ABOUT
Dorota Michalak is a choreographer/dancer and researcher based in Berlin; graduate of Tanz, Kontext, Choreographie (HZT/Berlin), Central European Studies and Intercultural Communication (UAM/Poznań).
Her choreographic work is largely based on collective processes, mixing dance, voice practice and fieldwork. Fascinated with plants, she focuses on the sensorium, biological processes and sensualities to augment habitual fantasies and cultural frameworks. Her ongoing research Dance in Planthroposcene is supported by Tanzpraxis 2022/2024 of the Berlin Senat. Inspired i.a. by SenseLab - Laboratory for Thought in Motion, she practices meshwork choreography bringing attention to relational aspects of artistic work. Following folk music heritage, she works with dance as cathartic, rebellious and relation-building practice, shifting attention between its visual, tactile, auditial and energetic aspects.
As a dancer, she collaborates with i.a. Alice Chauchat, Isabelle Schad, Zufit Simon, Pauline Payen, Renae Shadler, Moritz Majce & Sandra Man, Angela Schubot & Jared Gradinger.
Scholarship holder of CME 2024, Artistic Research Abroad by Goethe Institut 2022, #takeheart Residenzförderung in collab. with Hellerau 2022, danceWEB 2020/21, PROMOS by DAAD 2019, and Młoda Polska 2018 by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
Her choreographic work is largely based on collective processes, mixing dance, voice practice and fieldwork. Fascinated with plants, she focuses on the sensorium, biological processes and sensualities to augment habitual fantasies and cultural frameworks. Her ongoing research Dance in Planthroposcene is supported by Tanzpraxis 2022/2024 of the Berlin Senat. Inspired i.a. by SenseLab - Laboratory for Thought in Motion, she practices meshwork choreography bringing attention to relational aspects of artistic work. Following folk music heritage, she works with dance as cathartic, rebellious and relation-building practice, shifting attention between its visual, tactile, auditial and energetic aspects.
As a dancer, she collaborates with i.a. Alice Chauchat, Isabelle Schad, Zufit Simon, Pauline Payen, Renae Shadler, Moritz Majce & Sandra Man, Angela Schubot & Jared Gradinger.
Scholarship holder of CME 2024, Artistic Research Abroad by Goethe Institut 2022, #takeheart Residenzförderung in collab. with Hellerau 2022, danceWEB 2020/21, PROMOS by DAAD 2019, and Młoda Polska 2018 by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.