Monika Smekot Monika Smekot at Cove Park

02—05.08.21

Monika Smekot is an independent video and dance artist based in Glasgow, weaving together her practice in dance and cinematography. Her training in contemporary dance and various other dance styles and techniques gives her an ability to read and understand the movement for the camera. Her strong interest in dance improvisations helps her continuously look for new points of view for the camera.

Monika has worked as a performer with various choreographers and has also produced her own work. Together with Iraya Noble she co-created a dance theatre ‘un dó’, which focused mainly on screen dance.

She has produced short dance films, experimental films, documentations of creative processes and interviews.

She has curated series of dance films screenings, organized by The Work Room and screened at CCA. She is very enthusiastic about supporting independent artists, which led her to create POZAproject - a platform that facilitates focused research in and between the fields of dance/movement/ sound/ video and performance.

Monika is also a mother of two little children.

During the residency at Cove Park Monika will be researching the possibilities that camera and dance/movement offers in telling the story of her relationship with her visually impaired son. How the camera can offer the variety of perspectives and how the dance can convey the most intimate and complex experiences of mother dealing with visually impaired child.

For this project Monika will be collaborating with Robbie Jones – Glasgow based cinematographer and Fergus Dunnet – Glasgow based visual artist.

 

Monika Smekot https://www.monikasmekot.org/  https://www.undodance.org/ 

POZA project https://www.pozaproject.org 

Robbie Jones https://www.robbietjones.com 

Fergus Dunnet https://fergus-dunnet.weebly.com/


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