Practice
Practice
About
The Nomadic School of Moving Thought is a practice-based research initiated by the dance practitioner Sonia Ntova in 2019.
The project explores the entanglement between non-traditional choreographic tools (expanded choreography) and pedagogy as a way of non-normative learning.
Relational learning, through conscious performativity, recognizes the body as an ontological space that is attentive to act as a force for equal relations in the world. The body creates relational maps of (re)defined representations and learning becomes sensitive in the effect of space on the moving body and vice versa.
The project is an artistic political praxis to activate the body as a vital force within the pedagogical, political, social dimension and consequently, in the world. It aims to challenge power relations and to re-evaluate the basic principles of our interactions with nature in times of this urgent ecological crisis.
Who
Sonia Ntova is a dance practitioner, performance maker, and researcher based in Europe. She has worked around Europe for the past 10 years in solo works, collaborations with different artists while teaching dance movement in various contexts.
She obtains a State Diploma in classical and contemporary dance from the Greek Ministry of Culture (GR). Along with a State Diploma in Marketing and Advertising (Alexander Technological Institute of Thessaloniki, GR). She recently got her Master's degree in Dance Research in the field of Dance and Participation (Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen DK).
She divides her time between teaching, research, and choreography.
Her interest lies in making quality artistic processes available to people. She is interested in occupying spaces to engage citizens' movement as a tool for social change. She deals with improvisational structures, which she develops while permitting mutation and flexibility to enter the process. Her movement practice is based on the continuous inquiry of the perceptual engagement and the sensorial world.
Her current focus is on the question of "What re-embodiment do we need in a context of global ethical and ecological crisis?"