hello,
my name is pavleheidler. i go by pavle or pav. i was born in a country that doesn’t exist and currently live a short walk to and from a large body of water. i identify as trans non-binary and neuroqueer, my pronouns are they/them.
i like to say that i am a movement-and-word artist and activist, an educator, 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.
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.
pavleheidler (they/them) (ADHD-autism)
2018-2023
Somatic Movement Education
Embody-Move, licence holder for the School of Body-Mind Centering®
UK
2013-2015
MFA New Performative Practices
Stockholm University of the Arts
Stockholm, Sweden
2008-2012
Training and Research Cycle
Performing Arts Research and Training Studios
Bruxelles, Belgium
2006-2008
Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance
Salzburg, Austria
I am a professional member of BMCA (Body-Mind Centering® Association) and a registered Somatic Movement Educator of Body-Mind Centering®.
- dancer at Dansalliansen;
- curator at ImPulsTanz Symposium for Dance and Other Contemporary Practices.
BMC® and Body-Mind Centering® are registered service marks of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, used with permission.