Marcin Motyl is a Berlin-based dancer and movement creator whose work explores how physical training systems shape the performing body. His artistic practice develops from fifteen years of professional experience across contemporary dance, theatre, opera, film and interdisciplinary performance.

At the core of his work is the relationship between physical training and choreography. Rather than approaching the body as a neutral instrument for movement composition, Marcin treats it as a structure shaped by discipline, repetition and physical conditioning. Techniques such as ballet training, strength-based exercise, gymnastics and improvisation function as tools for investigating how different training systems produce different physical logics and modes of presence on stage.

In his choreographic work, movement structures emerge directly from physical processes such as repetition, endurance and sustained concentration. Choreography does not begin with the composition of movement, but with the transformation of the body itself.

Recent works, including DEVICE, Day Zero and The End of the Beginning, examine how choreographic material can arise from states of physical effort, fatigue and adaptation. His practice also extends into interdisciplinary formats that engage with digital environments, cameras and live-streaming platforms, exploring how the performing body transforms within mediated spaces.

Currently he continues to develop a research-based choreographic practice grounded in embodied knowledge and long-term physical training. Blending realism and surrealism, he creates works that expand the experience of performance beyond physical space.

Exploring the interplay of body, camera, and choreographic thought, his work operates at the intersection of physical and virtual spaces.

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