Monika Błaszczak

Monika Błaszczak – a dancer and choreographer. She presented her work globally, including at Tate Modern, V&A Museum and The Barbican. She holds a Master’s in Performance Studies from NYU in NYC, earned under a full scholarship with André Lepecki as her advisor. She’s also an alumna of Trinity Laban in London and the State Ballet School in Poznań. A recipient of numerous awards (Young Poland Scholarship and Trinity Laban Innovation Award), she regularly teaches her practice Soliloquy worldwide.

Monika Blaszczak

What is hugging? How many bodies does it take, and is physical touch required? Can a hug be shared through a look or a thought? How does hugging a stranger differ from hugging someone close? And how do distance and closeness play into it?

“A Hugging Composition” explores these questions as an experiment in the architecture of affect, where the audience themselves become the performers who realize the score. The project originated at the Performance Studies Department at NYU Tisch in New York.

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