Anna Królica is a curator, critic and historian of dance. Her books include Sztuka do odkrycia. Szkice o polskim tańcu (An art to discover. Essays on Polish dance) (Tarnów, 2011) and Pokolenie solo (The solo generation) (Krakow, 2013). She was the editor and curator of the album Nienasycone spojrzenie. Fotografia tańca (The insatiable gaze. Photographing dance) (Tarnów / Warsaw, 2017).
Her most important curatorial projects include: Maszyna choreograficzna | Choreographic Machine (2013–16, Cricoteka), Z perspektywy żaby | A Frog’s Perspective (2015, Zamek Culture Centre) and Archiwum ciała | Archive of the Body (2013, Zamek Culture Centre). She sat on the Polish Dance Platform jury in 2008, 2012 and 2017 and chaired the Programme Council for Dance at the Institute of Music and Dance (2011–13). She lectured at the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Performative Arts Department of the Jagiellonian University. She currently lectures at the Dance and Media Art Institute of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Her texts were published in Dwutygodnik, Teatr and Didaskalia journals.
 

 

Wojciech Zamiara (born 1960 in Toruń) - Polish contemporary artist, interdisciplinary artist (creator of multimedia installations, performance and video art), educator. He studied at the State Higher School of Visual Arts in Gdańsk (current name of the university: Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk), he obtained his diploma at the Graphics Studio of prof. Cyprian Kościelniak in 1986. He has been working at the Gdańsk University since 1986, currently holding the post of second degree adjunct. He leads the studio Introduction to Intermedia at the Department of Specialization and Specialization at the Faculty of Sculpture.

 

MARTA ZIÓŁEK is a choreographer and performer. Before starting her studies in choreography at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam, she studied at the Inter-faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities at the University of Warsaw. In her work she focuses on expanding the field of practice in choreography and the study of new forms of expression and embodiment. She operates in the language of new technologies and pop culture, she is interested in new rituals and performance studies of identity.
So far, she participated in workshops, projects, and co-worked with such choreographers and theoreticians as Bojana Cvejić, DD Dorvillier, Deborah Hay, Maria La Ribot, Trajal Harrell, Benoit Lachambre, Ann Liv Young, Xavier Le Roy..
One of her first shows as a choreographer after graduation was "Black on Black" which was produced by Hetveem Theatre  in Amsterdam, co-produced by The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, STUK in Leuven, Studio Theatre in Warsaw and Komuna Warszawa in Warsaw. Komuna Warszawa has also produced her two latest works –“PIXO” and "Make Yourself".In the meantime she initiated project called “Pamela”  that had three editions to date: "Pamela at the Gallery" as part of the exhibition "Better Self" Zachęta – August 2017 and Is "It Pamela/Incarnations" (Łódź of Four Cultures Festival – September 2017), "A Seance with Pamela"( a part of: „PTV. Performans TV”, odcinek 3 Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art ).
Ziółek thus far, among other places, showed her work in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Romania, Israel, The United States and Poland.
In 2011, she received the Dance Web scholarships from the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna. In 2012 she participated in the Springdance SPRING performing arts festival - Europe in Motion in Utrecht dedicated to young emerging choreographers. In 2013 she received a scholarship from the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.
Ziółek's main focus is exploring the boundaries between visual arts, performance art, film and choreography.In 2018 She created choreographic installation for Netflix’s Pavillion - “Altered Carbon” at Ehtos Gallery. In 2017 she collaborated with Sharon Lochart and created choreography for her film presented in the Polish Pavillion at the Venice Biennale.
Ziółęk also cooperated in theatrical projects such as "Ewelina’s crying," directed by Anna Karasińska  and “Girls” ,"The Football Players" directed by Gosia Wdowik both at the TR theater in Warsaw. In addition, she participated in art shows such as "Let's Dance" in The Art Station Foundation gallery, "Frame Of Reference" in the Museum of Art in Lodz and in Warsaw's Sculpture Park under the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.