Place of Residency
Weltkunstzimmer Düsseldorf
Hasmik Tangyan is a performer, choreographer, and dance-movement therapist based in Yerevan, Armenia.
Since 2017 her work comprises confronting and researching the historical and national identity issues within the development of contemporary dance in Armenia. In 2018 Hasmik co-founded the Contemporary Choreography Lab (CoChoLab
Armenia), where she runs the Contemporary Dance School.
Exhibitions in Armenia, Georgia, Poland, Turkey, Belorussia, Ukraine, - dedicated to pushing the boundaries of contemporary dance in these countries.
Discipline
choreography, performance, dance, video
Her primary medium is the body, both in performance, choreography, and video. In her choreographic works, she explores the transformations of games, daily life routines, and objects as possibilities for going back historically and analyzing the influences on the body.
In her performances, Hasmik questions how the improvisational performance, dance, and installation settings affect and change the perception of time and space, body and movement for the audience.
An essential part of her work is teaching, including somatic and healing practices. Her goal is to raise individual body awareness and enable senses to recognize what appears before us and surrounds us.
In her recent video series, Hasmik creates choreography with broken objects, where the choreographer’s intervention is present merely as memory and questions the forces that initiate and stop the movement.