Zoë Poluch

Zoë Poluch is a choreographer, dancer and educator and a long term friend and collaborator with Stina Nyberg. Stina has worked as a dancer in Zoë's projects, Zoë in hers, and collaboratively they are part of Samlingen as well as several other joint adventures in dancing, thinking and teaching.

Embarking on the impossible mission of creating a dance without choreography, the Zoë Poluch invited Stina Nyberg and Adam Seid Tahir to investigate the business through a practice of dancing together, performed as part of the Dance Concert at Accelarator in 2019.

With an artistic practice that takes shape in different rooms and puts into motion different mediums, Zoë Poluch’s deeply critical eye for the contemporary dance scene is based on a long term and practice-based interest in the politics of moving and sensing. As she dances, talks, teaches, writes and thinks, she does it with a precise gymnastics of the senses. She looks forward to the far future, perhaps 2070, when she will inaugurate a dance company for dancing people 70 years and older and tour with a solar airplane. In the past, she studied, trained and worked in Canada and Belgium and could be found dancing and performing on big and small stages, kind of all over with the likes of Thomas Hauert/ZOO and The Knife. More recently, this has included extensive commitments to collaborations with Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Elisa Harkins, Cara Tolmie, Nadja Hjorton, Stina Nyberg and Halla Olafsdottir. Zoë is currently Assistant Professor in Contemporary Dance at SKH in Stockholm.