From a background in contemporary dance, Uli Sickle works across disciplines, drawing from the visual arts or contemporary music. While her work takes many forms, from video to installation to live performance, she focuses on a choreographic approach to movement and a work on perception and reception, specific to the live arts.
 

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Sickle’s interest in looking for an alternative to the cannon of contemporary dance has led her to seek out performers who embody other movement histories. Attempting different forms of choreographic writing centred around strong performers, she attempts to reveal the cultural coding and political power of »popular« dance, and explores the musicality and materiality of the body itself can take center stage.

The artist studied Art History & Semiotics at the University of Toronto and Performance Studies at Paris VIII, before attending P.A.R.T.S. Performing Arts Research and Training Studios in Brussels. From 2008–2010 she pursued her interest in film, studying at Le Fresnoy, a post-graduate media program in the North of France. In 2017 she was artist in residence at the Ujazdowski Castle, Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw and in 2018 she was artist in residence at Wiels in Brussels. She is currently pursuing a PhD in the arts at Leuven University and Luca School of Arts in Brussels.

Her work has been presented in many international theaters and venues such as Kaaitheater, KVS and Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels BE), Wiener Festwochen, ImPulsTanz and TanzQuartier (Vienna AT), Teatr Nowy (Warsaw PL), Zodiak & Moving in November (Helsinki FI), Reykjavik Dance Festival (Iceland IS), B:OM Festival (Seoul KR),  Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Zurich CH), Tanz im August (Berlin DE), les Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis and Le 104 (Paris FR), among others.