(born in 1993, Poland)

 

// company dancer of Polish Dance Theatre in Poznań since 2021

// co-founder of CELESTIAL BODIES Performing Arts Platform in Motion since 2019

// CICHE NAGRANIA record label from Poznań, Poland since 2017

 

Websites 

// www.micropractices.art

//  www.cichenagrania.bandcamp.com

//  www.zofia.bandcamp.com

//  www.celestialbodies.art 

 

EDUCATION

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 

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

 

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

 

AWARDS

2023 

Scholarship from Poznań City

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.

2021

Scholarship for young artists from Poznań city

2020

Scholarship from the Institute of Music and Dance in Poland and Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk in Poznań and for a study visit at Movement Research in New York

2019

“Młoda Polska 2019” scholarship holder from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland

2015 – 2017

Alternative Dance Academy scholarship from Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk in Poznań 

2017

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

2017

1st prize for dance/choreography “Te echo de menos. Mano” 

“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

Fot. Alessandra carosi