Who am I:
Katarzyna Brzezinska
is a polish freelance artist in the field of dance, performance, as well as sculpture and installation. She creates her own projects, participates in collaborations with artists in the international context and offers workshops in the field of dance, creativity, choreographic improvisation in performance as well as individual Ilan Lev Method lessons and treatments. She is also involved in the „Das Tanznetz Freiburg” in the organisation, implementation and artistic conception of event formats such as workshops, residences and research laboratories in the field of dance and performance.
Katarzyna Brzezinska
is a polish freelance artist in the field of dance, performance, as well as sculpture and installation. She creates her own projects, participates in collaborations with artists in the international context and offers workshops in the field of dance, creativity, choreographic improvisation in performance as well as individual Ilan Lev Method lessons and treatments. She is also involved in the „Das Tanznetz Freiburg” in the organisation, implementation and artistic conception of event formats such as workshops, residences and research laboratories in the field of dance and performance.
Her artistic interest is currently following presented topics:
- Magic of dreams, illusion, poetry and imagination within the relation to tangible facts of reality, physics and anatomical structures, body flesh, objects, senses, perception, colours, spaces, forms, etc. .
- Layers of female identity in relation to the system, culture, nature, inner and outer experience and other people
- "Perfect imperfection"; within the framework of research on strength, will, challenge, weakness, trust, vulnerability
- Deconstruction of Dance and Instant Choreographic Movement - „Choreographic Body”
- Frame of reference "many in one"; and "one in many"; as well as artistic presence.
Artistic collaboration and participation (selected works)
2019 „Aggregate" by Alexandra Pirici, Art Basel 2019
2019 „form.allie" by Zina Vaessen, Südufer Freiburg, 2019
2018 „touching vision“ choreographic cooperation within a framework of labormanifest #6, Freiburg
2018 „KIN“ by Dagny Borsdorf, Freiburg Festival und Tanzwerk#2018, Freiburg
2017 „where the flowers fall“ (Duet) as well as „Maderness“ (Quartett), Graduation pieces, TIP, Freiburg
2016 „Looping“ by Dagny Borsdorf, Freiburg Festival und Tanzwerk #2016, Freiburg
2016 „Feeling backwards“ Solo in a frame of an open stage in Südufer, Freiburg
Education
2017 - 2019 Movement and somatic therapy according to Ilan Lev Method, Ilan-Lev-School (ISR/PL)
2015 - 2017 Contemporary Dance and Stage Improvisation,
TIP School for Dance, Improvisation and Performance, Freiburg (DE)
TIP School for Dance, Improvisation and Performance, Freiburg (DE)
2012 - 2013 Physical theatre and contemporary dance, Performers House in Silkeborg (DK)
2004 - 2010 Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Wroclaw(PL) in the fields of sculpture, ceramics and installation
2003 - 2004 Physical Theatre and Contemporary Dance, SKIBA Theatre School in Wroclaw (PL)
Scholarships, Prizes and Residencies
2017 artistic research residence on improvisation, Nomadic Studio, Marseille (F)
2918 artistic research residence on improvisation, Compagnie Emmanuel Grivet, Touluse (F)
2016 Audience award for the solo „feeling backwards";, SoloDuo Festival Barnes Crossing, Cologne
2008 - 2009 SATOH ArtCraft Research Fellowship, Tokyo University of Arts (JP)
What I'm looking for:
always NOW, complete presence, transformation, instant poetry, motherland - fatherland, wildness, connectedness, real and magic, old song
always NOW, complete presence, transformation, instant poetry, motherland - fatherland, wildness, connectedness, real and magic, old song
