Ballet

A dancer and choreographer, a graduate of the State Ballet School in Warsaw and ballet pedagogy at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. From 1987 to 1991, he was a dancer at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw, where he made his debut as a choreographer, creating *Negotiations*, which won first prize at the 2nd National Choreographic Competition in Łódź. In 1991, he left Poland and danced with companies in Germany and Israel, spending seven years as a dancer with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company. Upon returning to Poland, he created performances for leading dance and ballet companies in the country. He was the choreographer and artistic coordinator for the Central European Dance Program in China, organized by the Chinese Ministry of Culture (2016-2017). Some of his most significant choreographies include *Naszyjnik gołębicy* (2003), *Barocco* (2004), *Jesień-Nuembir* (2008), *Kilka krótkich sekwencji* (2005), *Alpha Kryonia Xe* (2006), *III Symphony "Song of the Night"* (2006), *Monochrome* (2014), *Infolia* (2015), *Beyond the Horizon* (2016), *Stravinsky's Game of Cards* (2019), *Bolero* (2022), *N.O.M. Kościelec 1909* (2023). In 2002, as part of Dance Extensions in Limassol, he presented the choreography *Orient Express*. Since 2008, he has been staging performances with companies in the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, and China, including *All We See* (Tanzkompanie Giessen, 2016), *Made in China* (Beijing Dance/LDTX, 2016). In 2010, for the UNESCO Dance Gala, he prepared *Sono nero*, and in 2012, he staged *Six Wings of Angels* with the Polish National Ballet. He prepared two winning choreographies for the Polish representatives in the Eurovision Young Dancers competition in 2015 and 2017. In 2023, he created *Der Moment* with the Ceprodac company in Mexico. At the Grand Theatre in Poznań, he directed the opera *King Oedipus* (2013), and he also creates choreographies for opera productions. From 2009 to 2014, he served as Deputy Director for Ballet at the Stanisław Moniuszko Grand Theatre in Poznań. From 2010 to 2014, he was the curator of the Poznań Ballet Spring, and from 2018 to 2020, he was the curator of the ballet season at the Wrocław Opera. He was also a member of the Program Council for Dance at the Institute of Music and Dance. Since 2015, he has been working in the Dance Department of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. In 2012, he was awarded the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis, and in 2016, he received the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Award in the dance category.

 

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