A dance piece by Andressa Miyazato in collaboration with the BA students of the 1st year of the IDA Institute at the Anton Bruckner Private University.
We used the image of a mosaic to evoke the many fragments of experience dancers gather as they move from one place to another and the variety of dance techniques they encounter throughout their careers. The mosaic symbolizes diversity — but more than that, its visible gaps, its “scars,” form part of a larger whole: a handmade work of art.
In this sense, Etudes for a New Consciousness invites us to reflect: Could it be that fragmentation and scars are what make life compelling? Can a mere collection of disjointed elements become a rich, meaningful mosaic of our dance experiences? Should we stop striving to shape a figure with a smooth, unified surface and instead embrace the fragments we collect along the way? Or is the very effort to construct that coherent figure what binds the pieces together?
Dance: Sofiia Zeifert, Veronica Pace, Michaela Pocklanová, Nayoung Kim, Arkadiusz Hryb, Chaerin Gwak, Blaž Cunk, Neža Kokalj, Nika Sarajlija
Composition/Music: Maria Chlebus
Costume Design: Seraina Keller
Choreography, dramaturgy, concept and light design: Andressa Miyazato
Video by Jonatan Salgado Romero
Andressa Miyazato 