About

Lukas Malkowski(he/they) is a CODA(Child of Deaf Adult), performance maker and Aquarius based between Canada/Germany. He has performed in John Wick 4, CTM Festival(Berlin), the Rodeo Festival(Munich), Festival Trans Amérique(Montreal), dance: made in Canada(Toronto), and the Schrittmacher Festival(Holland). Lukas’s choreography & teaching is shaped by the embodiment of physics, voice, and American Sign Language. He has choreographed films, live performances, ambient sets, music videos, and films for Sam Slater(Joker OST), LBT, 7th Plain(Luke Slater), and with Jubal Battisti. In 2015, he was Canada’s 2015 Hnatyshyn Foundation Developing Artist Grant recipient in Contemporary Dance. Since attaining his BFA in 2016 at Toronto Metropolitan University, he has worked with Guillaume Côté, Robert Lepage, Jefta Van Dinther, Wang Ramirez, Staatsballett Berlin, Sasha Waltz & Guests, James Kudelka, Ceren Oran/Moving Borders, Toronto Dance Theatre, Kate Hilliard, Jasmine Ellis, Diane Borsato, Heidi Strauss, Mocean Dance, Peggy Baker, D.A. Hoskins, Opera Atelier, and Deaf Spectrum. Lukas has performed the works of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Maxine Doyle at the Banff Centre and SpringboardDanseMontreal. Flowmentum: his movement practice, is driven by social dialogue and physics embodiment to flow like water & fly like the wind. Harnessing gravity to turn falling into flying, conditioning dynamic, reactive movement in and out of the floor, flowmentum is influenced by contemporary dance, yoga, capoeira, acrobatics and break (breakdance) techniques.