Adam Khazhmuradov

Artist-in-residence
Project: In your language

"How can we stir up the imagination and identity of the perceiver by reshaping the "external" sensorial inputs? How can we make the perceiver question its own sensory organs?"

Adam began his dance career with street styles like hip-hop, house, and breakdance. He studied Urban Contemporary/Jazz Musical at the Amsterdam University of the Arts and danced with the Hofesh Shechter Company, Club Guy & Roni, and Dalton Jansen, among others. His roots in Kazakhstan and Guinea, his academic background in Belgium and the Netherlands, and his international experience as a dancer allow him to move between different worlds and constantly explore how art can break down these boundaries.

His work lies at the intersection of light design, contemporary dance, and constant researcht. As a choreographer, he explores how dance can question the senses, identity, and systems thinking. Currently, Adam works as a freelance dancer and develops his own signature style as a choreographer through residencies, educational programs, and multidisciplinary collaborations. He recently also won the XL award at RIDCC to make a piece on Scapino Ballet.

During Welcome To Our Guesthouse, Adam continues his long-term research into creating new rules for sensory perception. His first partner is light: not a servant of a button, but something that moves symbiotically with the other bodies in space. During the residency, he will explore what sound can tell him as a colleague as well. Adam wants to create a world that questions our neurotypicality: where do the borders of our bodies end, and how do we communicate with our surroundings and each other?

His artistry lies in constantly questioning and reconstructing individual and communal identities, creating surreal landscapes with a colourful palette of references, from the banal to the seemingly sophisticated. One recurring world is that of insects and other arthropods: creatures whose bodies, movement, and relationship to their environment challenge human understanding. For Adam, they offer a way to reject normative and neurotypical notions of what a body should be, and instead explore synesthesia and transformation.

Concept and performance Adam Khazhmuradov
Performers Oscar Li, Jemima Colin
Performing composer Harvey Causon
Light designer Paulina Prokop