I Love Ballet // Leipzig, Festival Off Europa

Ramona Nagabczyńska is a dancer and choreographer. She received her artistic education at the Warsaw Ballet High School, the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt and the London Contemporary Dance School in London, and her theoretical education at the SWPS University and the University of Warsaw. She works in Poland and abroad.

Her choreographic works include: ‘New (Dis)Order’ (2012) – selected for Aerowaves in 2014, ‘Re//accumulation’ (2012), ‘The Way Things Dinge’ (2014), ‘pURe’ (2015), ‘MORE’ (2017), “Networking” (2018/19), ‘Body Parts’ (2019) – also selected for Aerowaves, ‘Silenzio!’ (2021), ‘Le Jeu de Massacre’ (2021)- together with Barbara Kinga Majewska, “Blogo” (2022), ‘Anonymous Performers’ (2024) and ‘Hate Haus’ (2024) – together with the Hertz Haus collective.

From 2015 to 2019 she was an artist of the international performing arts network apap Network. In 2021 she won the prize for directing the performance ‘Silenzio!’ at the Divine Comedy Festival.

She is one of the co-founders of the collective Centrum w Ruchu.

Agata Siniarska works with augmented choreography. She situates her practice between how we think about the world and how we move in it. Her current research explores the idea of the Anthropocene museum, multi-species archives in times of war and extinction, and the different alliances between human and non-human bodies. In addition to performance and choreography, Agata works as a dramaturgist in the performing arts and recently started her journey through the underground music scene, playing in a band szum (as TATARI together with the noise-punk band rat milk).

She lives in Berlin with her dog Foka. She is a big fan of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. In 2025, she was a bronze medallist at the European championships in Lisbon.

Aleksandra Borys works with choreography in the art and science movement, incorporating science, cosmology and ecology into artistic research. She has been creating choreographic works for over a decade, experimenting with their somatic and immersive form. Her work has been produced by Nature of Us, Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, Nowy Teatr in Warsaw, BlakDance in Brisbane, pelna.lia haraki and NiMAC in Nicosia, Zachęta in Warsaw, Komuna Warszawa Theatre and Art Stations Foundation in Poznań.

She founded and runs the independent choreographic newspaper “Ruchome Teksty”. She is a member of the Warsaw collective Centrum w Ruchu. Nominated for the Prix Jardin d’Europe 2011, winner of the Aerowaves List 2012 and the Polish Dance Platform 2012.

Scholarship holder of, among others. KPO 2024 scholarship programme, the programme of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, the programme of the National Institute of Music and Dance, a study visit to Movement Research – Judson Church in New York, the Grażyna Kulczyk Research Scholarship, the Młoda Polska ministerial programme, the SPAZIO programme, DanceWeb2011, the ImPACK programme, and the Tour de Choreografes d’Europe programme.

From 2021 to 2022, she developed her artistic research within the a.pass – artistic research on performance and scenography programme in Brussels. Since 2016, she has a Master of Art and Science degree from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London; she also holds a BA in contemporary dance from CODARTS, University of the Arts, Rotterdam; and graduated from the National Ballet School in Łódź.

Karolina Kraczkowska –dancer, performer, choreographer, graduate of the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw and the Dance in Performance programme at the Laban Center in London. A member of the Polish Dance Theatre from 2004 to 2007, she has worked as a freelancer on productions by Jasmin Vardimon, Fin Walker, Michael Keegan-Dolan, Kirstine Kyhl Andersen, Christoph Winkler, Riccardo Buscarini, Leila Mcmillan, Janina Rajakangas, Uli Sickle, Marten Spangberg and Tino Sehgal. Currently she is associated with the Warsaw circle of experimental choreographers, directors and playwrights, including Paweł Sakowicz (‘Massacre’ and “Drama”), Ramona Nagabczyńska (‘Silenzio!’, ‘Anonymous performers’) Anna Smolar, Anka Herbut, Marta Malikowska and Agata Siniarska, Renata Piotrowska, Magda Ptasznik. She was awarded a scholarship by the Danceweb programme in 2016, mentored by Tino Sehgal and Louise Hojer. Simultaneously, she develops her interests in the area of choreography by realising original solo works. Among others, at the Chez Bushwick residency in New York in 2016, as part of the performance programme at Zachęta (SPA, 2017, Malachowski Square, 2018), Solo Projekt Plus 2018 at Stary Browar and as part of a cultural grant from the city of Lublin (2019 show of work in process at Wawerski Cultural Centre). In these works, she deepens her movement and choreographic practice, exploring the possibilities of body transformation, of changing one’s own identity, based on the perception of the body as a metaphor, an instrument, a tool, an embodiment of the subject animating it, communicating inner thought, feelings and affects. A body perceived as productive and creative, seen not as a fixed unchanging entity, but as a series of processes of continuous becoming, constitution, integration, multiplication, striving to increase its potentiality.

Iza Szostak is a choreographer and performer whose artistic path leads through classical dance, explorations of new materialism to experiments with VR technology. Educated at the Warsaw Ballet School and Codarts – Rotterdam Dance Academy, she started out in classical dance before moving into the fields of contemporary dance, performance and conceptual art.

At the centre of her work has always remained the body – not only as a tool of expression, but as a medium through which to explore relationships with the environment, objects or technology. Her fascination with new materialism led her to explore choreography as a relational practice in which movement not only expresses but also creates reality. This path has led to performances such as RE//MIX – Merce Cunningham (premiered at the Komuna Warszawa Theatre), Europa. Investigation, National Affairs, Skaj is the Limit or Coparic Ballet, in which the body becomes part of a larger structure – sometimes an investigative system, sometimes a machine and sometimes a memory archive.

Since 2020, Iza has been immersing herself in the world of augmented realities, exploring how technology is changing our perception of the body and presence. She creates VR projects such as Future Presence (WRO Biennale) and Score (TRAFO), in which choreography moves into digital space, opening up new possibilities for the experience of movement.

She lives in Warsaw, is mum to Rozalka and Ignasio, co-founding the Centrum w Ruchu collective and developing further projects at the intersection of dance, visual arts and new technologies, often in collaboration with audiovisual artist (and private husband) Kuba Słomkowski.