BIOGRAPHY
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PHYSICAL & VISUAL POETRY
I am an interdisciplinary artist, working as choreographer and dancer, teacher and as well visual artist / film maker. I cherish the alchemy between different disciplines, while the human body and its visceral poetry remain at the centre of my work. I create dance and multidisciplinary performances and produce short films.
Throughout my career I’ve danced and toured internationally in the works of other makers and my own performative and visual work is being presented at festivals world wide; currently touring DREAMER – a poetic journey inspired by cycles and our innate connection to nature, traveling through an organism of live performance and film, in collaboration with the french saxophonist Antoine Viard. DREAMER has won the award for BEST INTERDISCIPLINARY LIVE PERFORMANCE at LensDans Festival Brussels 2023.
My work is often inspired by mythology, Buddhism as well as our intrinsic connection to nature. I’ve been collaborating with different musicians and, while working with an established structure, love to use improvisation in my performances.
I’ve been teaching in studios or at festivals internationally and it’s something I enjoy very much, to meet local dance communities and share my practice & investigation in form of training, workshops or masterclasses.
My short films, eg.: BELE BELTZA, SILENT FRAGMENTS and LIGHT RISING have won various awards for BEST FILM and BEST PERFORMANCE / CHOREOGRAPHY. Visual work that I’ve produced has been featured in art magazines such a Clic.he and received Honorable Mentions.
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CURRICULUM VITA
CHOREOGRAPHIC WORK
2024
DREAMER & BLACK ASH on tour
2022
– DREAMER, interdisciplinary performance project with collaborators, performance with ANTOINE VIARD for INEQUILIBRIO FESTIVAL, Castilgioncello (It)
– PRIMORDIAL ANATOMY – somatic / visual project and investigation in the theme of water
– NACHHALL – performance with the Mexican musician and composer Jerónimo Naranjo
– BLACK ASH, dance production, premiered at FIDCDMX – Festival Internacional de la Danza Contemporanea de la Ciudad de Mexico 2022
2021
– PEARL ARTIST PRICE at POOL 21 festival Berlin
– collaboration with Antoine Viard, performances with Collectif COAX, Paris Fr
– ongoing presentations of OF RAVENS AND GODS @ TwentyOne Gallery (London)
+ BLACK BOX GENESIS ART SPACE (Finland) + featured in Dans Magazine (May)
2020
– OF RAVENS AND GOODS, dance film and multimedia project in frame of 3 solo long distance
treks into Jura mountains, around the Montblanc massif and across the Pyrenees.
– collaboration with Hernán Samá [saxophon] and other Amsterdam based performers
-> presentation in frame of the live streamed performance series
Boiler Room Sessions, hosted by Iris van Peppen
– OF RAVENS AND GODS, dance film project [NL, FR, ESP, CH]
– RECLAIMING THE FUTURE | GUERILLA DANCE in response to the pandemic
–> danced love declarations across the city of Amsterdam.
2019
– CROSSING WAVES collaboration with Antoine Viard (music), Paris
– VOICE new research project on womanhood & bodymemory, residency at Schloss Broellin
2018 – DEPTH OF SHADOW | SILENT FRAGMENTS performance
2017
– TIRESIAS – performance in collaboration with ITHAK & Heather Ware
– THE MIRROR’S EDGE [working title] – new dance production, started at POLO
CULTURAL BOAVISTA, Lisbon (Pt)
2016
– WILD HORSE RUN, dance performance [touring into 2017] produced at Derida Dance Centre, in collab w IVAN SHOPOV [Balkansky | Cooh] – music
– AT THE THRESHOLD OF YOUR SKIN – collaboration w Abhilash Ningappa
2015
– “BLACK ASH” solo dance performance @ Commedia-Futura (DE) + Tipperary Dance Platform
– PRISM @ BLACKBOX FESTIVAL & Almada Dance Festival
2014
– “LAYERS OF NOW”, Installation Performance @ Venice International Performance Art Week.
– ERDE @ THE BLACK BOX FESTIVAL, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2013
– ART TRANSFORMATION LAB’13 organized by TRANSFORMA, Portugal
– PRISM, solo dance peformance @ “Mouvements sur la Ville #5” Montpellier
– Cambridge Sustainability Residency organized by Anglia Ruskin University
SELECTED WORKING EXPERIENCES as DANCER
2018 – THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE opera – John O’Brien, Philip Connaughton
2016 – 2017 – THE NONSENSE SOCIETY with Jasper van Luijk / KORZO Productions
2016 – ARCHITECT OF SELFDESTRUCTION, project with Abhilash Ningappa for NunOff Festival BCN
2015 – TRINITY with Marje-Leen Hirvonen (De)
– MULTICOLOUR by Aymeric Aude, produced by Introdans & Generale Oost, Arnhem (Nl)
– CASCADE DANCE THEATER, Cardiff, Wales
2014
– Im Freien Fall Dance Theatre Production with Commedia-Futura (De) – performed in to 2015
– Before the Storm Breaks with DMT, The Hague
2011 – 2013
– BRILLIANT CORNERS with EMANUEL GAT DANCE, premiere at e.g.: Biennale Venice, June further performances at: ADF American Dance Festival, Montpellier Danse, Tanz im August Berlin, Saddler’s Wells London, Trafo Budapest, Theatre de la Ville Paris, Gessnerallee, Zurich, STUK Kunstcentrum Leuven.
2010-2012 – two solos for United-C (Nl)
2009 – SILENT BALLET with EMANUEL GAT DANCE, performances at e.g: Biennale Venice, Lincoln Centre Festival N.Y.
FILM
2023
– LIGHT RISING new short film, premiered in May 2023, – production that has started during a residency at Bohemia Farmstudios (Czech Republic), supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum Prague
2022
– A MOUNTAIN PORTRAIT – short film in collaboration with the actress Elisa Pol
– ESISTENZA x GIOIA – dance film, awarded Best Experimental Film and BEST WOMEN FILM, presented at Dance Days Chania, Cinedanza and other international festivals.
2021 – BELE BELTZA touring various festivals, awarded the PEARL ARTIST PRICE at POOL Tanzfilmfestival + HONORABLE MENTION at CINEDANZA festival.
2020 – SILENT FRAGMENTS: AWARD FOR BEST FILM (CINEDANZA, Modena)
+ BEST CHOREOGRAPHY (InShadow Lisbon)
– BELE BELTZA – dance film, premiere at ViDEOSKiN Festival, Nepal
2018
– SILENT FRAGMENTS, dance film | Installation produced @ MALAKTA Art Factory
– TUONELA, dance film produced during MALAKTA Dancefilm Lab 2018
– THE PIER, footage shot at MALAKTA Dancefilm Lab 2015
2015 – back-wash, dance film produced at Malakta A.I.R, Finland
2014 – TALES IN BLACK AND WHITE, video installation @ CIDADELA | CASCAIS ART DISTRICT
2013 – THIRST a movie / video installation created for EEA Grants Conference , 7-9 Oct Lisbon
– TRACES OF A FLUID SENSE, movie, produced for SHINANO Primitive Sense Art Festival,Japan
– INTERBEING video installation @ exhibition DEW LINE, Changes Space Gallery, Cambridge U.K.
2012 – IKARIA, film produced in Alentejo Portugal
INTERPLAY | TEACHING WORK
Over the last years I’ve been teaching professional dancers at different festivals and in various studios and production houses internationally, amongst which:
Micadanse Studio May B Paris, TREenit!Ry Tampere Finland, HJS Amsterdam, micadanses Paris, LARVA Guadalajara Mexico, TROIS CL Luxembourg, marameo Berlin, Natya Ballet Center Delhi India, Avayava Dance Festival Pune India, ZAIK Quartier am Hafen, Cologne, LaborGras Berlin, Tipperary Dance Festival Ireland
EXPOSITION LIST
Nov 2022 – DREAMER / Of Ravens and Gods – exposition at 4Bid Gallery
Jan 2022 – Honourable Mention of ‘Gosainkunda’, photo from Nepal series in ‘Adventure’ competition on Artrepreneur.com
Nov 2021 – “Rewilding, in search of a new Myth”, print of series part of the international photography EXPO – INSIDE/OUT, Pokhara, Nepal
Aug 2021 – OF RAVENS AND GODS | VIRTUAL EXPO hosted by BLACKBOX GENESIS -> presented in frame of Vaasa Art Nigh + artist talk / book presentation at Malakta Art Factory (Fi)
May 2021 – ‘Rewilding, in search of a a new Myth’, photo series, Semi-finalist in the “In The Wild” art competition and featured in the expo organized by The Artist Lounge and Kinghouse Gallery (UK)
May 2021 – OF RAVENS AND GODS featured in DansMagazine, Netherlands.
Mar 2021 – selected prints of OF RAVENS AND GODS featured in the online expo: ENDURANCE, @ TwentyOne Gallery
Feb 2021 – RECLAIMING THE FUTURE, Haiku / Photography Triptych, featured in Dance Art Journal
Nov 2020 – ‘Of Ravens and Gods’ featured on emptyroom.art
Sept 2019 – TALES IN BLACK AND WHITE Installation, presented at art event hosted by the Austrian Cultural Forum, The Hague
Mar 2018 – BLACK VORTEX audio visual installation at interdisciplinary art event at Petersburg Art Space, Berlin
Sept 2015 – TALES IN BLACK AND WHITE, video installation presented in frame of Konstrundan @ Art Factory Malakta (Fi)
Aug 2014 – TALES IN BLACK AND WHITE, video installation, presented at Cidadela Art District, Cascais (Pt)
Sept 2013 – THIRST video installation for the international EEA Grants / Norway Grants conference on climate change, Lisbon (Pt)
May 2013 – INTERBEING video installation on water and connection,
THE DEW LINE exposition at Changing Spaces Gallery, Cambridge (UK)
PROFESSIONAL DANCE EDUCATION
2003 – 2007 ArtEZ Dance Academy, Arnhem
2002 – 2003 IWANSON Dance Academy, Munich
2001 – 2002 SEAD Experimental Academy of Dance, Salzburg
FURTHER EDUCATION | QUALIFICATIONS
– Nuad Bo-Rarn, Ancient Thai Yoga Massage – CERTIFICATE
– various methods of bodywork, e.g.: REIKI and Continuum Movement
– COACHING MASTER 1 & 2 + Intensive on Business, “Consciousness Coaching”
– CLASSICAL SING TRAINING with Johannes Effertz-Wolff
– ACTING LESSONS and coaching with Claudia Heu
– Highschool graduation cum laude with focus on philosophy and fine arts (painting / drawing / photography)
ANDREA HACKL PROJECTS 