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MONIKA MACIEJEWSKA-POTOCKAS

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First soloists

She graduated from the Feliks Parnell State Ballet School in Lodz. She received the "Ballet" Foundation award for the best ballet school graduate in Poland. At the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, she received a Master of Arts degree – specialising in ballet pedagogy. Since 2017, she has been a lecturer at the Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz at the Faculty of Dance.

Career:

since 1998 – The Grand Theatre in Lodz

The most significant parts:

Clara, The Nutcracker (Henryk Konwiński/Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Giselle, Giselle (Robert Strajner/Adolphe Adam)
Swanilda, Coppélia (Laura and Ivan Alonso/Leo Delibes)
Odetta-Odylia, Swan Lake (Giorgio Madia/Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Aurora, Slepping Beauty (Giorgio Madia/Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Cinderella, Cinderella (Giorgio Madia/Gioacchino Rossini)
Tatiana, Oniegin (Wasylij Miedwiediew/Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Lucy, Promised Land (Gray Veredon/Franz von Suppe, Michael Nyman)
Tytania, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Gray Veredon/Feliks Mendelssohn-Bartholdy)
Snow White, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Witold Borkowski/Bogdan Pawłowski)
Frygia, Spartacus (Kirill Simonov, Aram Chaczaturian)
Constanze Weber, Wolfgang Amadeus (Gray Veredon/Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Pola Negri, Valentino (Zofia Rudnicka/Krzesimir Dębski)
duet with Gintautas Potockas, Silence (Ivan Cavallari/Ludwig van Beethoven)

Awards:

2019: Extraordinary Golden Mask in recognition of the ballet artistry presented consistently for many seasons in solo parts and duets, which was further confirmed by the performance of Silence on the stage of the Grand Theatre in Lodz
2014: Bronze Medal "Meritorious for Culture Gloria Artis" awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
Award of the Marshal of the Lodz Province for outstanding artistic achievements
2003: The Leon Schiller Award for a young artist for outstanding achievements in the field of ballet art, especially for the roles of Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Giselle in Giselle, and Nefretete in Echnaton, awarded by ZASP.

Photo by Joanna Miklaszewska