Anna Steller describes her performative action “Divergence” as a dance of a mother, a person and one that reveals different faces. There, a single gesture evokes the memory of the body, which does not belong only to her, but is an ever-changing ecosystem that absorbs living and nonliving matter. The artist mentions a network of conditioned, amorphous forms that consequently create a “new self” – shared, divided, multiplied, someone else’s. This forking is going beyond the self, leaving the self and becoming someone/something again.
Realized with funds from the Cultural Scholarship of the Mayor of the City of Gdańsk.
Tuesday / Oct 1, 2024 / 2.45 pm / GAFU
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Anna Steller
Performer, dancer and choreographer, mother of three children. Born in 1979 in Gdańsk, she began performing on stage in 1993 at the Dada von Bzdülow Theater. She has been creating performances and shows for many years. As a performer, she focuses mainly on the clarity and sincerity of her message using radical artistic solutions. She is interested in collaborating with artists with different interests and achieving a new and fresh quality through negotiation in the field of art. She has been exploring the interdisciplinary nature of dance and performance for years, trying to understand and communicate important contents and concepts to the public.
She is a member of Plenum Osób Opiekujących Się, which gathers people working in art and caring for others, with whom she won the main prize at the 7th Gdańsk Art Biennale in 2023. She has presented her works at the Łaźnia Center for Contemporary Art in Gdańsk, Galeria Miejska in Gdańsk, the Halo Kultura Gallery in Gdynia, the Kronika Center for Contemporary Art in Bytom, the State Art Gallery in Sopot, the Arts Station Foundation in Poznań, the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław, at the Maat Festival in Lublin, Malta Festival in Poznań, “Telling the Baltic” Festival in Karlskrona, Miami Performance International Festival, FestivalL1 Contemporary Dance Festival in Budapest, “Body-Mind” festivals in Warsaw, “Four Days” and Festival of Naked Form (both in Prague) and in Berlin.She has received numerous grants and awards, including “Dance Web” at the Impulstanz dance festival in Vienna (2003), the Visegrad Fund scholarship (2014), the Special Award of the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship for outstanding merits in the field of artistic creativity, and the Award of the Mayor of Gdańsk for Young Creators for her performance Good Girl Killer. In addition, in 2014 she received a scholarship from the Alternative Dance Academy of the Art Station Foundation in Poznań. She has twice received a grant from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
photo Alina Żemojdzin
