Choreography

Microphone Controller (2023)

every single one of us, every single one of you in the audience tonight has your own voice, your expression, your movement, your feelings, your movements, your favourite songs, your excitement, your love…things only matter when you believe they’re worth saying, worth doing, it’s important that you’re all here, watching, listening, making noise, getting excited, make some noise

thank you all for joining me here tonight, you could’ve been anywhere in the world tonight, but you’re here

Face to Face (2022)

Using hand gestures, rhythmic play, or simple embraces, Lukas Malkowski and Naishi Wang both superb performers, speak through movements. Sometimes mirroring the other, sometimes doing the opposite, their fluid or syncopated gestures are X-rays revealing volatile and impregnable states of being. A hymn to imperfect transmission, Face to Face depicts the ramifications of our relations to the world, to the other, and invites the audience to decrypt its secrets.

Face to Face (2022) Festival TransAmériques, Internationale Tanzmesse Düsseldorf 2022, Performance&Choreography by Naishi Wang & Lukas Malkowski, Lighting Design by Chris Malkowski, Photos&Videos by Jeremy Mimnagh

DANCING, SIGNING, WRITING (2021)

In DANCING, SIGNING, WRITING we have created choreographies that amplify the signs that they are generated from. Almost everything in this 39-minute duet has been generated from American Sign Language and English words. Inspired by the work of Christine Sun Kim and Richard Serra’s ‘list of verbs’ we ask: How can a Word be Signed? How can a Sign be Danced?

Choreography Lukas Malkowski with Dawn Jani Birley
Photos & Video by Jubal Battisti

Supported by the Research Grant Performing Arts (Recherchestipendium Darstellende Kunst) of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin.

Momentum Contingency

Momentum Contingency explores actions and consequences. It is a solo performance merging wind, kinetic sculpture, soundscape, costume design and light. The performance is inspired by the “Irresistible Force Paradox”. Until now, Western capitalist thinking has held that we are an “irresistible force” and that our actions are only consistent if they serve our egoistic ambitions. What happens when our irresistible actions create unstoppable consequences?

Residency:TRAUMABARUNDKINO, Performance&Choreography by Lukas Malkowski, Photos & Videos by Dana Pajarillaga, Dramaturgy: Antonia Gersch

Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR, aid programm DIS-TANZEN by the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.

Waves of Flesh (2020/21)

Giving and taking space are highly nuanced acts. Waves of Flesh is a duet about fluid support. In spectra of touch and intense connection, we aspire towards transcendental intimacy.

Premiere: 2020 Staatsballett Berlin, Online Performance: nah-dran HEART-BREAK in ada Studios 2021