Janusz Orlik, a performer, choreographer, dance practitioner. After graduating from Ballet School in Warsaw he studied at Brucknerkonservatorium Linz, Austria. His own choreographic works include “Exérèse monobloc”, “and thy neighbour as thyself”, “Live on stage”, “The Rite of Spring”, “Mute”, “Insight” (Special Award of The Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland for the best choreography granted as part of the Polish Dance Platform 2014) and “Koda (a tribute)” (2019). Since 2002 he is a core member of Vincent Dance Theatre. He collaborated with Joanna Leśnierowska, Nigel Charnock, Rosalind Crisp, Isabelle Schad and Ugo Dehaes among others. Janusz delivers movement and choreographic workshops in various venues, dance schools and community centres in Poland and abroad.

www.januszorlik.com

Contributions

The (dance) practice of Everything and Nothing

Learn everything / forget nothing.
Forget everything / take nothing.
Take everything / have nothing.
Have everything / mean nothing.
Mean everything / be nothing.
Be everything = you are A no thing.

Dance everything / applaud to nothing.
Applaud everything / silence nothing.
Silence everything / God bless the nothing.
Bless every thing = you are A no thing.

Say everything / hear nothing.
Hear everything / sound nothing.
Sound everything / silence nothing.
Silence everything / every thing.

each. 1. Single. Tiniest. Thing.
STOP. MOVING. STOPS.