b12 summer | main event
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b12 summer main event
— // —location: eden***** studios
Oleg Stepanov
choreographer | film director | former dancer at tanztheater wuppertal Pina bausch and Gothenburg dance company
piece by piece. 2.0
i invite you to explore with me a system of improvisation and composition that i have been developing for several years. in addition to extensive tools for improvisation and movement generation, this methodology is also aimed at expanding one’s own potential as a dancer and artist. the longer i explore the body, mind and spirit, the more i discover how diverse our mechanisms of cognition and existence are, and how endless we are in our limitations. the organism is such a mosaic of states, qualities and structures that it offers us an almost infinite number of variations for constructing, experiencing and expressing movement. it is this most infinite set of options that arouses my interest. i am eager to find how to create room within the constraints and to address virtuosity and unpredictability, complexity and simplicity simultaneously — while striving to remove the excess and unnecessary, and to find ease in dancing that is, at the same time, neither primitive nor boring. i am looking for a dance that, while having conceptual and intelligent foundations, nevertheless transmits and expresses them through the body. over the course of these six days, we will experiment with often diametrically opposed concepts, constructs, objectives and tasks — expanding our physical, intellectual and felt experience, knowledge and skills.
the description reflects an artist’s idea which was developed at the time it was submitted to b12. it may have changed by the time the workshop or the performance project is starting. please stay flexible. thank you!
biography
oleg was born in the urals, russia, and after graduating from the physics department of the ural university, oleg devoted himself to art-making. he danced at tanztheater wuppertal pina bausch, gothenburg dance company, theater basel and provincial dances theatre. he collaborated with renowned choreographers such as dimitris papaioannou, saburo teshigawara, sidi larbi cherkaoui, alan lucien oyen, richard siegal, constanza macras, bobbi jene smith, fabrice mazliah, uri ivgi and johan greben, tatiana baganova. in 2025, oleg was awarded an artistic residency at baryshnikov art in new york to develop his theatre and film co-creation with dario minoia. oleg’s work in film involved choreographing for tom tykwer’s film the light. oleg's film, a moth on a bomb, won a prize at new york tri-state international short film festival and was officially selected for numerous international film festivals. he is currently collaborating as a choreographer with film director alla kovgan on their next full-length dance film. in terms of choreographic language and method, oleg addresses movement as a synthesis between the architecture and biomechanics of the body, intertwined with an inner sensorial journey. he likes to play with defragmentation and re-assembling, non-trivially alternating the natural movement with the unusual and peculiar. he works with potential and the search for limitlessness and unpredictability within the rather limited possibilities of the body and matter.
please be aware of our early bird special offer for this workshop! you can apply for this offer up until the 24th of march 2025. after the 24th the regular workshop fee applies. applications are accepted up until one day before the workshops starts.
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