Maria Zimpel choreographer, dance artist. She is exploring limits of physicality and creates her own dance
language.
Her choreographies are often modular structures based on semi repetitive movement patterns.
She is inspired by various movement traditions.
She draws on somatics, autobiographical abstraction and broadly understood perception
in movement. She is an author of many solo and
collaborative projects shown internationally, such as Noish~, (2015,
SBNT, Poznañ) Body and
Fiction
(2018, CSW/U-jazdowski, Warsaw), Space Gives Place (2020, K3 Hamburg),
WATERDANCES/Yes Poems (2021, K3|Hamburg, Muzeum Susch),
Motions of Revolution (2022, Kampnagel Hamburg), LOVE PROJECT (2023, Kampnagel Hamburg)
As a dancer she worked with radical artists such as: →Rosalind
Crisp←, →Isabelle Schad← and →Kat Valastur←.
Studied „Dance, Choreography and Context”
at HZT (Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz) in Berlin at University of the Arts (UdK),
and Cultural Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznañ and the Friedrich Alexander Universität
Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Her choreography „Noish~” was selected for the European Platform AerowavesTwenty 2016,
and Polish Dance Platform in 2017. In
Body and Fiction she collaborated with designer Dorota Kabała to
create natural flow between stage set and movement of the dancer. During the K3 residency in Hamburg
2019/2020, she combined the research
in quantum physics and dance, exploring the idea of dance as an elementary force creating and transforming
places. In 2021 with support of NPN-Stepping Out and Muzeum Susch, she debuted with full length experimental
dance film WATERDANCES/Yes Poems, in collaboration with documentary filmmaker →Claudio von Planta←. Together
they explore her idea of a body as a transceiver and an ecofeminist concept of an embodied nature.
LOVE PROJECT is a duet in 5 parts with the dancer →Yasutake Shimaji ←. She continues working together with
music composer → mooryc ←, light designer → Joanna Lešnierowska ← and dramaturge Niklaus Bein, as well as
many other artists.
She is a part of
→ STUIDO Hammerdeich ←. Since 2021 her creative work is
supported by Kampnagel Theatre Hamburg.
Maria is also a GYROKINESIS® and GYROTONIC®
trainer with
her practice based in Hamburg and Warsaw.
