Bio
Artist statement
In 2001, Peter graduated from the J.L. Bella Conservatory of Dance in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. He continued his higher education at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia, for a year before attending the international dance school P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, Belgium. For over 20 years, he has been actively involved in the international dance community as a performer, choreographer, and teacher. His extensive professional experience includes performing, collaborating, and choreographing with renowned international artists and companies such as Company Roberto Olivan (Spain), Eastman Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Belgium), Cirque Éloize, Bill Coleman, Petr Forman, Roberto Magro, Peter James, EDCM, Concordia University, and many others.
Since 2001, Peter has also collaborated closely with David Zambrano as a performer and assistant in his classes and workshops. In 2006, he co-founded Les Slovaks Dance Collective. In 2009, Peter Jasko created and performed his solo work, Solo2009.
Beginning in 2014, he started a collaboration and performance partnership with Montreal dancer Clara Furey. His recent collaborations include projects with Peter James, Luka and Atom Jasko (his children), and Elie Marchand.
Over the past two decades, Peter has taught in approximately forty-six countries worldwide. In 2023, he became the TransFormation Programming Associate for the workshop dance festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Since 2024, Peter Jasko has also become a certified massage therapist and works at Multiclinique Parc Santé in Montreal, specializing in fascial therapeutic techniques.
Peter Jasko has been involved in the dance community as a performer, choreographer and teacher in Europe and Montreal for over 20 years. He holds a deep desire to revive a space for instinct in dance with a sincere interest in body-space-connection awareness. 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, searching for a balance between intention and spontaneity. He is driven by the state which brings a freedom from which one can make decisions, through visceral sincerity, and creative clarity.
Jasko’s artistic practice draws a space beyond tradition and dance training, deconstructing and deserting academic forms without erasing personal movement histories. As of late he also practices manual treatments, with a desire to attune himself more deeply to the sensitive details of human anatomy and embodied sensation. This added physical and energetic connection between oneself and the other feeds Jasko’s fascination to experience the body’s multiple potentials through its movement relationships with other bodies in space.
In his classes Deep Movement Consciousness, he yearns to create a space for artistic self-discovery, a space beyond the ambient noise (self-judgment, representative movement, cliché expressions) allowing instead the sensitive and energetic body to generate fully conscious movement. Instead of controlled creativity, Jasko invites participants to move towards movement without fully knowing, in the balance between acting and receiving our choices, but with full creative desire and curiosity.
Jasko is fascinated with how our individual and collective social context both hold and deepen the paradigm of our embodied experience. And how, even so, these contexts can become temporarily loosened up, or softened, as we feel our body’s many potentials. Yes you could say glimpses of transcendence, but without ever losing our material body, or forgetting where we move from.
Personal works
Nurofen (1999) SK, Sextext (2000) SK, Solo2009 (2010) BE, Mono (2010) SK – Debris Company, Lolek and Bolek (2008)BE, Lands (2011) IT, Shared Night (2012) – collaboration with Milan Herich SK/BE, Oxymoron (2014) in collaboariotion with Piere Michaud BE/CA, Spring Quartet (2014) in collaboration with Florencia Demestri , music by Simon Thierree BE, Eero (2014) for NorrDans dance company, Harnosand, SWE, Nejsem Sam (2015) performance for 400 seniors, Plzen, CZ, The dance of change, CA (2024), Consolation with Peter James, CA, (2024), Keeping the state (work tittle 2025)
