Bio
Artist statement
Personal works
Nurofen (1999) Slovakia; Sextext (2000) Slovakia, Solo2009 (2010) Canada,Mono (2010) Slovakia – Debris Company,Lolek and Bolek (2008),Lands (2011) Italy.Shared Night (2012) – collaboration with Milan HerichOxymoron (2014) in collaboariotion with Piere Michaud
Spring Quartet (2014) in collaboration with Florencia Demestri, music by Simon Thierree
Eero (2014) for NorrDans dance company, Harnosand, SWE Nejsem Sam (2015) performance for 400 seniors, Plzen, CZ
Peter Jasko has been involved in the dance community as a performer, choreographer and teacher in Europe and abroad for over 15 years. He holds a deep desire to revive a space for instinct in dance, with a sincere interest in body-space-connection awareness. He sees beauty everywhere—in all bodies, emotions and personal histories. Through his choreographies, performances and workshops he presented around the world, Jasko abolishes the hierarchies and divisions between body and mind by favoring an open dance that encourages deep consciousness, in a difficult and fragile process towards balance.
As of late, his artistic practice draws a space beyond tradition and dance training, deconstructing and deserting academic forms without erasing personal movement histories. In his classes Deep Movement Consciousness, he yearns to create a space for artistic self-discovery, a space beyond ambient noise (self-judgment, representative movement, states and expressions) allowing instead the sensitive and energetic body to generate fully conscious movement.
Jasko goes for a run everyday. Not for sportsmanship but as an exercise in attuning oneself to the smallest, most imperceptible sensations. He believes that this same awareness can and should be applied to whatever technique in dance. This approach leads to an exploration and a questioning of the structures, the contexts, the physical and mental forms that govern choreographic gesture. By moving away from modes of representation, expressions and academic states, Peter Jasko promotes a return to a dance of openness and breathing, a search for balance, which leaves space for all forms of interpretation.
Works
Rital Brocante (2005)– movement collaboration; 4 seasons (2006) Italy – FLIC Circus School with the direction of Roberto Magro; Tole (2009) Belgium – ESAC with the direction of R. Magro,choreography and movement collaboration; Littra (2010 – choreographical collaboration with Roberto Magro; Magda Clan (2012) – movement collaboration for ERA
Peter Jasko was born in 1982 in Liptovsky Mikulas , Slovakia . He took his first dance classes with the folk dance company Dumbier Slovakia, where he remained for eleven years. From 1996 to 2001, Peter studied at the J. L. Bella Conservatory of Dance in Banska Bystrica , Slovakia. He continued his training at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava before entering the P . A . R .T.S. School for Contemporary Dance in Brussels (2002), directed by Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker.
His professional experience includes dancing with such international artists and companies as Opera Banska Bystrica, ASpO, Company Roberto Olivan, OXOXOX – Juri Konjar, G. Barberio Corsetti & Fatou Traore, and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Since 2001, he has also collaborated with David Zambrano as both a performer and as assistant in his classes and workshops. Peter Jasko is the co-founder of Les SlovaKs Dance Collective, whose productions include Opening Night (2007), Journey Home (2009), The Koncert (2010) and Fragments (2012).
In 2014, he directed the Svalbard Company’s All Genius All Idiot. The following year, Peter Jasko created Untied Tales (The Vanished Power of the Usual Reign) in collaboration with Clara Furey , which premiered at La Chapelle in Montreal.
The same year Peter Jasko created performance for 300 seniors as a part of cultural city of Europe, Plzen 2015.For the past twelve years, he has taught in many countries around the world.