If we speak about a body in 2019, we are oscillating somewhere between mortality, neglecting Anthropocene, reconnecting with nature as a matter of surviving or keeping on reconnecting with other human beings due to body politics concepts. We keep on exploring borders of human touch, common breath, or gender – through expanding tolerance, community thinking or behind the door – in solitude. As an artist working primarily with my body, I recognise its boundaries and the limited capacity of sharing. Even dance as a form is too restricted, too much vocabulary needed. But how can we come back to our body and include mind, politics, environment, and community? I suggest commonly knowing the unknown or vice versa. Open ourselves to vulnerability, sensitivity, insecurity, and unknown. We probably feel, smell, or taste something hard to name. Do we need to name it? During my lecture performance (based on my solo performance about embodying dance in 2017) I am proposing in between perception through unknown. Sharing first via verbal explanation, continuing with a nonverbal journey through unknown movement. Unknown as something hard to name through our language. Unknown as an experiment. Unknown as something we knew but which might have been forgotten. Unknown as a new context, as stepping out from our habits and culture. Unknown as a negotiation with duality, unknown as fluidity. Based on my research about new/interdisciplinary approaches to dance, I am exploring and experimenting with sharing knowledge which we are not sure about, but cannot deny its existence.
Eva gained her master’s degree, with a thesis focused on the link between voice and motion in dance improvisation, at the dance department of the Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia in 2015. Led by Marta Poláková and Anna Sedláčková, she had gained many stimulating impulses. During her studies, she was striving for personal development in performative, choreographic, theoretical, and pedagogical activities. Her ambition is to perceive a dance performer as a generally perceiving and thoughtful person who levels the practical with the theoretical. She used to publish for Tempo magazine and spoke at the Tanec.sk congress on “Creativity and its place at the Dance Creativity Department” within her academic years. Furthermore, she was awarded a prize of the dean for the artistic merit. She has worked with various choreographers (Peter Šavel, Joe Alegado, Davide Sportelli, Yuri Korec), with a director Tomáš Procházka, musicians Daniel Matej, Fero Király, Miroslav Tóth and visual artists Marián Mudroch, Zuzana Žabková, Duo Bankleer, Ines Doujak. She took part in an international project Through the text in Dijon, France and in a semester-long stay at Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität, Vienna. In November 2016, she accomplished a three-month-long educational program Smash in Berlin. She is inspired by various movement concepts such a field dancing, body as material, body as landscape, pure physicality, simple dances, meditation, games. Together with collective mimoOs, she is part of the performance scene in Slovakia.