Ula Sickle

© Ania Rosińska Łuczak
© Ania Rosińska Łuczak

Bio

Ula Sickle (CA/PL) is a choreographer and performer based in Brussels, Belgium. From a background in contemporary dance, she works across disciplines and in collaboration with artists from other domains such as the visual arts, contemporary music or architecture. While her work takes many forms, from video to installation to live performance, she focuses on a choreographic approach to movement and a work on perception and reception, specific to the live arts. Her interest in looking for an alternative to the cannon of contemporary dance, has led her to seek out performers who embody other movement histories. Frequently centered around strong performers, she searches for forms of choreographic writing, where the cultural coding and political power of ‘popular’ dancing can be revealed or where the musicality and materiality of the body itself can take center stage.

Ula studied Art History & Semiotics at the University of Toronto and Performance Studies at Paris VIII, before attending P.A.R.T.S. Performing Arts Research and Training Studios in Brussels. From 2008-2010 she pursued her interest in the visual arts and film, studying at Le Fresnoy, a post-graduate media program in the North of France. In 2017 she was artist in residence at the Ujazdowski Castle, Center of Contemporary Art in Warsaw. From July to December 2018 Ula was artist in residence at Wiels in Brussels. Ula Sickle has been presented in many international theaters and venues such as Kaaitheater, KVS and Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels, BE), Wiener Festwochen, ImPulsTanz and TanzQuartier (Vienna, AT), Teatr Nowy (Warsaw, PL), Zodiak & Moving in November festival (Helsinki, FI), Reykjavik Dance festival (Iceland, IS), B:OM festival (Seoul, KR), Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Zurich, CH), Tanz im August (Berlin), les Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis and Le 104 (Paris, FR), among others.

Ula is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Flemish Community.

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