Lukas Timulak

Lukas Timulak is a choreographer and movement director working in the fields of performing arts and film based in the Netherlands.

After his dance education at Dance Conservatory in Bratislava (Slovakia) and Academie de Danse Classique Princesse Grace in Monaco Timulak joined in 1997 Les Ballets de Monte Carlo and three years later the prestigious Nederlands Dans Theater. He has worked and created with many world renowned choreographers like Jiri Kylian, Wiliam Forsythe, Mats Ek, Ohad Naharin, Paul Lightfoot/Sol Leon, Hans van Manen, Crystal Pite, J.Ch. Maillot, Johan Inger to name few and toured with these dance companies around the world in theatres in New York, Paris, London, Tokyo, Singapore, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Shanghai and many others.

While dancing at NDT for ten seasons he started to choreograph and continues to do so up to date. He has created and staged his choreographic works for the international dance companies including Nederlands Dans Theater Twenty (2005), I SAW I WAS I (2006) as part of UpComing Choreographers Project and Oneness (2007), Offspring (2009), Masculine/Feminine (2011) for NDT 2, Gothenburg Ballet Eroica (2010), Royal Swedish Ballet Totality in Parts (2018), Staatsballett Hannover, Balé da Cidade de São Paulo, Tanz Luzerner Theatre Inside (2014), National Theatre in Brno Hidden Order (2018), Slovak National Theatre Real Time (2008), TWO (2022) Royal Theater Carré Igone Danst Door (2021), Lyon Opera Ballet Darkness — Light — Darkness (2022) to name few.

Timulak also collaborates with educational institutions and projects like Royal Conservatoire in the Hague Link (2017) Shared Space (2019), Codarts University for the Arts in Rotterdam One and All (2017), Arts Umbrella Dance in Vancouver Between Bodies (2018), Fleeting Moment (2020), transit (2023), Pôle National Supérieur de Danse Rosella Hightower in Cannes, NDT Summer Intensive in The Hague Here Now (2016), Continuous Path (2017) and others in form of short choreographic works and workshops.

His interest in film led him to intensive studies at the prestigious New York Film Academy, which strengthened his skills as an editor and director for short films & documentaries. Some examples are the collaboration with director Ruben van Leer on dance films Instrument (2010), There and Not There (2013), Type/Dynamics (2015) and Symmetry a dance-opera film shot inside CERN, the largest experimental particle physics facility in the world.

Most his works since 2004 are in collaboration with designer Peter Bilak. When Timulak left NDT and became an independent choreographer, he asked Bilak to design the sets for his dance creations and contribute to the concept development of those pieces. Their longstanding collaboration led to the birth of Make Move Think (2017), a foundation for interdisciplinary artistic collaboration, where they now work with the urban designer Luisa Calabrese and cinematographer Hector Salgado.