Motionhouse
Jamie Lee & Stanislav Dobak
Jamie Lee grew up in Perth Australia graduating from WAAPA in 2008. Stanislav Dobak is a Slovakian artist and is a graduate of P.A.R.T.S in Brussels. Jamie currently works as a dancer, choreographer, non-fiction filmmaker, podcast producer and impact producer for NGOs and government organisations. Stanislav freelances as a dancer, choreographer, cinematographer, drone operator and more recently a steady cam operator across Europe, he is loosely known as the “dancing camera-man”. Motionhouse is their home base or ‘engine room’ for creativity, experimentation, dreaming, doing, exchange and most importantly connecting with people. Their goal is to make space for new conversations and work in a way that dissolves art form boundaries. They have taken audiences into depths of Europes deepest forests, to the basement of an abandoned power plant presenting installations, films, photography and performances as well as international film festivals. They have won Cinema prizes such as Choreographic Captures and had their dance films presented in cinemas across Germany and Switzerland and featured in Women Cinemakers magazine. As creatives, they created works for Passerelle Company and more recently Moteur Synchrone produced by Danspunt, fABULEUS, Passerelle and co-produced by seven culture centres in Belgium. Moteur Synchrone made its Broadcast premiere on Podium 19 and premiered at Dannstorm festival in Kortrijk in 2021. In 2019 they collaborated with Ofer Smilanksy in performance Dis-ease which experimented with motion tracking and body sensors premiering at Zahrada - centre for independent culture and performed Art and Tech Days Kocise. They have recently started Encounters, a cross-disciplinary laboratory dedicated to research, investigation and experimentation through encountering themes and concepts with local communities in different locations.
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