Dancing breaks me down into ‘I’, into ‘self’, into ‘we’, into space, into time, and reassembles anew. Recalibrated, reoriented, and reorganized, I encounter the world for the first time in this new constellation. I then look back on what was with joy, and look forward to what is to come with anticipation. I am the present, and that which is, is choreographed.
Jan Pollert is a dancer who graduated from the Folkwang University of the Arts in contemporary dance. From 2023 to 2025, he worked at Ballett Basel with artists such as Bobbi Jene Smith, María La Ribot, Saburo Teshigawara, Tilman O'Donnell, Erna Ómarsdóttir & Halla Ólafsdóttir, Alia Luque, Vlatka Horvat and Tim Etchells. As a freelance artist, he has realized projects with artists such as Fabrice Mazliah, Susanna Curtis, and the MINT-400 collective.