Lukas Malkowski is a CODA (Child of Deaf Adult), performance maker and Aquarius based between Canada/Germany. He has performed in John Wick 4, CTM Festival (Berlin), the Rodeo Festival (Munich), Festival Trans Amérique (Montreal), dance: made in Canada (Toronto), and the Schrittmacher Festival (Holland). Lukas’s choreography & teaching is shaped by the embodiment of physics, voice, and Sign. Aside from his own films and live performances, he has choreographed ambient sets, music videos, and films for Sam Slater (Joker OST), LBT, and 7th Plain (Luke Slater). He first began dancing at Rosedale Heights School of the Arts. In 2015, he was Canada’s 2015 Hnatyshyn Foundation Developing Artist Grant recipient in Contemporary Dance. Since attaining his BFA in 2016 at Toronto Metropolitan University, he has worked with Guillaume Côté, Robert Lepage, Wang Ramirez, Staatsballett Berlin, Sasha Waltz & Guests, James Kudelka, Ceren Oran/Moving Borders, Toronto Dance Theatre, Kate Hilliard, Jasmine Ellis, Diane Borsato, Heidi Strauss, Mocean Dance, Peggy Baker, D.A. Hoskins, Opera Atelier, and Deaf Spectrum. Lukas has performed the works of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Maxine Doyle at the Banff Centre and SpringboardDanseMontreal. Flowmentum: his movement practice, is driven by social dialogue and physics embodiment to flow like water & fly like the wind. Harnessing gravity to turn falling into flying, conditioning dynamic, reactive movement in and out of the floor, flowmentum is influenced by contemporary dance, yoga, capoeira, acrobatics and break (breakdance) techniques. His technique classes jump between functional improvisation concepts, grooves and choreographed combinations, striving to unlock dancers’ dynamic flow, harnessing the power of their own momentum.
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