PERFORMANCE WORK
The Hymns Our Bodies Sing
Emigrating to the United States as a child from a Poland that was in the throes of shedding communism, I have found myself fascinated as an artist with the concepts of language, identity and feelings of "otherness" and belonging.
My work explores infrastructures of identity and language: What aspects of communication translate and what is lost? What is communicated in silence and what goes unsaid? How do we communicate with the body? What happens when words do not exist to name significant identities?
My current project interests include the experience of queer identities in non-western, especially Eastern European, cultures and multi-generational trauma and resiliency as well as otherness and belonging in American culture.
CHOREOGRAPHY
UnRavelled Bolero is a group dance performance created live with 25 intergenerational and multi-disciplinary performers on zoom. The dance was created as part of the US premiere (Feb. 25, 2021) of the new play by Jake Broder, "UnRavelled" and sponsored by the Global Brain Health Institute.
Wesele: We Shall Not Drown, loosely inspired by the 1901 Polish play, The Wedding by Stanislaw Wyspianski, explores themes of individual and social apathy, agency and hope.
COLLABORATIONS
This was the third in a series of events between the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) and U.C. San Francisco (UCSF) Memory and Aging Center (MAC) and the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) -- a partnership exploring music, science and the brain. Presenters considered the relationships of music, improvisation and the resilient brain.
Solo performance in dance film CLEANER, part 2 of WORK STATION SERIES by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy - interdisciplinary artists whose work has been presented at Whitney Art Museum, Guggenheim and MoMA. Work created as part of Kickstarter Artist in Residence program 2018.
ON DISPLAY, performed with Heidi Latsky Dance and LLMoves, is a deconstructed art exhibit/fashion show serving as a commentary on the body as spectacle and society’s obsession with body image. Video of the installation was presented for International Person’s with Disabilities Day at UN.