My name is Dorota Márföldi-Matejová, I am a musician, traverso/wooden flutes player, physical performer-composer, poet and educator growing up in Bratislava, Slovakia, currently living in Rotterdam, NL.  Fascinated by & rooted in physicality and musicality of the body, instrument, sound, voice, poetry – I create music-movement-poetry performances, compositions and encounters, pushing/shifting/breaking the boundaries in performance art & between performer and audience. 

Growing up with experimental, contemporary, early, improvised and club music, I have embodied these influences while my curiosity and passion for movement, dance, poetry and creating my own way of performing led me into the physical theatre and interdisciplinary performance worlds. I have a life-long (both formal and informal) training as a performing musician, moving from Slovakia to the Netherlands to follow my music studies, graduating in early music performance at conservatories in Amsterdam and The Hague, finishing my studies Cum Laude for my graduation performances LOST AUDIENCE and SOLITUDE OF THE BODY, combining early and new music and poetry. I have studied Musicality of Movement and physical theatre at an independent education platform MAPA – The Moving Academy for Performing Arts, while following years of various movement approaches, developing my own movement language. 

Discouraged by the business-like capitalist approach to music and art in the classical/formal environments, I never wanted to play in an orchestra or join the music performance machinery. I thrive in the undefined spaces “in-between”, always looking for ways of performing that embody vulnerability, authentic and raw self-expression allowing me to truly connect with myself and my audience. 

Following this desire together with the belief that art is “food for our souls” therefore it needs to be accessible for everyBody from all classes & backgrounds – I passionately explore the many ways of “being on stage”, de-constructing the traditional performance formats, breaking free and pushing the boundaries between the performance genres and between the performer and the audience, bringing music & poetry into diverse spaces and shifting perspectives on what live performance is and could be. As a performer I see myself mostly as a mediator where feelings, ideas, visions are flowing through my body to express and share them with the audience.  

As a child I wanted to be a dancer, but being diagnosed with an autoimmune chronic illness at the age of five, I could never follow this path fully. However I believe this moment is what determined my path until today, giving birth to my life-long fascination with the theme of “the body”, living the various stages of my relationship with it, and allowing me to connect deeper to the “stories from the other people´s bodies”, ultimately leading me to find my way as a physical performer and educator working with people with various body-specifications, (dis)abilities, (hyper)sensitivities and finding the real human beauty in being exactly the way you are. 

I see my creative practice as an ever-evolving and transforming process embodying my life experience, lived emotions, encounters with stories of other people and artists. Recurring subjects in my works are transformation, vulnerability, love, nature, (dis)connection, human emotions, the body-and-the soul.

spring 2026