Anna Nowicka’s work explores the choreography of the imaginary and the relationship between dreaming and dancing bodies. She develops a new poetic narrative that skilfully alternates between inner states, characters, flickering gestures, formal dances and atmospheric landscapes. As in a dream, all these forms of being emerge from an embodied experience and dissolve into the space of possibility.

The title Uvula comes from the Latin word for a fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the palate in your mouth. Here, it represents a physical invitation to create life. This work was commissioned by the Polish National Gallery Zachęta in Warsaw as a response to Piotr Uklański’s sculpture Untitled (Wide Open). In „Uvula“, Anna Nowicka asks how one can go on in times of despair and turns to dreams as a remedy against a hopeless future.

Anna Nowicka is a choreographer and dancer based in Berlin and Lüdersdorf (Brandenburg) working with dreams and embodied imagination. She aims at unfolding the body into a resourceful, alive, ever flowing entity, able to be responsive and present. Graduate of the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD), MA Choreography at the HfS Ernst-Busch / HZT in Berlin and MA Psychology at the Warsaw University, she wrote her practice-based PhD on embodied awareness as the foundation for being present at the Polish Film School in Łódź. She is a certified Saphire® teacher of Dr. Catherine Shainberg’s The School of Images. Anna is a faculty at the International Institute for Dreaming and Imagery. Her most recent performance: “This Is the Real Thing (VR)” was premiered on the 8th of January 2023 in DOCK 11 in Berlin. In her current project, “The opening”, Anna instantly transform spectators’ night dreams into choreographies, cultivating a sense of community, intimacy, and openness.
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[Source: dock11-berlin.de]

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