Zuzanna Fit: Solo na strunie

A dancer’s body is like an instrument: tuned, plucked, subjected to vibrations, impacts, sudden ecstasies and mood changes every day.
If you want to see music, look at dance.

Zuzanna Fit has been a dancer of the “Arabeska” group operating at the Youth Cultural Center in Lublin since she was 7 years old. At the age of 10 she started dancing SOLO. Together with the band and individually, she participated in many performances, dance shows and charity concerts, and represented MDK in many provincial, national and international dance competitions and festivals.
Zuzanna’s strong point is dance improvisation, which requires great courage and openness from the dancer. She loves to interpret music in her own way, and her dancing is uniquely expressive.

Sebastian Olczyk: Gamma Male

“Gamma Male” is a choreographic portrait of non-hierarchical masculinity — an outsider figure who slips beyond the rules of the game, balancing on the edge. Suspended between resistance and desire, he opens a space for a different way of being. Here, the body does not strive for dominance but for freedom — movement becomes a gesture of defiance against convention and a story of strength born from otherness.

Sebastian Olczyk presented this choreography at the Young Dancer of the Year 2025 competition, where he received the title of Young Dancer of the Year 2025 and won 1st prize at the 23rd National Wojciech Wiesiołłowski Dance Competition in Gdańsk.

Izabela Zawadzka – dancer, educator, choreographer, and movement therapist – medical trainer and cultural manager.
Graduate of the Feliks Parnell Ballet School in Łódź, the Ballet Pedagogy Department at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, and the Postgraduate Management Studies for Artists and Cultural Creators at the University of Warsaw. Certified BlackRoll® Trainer.
For many years, she worked as a soloist and pedagogue with the “Mazowsze” National Folk Song and Dance Ensemble and the Kielce Dance Theatre. As a dancer, she has collaborated with, among others, the Grand Theatre – National Opera in Warsaw, W&M Physical Theatre in Canada, and the Polish Royal Opera. As assistant choreographer to Douglas Lee, she works with the Grand Theatre in Łódź.
She is the author of numerous choreographic works and a laureate of choreography competitions. Currently, she teaches at the Feliks Parnell Ballet School in Łódź and is the creator of the podcast “Zdrowy Tancerz” (“Healthy Dancer”).She is also a co-founder of the UNITED LIMBS collective and a recipient of grants from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (KPO) and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (MKiDN).

dance: Sebastian Olczyk
choreography: Izabela Zawadzka
music: Kompromat
duration: 1:49

Oskar Kusiołek, Karolina Klasa, Nicola Gremplica: Nobody from Nowhere

“Nobody from Nowhere” is a piece that tells the story of three individuals searching for the truth about themselves in the modern world. They are united by a common goal, but each of them strives to achieve it in a different way. This is a moment when trust in others becomes essential. They must learn to collaborate and support one another. “Nobody” symbolizes a person who, as an individual, holds no significance for society. It is only through cooperation with others that they truly discover who they are.

Marina Sato: Escape room

The inspiration for the choreography came from a series of movies under the same title. The main task is to reach the end of the game by overcoming specific challenges. Following this logic, non of the movements are accidental and are reflections of elements present in the game.

Marina Sato – for over 11 years, she is a dancer of Teatr Tańca Chassemi, operating at the Szkoła Tańca i Ruchu Chassemi in Lublin. She took part in the performances “Granica” and „_OBIE_TY” by Justyna Ćwiklińska-Ignatiuk, “Light and Desire” by Collen Thomas, presented at the 27th International Dance Theatre Festival in Lublin and „ETERON” by Adrianna Sawczak presented during GeoArt Festival in Lublin. She also had the opportunity to perform twice during graduation performances at the Academy of Music in Łódź, in the performances “Aqua” by Justyna Ćwiklińska-Ignatiuk and „Niewysłowiona chęć ucieczki” by Wiktoria Uziębło. She was also part of a performance directed by Paweł Passini, produced as part of the European Capital of Culture 2029 election. She has performed many times at the competitions and other artistic events around Poland in group choreographies and solo pieces of her own creation.

Maja Strokoń: (un)controlled flow

(un)controlled flow is a journey through moments where movement balances between improvisation and precision, instinct and conscious decision.
Freedom intertwines with form in a continuous flow.
The body moves like a river – at times calm and gentle, only to be swept away by a rapid current of emotion.
The flow of movement is a conscious decision, yet the body yields to gravity, the rhythm of breath, and emotions.

Maja Strokoń – since 2016, a dancer with the “AleToNic” Dance Theatre at the SCK Cultural Centre in Mielec. She received individual awards for her original solo choreographies (“Before”, “From the Beginning”, “Waiting for My Turn”, “(un)controlled flow”) as well as prestigious group awards won together with her team at national reviews, festivals, and competitions.
She participated in workshops across various dance techniques (modern, contemporary, jazz, improvisation, hip-hop, ballet, commercial).
She continues to train under choreographers from Poland (including Anna Karcz, Paweł Michno, Katarzyna Zakrzewska, Ilona Gumowska, Dominik Olechowski, Martyna Andrzejczak, Małgorzata Ziółkowska) as well as internationally (including Sergio Reis, Jowha Van de Laak, Christin Olesen, Emiliano Jimenez, Roman Varava, Ainsley Ricketts).

choreography and performance: Maja Strokoń

Maja Bilek: Fig Tree

Inner struggles… I stand under the pressure of making crucial life decisions. I search for answers to my questions, balancing between the different possible paths I could take. I stand face to face with my own story…

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. – Sylvia Plath

Graduate of the Contemporary Dance program at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. She completed a stage choreography course under the guidance of Iwona Olszowska in Kraków. Currently, she continues her dance education in the DART Dance Company program in Berlin. She performs as a dancer in productions of the Polish Royal Opera, including L’Italiana in Algieri and Halka. She has danced in performances by Izadora Weiss, such as Azyl, and by Gosia Mielech in Libertas. She takes part in numerous artistic, performative, and dance festival projects. Her dance etude Fig Tree was presented at the Solo Duo Festival in Rozbark and at Sfera Ruchu in Toruń.

Julia Buczynska: Sometimes I Hear My Voice

But what if I’m a mermaid
In these jeans of his with her name still on it?
Hey, but I don’t care
‘Cause sometimes
I said sometimes
I hear my voice
And it’s been
Here
Silent all these years

“Sometimes I Hear My Voice” is a choreographic exploration of the female body’s struggle to break free from aesthetic ideals, narrative frames, and legal constructs shaped by the male gaze — a gaze that continues to dominate visual art, culture, and everyday life.
It is also an intimate act of resistance: a journey toward agency, self-acceptance, and tenderness toward one’s own body — beyond imposed ideals of beauty, ability, and form.

Ola Komarnicka – independent choreographer, dance educator, and dance theorist, working primarily within the fields of dance theatre and experimental choreography. She holds a degree in Choreography from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and is a graduate of the Experimental Choreography Programme at Centrum w Ruchu. Her artistic practice is defined by attentiveness to humanistic values and an exploration of the emancipatory potential of vulnerability. She perceives dance as a tool for strengthening empathy and as a medium for expressing the experiences of marginalized or invisible individuals. In the past season, she created “Unboxing” for B’cause Dance Company and an independent dance theatre piece “Unheard Whispers”. Her solo “Don’t Let It Die” was presented at the Solocoreografico International Solo Dance Festival in Frankfurt, while the co-authored work “Sometimes I Hear My Voice” received awards at the national competitions SOLO DUO and Sfera Ruchu. She is the author of numerous dance etudes, stage performances, dance films, and performative works. Komarnicka teaches at the Faculty of Dance of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music and is one of the choreographers of the Chopin University Dance Company, for which she has created several etudes and short performances. A laureate of multiple national competitions, she received, among others, the 1st Prize at the National Choreographic Competition Po:Ruszeni in Warsaw, as well as a grant for her original project “Affirming the Body” within the Culture and Health 2025 programme, part of the European platform Culture&Health.

Julia Buczynska – graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where she completed her studies in Contemporary Dance. Between 2016 and 2018, she trained at the J. Jarzynówna-Sobczak General Ballet School in Gdańsk. Currently working as a freelance dancer, she collaborates with B’cause Dance Company, performing in such productions as “Homesick | Sick Home”, “Kepler 22b”, “Birthday” and “Quiet, Quieter, Uproar” choreographed by Bartek Woszczyński, as well as “Cliff” by Jakub Mędrzycki. She also worked as an assistant choreographer on the production “Re|turns”. In 2023, she performed the title role in “Antigone” choreographed by Izadora Weiss. In 2021, she received a distinction for a co-created duet in a choreographic competition for works set to music by Polish composers, organized by ZAiKS. Her original solo “Take Your Time” premiered at the 2022 Solo Dance Contest and was later awarded 2nd Prize at the “My Dance” choreographic competition in Tarnów and 1st Prize at the National Choreographic Competition “Po:Ruszeni” in Warsaw. Her choreography “One Lover Left” received a Special Award at the Brussels Dance Contest 2023, and the co-authored work “Sometimes I Hear My Voice” was recognized as a laureate of the national competitions SOLO DUO in Bytom and “Sfera Ruchu” in Toruń in 2025.

choreography: Ola Komarnicka & Julia Buczynska
performance: Julia Buczynska
music: Ryoji Ikeda “Luxus 1-3”; Tori Amos “Silent All This Years”

Zuzanna Strugacz: Take five

Stand here, choose your better profile, don’t blink, don’t breathe, be someone, switch roles, swap to the next one, keep scrolling, okay, take five…

Zuzanna Strugacz – a certified dancer, she graduated from the Krakow Dance Academy L’Art de la Danse, she continued her education at Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) in Brussels, and then at Elephant in The Black Box Junior Company in Madrid, performing with the company in choreographies by Jean Philippe Dury and Marco Goecke. She also collaborated with B’cause Dance Company, performing the piece “Cicho, ciszej, zgiełk”, with H.art Company in the piece “The Symphony of The Whispering Walls” and „CIEŃ”, with Jakub Mędrzycki in the piece „Moving Lands” and she was an assistant to choreographers in the piece “BIOLAND” choreographed by Megan Doheny and Ilja Nikurov with a premiere in Łaźnia Nowa Theatre in Cracow.
Zuzanna is also a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the 18th edition of the Young Poland Program for 2021.
She has participated in many contemporary dance workshops such as Share Workshop (Berlin), IID Intensive (Rotterdam), Hasadna Summer Waves (Tel Aviv), and NDT Summer Intensive (The Hague).

music: The Dave Brubeck Quartet
duration: 5:30 min

Teatr Tańca Zmysł: Utkane (a fragment of a performance)

A human being always seems to exist in relation – to something, to someone. Entangled in a web of connections. Loosely caught in some, hopelessly knotted in others. Bound painfully tight by certain threads, clinging desperately to others even as they fall apart in their hands.

dancers: Zmysł Dance Theatre
direction and choreography: Adrianna Sawczak
music: Michał Nazimek and musicians