Bare walls, two vertical cloths. "NaYmA...": Thierry Zaboitzeff's pulsating rhythms, suggestive sounds, the timbre of his voice lure a young woman out of her cocoon. Attempts at walking, conquering space, self-empowerment through language, justification and screaming...
The Polish dancer and performer Maja Mirek combines theatrical and dance qualities into a broad repertoire of expression. Body language, movement vocabulary and use of space experience a significant expansion into the vertical and horizontal by means of a rope and belt system.
premiere: 9 April 2022, ARGEkultur, PERFORMdANCE #32
performance: Maja Mirek
choreography, artistic direction: Editta Braun
composition: Thierry Zaboitzeff
dramaturgy: Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau
light design: Thomas Hinterberger
length: 33 minutes
"Maja Mirek's physicality reveals a remarkable diversity in the movement vocabulary shown. (...) This performance of discovery, of trying things out, of feeling one's way forward (...) of self-empowerment, emancipation of one's own body and one's own voice in a space that always seems strange, is sometimes received with a smile in the audience at the beginning. In the course of time, however, it almost feels as if the audience is holding its breath to finally applaud the performer in unison and occasionally even with a standing ovation."
Miriam Ljubijankic: „Figure it out! - Eröffnungsabend des Festivals PERFORMdANCE #32 in Salzburg“, in: tanznetz.de
Maja Mirek
* in 1991 in Poland, journalist with a BA degree, driven by the desire to heal the world. After MA degree in interactive media, she changed her life dancing. In 2020 graduated dance at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, currently finishing dance studies at ABPU in Linz, being a freelance dancer and choreographer, numerous engagements.
«NaYmA»
