Indrek Kornel is an interdisciplinary choreographer, dancer, and movement educator whose work is grounded in improvisation, functional movement research, and embodied systems thinking. His movement research is informed by pre-Pilates methodology transmitted through Deborah Lessen, based on the work of Eve Gentry, as well as by improvisation practices experienced with David Zambrano, Ruth Zaporah and many others.
He has a higher education in Choreography and IT – working with databases, system migration, and information architecture. This dual practice shapes his artistic approach: working with existing structures—physical, conceptual, or experiential—and focuses on reorganizing and translating them into clearer, more accessible forms for the body.
His work engages contradiction as a creative force: how to feel at ease inside opposing impulses, how to become unstuck, and how to find freedom not as absence of structure, but through awareness, timing, breath, and connection. Informed by self-determination theory, his practice treats movement as play—creating frames where attention, choice, and possibility can unfold without censorship.