(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