(born in 1993, Poland)

currently based in amsterdam, netherlands

// 2021-2025

company dancer of THE Polish Dance Theatre in Poznań, poland

// SINCE 2019

co-founder of CELESTIAL BODIEs collective

// SINCE 2017

MUSICIAN AT CICHE NAGRANIA record label from Poznań, Poland

Websites 

// www.micropractices.art

//  www.cichenagrania.bandcamp.com

//  www.zofia.bandcamp.com 

EDUCATION

2018 – 2019 

MASTER IN PERFORMING ARTS – ICELAND UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS

2012 – 2015 

BA IN COMPOSITION AND DANCE TECHNIQUES, POZNAŃ SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IN POLAND

Other intensive studies

2024

Music production / musiclaboratory, poland

2024

mix and mastering in music / Akademia dźwięku, poland

since 2023

International institute for dreaming and imagery®

2021 – 2023 

Processwork postgraduate study programme of Fundacja IPP in Poland

2022        

Coaching training with international accreditation at the ACTP ICF level.

2019 – 2021 

The School of Images Catherine Shainberg / New York city, USA

Selected training

2015 – 2017

Alternative Dance Academy scholarship // Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk Poznan, Poland. Teachers: Jeanine Durning, Angela Schubot, Jared Gradinger, Rebecca Lazier, Etienne Guilloteau, Peter Player, Dalija Aćin Thelander, Eszter Gal, Frederic Gies, Colleen Thomas Young, Rudi Laermans, Anna Godowska, Sławomir Krawczyński, Anna Nowicka, Bonnie Buckner

2015 – now

Dream Opening®, tachers: PhD Bonnie Buckner, PhD Cathrine Shainberg, PhD Anna Nowicka

2014 – 2018

Contact Improvisation, teachers: Iwona Olszowska, Sebastian Flegiel, Kama Jankowska, Michał Ratajski, Filip Wencki, Adrian Bartczak

2010 – now

Contemporary dance, improvisation, teachers: Maria Stokłosa, Anna Nowicka, Maciej Kuźmiński, Elisabetta Consonni, Rosalind Crisp, Maria F.Scaroni, Paulina Wycichowska, Paweł Grala, Jacek Owczarek

selected work experience

Exhibitions

2023-2024 / swimming at dusk / duo exhibition / gama poznań, poland

2022 / swimming at dusk / galeria otwarta uap poznań, poland

2020 / crux at regenerate #2 / group exhibition / gallery port reykjavik, iceland

2018 / urabn aural installation / an art intervention during iceland airwaves festival reykjavik iceland

dance (year/title/role)

2021-2025 / polish dance theatre / dancer

2019 / 3×20 / choreographer, performer

2017 / te echo de menos / choreographer, dancer

2017 / it is enough / choreographer, dancer

2016 / bataille and dawn of new days / dancer

2016 / up side down / dancer

2016 / connection / dancer

music (years / title / role / release)

2022 / v / composer / ciche nagrania record label

2021 / aqua loop / composer / part of intervalli work by elsa mencagli

2020 / my heart is fine / composer / agalma record label

2019 / otulenie / composer / ciche nagrania record label

2019 / agalma III / musician / agalma record label

2018 / wracanie do siebie / composer / ciche nagrania record label

2018 / ambient sundays / musician, curator / series of events at mengi and idno reykjavik

2017 / chłodna pasywna głowa / composer /ciche nagrania record label

residencies (YEARS / place / project)

upcoming: 2025 / alkantara(PT) / with Celestial bodies

2020 / fundation obras (NL) / micropractices

2019 / HAU3 (DE) / Eye sea

2018 / kolsstadir (is) / Iceland university of the arts

2017 / art stations foundation grażyna kulczyk (pl) / Yanka rudzka – zaczyn

2016 / ART STATIONS FOUNDATION GRAŻYNA KULCZYK (PL) / Bataille Dawn of new days

2016 / ART STATIONS FOUNDATION GRAŻYNA KULCZYK (PL) / up side down

2016 / centrum kultury lublin (pl) / bataille dawn of new days

publications (YEAR / PROJECT)

2024 / micropractices – tiny book with weekly practices / bookowski (pl), boekie woekie (nl)

2022 / celestial bodies italy / record of the experiences from the meeting

2022 / CELESTIAL BODIES portugal / RECORD OF THE EXPERIENCES FROM THE MEETING

2020 / pływanie o zmierzchu – collages / Czas kultury (pl) 

scholarships

2024 / study grant – the national institute for music and dance in poland

2023 / creative process Scholarship from Poznań City

2019-2020 / Erasmus+ after graduation internship

2019 / “MŁODA POLSKA 2019” SCHOLARSHIP HOLDER FROM THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND NATIONAL HERITAGE IN POLAND for artists with outstanding ACHIEVEMENTS in the field of arts

2015 – 2017 / ALTERNATIVE DANCE ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FROM ART STATIONS FOUNDATION BY GRAŻYNA KULCZYK IN POZNAŃ 

Awards

2022 / The Golden Yorick for the best Polish adaptation of Shakespeare’s works of the season has been awarded to the Polish Dance Theatre in Poznań, Bodytalk in Münster for the performance “Romeos & Julias unplagued. Traumstadt,” chor. Yoshiko Waki

2022 / Team award with Polish Dance Theatre during the 46th edition of Opolskie Konfrontacje Teatralne / Klasyka Żywa with “Kurka Wodna albo Urojenie” performance.

2017 / 2nd prize for dance/choreography “Connection” – International Choreography Competition Warsaw Zawirowania Dance

2017 / 1st prize for dance/choreography “Te echo de menos. Mano” at “3…2…1…Dance!” choreographic competition Kraków, Poland

2016 / award for dance/choreography “Connection” – International Choreography Competition during International Festival of Dance Theatres in Tarnów in Poland