Dance Workshop with Ola Maciejewska
Presented with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Tue, Mar 5 @ 6:30pm, 2024
The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi
Past Event
Maciejewska’s choreographic tools are an invitation to re-discover the repertory of everyday movements on a collective and individual level. Developed through her practice, the interrelations between dance and visual art, and dance and sculpture, in particular, will serve as an anchor for guided instructions and tasks that focus on the sculptural, slowing down, touch, muscular tonicity, kinesphere, and weight.
Biography
Ola Maciejewska
Ola Maciejewska is an artist, dancer and choreographer. Her works are distinguished for strong interdisciplinary take on dance, based on research and controlled structural work. Through working on convergences between dance and visual art she produced critical reading of the history of dance. Since 2013, she developed a unique choreographic practice based on re-reading iconic Serpentine Dances invented by Loïe Fuller in the 1890s. Her stage works Loïe Fuller: Research, and Bombyx Mori engage the viewer in reflection on metamorphosis, synesthesia, and the hybrid nature of embodiment.
Between 2016 and 2018, she was an associated artist at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen in Normandie. In 2020, she led research on the scenography of Rolf Borzik in the Pina Bausch Foundation’s archives. In 2022, she received a fellowship from the Watermill Center, founded by Robert Wilson. She develops frameworks to share her research, notably at HEAD School of Art and Design – Geneva, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts – Limoges, and Centre National de la Danse.
In 2023, she created a performance ON TIME with and for the students of atelier Emmanuelle Huynh at Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. She is currently working on a larger body of work involving serpentine dances, focused on convergences between dance and visual art and transmission with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels.