My practice is grounded in a diverse spectrum of experience—from Graham and Horton techniques, floor work, flying low, and contact improvisation to somatic practices, mindful movement, and yoga—spanning countries and cultural contexts, with collaborations on international stages from Taiwan to Austria.
B I O
A Belarusian-born artist based in Austria, I hold advanced degrees in dance and movement research—a foundation that empowers me to create powerful "movement architectures" on stage, on screen, and within my body. Over the past 15 years, my creative path has spanned immersive performances, dance films, physical theatre, and multimedia festivals—approaching movement not just as an art form, but as a way of being.
A Belarusian-born artist based in Austria, I hold advanced degrees in dance and movement research—a foundation that empowers me to create powerful "movement architectures" on stage, on screen, and within my body. Over the past 15 years, my creative path has spanned immersive performances, dance films, physical theatre, and multimedia festivals—approaching movement not just as an art form, but as a way of being.
P R E S E N T
Since 2017 I have worked with more than 1000 people and have completed more than 30 projects
Since 2017 I have worked with more than 1000 people and have completed more than 30 projects
My artistic practice is driven by a lifelong fascination with the body's capacity for movement—its power to influence, its potential for slowing down or expanding, its sheer magic. I am captivated by the individual character of each person's movement
Through understanding my own movement identity, I aim to channel my bus-sized creative potential and choreographic-research ideas to fruition as a performer, choreographer, and teacher
Through understanding my own movement identity, I aim to channel my bus-sized creative potential and choreographic-research ideas to fruition as a performer, choreographer, and teacher
PERFORMANCES
September 2025, Ars Electronica Festival
Room №0 is a choreographic performance that explores fragmented notions of home, emigration and embodied presence through personal movement scores. The piece unfolds within the immersive environment of Deep Space at the Ars Electronica Center
September 2025, Ars Electronica Festival
Antinomy is an immersive dance performance combining contemporary dance with generated visual art and video. It explores the paradox of bodily autonomy in a future where virtuality and control reshape human perception and identity
May 2025, Raumschiff Linz
Solanum Identity
"Solanum Identity" is a performance that explores the embodied experience of a Belarusian woman in emigration, using potatoes as a symbol of cultural memory and rootedness. As potatoes spread beyond borders, they form a metaphorical map of expanding roots, expressing how the body carries the homeland. Emigration here is not a separation of roots, but a way to spread them: to grow in breadth and depth, while maintaining a connection with the place where they originated
April 2025, BrucknerHaus Linz
performed as a part of the evening Choreografie der Vogelstimmen in the BrucknerHaus in Linz and Vienna. A dance soliloquy on being born into a world of circumstances and a country not of one's own choosing, using the allegory of the stork, the mythical bird that delivers newborns
December 2023, Belarus
Dzikae Palyavanne
This is a discussion about the balance of femininity and masculinity in a person. As well as the balance of a person in nature. The state of humanity on the verge of itself. The introduction into the essence of nature through the purity of the body and movement. This is an installation, a movement, and a performance
August 2021, Baikal
The performance was created during an art residency at Lake Baikal led by Anton Adasinsky (DEREVO, Dresden), where was explored Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Garden of Earthly Delights
Free Association Improvisation
Antinomy Solo
Contacts
dsheiko3720@gmail.com
