I don't know, I suspect. When I dance, I suspect more clearly.
Dance is one of the most effective medium for me to endlessly familiarize myself with myself, with everything. It is a territory with a great level of freedom, where I can be with my body and my mind at the same time. When used appropriately, it guides to discipline without violence, to responsibility for the movement of one's own mind, body, to cultivation. It is a means for calibration, healing, finding respect, humility, patience, spontaneity, harmony and universality. Dance is, I believe, one of the most natural and universal of human expressions, and therefore I believe it can be useful not only for me, but for anyone who comes to the determination to dance or to observe dance.
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Silvia Bakočková (*1995, Bratislava) works in the field of contemporary and modern dance as a teacher, dancer, performer, emerging choreographer, but also as a manager in the for-profit and non-profit sphere.
She is a graduate of the Eva Jaczova Dance Conservatory, The Academy of Performing Arts (Modern Dance Didactics), the College of Management / City University of Seattle (Business Management) and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Brussels (European Law and Environmental Management).
She collaborated in the creation of the training for the Slovak Olympic team in synchronized swimming. She is a teacher at the Private Conservatory in Nitra, and in the past at the Private Primary Art School Tralaškola and others.
She has collaborated artistically with choreographers (Willi Dorner: Bodies in Urban Spaces - site-specific performance, performer), Yuri Korec (Sapiens Territory, performance, performer), Marta Poláková (Expressivity of Movement through Laban's Effort Theory - research, dancer, Rudolf Laban: Visionary of Dance and Theorist of Movement - book, dancer in photographs).
She is part of the umbrella organization for contemporary dance in Slovakia, Platform for Contemporary Dance - PLAST, as project and financial manager.
Occasionally she publishes in the magazine Tanec (Dance).
In the 2024/2025 season she is involved in the projects:
J. Korec, M. Kovářová: The Pulz of Pressburg - performance, dancer
P. Bebjak - directing, J. Korec - choreography: Duchoň - movie, dancer
M. Poláková, A. Petrovic, L. M. M. Balážová, A. Štepita: Walking Songs - performance, dancer
S. Kudelova, D. Raček, N. Rusková: Intensive Tense - performance, assistant choreographer
J. Cerulik: Lud:Us - performance, performer
J. Cerulik, A. Nanova: New Beginnings - movement research and performance, performer
M. Štefančíková, A. Sedlačková, A. Naňová: Animal Party (working title) - performance, performer
M. Poláková: Choreographic Notes - blog, dancer
M. Poláková: Perceptive body - basics of training practice in contemporary dance - dancer - audiovisual material
I. Beňušíková: drama performance about feminism in Slovakia - movement collaboration
S. Bakočková - concept, choreography, D. Kozák and students - sound design - Weight (working title) - choreography for conservatory graduates in collaboration with associate professor Dušan Kozák and students of the Department of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts.
Photographs: Juraj Žilinčár, Pavol Jendruš, Noro Knap, Ctibor Bachratý, Katarína Gregušová
