Dorota Michalak

Dance artist, cultural worker; born in Konin, 1992; graduate of Tanz, Kontext, Choreographie (HZT/Berlin) and Central European Studies, Intercultural Communication (UAM/Poznań). Dorota’s work unfolds around materiality, physical practice and processes of creating meaning; it is put in motion by the intermingling of physical conditions, embodied knowledge and abstract concepts. To place it in theoretical discourse: rooted in queer phenomenology, new materialism and critical semiotic approaches.

EVENTS

SenseLab

2019, Montreal

ECHO HOUSE

2019, Montreal

White Wall Studio

2019, Montreal

Isabelle Schad

2019, Essen

Magdalena Meindl

2019, Berlin

Xarkis Festival Residency

2018, Koilani

Dance in Response Festival

2017, Hamburg

Seven States of Matter Collective

2017, Berlin

Forough Fami

2017, Berlin

Attack the space

2016, Caen

PRIZES

Vienna, 2020

DanceWEB Scholarship DanceWEB Scholarship

Berlin, 2019

PROMOS GrantPROMOS Grant

Warsaw, 2018

‘Młoda Polska’ Scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage‘Młoda Polska’ Scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

Poznań, 2015

Alternative Dance Academy Scholarship from the Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk Alternative Dance Academy Scholarship from the Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk

Performance

Doing things in front of others

Company

Dorota Michalak
  • Dorota MichalakConcept, choreography & performance
  • Borys SłowikowskiChoreography & performance
  • Lena CzerniawskaChoreography & performance
  • Burdock Jenkins-CrumbChoreography & performance
  • Miri ChekhanovichChoreography & performance

Performance synopsis

A performance based on the fragility of improvisation and (impersonal) affect which becomes a common ground for everyone engaged in the situation – both dancers and spectators. Stretching time, careful navigation of the gaze, following the inner dance of attention – this sets in motion a cascade of co-incidences that make space for various feelings and fabulations to arise. The performance has been developed together with the practice of ‘working with the obvious’.

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Duration 30 Crew * 7 Artists 5
Premiere 2019-02-09 , Berlin
Audience everyone
Warnings
  • none

* cast plus technical support

Contact

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