Performer, dancer and maker · Improviser
Amsterdam
Photograph · Bowie Verschuuren
01 / Practice
Goda Žukauskaitė is a dance and performance artist based in Amsterdam. Her work explores physical transformation, endurance and the changing relationship between a body and its surroundings. In her research Performative Reality, she investigates performance through durational encounters and the conditions of being present. She graduated from the Modern Theatre Dance programme at the Amsterdam University of the Arts in 2018. Her experience includes work with Kalpanarts, Schweigman& and BitterSweet Dance, as well as independent collaborations across the Netherlands, Lithuania, Belgium and France.
02 / In practice
Goda Zukauskaite — IMDL, GROND, 24 October 2025
Photograph · Roman Zotter
IMDL #2 · GROND, Amsterdam · 2025-10-24
Photograph · Roman Zotter
01 / Performance film
Goda Žukauskaitė — IMDL #2: GROND · 1 min
02 / Performance film
Goda Žukauskaitė — IMDL #4: Perennation · 1 min
Films: Jongkag Park
Practice & experience
Goda Zukauskaite is a performer, dancer, and maker based in Amsterdam, a 2018 graduate of the Amsterdam University of the Arts (Modern Theatre Dance). She works with the companies Schweigman& and Kalpanarts and independent artists across the Netherlands, Lithuania, Belgium, and France, and in 2024 performed in the Marina Abramovic exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Her own work centers on durational and site-specific performance, from one to seventy-eight hours, presented internationally including in Lithuania, the Netherlands, Italy, India, Finland, and the USA; in April 2025 she premiered Goddesses dream when they bleed at Brakke Grond, Amsterdam. She is a guest teacher at Fontys Dance Academy and the Breitner Academy, was nominated for the Piket Kunstprijzen in 2021, and received the We Are Public Award for Most Enticing Embodied Energetic Performer in 2023.
Graduated from Amsterdam University of the Arts, Modern Theatre Dance, in 2018.
Performs with Schweigman& and Kalpanarts and collaborates with independent artists internationally.
Performed in the Marina Abramović exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in 2024.
Premiered Goddesses dream when they bleed at de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, in April 2025.
Nominated for the Piket Kunstprijzen in 2021; received the We Are Public Award for Most Enticing Embodied Energetic Performer in 2023.
IMDL / Improvised Music Dance Laboratory