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2015
Performance

Crazy for feeling so blue is a performance that was made during a workshop with artist Helga Rosenfeldt-Olsen while I was attending the LungA art school in Seydisfjördur, Iceland.

The performance took place over the time span of one hour, during which small groups of people successively came into the pink painted shower where I was performing. Every time a new group came in, I put on Patsy Cline’s song "Crazy" and chose a random person in the group that I dedicated the song to, singing for that one person only. I looked them straight in the eyes during the entire song, carefully ignoring everyone else.

The song is addressed to someone who broke the singer's heart. She is asking herself what she did wrong and is blaming herself because she can't stop loving that person. In singing the song to a stranger, I put them in the place of the person who broke my heart, desperately seeking an answer to my heartbreak and thus creating an intense temporary bond between us.

An excerpt of the performance is available to watch here:

2019
Performance

Body Stories is a performance that was created during a residency at Ponderosa, an art center and community located in the German countryside.

During the residency I took part in a series of contact improvisation dance classes, which turned my body into lead and made me cry a lot. To calm down, I took myself on long walks along the Oder, the river marking the border between Germany and Poland. Being in the open, surrounded by nature and away from people helped me to get back a sense of myself, of my body, of my movements.

In this performance I am practicing my own kind of contact improvisation, replacing people with trees, ruins and birds. My gestures turn into a conversation with my surroundings, a tree shaped like a question mark punctuating my sentences. The elements I chose to "contact improvise" with, or to converse with, function as a kind of mirror, offering their physicality to give me back my own.

You can watch a video of the performance here: