Soňa Kúdelová works on the contemporary dance scene in Slovakia as a freelance choreographer, dancer, performer, cultural worker and occasional teacher based in Bratislava. She studied dance at the conservatory in Banská Bystrica and later she studied at the Department of Aesthetics, Comenius University in Bratislava. The theoretical study was aimed at finding parallels of dance and other fields of art in the historical context. She completed her master studies with the work “Analysis of Movement in Wim Wenders Pina movie” and “Postmodern Dance Art and Its Reflections in the Fine Arts”. By drawing from everyday performativity, she gains experience and knowledge of how to grasp herself, in the tangle of today’s society, as well as substantial motivation and creative spontaneity in the creative process. Through constant research of the body and mind, evolving over time, she moves in the topics of socio-psychological adaptation, interpersonal relationships, or society, in her daily practice. She creates collective collaborations with visual, musical and intermediate artists and they test the boundaries of artistic expressions in the same time and space. In addition to everyday life and human character, she continues to be inspired by theoretical texts, studies and essays on art and society. She has created three solo dance productions as a trilogy – “Autopilot” (2018), “Autocorrect” (2019) and “Autonomy” (2021), and a collective research project “Sound of Silence” (2019-2020, 2023). Her latest work is the trio “Intensive Tense” (premiere in December 2024) where she immersed herself in the double position of choreographer and performer. She is the founder of ngo CHAOSMOS (together with visual artist Boris Vitázek). She is member of the board of PLAST – Slovak Contemporary Dance Platform and Coordinator of Dance Residency Centre TELOCVIČŇA cultivated by PLAST.
