Lab : danse
Maria Kefirova
- the sensibility to distance and proximity, as a generative technic for new forms of content and structure.
-how to create contexts for the reversibility of what we perceive as far, close and limit; center or periphery?
How to make a context for the enfolding of a living space that modulates asymmetries of presence and attention?
Let’s repetitively answer:
What is dance? Why I dance?
Photo by Johan Deschuyemer
About Maria
Maria Kefirova is a dance artist, she make performances, installations and videos; she performs, writes, does research and gives artistic advise.
Her interest in the correlation between internal and external realities and the human body’s role as an interface between the two is at the heart of many of her works (The Nutcracker, Corps. Relations, Gold Meat, Manufacturing Tears). Through choreography she build physical spaces for movement of attention, thought and energy (Measuring distance, The Paradise, Why are dogs successful on stage?). Her work has been presented in different festivals and venues in Canada, US, Europe and Mexico. Maria graduated from DasArts- Amsterdam, a residential laboratory for performing arts, research and innovation. She teaches and expands her choreographic practice through collaborations with other artist.
Photo of Maria by Caroline Desilets