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KINISI is a dance and choreographic project that centers around embodied sensemaking, embodied knowledge & embodied logic.
About Kinisi
KINISI is a dance and choreographic project with embodied sensemaking at its core. The practice of dancing and organizing movement, informs the activities and works that KINISI develops and engages with.
KINISI operates with the belief that moving teaches us about ourselves in this world, where dance and choreography create the frame for that knowledge to be viewed, shared and experienced.
Curiosity to unfold the experiences and knowledge produced by moving, framed and presented as works, events and happenings, drives the project.
The project has an investigative approach allowing the logic making that occurs when engaged with movement, dance and choreography to create the aesthetics, concepts and audience relations that define each work.
About Kinisi
KINISI believes and practices a holistic approach to creation and production, where all parts and all members of production are seen as integral, necessary and interconnected in relation to each work.
KINISI does not differentiate in its approach, but operates within, but not limited to, a contemporary dance and cross-disciplinary context.
KINISI is organized as an association, founded in 2022. KINISI’s board consists of Bente Larsen, Marie Mors, Mads Holten Bonke and Helene Nymann and is administrated by Astrid Gravsholt. Tim Matiakis is the artistic director of KINISI.
KINISI is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation, Bikuben Foundation, William Demant Foundation, Augustinus Foundation, Wilhelm Hansen Foundation, Beckett Foundation, Louis-Hansens Foundation, City of Copenhagen, Koda Culture and Knud Højgaards Foundation.
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Artistic director, Tim Matiakis (he/him)
Tim Matiakis is a Denmark- based, Swedish-Greek, dancer, choreographer and artistic director who has his roots in classical ballet.
Tim began exploring choreography in 2008 and has to date created works for stage, film and gallery/museum spaces.
Notable collaborations include; Katrine Grarup Elbo, Rachel Tess, Ulrich Ruchlinski, Ben Frost, Christian Lollike, Maja Brix, Ulrik Martin Larsen, Mikkel Hess, Jacob Bjerregaard, Esther Lee Wilkinson.
His works have been performed at ARoS, The Royal Danish Theatre, Corpus, Dansens Hus - Stockholm, Dansstationen, Sort/Hvid, Aarhus Teater, HEART, Det Classenske Bibliotek, Malmö Opera, Musikhuset København, D.A.P Festival.
Tim was the artistic director of Corpus, a choreographic project and contemporary dance company, within the structure of the Royal Danish Ballet, between 2012- 2021. Corpus worked with co-creation, experimental collaborators, cross-disciplinary approaches and formatting of creations, processes, and seasons and worked with, among others, Bobbi Jene, Kristin Ryg Helgebostad, Hilde I. Sandvold, Alexander Ekman, Tilman O’Donnell, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Ioannis Mandafounis.
In 2022 Tim initiated and formed KINISI that is a dance and choreographic project that centers around embodied sensemaking, embodied knowledge and embodied logic.
Tim received the working grant from The Danish Arts Foundation in 2022 and 2023 and was honored in 2018, with the order of Dannebrog by Her Majesty the Queen, Margrethe II of Denmark.
Tim is also a member of the art collective Motherboard, consisting of composer Signe Lykke, soprano, performer and composer Katinka Fogh Vinderlev, film director Cille Hannibal and film director and photographer Frigge Fri.