Kasia Wolinska – choreographer, dancer, and writer born in Gdańsk, living in Berlin. Graduate of the Dance Department at Music Academy, Łódź, Cultural Anthropology Department at University of Łódź and Dance, Context, Choreography Program at HZT Berlin. She was a resident of e.g. Centro Selva Peru, transeuropa Festival in Hildesheim and Zarya AIR in Vladivostok. As a dancer and choreographer, she collaborated with, among others, Lina Gomez, Sergiu Matis, Helena Waldmann, Anna Nowicka, Agata Siniarska, Karol Tyminski, Rosalind Crisp, Anton Vidokle. In the years 2013-2018, she ran a performative project Hi Mary. Herself created also a few choreographic works e.g. KISS ( 2022 ), Salvage ( 2021), Dance, Pilgrim Dance ( 2017). Since 2018, she has been writing a blog on dance and politics www.danceisaweapon.com. Together with Faerieda Sandstrom she founded The Future Body At Work - as a theory-practice duet they published several texts and taught in Lisbon, Götteborg, Berlin, Warsaw and Minsk. Her collectively and individually written texts were published in e.g. e-flux, Palletten, Dialog, and in books Danceolitics or Choreography Autonomies (Art Stations Foundation). In 2022/23 she is a fellow of the Critical Practice ( Made in YU) programme. In 2019-23 a board member of ZTB e.V., the organization representing the interests of the free scene of dance in Berlin. As a part of the Work Culture group of ZTB e.V. she developed a booklet “How to (Make) Dance in Berlin – A Toolbox for a Better Work Culture in the Independent Dance Scene '' which was published in December 2022. Currently she is also one of the 6 members of systering, a transnational collective of artists, writers, dramaturges and cultural workers dedicated to practices of comradeship, sistering and critical collaboration.
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photo from the movie set of "Autotrofia" by Anton Vidokle