Michaela Cisarikova, born in Slovakia, is a UK based dance artist, choreographer and movement director described as “equally at home as an actor with a natural emotional range and as a dancer of contemporary and hip-hop movement" (Jo Tomalin, Fringe Review).  She is also the Artistic Director of MCDC – Michaela Cisarikova Dance Company, which she founded in 2014.

Michaela achieved a first class BA (hons) in Dance Education at Canterbury Christ Church University in 2012, where she returned in 2018 as a sessional lecturer and has continued to teach since. In 2014 she completed the Jasmin Vardimon PG Certificate in physical theatre, where the combination of character, narrative and physical theatre methods matched her own interests in creating powerful dance theatre. She has become a prominent voice on the UK dance scene, and is an associate artist & rehearsal director of Andrea Walker’s 201 Dance Company.

She was a dancer in 201’s break-through hit ‘SMOTHER’ and took the lead role, touring across the UK in the company’s second show ‘SKIN’. “The way Michaela dances and tells a story is quite remarkable. You can literally feel it oozing from her” – Theatre Full Stop

Michaela has produced & toured theatre & outdoor works, screen dance and site-specific work across the UK, Europe, Chicago and Kenya. She specialises in creating inspiring, mesmerising and highly visual dance works that infuse storytelling with her signature choreographic contemporary style drawing on hip-hop and folk influences.

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