Corpus

Corpus is an attempt to visualise the ephemerality of sound and movement, approaching the dancing body synesthetically: sound being linked to the movement that produces it, movement as a hearable rhythm and vibration. The body creates tension, trying to effortlessly play with acousmatic and uncanny aspect of the voice-dance-phonosphere. The visual and sound layers compete for the viewer's attention, while the dancing body of the performer tries to give them equal space. I am constantly moving, making the rhythm, shaping time by it. The rhythm of my breath becomes hearable, naturally attached to the movement, changing accordingly. Having control over my voice, I keep the melody in various repetitions, dividing myself into polyrhythmic layers. When one has more freedom, the other seems to maintain the pattern, highlighting the qualities of the sound and movement. The almost impossible attempt of perfect repetition travels through the body dialoguing with itself. I am separating voice, breath and the body, trying to disrupt the togetherness, make the viewers wonder about the source of the sound and humannes of the voice. The visual side of the performance is created by Laura Adel. Using data from the Kinect Azure sensor, the visuals generate a multiplied representation of the dancing body. The performance merges body and technology, creating an immersive environment of mutual influence. As the visuals present a virtual representation of the body, the sound questions the nature of voice, and repetition blends human rhythm with digital iteration.

Aleksandra Nowakowska (https://aleksandranowakowska.cargo.site/) Currently studying at the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies for Choreography and Performance in Giessen (Germany), graduated from the Department of Dance Theatre in Bytom. Scholarship holder of the DAAD programme (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Scholarships) in the field of Performing Arts. Her project ‘City in Touch’ focusing on the body in urban space, the process of creating one's own paths and giving them meaning through movement in the public space. As part of the residency at the Gdansk Dance Festival, she created performance ‘The Day’. Her solo performance ‘Speechless’ was performed, among others, in Warsaw with the duo Podpora/Kohyt (HashtagLab Contemporary Music Space), the Cultural Centre in Lublin and Art Spaces in Katowice. Together with Jan Sarata, she presented the performance ‘CiałoStanowienie’ in Warsaw's ZODIAK Architecture Pavilion. She collaborated with, among others, the Wrocław Pantomime Theatre, the Documentary Theatre of the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław, and the Barakah Theatre in Kraków. Playwright of the play ‘Report for the Academy’ directed by Maciej Gorczyński, participated in the ‘School of social playwrights’ with Artur Pałyga at the Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw. Musically collaborated with Strefa Wolnosłowa and Sound in Space Orchestra in Warsaw. Laura Adel http://www.lauraadel.com/ Interdisciplinary artist currently pursuing a PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Her research, honored with the Jerzy Grotowski Scholarship, explores the delicacy of the digital world through abstract, moving images inspired by nature. She works across installations, video, and objects, with exhibitions in major Polish institutions including Łaźnia CCA and the National Museum in Wrocław. Adel integrates technologies like 3D scanning and motion detection into performance visuals. Her works have been showcased at venues such as Teatr Studio (Warsaw) and Ars Electronica Center (Linz). She also develops the concept of subcutaneous audio-reactivity for music visuals, featured at events like Open Source Festival and WRO Biennale. She participated in the EU’s Magic Carpets residency, with resulting works exhibited at SUPERORGANISM 2024 in Tartu. In 2025, she held her third solo show, Sensitive Bodies.