Anna Steller is a dancer, performer and choreographer. She first appeared onstage in 1993, in which year she joined the Gdańsk-based Dada von Bzdülöw theatre. In 2003 she joined Patrz Mi Na Usta Theatre. She’s made guest appearances at the Gombrowicz Theatre in Gdynia and Wybrzeże Theatre in Gdańsk. In 2005 she co-founded the Good Girl Killer ensemble, where she’s currently performing with Magda Jędra.

She has been working on dance productions, performative actions and site-specific performances for many years. Her solo productions include Przemieszczenie (2012) and Solove (2013) created during her residency at the MAAT Festival in Lublin.

Steller holds the Special Award of the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship for extraordinary contribution to art (2012) and the Mayor of Gdańsk Award for Young Artists for the Good Girl Killer piece (2007). She received scholarships from Dance Web for a workshop at Impulstanz Festival in Vienna (2003), the Visegrad Fund (2015) and the Alternative Dance Academy at the Art Station Foundation (2014).

Since 2011 she’s been showing her performative actions at art galleries, such as the Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdańsk or the Gdańsk City Gallery.

Over the years, Steller has  taken part in a number of international dance and visual arts projects, including Telling the Baltic (ART Line project) and There Might Be Others choreographed by Rebecca Lazier (Art Station Foundation production). She has worked with 7273 Theatre (Geneva), Nigel Charnock in project HAPPY, Rafał Dziemidok and Mariola Brillowska (Hamburg), among others.

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Jolanta Woszczenko is a curator and historian, currently she is writing a PhD at the University of Gdańsk . At the LAZNIA CCA in Gdansk she runs the cycle of meetings with experimental film and video artists and curators from Poland and abroad. She has curated, among others, reviews of Laure Prouvost, Omer Fast, Coco Fusco and Christoph Schlingensif at the LAZNIA CCA, Ujazdowski Castle CCA in Warsaw, Nowy Teatr in Warsaw, Galery Parasite in Hong Kong, NCCA in Kaliningrad. She has curated and co-curated among others exhibitions at the LAZNIA CCA, Ujazdowski CCA, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre in Hong Kong and the Gdańsk Shipyard. She co-founded the independent gallery Na Korytarzu (In the hallway) in the Gdańsk Shipyard. A member of the international association of curators of contemporary art IKT.

She has been curating and co-organizing the IN OUT Festival since 2012.

Maciej Salamon (b. 1984 r.) is a graphic artist, musician and illustrator living in Sopot. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, where he currently teaches graphic design at the Faculty of Intermedia. Salamon sings and plays the guitar in a necropolo duo Nagrobki, is an author of music videos and animations. He received many awards for his art. He runs the Gablotka Gallery in the former Gdańsk Shipyard. He’s a good lad.

Co-author of the contemporary dance performance created at 12 IN OUT FESTIVAL 2018.

Katarzyna Pastuszak (Ph.D/Poland) is a dancer, perfomer, academic, artistic director of Amareya Theatre (Gdansk, Poland); curator of Butoh Festival in Gdansk and Gdansk Dance Festival (2009-2014), honourable member of the Gdansk Culture Council (2009-2014), academic teacher at the Institute of Culture - Gdansk University. In 2015 received the prestigeous scholarship of the Polish Ministry of Culture “Młoda Polska” for the realisation of performance project “Kantor_Traces”; also in 2016-2015 she was nominated for prestigeous prize “Splendor Gedanensis”. In 2014 published her Ph.D dissertation entitled “Hijikata Tatsumi’s Ankoku butō – the theatre of the body-in-crisis”. Co-operated with such artists and groups as: Saburo Teshigawara, Waguri Yukio, Murobushi Ko, Kawamoto Yuko, Gekidan Kaitaisha, Peter Schumann – Bread & Puppet Theatre, Odin Teatret, Edivaldo Ernesto, Jozef Frucek and Linda Kapetanea and others. Presented her works at festivals in Poland and abroad: Tanzimpulse Festival (Salzburg), Redplexus Festival (Marseille), XV Alternative Theatre Meetings KLAMRA, SUKKOT Dance Festival in Adama Centre / Mitzpa Ramon (Israel), Festival of Asian Culture - MADE IN ASIA, Festival Streetwaves Gdańsk, Poland; International Festival “Sound Around Kaliningrad”, Russia; Redplexus Festival - Preavis de Desordre Urbain in Marseille, France; Shakespear Festival, Gdańsk, Poland; Villkvinneseminar Festival of Women Art, Mosjoen (Norway); TAGTAS Festival, Morishita Studio in Tokyo, Japan; Apart Festival, “Opening Doors III” festival organised by Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards. Performance “Nomadic Woman” directed by Katarzyna Pastuszak together with Amareya Theatre & Guests was preformed at 11. International Dance and Theatre Festival in Theatre X Tokyo and also in Greenland National Theatre in Nuuk and Sisimiut Kulturhus. In 2016 "Kantor_Traces: COLLAGE" dir. by Pastuszak was chosen as "The Best OFF-OFF Performance" by Gazeta Świętojańska, in 2017 it won the II Audience Prize at Festiwal Klamra in Toruń. In 2017 "Nomadic Woman" dir. by Pastuszak was presented in Tokyo and Sapporo where 2 Ainu artists joined the presentations, broadening the cultural and political context of the piece - Tsugumi Matsudaira i Utae Ehara.

 

Katarzyna Pastuszak is the juror of the first stage of the competition and she will give a lecture on "More than a picture, more than a dance, more than a movie, or 9 variations on dancefilm"

Krzysztof Leon Dziemaszkiewicz is a choreographer, dancer and performer. His transgenic and transsexual work is aimed at juxtaposing opposites and questioning the boundaries between what’s animal and what’s human. His theatre reaches for presentiments, instincts and emotions, with honesty as its overriding rule. Nudity, often employed by Dziemaszkiewicz, is meant to manifest joy, naturalness and spontaneity.

1987–98 – Wojciech Misiuro’s Ekspresji Theatre – Gdańsk-Mikołów-Sopot

(assistant director, assistant choreographer, dancer)

1996–2000 – MOVING M3 Theatre – Berlin

1998–2000 – “Babcia Zosia” Theatre at the Club der polnischen Versager (Club of Polish Failures) in Berlin

1995 – founding his own theatre, Teatr Patrz Mi Na Usta, in Berlin-Gdańsk

1992–2012 – cooperation with the “Sfinks” Sopot Foundation for the Integration of Science, Culture and Art (performance, actions, happenings, choreography, dance)

2004–12 – cooperation with multimedia artist Mariola Brillowska (choreography, participation in performances)

Since 2003, Dziemiaszkiewicz has been active in performance art and taken part in a number of festivals in Poland and abroad.

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