Iwona Wojnicka

Iwona Wojnicka (PhD) is a performer, choreographer, and dance scholar. Her Practice Research explores the kinesthetic traces of pioneers of modern dance in Poland and Germany. Working with memory and embodied archives, she founded the Warsaw Museum of Dance. She graduated from the University of Warsaw, the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, and Eurolab (Laban/Bartenieff Institute), completed an internship at Codarts Rotterdam, and earned her PhD from the University of Huddersfield.

EVENTS

“Rewrite Time, Rewrite Dance, Rewrite Body” by Žak Valenta

2026 – 2028, Rijeka

Dance Studies Association conference: "Speculative Choreographies: Bodies, Economies, and Movement in a World in Flux"

2026, California State University, Long Beach, USA

18th Conference of the Polish Choreological Forum, Department of Dance, Faculty of Vocal and Acting Studies, Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice.

2026, Katowice

PRIZES

Warsaw - Huddersfield, 2024

“Auto – Promo. Crafting your Digital Persona.” National Recovery Program.”Auto – Promo. Crafting your Digital Persona.” National Recovery Program.

Warsaw, 2023

Education Grant by The Association of Polish Stage Artists (ZASP) for the production and digitization of a portfolio submitted for the doctoral examination.Education Grant by The Association of Polish Stage Artists (ZASP) for the production and digitization of a portfolio submitted for the doctoral examination.

Warsaw, 2023

Creative Scholarship, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland) – Krystyna Mazurówna – All My Dances. Documentary film.Creative Scholarship, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland) – Krystyna Mazurówna – All My Dances. Documentary film.

Paris - Warsaw, 2020

Creative Scholarship. Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland), co-funded by the NIEPODLEGŁA 2017–2022 Multiannual Program. Documentary film “Nata Lerska. The Story of a Dancer”.Creative Scholarship. Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland), co-funded by the NIEPODLEGŁA 2017–2022 Multiannual Program. Documentary film “Nata Lerska. The Story of a Dancer”.

Paris - Warsaw, 2020

“Cry of Nireńska in Washington”. The Artistic Scholarship of The Mayor of The Town of Warsaw.”Cry of Nireńska in Washington”. The Artistic Scholarship of The Mayor of The Town of Warsaw.

Tel Aviv, 2018

The Movement Analysis of Choreographic Style of Ohad Naharin. Research supported by The Polish Institute of Music and Dance.The Movement Analysis of Choreographic Style of Ohad Naharin. Research supported by The Polish Institute of Music and Dance.

Rotterdam, 2010

Creative Scholarship awarded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland for the development of research materials for “Rudolf Laban and Movement Analysis”.Creative Scholarship awarded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland for the development of research materials for “Rudolf Laban and Movement Analysis”.

Performance

Ostinato

Company

Iwona Wojnicka
  • Choreography and dance: Iwona Wojnicka
  • Musical and vocal compositions: India Czajkowska
  • Audiovisual compositions: Marta Kawecka

Performance synopsis

Ostinato is a choreography about remembering. It responds to what remains in the body when history breaks into fragments and imagination rearranges them anew. The work emerged from encounters with Nata Lerska and from Mary Wigman’s Ostinato exercise. The choreography unfolds through sequences that appear and disappear, while rhythms diverge and converge. Memory becomes a creative process here—not an archive, but a continuous rewriting of experience. The performance was developed as part of a doc

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Duration 37 minut Crew * 2 Artists 2
Premiere 17/06/2021 , Huddersfield, Great Britain
Audience adults, everyone
Warnings
  • none

* cast plus technical support

Contact

PROMOTIONAL DETAILS

The project was made possible through the support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Association of Polish Stage Artists, the Wola Centre for Culture in Warsaw, and the University of Huddersfield, UK. The research component of the project was carried out with the support of a Creative Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland. Production partners for the project were the Warsaw Museum of Dance and Format Zero.
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