Performance: Daria Mikhaylyuk / BLOOM

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Daria Mikhaylyuk is a Canada-based freelance dance artist and creative director who joins BLOOM23 as a collaborator and performer in the work of Lesley Telford.

Interested in cross-border relationships between artistic disciplines - she aims to create dreamlike spaces and realities in the form of choreographies, installations, and video works that explore tensions between public identities and private intimacies and invite the viewer to participate directly in their strains, pleasures and delusions.

Daria got to deepen her professional practice through working and collaborating with companies like Vision Impure Compagnie, MascallDance, Kinesis Dance Somatheatro, Dance Victoria, FakeKnot, Wen Wei Dance, Dance//Novella, Inverso Productions, artists like Anya Saugstad, Eowynn Enquist, Diego Romero, Hiroaki Umeda, as well as through her solo projects.

Daria is also the founder of the Venus Art Gallery - a project exploring the intersection of movement, video, and new media arts. Her works were presented through platforms like the Shooting Gallery Performance Series, FORM (Festival of Record Movement), Body+Camera festival in Chicago and Jersey City, Remington art Gallery, Dancing on the Edge Festival, and Vernon Public Art Gallery.