SPOR Festival<\/a> 2025.<\/p>\nOlga Szymula (b. 1986) is a Polish composer, performer, and director who lives and works in Aarhus, Denmark. Olga specializes in interdisciplinary, experimental works that blend video, sound, and performance. Projects include MON (2021), re- (2023) for K!lart ensemble, and Lapses (2017). Olga also composes scores for film (Baba Vanga, The Siren’s Scream) and dance (Gravity, PRIMUS). Recently, Olga has delved into somatics and choreography, shaping Body Epiphanies, which will premiere at SPORfestival 2025. With this performance, Olga concludes her post graduate studies I electronic composition at DIEM, The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus\/Aalborg.<\/p>\n
Body Epiphanies is a somatic composition by Szymula, expanding on The Ears of the Skin, supported by the Danish Composer Society. The piece explores somatics \u2013 the body\u2019s internal perception \u2013 through sound, physical expression, text, and choreographed movement. Performed by Szymula herself, Afro-Brazilian artist Sandro Masai, and Danish senior dancer Laila Wodtke Nissen, the work unfolds as a choreographed corporeal documentary, drawing from the performers\u2019personal memories. Rooted in lived experience, Body Epiphanies explores seven core emotional drives \u2013 seeking, play, care, rage, fear, panic\/grief, and lust\u2013drawing on neuroscientist Dr. Jaak Panksepp\u2019s research on emotional command systems. His work reveals that these emotions are not abstract concepts but deeply embedded neural processes that shape survival, connection, and human relationships.<\/p>\n
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