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Artist

Zofia Tomczyk

Crux

Crux,
photo Zofia Tomczyk

Crux
Crux,
photo Zofia Tomczyk

Zofia Tomczyk is a multidisciplinary artist, fascinated with the human body, movement and sound. Since 2015, she has been exploring working with dreams in a creative context as a dancer, choreographer and performer. She is currently a student of the School of Images in New York and graduated from the Master in Performing Arts program at Iceland University of the Arts in Reykjavík. She creates audio-visual concerts together with her friends Józef Buchnajzer and Aga Nowacka as the Ciche Nagrania record label.

Events

Ambient Sunday #8 and #9
2020, Amsterdam
Organising the Contact Improvisation Gathering in Iceland
2020, Reykjavík
‘Agalma III’ – recorded music album, artists: Ragnar Jónsson, Guðmundur Arnalds, Zofia Tomczyk
2019, Reykjavík
‘3x20’ premiere at the Centrum Sztuki Tańca Conference in Warsaw
2019, Warsaw
‘Bataille and the Dawn of New Days’ – as a dancer, choreography by Anny Godowskiej and Sławomira Krawczyńskiego
2016, Poznań
‘Up Side Down‘ – as a dancer, choreography by Dalija Acin Thelander, Keren Levi. Stary Browar Nowy Taniec in Poznan
2016, Poznań
‘Sirenade’ (premiere of the film version). Credits: Krystyna Szydłowska, Paweł Czarkowski MovLab, Zofia Tomczyk
2016, Lisbon
OBRAS Holland art residency
2020, Renkum

Prizes

‘Young Poland’ scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
2019, Warsaw
Alternative Dance Academy scholarship from Art Stations Foundation Grażyna Kulczyk
2015, Poznań
‘Connection’, choreography and performance by Zofia Tomczyk – 2nd Prize at the Zawirowania Dance Festival International Choreography Competition in Warsaw
2017, Warsaw
‘Te echo de menos. Mano’, choreography and dance by Zofia Tomczyk – 1st prize in ‘3...2...1...Dance!’ international choreographic competition
2017, Kraków
‘Connection’, choreography and performance by Zofia Tomczyk – awarded at the Zawirowania Dance International Choreography Competition in Warsaw
2016, Tarnów
Performance

Crux

Company

Zofia Tomczyk

Credits

  • Zofia Tomczyk Choreography, performance, sound, lights

Performance synopsis

Crux – an essential point requiring resolution or resolving. ‘My movement practice always begins with what’s already there, happening in my body.’ ‘Crux’ takes us into subtleties, tremors, micro-gestures, tiny noises, silence, shifts and stillness.

Duration15" Crew *2 Artists1
Premiere 2020-01-04, Reykjavík, Iceland
Audienceadults

* cast plus technical support

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