ABOUT
A KASAKOVE
EDUCATION:
2020 - 2022 Stockholm University of the Arts (fka. Doch) -
Master of Fine Arts in Choreography
2013-2017 The Danish National School of
Performing Arts - Bachelor in Dance and Choreography
2011-2012 Salzburg Experimental Academy
of Dance - Bachelor in Dance
ADDITIONAL COURSES:
2022 Curatorial Practice and Context - SKH and Lokomotiva
2022 Grief Immersion For Death Workers
Course facilitated by Will Daddario, PhD and Joanne Zerdy, PhD
SELECTED WORKS AS A DANCER AND CHOREOGRAPHER:
TOAST
Installation, animation film and comic book
by Amalia Kasakove - Degree project developed at Stockholm University of the Arts
2022 Weld
2022 SKH
JUST OK
Performance by Anna Lea Ourø and Amalia Kasakove
2022 IPAF Warehouse9, Copenhagen
2021 Aaben Dans, Roskilde
2020 Gallery Jennifer, Gothenburg
2020 TNEC in Ställbergs Gruva, Sweden
2019 Y-Choreography at HAUT, Copenhagen
2019 Mrs. Phink's House, CPH STAGE
SURE
Performance by Amalia Kasakove and Anna Lea Ourø
2021 Koncertkirken, Denmark
2021 TNEC at Ställbergs Gruva, Sweden
2019 Thecarrierbag festival at
DANSEatelier/Dansehallerne, Copenhagen
2019 Bådteatret, Copenhagen
2018 Le Regard du Cygne, Paris
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
By Amalia Kasakove, Anna Lea Ourø and Naya Moll
2018 Cité Internationale Des Arts, Paris
2018 The Danish National School of Performing Arts, Cph
AKA. ANTELOPES
By Amalia Kasakove, Anna Lea Ourø and Karin Bergman
with Anna Holmberg
2017 Dansehallerne, Copenhagen
2017 Performance Feast, DANSEatelier, Cph
2017 The Danish National School of Performing Arts, Cph
SELECTED WORKS AND COLLABORATIONS:
2023 THE DANISH NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS/ Collaboration and composition workshop for Bachelor in Dance and Choreography students
2022 / 2023 RIKSTEATERN, Söder om Söder
Scenography building assistant
2022 Facilitator at SUMMER UNIVERSITY REBOOT at Performing Arts Forum, France
2022 WEATHERING HEIGHTS film by Hannah Wiker Wikström. Winner of the Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen and The International Critics’ Prize at Oberhausen Short Film Festival
2022 QUANTUM SOCIETY by Sara Gebran
Choreographic Publication, Hallen, Stockholm
2021 TIME CALL AXXESS by Hannah Wiker Wikström
A Careful Strike* exhibition curated by Michele Masucci at Gallery Mint, Stockholm
2020 Curator and organizer of AABENT RUM Micro Festival Aaben Dans, Roskilde
2020 DANCE COOPERATIVE - Co-Founder of the intersectional feminist work space and venue
2020 EN MESSE - For Krop, Lyd og Landskab
by Naya Moll Olsen - A dance performance and sound installation choreographed for hospices’, DK
2019-2020 AABEN DANS - 1,5 year Choreographic Research Project and research grant
2019 Professional Training at DANSEHALLERNE in connection with The Carrierbagfestival, Copenhagen
2019 WAREHOUSE9 - Artist assistant for IPAF, International queer performance art festival, Copenhagen
2018 CURRICULUM - Cecilie Ullerup Smith
Assistant at the Independent public school of performance
2018 LAWS OF MOTION
Film by Jeppe Lange, Performance and Choreography
by Amalia Kasakove and Anna Lea Ourø
Winner Young Directors Award 2018, Cannes Lion
2018 ONLY ONE OF MANY / DD Dorvillier
Stage Assistant at Centre Pompidou, Paris
2015-2018 SISTERS ACADEMY / SISTERS HOPE
Large-scale immersive performance installation at Den Frie, Center for Contemporary Art / Inkonst, Malmö
2017: ECOLOGY OF WORDS BY TRACEY WARR
Frontiers in Retreat Research Project, HIAP, Helsinki
2016 Internship with Performing Arts Collective BADco.
Zagreb, Croatia
SELECTED RESIDENCIES:
2023 MILVUS ARTISTIC RESEARCH CENTER, Sweden
2023 WELD, Sweden
2019 - 2022 Affiliated artist at THE NON EXISTENT CENTER at Ställbergs Gruva, Sweden
2020 - 2022 Affiliated artist at WAREHOUSE9,
Copenhagen
2019-2020 AABENT RUM
Choreographic research project and research grant by
Aaben Dans, Roskilde, Denmark
2019 Y-Choreography at HAUT
2018 RØST AiR Artist in residence and internship
Lofoten, Norway
2018-2022 PERFORMING ARTS FORUM, France
SELECTED GRANTS:
2022 Statens Kunstfond Travel Grant
2022 Statens Kunstfond research grant for the performance Paprika
2022 Dansk Skuespillerforbund research grant for the performance Paprika
2021 Statens Kunstfond production grant for the performance Just ok
2021 Augustinus Fonden production grant for the performance Just ok
2021 Statens Kunstfond, recipients of “Garantiordningen” for the performance Sure for seasons 2021/2022
2020 Statens Kunstfond production grant for the performance Sure
2019-2020 Aaben Dans, 1,5 year research grant
