fot. Józef Buchnajzer
CV
ZOFIA TOMCZYK
(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
// member of CICHE NAGRANIA record label from Poznań, Poland since 2017
Websites:
// www.zofiatomczyk.com
// www.celestialbodies.art
// www.cichenagrania.bandcamp.com
// www.zofia.bandcamp.com
E-mail: zo.tomczyk@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2021 – now 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 – Art Department of 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 Saphire®/Dream Opening® – 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 WORKS
2020:
“Odwilż” // created music as Ciche Nagrania for dance theatre performance choreographed by Paweł Grala
“Crux” // dancer, choreographer // premiered at Gallery Port Reykjavik, Iceland
“My heart is fine” // sound piece made together with Aga Nowacka for “Isoliminal. Quarantine compilation” released by Agalma Reykjavik
“Pływanie o zmierzchu” // collage by Zofia Tomczyk and Aga Nowacka for Czas Kultury magazine
“Partytury Codzienności” // co-creator of an online platform www.partyturycodziennosci.pl
Dancer in “Woda jest Tobą” // chor. Krystyna Szydłowska // Malta Festival (Poznań, Poland)
Dancer in “Instynkt” // chor. Andrzej Adamczak // Pawilon Poznań
Created sound piece for “Dead Fields” compilation // Opio Records
Organized “Contact Improvisation Gathering in Iceland” in collaboration with Natalia Oniśk // Dansverkstadid, Reykjavik (Iceland)
2019:
Produced music album “Otulenie” // Ciche Nagrania
Improvised set “Agalma III” by Ragnar Jónsson, Guðmundur Arnalds, Zofia Tomczyk recorded at Mengi Reykjavik, Iceland released by Agalma music label from Reykjavik
Performer in “I will not bury my romantic soul” dir. Ellen Vanderstraeten // Celestial Bodies Festival Iceland
Organized series of open improvisation sessions
“Movement/Sound/Impro/Jams” at Dansverkstæðið Reykjavik, Iceland
Dancer, choreographer in “3×20. Improvisation” in collaboration with Aleksandra Bożek – Muszyńska, premiere at CST Warsaw
2018:
Dancer in “Significant encounters” chor. Tim Darbyshire
premiere at Sundholl Reykjavik, Iceland
Produced “Wracanie do siebie” in collaboration with Józef Buchnajzer released by Ciche Nagrania
Co-organizer of series of quiet concerts “Ambient Sundays”, curatedin collaboration with Dominika Ożarowska at Idno, Mengi and Nordic House in Reykjavik, Iceland
2017:
Dancer, choreographer in “Te echo de menos. Mano” // NCK Kraków
Dancer in “Zaczyn” // chor. Joanna Leśnierowska, Janusz Orlik // Premiere at Stary Browar Nowy Taniec, Poznań Poland
2016:
Dancer, choreographer in “Connection” // Premiere at Międzynarodowe
Spotkania Teatrów Tańca Lublin Poland
Dancer in “Bataille i świt nowych dni” // chor. Anna Godowska, Sławek Krawczyński // Stary Browar Nowy Taniec Poznań
Dancer in “Up Side Down” // chor. Dalija Aćin Thelander, Keren Levi // Stary Browar Nowy Taniec Poznań
Dancer in “Syrenada” in collaboration with Krystyna Szydłowska
Premiere at Narodowe Centrum Kultury Kraków Poland
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.
2021 Scholarship form Poznań City Hall for young artists
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 (postponed to 2021)
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
(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
// member of CICHE NAGRANIA record label from Poznań, Poland since 2017
Websites:
// www.zofiatomczyk.com
// www.celestialbodies.art
// www.cichenagrania.bandcamp.com
// www.zofia.bandcamp.com
E-mail: zo.tomczyk@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2021 – now 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 – Art Department of 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 Saphire®/Dream Opening® – 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 WORKS
2020:
“Odwilż” // created music as Ciche Nagrania for dance theatre performance choreographed by Paweł Grala
“Crux” // dancer, choreographer // premiered at Gallery Port Reykjavik, Iceland
“My heart is fine” // sound piece made together with Aga Nowacka for “Isoliminal. Quarantine compilation” released by Agalma Reykjavik
“Pływanie o zmierzchu” // collage by Zofia Tomczyk and Aga Nowacka for Czas Kultury magazine
“Partytury Codzienności” // co-creator of an online platform www.partyturycodziennosci.pl
Dancer in “Woda jest Tobą” // chor. Krystyna Szydłowska // Malta Festival (Poznań, Poland)
Dancer in “Instynkt” // chor. Andrzej Adamczak // Pawilon Poznań
Created sound piece for “Dead Fields” compilation // Opio Records
Organized “Contact Improvisation Gathering in Iceland” in collaboration with Natalia Oniśk // Dansverkstadid, Reykjavik (Iceland)
2019:
Produced music album “Otulenie” // Ciche Nagrania
Improvised set “Agalma III” by Ragnar Jónsson, Guðmundur Arnalds, Zofia Tomczyk recorded at Mengi Reykjavik, Iceland released by Agalma music label from Reykjavik
Performer in “I will not bury my romantic soul” dir. Ellen Vanderstraeten // Celestial Bodies Festival Iceland
Organized series of open improvisation sessions
“Movement/Sound/Impro/Jams” at Dansverkstæðið Reykjavik, Iceland
Dancer, choreographer in “3×20. Improvisation” in collaboration with Aleksandra Bożek – Muszyńska, premiere at CST Warsaw
2018:
Dancer in “Significant encounters” chor. Tim Darbyshire
premiere at Sundholl Reykjavik, Iceland
Produced “Wracanie do siebie” in collaboration with Józef Buchnajzer released by Ciche Nagrania
Co-organizer of series of quiet concerts “Ambient Sundays”, curatedin collaboration with Dominika Ożarowska at Idno, Mengi and Nordic House in Reykjavik, Iceland
2017:
Dancer, choreographer in “Te echo de menos. Mano” // NCK Kraków
Dancer in “Zaczyn” // chor. Joanna Leśnierowska, Janusz Orlik // Premiere at Stary Browar Nowy Taniec, Poznań Poland
2016:
Dancer, choreographer in “Connection” // Premiere at Międzynarodowe
Spotkania Teatrów Tańca Lublin Poland
Dancer in “Bataille i świt nowych dni” // chor. Anna Godowska, Sławek Krawczyński // Stary Browar Nowy Taniec Poznań
Dancer in “Up Side Down” // chor. Dalija Aćin Thelander, Keren Levi // Stary Browar Nowy Taniec Poznań
Dancer in “Syrenada” in collaboration with Krystyna Szydłowska
Premiere at Narodowe Centrum Kultury Kraków Poland
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.
2021 Scholarship form Poznań City Hall for young artists
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 (postponed to 2021)
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