Gosia Mielech
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and entwined with dailiness. It would be a shame to deny the tradition, an immensity of inspirations that Artist ' s can confront their ultra contemporary approach with.
Would you like to tell us something about your background? You have formal training and in 2007 you graduated from Olga Slawska- Lipczynska Ballet School: moreover, I think it ' s important to remark that this wasn ' t your first experience with dance and that before graduating you already started a career in Ballet... How have these different experiences impacted on your development as an artist and on the way you currently create your dance?
Obviously, ballet technique has strongly influenced the beginning of my professional career. Simultaneously I was training in contemporary dance, as well as other dance techniques, that from the earliest years gave me a wide spectrum of dance education. The fascination and dedication to ballet turned out to leave strong technical fundamentals in the body and habits that I was able to confront in the later years, by focusing on improvisation and seeking for different values and qualities of movement in dance. Improvisation opened up a totally new chapter in my life. Dance wasn’ t about perfect figures, symmetrical excellence and partly numb body anymore. I started focusing on imagination and more importantly, I started to really listen to my body instead of telling it what to do. From that moment on, I was more careful and conscious about the reality that surrounds me. During my years of dancing in the Polish Dance Theatre, I was able to turn theory into practice by combining my movement research and collaborating with many sublime choreographers. Another milestone on my dance self-education route was discovering GaGa language. After several visits to Israel, where GaGa originates from, I became entirely inspired by this movement philosophy, which is created by Ohad Naharin.“ There are many things in it: the importance of yielding and the collapse of delicacy, connecting effort to pleasure, working without mirrors, being aware of our explosive power and sometimes using it. Being calm and alert at once.” – Ohad Naharin.
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