How to Do Things with Words

Laura-Maria Poletti (Corsica,1992) started her professional dance education in 2009 at Paris National Conservatoire (CNSMDP), while simultaneously studying English literature at the University Paris Diderot. In 2013, Laura-Maria joined the Training cycle of P.A.R.T.S (Brussels), where she graduated in 2016. During the fall of 2014, she performed Spanish Dance with the Trisha Brown Dance Company in Leuven. She worked again under the direction of Diane Madden and Carolyn Lucas as an intern for the repertory performances of the Trisha Brown Dance Company in BAM in January 2016. She joined Rosas for the revival of Rain in 2016. Since then, she has been part of revivals of pieces such as Fase, Four movements to the music of Steve Reich, Rosas Danst Rosas and Drumming, as well as creations like Dark-Red Beyeler or Mystery Sonatas / for Rosa. She is now working on her new research project aNOTHER rHAPSODY.

Born and rooted in Tashkent in Uzbekistan, expanded to Brussels and shaped in Istanbul, Tamara Kamola Rashidova moves between tradition and contemporary expression. She appears across operas, musicals, and international festivals. Her own creations 4=1, How to do things with words, Duet , For Rachmaninov, Alem and Where the Heart Leaves explore intimate encounters between music, memory, and the body.