Paulina Wycichowska

Choreographer – Dancer – Dance Teacher

ARTISTIC EDUCATION:
– London Contemporary Dance School, University of Kent (Bachelor of Arts with Honors Contemporary Dance and Choreography, First Class)
– State Ballet School in Poznań Olga Sławska – Lipczyńska (Diploma – Stage Dancer)

EMPLOYER:
– Polish Dance Theater – Poznań Ballet – Soloist, rehearsal assistant, group teacher and Open School of Contemporary Dance at the theater (contemporary dance, body therapy)

CHOREOGRAPHIC WORK:
– Choreographic works: “Desert” (2011), “At the threshold of the sky” (2011), “Ad hoc” (2011), “Woman – a gift and mystery” (2010) “Catch the Silence” (2010), “Alexanderplatz” (2009), “7 words about the earth” (2009), “of (F) love” (2009), “O-zone” (2008), “Beatus vir, qui …” (2008), “Chameleon Room” ( 2007), “Czas Ewy” (2007), “In the process of being” (2006), “XY Road” (2006), “Prometheusspuren” (2004), “Psalmodus: music – light – movement” (2004), “Wizard of the Oz” (2003), “Dancing Hz” (2002), “From the Shadow” (2001), “Stop non stop” (2001), “On the way to …” (1999).
– London Contemporary Dance School Student Choreography Performances, The Place Theater, London (“Never Play with the Fire of Love – Episode One” 1998, “- – – -” 1998, “Freedom” 1997, “The Point” 1997, “The Other Side ”1996)
– Processions for a hundred dancers – LEDNICA 2000 Youth Meeting (2010, 2011),
– Etudes for students of the Ballet High School Olga Sławska-Lipczyńska in Poznań and the General Ballet School of Feliks Parnell in Łódź for the National Ballet School Competition in Gdańsk.
– Choreographic consultation for the “Vertical Vertical” performance of the Y Theater in Poznań, directed by Beto Ruiz and Justyna Tomczak – Boczko (2009)
– Choreographic consultation and participation in the spectacle “Slaughterhouse Lila Rose” by the Mouth Mouth Theater in Poznań, directed by Marcin Liber (2003)

STAGE CREATION:
– Repertoire of the Polish Dance Theater; performances created by the following choreographers: Ohad Naharin (“Minus 2”) Orjan Andersson (“Nemo saltat sobrius”), Jens Ostberg (“Going Steady”), Dominique Baguet (“Deserts of Love”), Joe Alter (“Hammering”), Jossi Berg (“Wo-man in tomatoes”), Virpi Pakkinen (“Silence of trembling hands”, “Zefirum”), Istvan Juhos – Putto (“Short cuts”), Susanne Jaresand (“En face”), Marie Brolin-Tani (“Othello”), Thierry Verger (“Summer – Red Sun”), Jacek Przybyłowicz (“Barocco”, “Autumn- Nuembir”), Ewa Wycichowska (“Tango z Lady M”, “W @ lka carnival with fasting”, “Dangerous relationships”, “The Rite of Spring”, “Transsss …”, “Spring – Effatha”, “Komeda – Sextet”), Iwona Pasińska (“Game II: Moment”, “Game: my x 3”), Anna Piotrowska ( “Farfalla”), Aleksandra Dziurosz (“Homo Querens”), Magdalena Reiter (“36.5”)
– Participation in the repertoire of dramatic theaters: “Krwawe Gody”, directed by: Jan Szurmiej, Teatr Polski in Wrocław (1999), “Dziady Drezdeńskie”, directed by Maciej Prus, Teatr Polski in Poznań (2000)
– Participation in the production of independent theaters: “slaughterhouse Lila Róż”, directed by: Marcin Liber, 2XU Usta Usta Teatr (2003), “Erosion”, directed by: Marcin Liber, Teatr Usta Usta Republika (2004)
– London Contemporary Dance School Postgraduate Performance Group 4D (1998); choreographers: Wayne McGregor, Sue McLennan, Henri Oguike, educators: Richard Alston, Kate Price, LCDS educators: Juliet Fisher, Susan McGuire, Mary Evelyn, Duncan McFarland, Patricia Rianne, Ronald Emblen.
– Ballet school time: performances in cooperation with the Grand Theater in Poznań and the Polish Dance Theater; “Giselle”, “Sylfida”, “Bajader”, “Nutcracker”, “Sands of the Desert”, “Creole Mass”, “Songs”, commercial performances in “The Child Can”

PEDAGOGICAL WORK:
– Regular contemporary dance teacher for dancers of the Polish Dance Theater in Poznań (1998 – …)
– Lecturer at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Poznań, Dance, subject: dance theory – choreology, modern dance techniques (2012 – …)
– Guest lecturer at the State Theater School Ludwik Solski (Wrocław Branch), major: Dance, subject: contemporary dance, choreology (2011 – …)
– Educational and artistic project for Art Duś Enter organized by Krotoszyński Ośrodek Kultury (2012)
– Terra educational and artistic project implemented with the scholarship of the Marshal of the Wielkopolska Province (2009)
– Lecturer at the College of Arts and Sciences Stanisława Staszica w Kielce, direction: Dance, subject: body mind (2007/2008)
– Centrum Kultury w Poznaniu, Extramural Studies of Contemporary Dance Instructors, techniques based on Graham and Cunningham techniques, choreology (1997-2001)
– Ballroom Dance Instructors ‘Fantom’ in Toruń: contemporary dance teacher (2007)
– For 14 years, an annual teacher at the International Contemporary Dance Workshops in Poznań (Dancing Poznań).
– Regular workshops on contemporary dance, body therapy and choreology at all levels and in all age groups as well as creative dance for children

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS:
– Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2013)
– Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Young Poland (2011)
– Scholarship of the Marshal of the Wielkopolska Province (2009)
– ASEF Asia – Europe Foundation Scholarship for the Pointe to Point program (2006)
– Award of the City of Poznań for Young Artists for the choreography “Stop non stop” (2001)
– Ministry of Culture Scholarship – observer of the final of the Bagnolet Choreographic Competition, Paris (2000)
– DanceWEB scholarship at the festival and international contemporary dance workshops ImPuls Tanz, Vienna, 1998 (educators: Jorma Uotinen, Andrew Harwood, Frey Faust, Janet Panetta)
– British Council Scholarship to study at the London Contemporary Dance School (1996).

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES:
– Participation in films and television productions: “Osiemnastka” (2004), Polish Television Theater “Let’s talk about life and death”, directed by Krystyna Janda (2002), “Quo Vadis”, directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz (2001), “Baśń o dancing princess “- title role, director: Stanisław Mąderek (1992),
– Aikido, Tai-Chi, Brasilian Capoeira, crutching courses,
– Studies in Church Music at the Faculty of Theology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań: professional diploma in Church Music; Bachelor of Theology – playing the organ, choral conducting.