As a choreographer my interest’s lie in movement based site-specific collaborative projects, which play on the notions of traditional performance venues and venture into the public/ pedestrian domain. The work is in a sense installed in the setting, and is thus experienced by the audience participants more as an “event” in the space to which it is inextricably linked. Each piece is created with the specific space in mind, and its elemental components are unique to this space entirely. The installation nature of the performance links it to the realm of visual art, where the viewer is able to make active choices in attention and their physical involvement with the piece.

In addition I am interested in the subtle boundaries between private and public space, and the qualitative response thus produced in the personae of performer/subject. What can we further glean about our psychosis the nature of our interactions with one another by investigating how we inhabit these facets of self while moving through public space as a transitional phase from one privatized sector to the next. Also asking questions: How does one value essentialism in an image driven culture? And how does the performer integrate their process of expression (in-out, out-in) within what can be construed as seemingly opposing worlds?

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As a San Francisco local once again, Biba is focusing on creating a body of work which draws together some of the talented and collaborative artists she has encountered. She refers to this on-going project as Urisov. Urisov focuses on collaboration between artists of varying disciplines, seeking to present work in non-traditional performance venues, and to challenge preconceived notions of form and performance, object and subject, and the many components inherent to these given mediums.

Biba has performed her work in San Francisco, NYC, and Brussels. She has worked in dance, film, fashion, theater, music, and installation. She has been practicing and pondering yoga going on 15 years now.