Miriam Budzáková

 Miriam Budzáková is a dance and performance artist, currently based in Vienna, working mainly in Slovakia, Italy and Austria. She is a 4-year graduate of SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, Austria) and a Bachelor's degree in Dance Theatre and Performance at the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts. Her work blends seriousness, humour, irony and sentiment. She explores the experience of the body in uncomfortable, intimate, personal, social and public contexts. She is interested in non-traditional forms of audience engagement in performance - through specific performative and spatial arrangements, often seeking and creating performative situations as collective spectatorial experiences. As a performer, she likes to step into roles that challenge her. Particularly those that are based on instructions and directions rather than a pre-determined script or flow. As a dancer, she enjoys those that get her sweaty, tired, and floating in space. Her work, both her own and co-authored, has been presented at venues and festivals such as Nu Dance Fest, Kiosk festival, Buffalo/ MACRO Rome (IT), Hellerau - Europäisches Zentrum der Künste (DE), Dance Prague (CZ). She has also collaborated with the INSTITUT INSTITUT collective, and the ArTemporis association. Since 2017, she has been co-organizing the multi-genre dance festival Dance in the North of Slovakia.