Martina De Dominicis is a Vienna-based performer and choreographer, who enjoys both personal creations and collaborative works in support of other artists. Starting out as a neoclassical dancer for several European ensembles, she has been collaborating and supporting works from CocoonDance Company, Veza Maria Fernandez, Alberto Cissello, Georg Blaschke, Daphna Horenzcik, Alexander Gottfarb, Karin Pauer, Michikazu Matsune, Reut Shemesh, Magdalena Forster and BRUCH. Her current research navigates the in-between states of presence, working through practices rooted in the sensory interplay of touch and sight. She treats performance as a porous space, where memory, historical echoes and the desire for intimacy can surface, guided by affect, bodily knowledge and the quiet intensity of lived experience.

Before the modern period, before the unstoppable linearity of enlightenment, industrialisation and the technological somersaults that continue into the present, there were the Middle Ages. The dark era of feudalism and rigid hierarchies, for one. But, on the other hand, an “in-between time” which – from today’s globalised perspective – seems “static and suspended”, making it a space-of-time of longing for choreographer and performer Martina De Dominicis. In her piece Latente, De Dominicis and co-performers Magdalena Forster and Manuel Riegler (the latter also being responsible for the marvellous sound design) let “time move in multiple directions”, giving themselves over to the half-light and centering ritualistic dedication and “tactile knowledge” in their explorations.

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