M4G1C BL0W / Olsztyńskie Spotkania Teatralne

Adrianna Kazimierz – dancer and choreographer. Graduate of the Department of Dance at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Artistic resident of Lublin Dance Theatre in the solo project Macho. Choreographer in the performance ,,My pleasure lies at the tip of my tongue”. Assistant to the choreographer Jakub Lewandowski in the production of ‘Doesn’t the horse get beaten’. Since 2022, she has been collaborating with the Piramowicz Institute as a choreographer in the productions ‘My Illuminations’ and a dancer in ‘The Spirit King or Słowacki in Metaversum’ as part of OFF POLSKA. Choreographer and initiator of the SZELEST 432Hz project. Winner of the ZAIKS choreographic competition ‘Vibrations’. In 2020-22 she collaborated with Art Spaces Katowice and Katowice City of Gardens, engaging in choreographic and performance work in, among others, the performance ‘Bright Future’ by chor. Anna Mikuła. She has collaborated in productions by Clair Howells and Uwe Koehler, Novas Invasões Portugal and others. Member of the informal PLUR collective.

Rafał Matusiak (he/him) – performer; dancer; mixologist; graduate of the Department of Dance at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Graduated from the dance innovation profile at XXX High School in Cracow. Winner of two awards at the 12th choreographic competition 3… 2… 1… dance, for a duet created with Joanna Kozubal. He has collaborated with the Art Color Ballet company. He has also performed on the stages of the Silesian Theatre and the Dramatic Theatre in Wałbrzych. Member of the informal PLUR collective. Currently, he lives in Switzerland working at Bühnen Bern Stadttheater.

ana szopa (she/her/they) – born ’00 in Katowice, Poland. Dance hostess, performer, aspiring choreographer, II Reiki healer, good fun specialist. Graduate of the Department of Dance at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Participant of the 3rd edition of the Kem school programme and SNDO Intensive Course of Choreography, scholarship holder of the ATLAS ImpulsTanz’24 programme. She cultivates collective work seeking pleasure in creative processes. She believes in the healing power of dance subverting the training and disciplining of bodies. She advocates a holistic approach to movement. Her interests lie between techno-shamanism and queer-feminist theories. She is fascinated by homespun approach to life, hardcore, camp, myths, sexuality, postgender, dreams, harsh noise and buttock shaking. She has co-created, among others, M. Ziółek’s “Free Bodies”, K. Simon’s “Exit through the inside”, A. Mikuła’s “Bright Future”, KCC’s “Hair Story”, PPL’s “W.I.T.C.H”, Theatre Łaźnia Nowa’s “ŁYS”, “M4G1C BL0W”. Komuna Warszawa 2024 premieres in the autumn. Member of informal collectives: PLUR, jaktańczyć.pl, the one vivid orange wall. https://anaszopa.wixsite.com/szopaana

Szymon Tur (he/him) – born in 1999 in Białystok. Movement artist, actor-dancer specialising in contemporary dance. Graduate of the Department of Dance at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Right after his studies, he co-created and performed in the performance Everyminute Motherland, choreographed by Maciej Kuźmiński, which was an act of resistance against the Russian aggression against Ukraine. As an actor, he created a role for, among others, the play ‘Marta. Figura Serpentinata’ directed by Seb Majewski at the Jerzy Szaniawski Drama Theatre in Wałbrzych and “Sex, Work and Dreams” directed by Agnieszka Jakimiak at the “Potem-o-tem” theatre in Warsaw. He co-created and performed the performance ‘ŁYS’ choreographed by Ana Szopa. Scholarship holder of residency projects within the framework of Art Space in Białystok and Kielce, as well as the ‘Teatr Polska’ programme of the Theatre Institute. He started his work with movement from street styles. Member of the informal PLUR collective.

sos k. osowska (she/her/it/he/they) – ’99. Neuroqueer creative person. Writes, draws, dances, performs. Participant of the Art of Openness 2021, Kem School 2023, Solidarity School 2023 and Katowice Theatre Round 2024. Survivor of the Bachelor’s degree in dance at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Co-created the perfomance “stimulus what senses which’ (minus1.artspace), the performance “ŁYS” (chor. ana szopa, Łaźnia Nowa Theatre). Dancer in the film ‘No Beast. So Fierce” (dir. Burhan Qurbani, chor. Przemek Kamiński) Member of informal collectives PLUR and jaktańczyć.pl. In her work and life, it is important for her to take care of pleasure, the nervous system and connecting with nature.

Teresa Fazan (she/her) – researcher, lyricist, playwright, producer. Graduate in Gender Studies (Central European University, Vienna) and Philosophy (University of Warsaw). Two-time scholarship holder of the Minister of Science and Higher Education. Author of numerous texts on dance and theatre. Mentor at the Academy of the International Theatre Institute in Berlin. She gained experience in production and marketing while working at festivals including Children’s Cinema (New Horizons Association), Animator (Estrada Poznanska) and at the Theatre Institute in Berlin (residency programme ‘zwischen__räumen///between__places’). As a playwright, she has collaborated with, among others, Marta Ziółek, Jäckie Rydz and ana szopa. She is the editor of ‘Machina Myśli’.

Marta Szypulska – Lives in Poznań-Warsaw-Lublin, works everywhere. Seamstress, costume designer and set designer, graduate of the University of the Arts in Poznań Interior Design and Scenography specialized in Clothing design. She directs her artistic activities towards designing unique clothing for street people, unconventional individualists and conscious consumers of fashion. She draws inspiration from futuristic visions and the natural world. She is currently pursuing a career in theatrical costume design, personal tailoring and creating bespoke forms for performative needs. She has worked in many theatres in Poland, with Weronika Szczawińska she has realised such titles as: ‘No More War’, ‘Talking about Trees’, ‘Simply’, ‘Urban Birdman’, ‘The Club’, ‘Abandonment Time’, “Mushrooms”, ‘Listening Trumpet’. She worked with Wiktor Rubin on costumes for “Chaplin”, “The Curse of the Kennedy Family”, “Citizen Kane”, “The Anthill”. Together with Wojtek Rodak, she produced the plays: ‘Sailor’, ‘Tom in the Country’, ‘Colourful Dreams’. She has collaborated with Jasmina Metwaly for the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. She has done things for Teraz Poliż, Gosia Wdowik, Hana Umeda and choreographers such as Alicja Czyczel, Marta Ziółek, Wojtek Grudzinski and Magda Jędra.

Julek Ploski non-stop making Music and this Music is always about his feelings and is always (too) personal. His current ➝Sound← is what he calls an Epic Collage of bombastic, Hollywood trailers; melodramatic pianos; hardcore raves; liminal, trappy accents; incel metal riffs and sound designer, growly classical music. Julek loves his Software -FL STUDIO-. In 2023, he released his third album 〈 Hotel ***** 〉 on the American prestigious label Orange Milk Records and 〈 Matcha latte, Contemplation EP 〉 on the Polish label Dyspensa Records. In 2024 he will release his fourth album and maybe even a fifth and maybe even an ep. it will sound a bit like the sequel to 〈 Hotel ***** 〉, but with a lot less pomp and a lot more liminality and delicacy, and a MIDI sound component. He plays Audio-Visual concerts, which he illustrates with animations. Julek does them himself and they sort of thematically compliment his Hollywood-Liminal ➝Sound← Julek ploski™ doesn’t have a healthy relationship with his instagram self narrative (i.e. the so-called Avatar). Life is moving too fast for him, but he still falls asleep seamlessly — maybe even too seamlessly.

Okime Emiko – Visual artist, vj, video creator, editor, photographer. She collaborates with galleries and theatres and runs her own photography and film studio. Emiko’s productions combine elements of scenography, design and fashion. They have been presented at many music and cultural events in Europe, Asia and South America.