SILVIA BAKOČKOVÁ

Silvia is a graduate of the Eva Jazová Dance Conservatory and the Department of Dance at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. A summary of her university research published in a series of articles in the journal Tanec. As a teacher, she collaborated with the Slovak national team in synchronized swimming, where she searched a solution to the relationship between intuitive, instinctive and controlled movement in sport. As a performer, she has collaborated with choreographers such as: Willi Dorner (Bodies in Urban Spaces) and Yuri Korec (Sapiens Territory). She is currently studying business management at the City University of Seattle. Her managerial skills she currently applies in Platform for Contemporary Dance (Slovak acronym: PlaST), where she collaborates on projects: Slovak Dance Platform, Dance Season, Re/branding of contemporary dance. Currently, she also works as a teacher of modern and contemporary dance at the Conservatory in Nitra and at the Private Art School Tralaškola.

SILVIA IN MOVEMENT (M. Poláková: Expresivita pohybu cez Labanova Effort Theory)