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    new duet (2020)
    new duet (2020)

    Current work in progress. Duet with Elisa Vassena and Anders Duckworth. (video with Robert Keates).

    one wall of me (2019)
    one wall of me (2019)

    "one wall of me" creates an opportunity for reflection on how the way we see affects a sense of separation. It is about interconnectivity of everything and about what happens when we choose to perceive it. It is about a human crisis of perception and about togetherness. "Without self-understanding we cannot hope for enduring solution to environmental problems, which are fundamentally human problems." Yi-Fu Tuan

    arvoles (2013)
    arvoles (2013)

    Integrating aspects of live concert, dance piece and digital art show, Arvoles is a multimedia theatre production. Based around a suite of medieval Sephardic folk ballads the performance weaves the intensely poetic Ladino lyrics of the songs into an epic narrative, telling timeless stories of love, loss, yearning, migration and defiance.

    rolling intervention (2017)
    rolling intervention (2017)

    Durational work exploring ideas of body's intrinsic wisdom of coexistence. Questioning hierarchy and verticality of human relationships to other.

    slow knowing (2014)
    slow knowing (2014)

    inspired by the unwavering state of wander, created for black box theatre in a collaboration with a set designer `Juliette Rombotis

    dreaming dead (2014)
    dreaming dead (2014)

    choreography and performance for a film by director Alex Morley premiered at Turner Contemporary Margate 2014

    "Memory Score"
    "Memory Score"

    During the hour-long piece choreographed by Kasia Witek, dancers lead the audience through the district's streets past sites of historic significance – some of which have been officially commemorated while others are barely visible – attempting through this communal act to reconcile the neighbourhood's present with its past.

    you, passing (2016)
    you, passing (2016)

    a performance installation made out of wax, metal, glass, plastic, cardboard and human body; meditation on proximity of body and "stuff"

    valediction (2015)
    valediction (2015)

    Inspired by my grandmother this film delves into one of the most powerful human experiences - grief. The film includes deeply moving performance from a 67 year old professional dancer and actor John Koratjitis. This short film has been later re-edited to become a music video for a music band Blue-Eyed Hawk.

    DIPTIK (2014)
    DIPTIK (2014)

    co-created with an award winning contemporary jazz composer Elliot Galvin Diptik was set to challenge traditional performance framing, exploring how it influences both creation and viewing of performative work.

    maoz tsur (2013)
    maoz tsur (2013)

    short film directed by Kasia Witek and shot by Peter Mallet premiered at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris

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