about

who am i?

my name is pavleheidler. i go by pavle or pav. i identify as trans non-binary and neuroqueer (i am autistic with adhd). my pronouns are they/them.

i like to say that i was born in a country that doesn’t exist, (A) because it’ is literally true, and (B) because i like to distract those who ask from the question of nationhood. the year i was born, 1989, saw the fall of the berlin wall and the registration of the patent for what was to become the world wide web.

short bio

like many professional dance artists, i started dancing early on in life. through long-term exposure, dancing’s become an integrated part of my life. more than a profession, it’s how i’ve learned to approach and appreciate being in the world. professionally, i operate as a movement-and-word artist and activist, an educator, curator, and a queer critical thinker who specialises in developing research-oriented performative practices within the expanding fields of dance and choreography. my work-ing is meant to be encouraging of the continual re-form-ing in and of the intersectional and the emergent field of queer critical practice.

i am currently touring in two productions in Sweden and abroad, one made for neurodivergent younglings by dalija aćin thelander, and one discussing the value of laughter (in this economy?!) made by jannine rivel. most notably, i’ve worked with the 2024 recipient of the prestigious golden lion, choreographer Cristina Caprioli, for the better part of my late twenties and early thirties dancing, writing, speaking, choreographing, book-making, video-editing, etc.

the practices i am developing and engaging, i think, are first and foremost embodied practices, which necessarily makes them emergent practices, which necessarily makes them liberatory practices; in as much as working with the body, creating space for the body–or: body–necessitates critical study and the re-thinking of the existing structures that currently create and organise spaces for bodies.

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