lauryna Liepaitė for the scenography of the performances Alisa (Lithuanian National Drama Theater) and Batsiuviai (Kaunas National Drama Theater and Utopia Theater)
Video projections
Mikas Žukauskas for video projections for the show “Austerlicas” (State Youth Theater)
Music for performance
Arturas Bumšteinas for the music of the performances “Austerlicas” and “Urbančičius Metodas” (State Youth Theater)
Soloist
Joana Gedmintaitė for the role of Anna Bolein in the opera Ana Bolena (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater)
Soloists
Tadas Girininkas for the role of Daland in the opera Flying Dutch (Klaipeda State Musical Theater) and the role of Henrik in the opera Anne Bolena (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater)
Choreography
Erika Vizbaraitė for the choreography of the exploratory dance show “Apnea”
Dancer
Marija Ivaškevičiūtė for her role in the dance show “Wandering Dunes” (Sheikh Dance Theater)
Dancer
Niels Claes for roles in contemporary dance shows “i (me)” (Sheikh Dance Theater and M. Kuźmiński Company) and “Wandering Dunes” (Sheikh Dance Theater)
Young Artist / Young Artist
Playwright Laurynas Adomaitis for the dramaturgy of the play “Alisa” (National Drama Theater of Lithuania)
Performance for children and youth
The Big Bang (director Zvi Sahar, Klaipeda Puppet Theater and Itim Ensemble)
Pandemic resistant theater
(Anti) utopia online “#protest” (director Žilvinas Vingelis, “Space Theater”)
Boris Dauguvietis earring presented to the creators of the performance “We Breathe Together” (Russian Drama Theater).
Thanksgiving Bonus dedicated to Janina Malinauskaitė.
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The Ministry of Culture had received this year 75 proposals for the Professional Performing Arts Awards 2020. works. The Lithuanian National Dramatic Theater performance “Alisa” and the State Youth Theater performance “Austerlicas” obtained five nominations among the candidates for the “Golden Stage Crosses”.
These awards are intended to measure 2020 the most significant works of the year by professional performers, researchers and other artists in the field of performing arts and outstanding professional achievements in the fields of theater, opera, operetta and music, the ballet, dance, puppet and object theater, theater for children and youth. As every year, a maximum of 17 awards will be awarded.
The proposals for the awards were evaluated by a commission made up of nine experts in theater, dance, art and music: Margarita Alper, Silvija Čižaitė-Rudokienė, Monika Jašinskaitė, Lina Klusaitė, Rasa Murauskaitė, Martynas Petrikas, Evgeniya Shermeneva, Janina Stankeviė and Bir .
