Iza Szostak

Iza Szostak is a dancer-choreographer. In her practice, she applies the perspective of new materialism as a tool allowing her to perceive matter as an active and instrumental force. Her choreographic works are often based on made-up systems which communicate the body through objects. She is a graduate of the Warsaw Ballet School and the Rotterdam Dance Academy in Holland. She has created the performances: ‘Excavatory Ballet’, ‘National Affairs’, ‘le journal secret’ and ‘Skaj Is the Limit’.

EVENTS

‘Exegesis’ – a live VR meditation (online showing) produced by Dream Adoption Society in cooperation with La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and CultureHub

2020, New York, Warsaw

‘MOVING ISOLATION’ – a digital dance and music project realised through Anna Holter + Company

2020, San Francisco, Stockholm, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Porto, Düsseldorf, Essen, Berlin, Vienna, Montpellier, Tokyo

Residency at Alte Rumfabrik

2019, Basel

‘WannaBe’ at Studio Hrdinu, Visegrad Scholarship, residency and work in progress

2018, Prague

The International Theater Festival, Fest(in) on the Boulevard

2018, Bucharest

The Festival of Polish Dance in San Sebastian

2016, San Sebastian

Festival NORMA

2016, Ostrava

‘600 steps’ interdisciplinary project in collaboration with the Taldans collective

2014, Istanbul, Warsaw

Residency (studio visit) at Pingerii, Westfjords – presentation of ‘Visitors’ at the Reykjavik Dance Festival, Body/Mind Festival

2014, Pingerii, Reykjavik, Warsaw

PRIZES

Warsaw, 2019

Choreographic residency at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in cooperation with the Institute of Music and DanceChoreographic residency at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in cooperation with the Institute of Music and Dance

Prague, 2018

Visegrad Scholarship implemented in cooperation with Studio HrdinuVisegrad Scholarship implemented in cooperation with Studio Hrdinu

Faro, 2013

Body.Child.Object artistic residency as part of Modul-Dance – Carte Blanche, DeVIR / CAPa, PortugalBody.Child.Object artistic residency as part of Modul-Dance – Carte Blanche, DeVIR / CAPa, Portugal

Warsaw, 2012

Artistic Scholarship of The Ministry of Culture and National HeritageArtistic Scholarship of The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

Faro, 2013

Body.Child.Object artistic residency as part of Modul-Dance – Carte Blanche, DeVIR / CAPa, PortugalBody.Child.Object artistic residency as part of Modul-Dance – Carte Blanche, DeVIR / CAPa, Portugal

Warsaw, 2012

Artistic Scholarship of The Ministry of Culture and National HeritageArtistic Scholarship of The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

Performance

Skaj Is the Limit

Company

Iza Szostak

Credits

  • Iza SzostakConcept, choreography, performance
  • Karolina MełnickaConcept, set, costumes, graphics
  • Anka HerbutDramaturgy and text
  • Kuba SłomkowskiMusic and lyrics
  • Gilberto Bautista Ortiz Music/featuring
  • Kamil BalickiPerformance
  • Tatiana DziewanowskaPerformance
  • Dominik SkrzypkowskiCurator

Performance synopsis

Transformation is a transition stage, when the previous system no longer works and the new one has yet to be fully implemented. The social, political and physical body are all being transformed. Iza Szostak has designed a non-normative reality, in which objects choose to exist outside the reproductive time of heteronormativity. The performance queers the transformation archive, validates failure and weakness, taking the viewpoint of fake luxury goods – ever-present, living witnesses to history.

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Duration 50 " Crew * 7 Artists 5
Premiere 2019-11-30, Warsaw
Audience dorośli
Warnings
  • violence
  • loud-music
  • vulgarity

* cast plus technical support

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PROMOTIONAL DETAILS

Pokaz odbył się w ramach programu Zamku Ujazdowskiego Rezydencje choreograficzne w 2019 realizowanego we współpracy z Instytutem Muzyki i Tańca
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