HOTELOKO – WHO WE ARE

The Theater Developement Foundation ‘New Wave’ [Fundacja Rozwoju Teatru ‘NOWA FALA’] is a non-profit organization founded in 2009 in Warsaw by Agata Życzkowska. The Foundation aims is to promote and integrate the artists associated with the contemporary dance and experimental theater. We carry out dance productions and dance events. We are interested in the exchange of experiences between Polish dance artists and such artists from Europe and all over the world. We run also workshops and projects for young people. We collaborates with several cultural institutions in Warsaw. The dance collective HOTELOKO movement makers operates within foundation (since 2017). HOTELOKO works mainly in the area of ​​new choreography and dance experiment.
 
Fot. Marta Ankiersztejn
 
HOTELOKO movement makers work in the field of experimental choreography based on contemporary dance, authentic movement, everyday movement and storytelling. The performances are a collage of images around pop culture and the artists’ European identity. Topics touched upon by the collective include social and gender equality, ecology and the future of our planet, the status of the dancer and performance artist in today’s world, no-dance and the philosophy of the contemporary world.
We are interested in the exchange of experiences between Polish dance artists and such artists from Europe and all over the world. We run also workshops and projects for young people. We collaborates with several cultural institutions in Warsaw.
 
Agata Życzkowska cooperates with Mirek Woźniak, Karina Szutko, Maciej Feliga. The artists creates artistic, educational and social projects touching upon topics such as community, freedom, tolerance, ecology, human rights, education, and the city. They also works with foreign partners in cooperation with organizations and institutions from all over the world. The collective has produced several performances which were presented at festivals in Poland and abroad. Collective has developed its own language, a somewhat freaky dance style focusing on diversity resulting from the artists’ different roots. Their performances are invited to festivals in Poland and abroad (Mandala Performance Festival/Wrocław-Poland, Festival Kalejdoskop/Białystok-Poland, Festival Localize/Potsdam-Germany, Festival Quartiers Danses/Montreal-Canada, Festival Dances-Cités/Carcassonne-France, Festival Internazionale Dissidanza/Palermo-Italy, Lekuz Leku Festival/Bilbao-Spain/Basque Country). Agata Życzkowska is the creator of the International Movement Festival U:NEW in Warsaw.
Fot. Marta Ankiersztejn
Trailer of the performance „LUXA”

The podcast includes the strategies and ideas about the HOTELOKO movement makers collective from Warsaw, especially about the performance “Extinction: Replay” but also general information about the works of HOTELOKO. Length: 4:51

The Theater Developement Foundation ‘New Wave’ [Fundacja Rozwoju Teatru ‘NOWA FALA’] is a non-profit organization founded in 2009 in Warsaw by Agata Życzkowska. The Foundation aims is to promote and integrate the artists associated with the contemporary dance and experimental theater. We carry out dance productions and dance events. We are interested in the exchange of experiences between Polish dance artists and such artists from Europe and all over the world. We run also workshops and projects for young people. We collaborates with several cultural institutions in Warsaw. The dance collective HOTELOKO movement makers operates within foundation (since 2017). HOTELOKO works mainly in the area of ​​new choreography and dance experiment. Agata Życzkowska cooperates with Mirek Woźniak, Karina Szutko, Maciej Feliga. The artists creates artistic, educational and social projects touching upon topics such as community, freedom, tolerance, ecology, human rights, education, and the city. They also works with foreign partners in cooperation with organizations and institutions from all over the world. The collective has produced several performances which were presented at festivals in Poland and abroad. Collective has developed its own language, a somewhat freaky dance style focusing on diversity resulting from the artists’ different roots. Their performances are invited to festivals in Poland and abroad (Mandala Performance Festival/Wrocław-Poland, Festival Kalejdoskop/Białystok-Poland, Festival Localize/Potsdam-Germany, Festival Quartiers Danses/Montreal-Canada, Festival Dances-Cités/Carcassonne-France, Festival Internazionale Dissidanza/Palermo-Italy, Lekuz Leku Festival/Bilbao-Spain/Basque Country). Agata Życzkowska is the creator of the International Movement Festival U:NEW in Warsaw.

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Why HOTELOKO? Because the collective by definition does not have its permanent seat and is open to travel, constant movement (HOTEL), and also focuses on madness (Spanish loco) and draws attention to the experience and honesty (Polish OKO-EYE) recorded in the eye. Why movement makers? Because the main storytelling tool is movement, although the collective boldly weaves words, images and music into their performances as well. The production of movement and the elaborate choreographic structure of the dramaturgy, however, are always leading. HOTELOKO movement makers has developed its own language, a somewhat freaky dance style focusing on diversity resulting from the artists’ different roots. Agata Życzkowska works mainly on identity threads using authentic movement  and everyday movement, interactive methods, teamwork, emotions and reflection, and multimedia. Her world is dominated by sequins that appear in every performance. The shining is a deliberate image, and it is defined by the sentence: „I live in a sequin ball”. Mirek Woźniak defines himself as an artist operating on the border of various fields of art. He creates stage creations at the meeting point of dance, singing and acting. It is based on the flying low, animal movement, contact improvisation techniques, but also based on his original method of permanent flow, which he calls „liquid spirit”.

 

 

 
 

 

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