Kasia Wolińska is a choreographer, dancer, and writer born in Gdańsk and based between Vienna and Berlin. In tandem with her artistic pursuits, she has nurtured a scholarly practice that encompasses art theory, history, and critical inquiry into the intersections of gender, politics, and cultural analysis. Her work is rooted in social engagement and interdisciplinary methodologies, manifested in both individual and collaborative projects and processes. Her intellectual and creative interests traverse the realms of historical, contemporary, and speculative body-mind techniques, alongside intersectional feminist, environmental, and socialist frameworks. As both an artist and scholar, she is committed to exploring ways in which dance and choreography can be made accessible to diverse audiences, creating platforms for embodied communication and emancipatory collaboration. She strives to develop models and approaches that foster the sustainability and self-renewal of dance as a lifelong practice, honoring its material, somatic, and spiritual dimensions.


Kasia holds degrees from the Dance and Choreography Department at the Music Academy in Łódź, the Cultural Anthropology Department at the University of Łódź, and the Dance, Context, Choreography Program at HZT Berlin. Her artistic residencies include R.E.D./Tanzfabrik Berlin, Body Time Space at Radialsystem Berlin, Centro Selva in Pucallpa, transeuropa Festival in Hildesheim, and Zarya AiR in Vladivostok. Kasia was awarded the Młoda Polska scholarship by the Polish Ministry of Culture (2013) and the DanceWEB scholarship in Vienna (2015). She was also a visiting artist at Movement Research/Judson Church through the GPS/Global Practice Sharing Program, facilitated by Art Stations Foundation and the Polish Institute of Music and Dance (2016). Her work was featured in the Introducing program at the Performing Arts Festival Berlin (Hebbel am Ufer, 2018), and she was a fellow of the Critical Practice (Made in YU) program (2022/23). Most recently, she received the Tanzpraxis scholarship in Berlin and served as a jury member for the curatorial competition of the Dance Pavilion in Warsaw (2024). 

As a dancer and choreographer, Kasia has collaborated with, and was featured in the works of artists including Anne Mareike Hess, Lina Gomez, Hana Erdman, Sergiu Matis, Helena Waldmann, Carima Neusser, Anna Nowicka, Julek Kreutzer, Agata Siniarska, Marta Ziółek, Eva Tanko, Karol Tymiński, Rosalind Crisp, Anton Vidokle, Rob Hayden, Martin Hansen, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Krzysztof Leon Dziemaszkiewicz, Rafał Dominik, Vincent Bozek and IP Group. Between 2013 and 2018, she led the site-specific performative project Hi Mary. Her other choreographic works include KISS (Radialsystem Berlin, 2022), Salvage (Nowy Teatr, Warsaw, 2021), and Dance Pilgrim Dance (Art Stations Foundation, Poznań, 2017). She presented her choreographies internationally at venues such as Dansehallerne (Copenhagen), Het Veem (Amsterdam), Judson Church (New York), Norberg Festival (Norberg), DOCK 11, Ada Studios, Ballhaus Ost, Radialsystem, Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Teatr Studio, Komuna Warszawa, Ujazdowski Castle-Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw), and the Museum of Modern Art / ms2 (Łódź). Additionally, she created choreographies for theater productions directed by Agnieszka Jakimiak (Teatr Powszechny, Warsaw), Gosia Wdowik (Teatr Współczesny, Szczecin), and Piotr Trojan (Nowy Teatr, Poznań). In 2023, she choreographed the opening of the new Urban Culture Centre, Kunszt Wodny, in Gdańsk and, in 2024, was selected to showcase her work at the opening of the Modern Art Museum in Warsaw. Since 2023 she's been working on Papieżyca (The High Priestess): a research-performative project concerned with the intersections of choreography and culture anthropology, in which women's fates and stories are examined in their relation to psychopathological states, social marginalization and spiritual practices.

Since 2018, Kasia has authored the blog Dance Is A Weapon (www.danceisaweapon.com), funded through the Einstiegsförderung and the Research Scholarship of Berlin’s Senate for Culture and Social Cohesion. Her texts, both solo and collaborative, have appeared in e-flux, Paletten, Dialog. Magazine for Contemporary Dramaturgy, Tanzraum Berlin or Maska, as well as in publications like Danceolitics (Life Long Burning) and Choreography Autonomies (Art Stations Foundation). Alongside Faerieda Sandström, she co-founded The Future Body At Work (TFBAW), a theory-practice duo that has published texts and conducted teaching engagements in Lisbon, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Berlin, Warsaw, and Minsk. Together, they were fellows of the New Alphabet School at HKW Berlin (2019–2022). As TFBAW and independently, Kasia has collaborated with Work Hard! Play Hard! Platform, now Decentric Circles (since 2024).

Between 2019 and 2023, Kasia served on the board of ZTB e.V., the representative organization for Berlin's independent dance scene. Together with Mateusz Szymanówka, she initiated and co-moderated Work Culture AG (2021–2022), a two-year collective process culminating in the publication How to (Make) Dance in Berlin – A Toolbox for a Better Work Culture in the Independent Dance Scene. During her tenure at ZTB, she collaborated with Tanztage Berlin to organize and moderate discursive events addressing work culture, power structures in the performing arts, and dance production politics (Future Workshops, Incite!Dance!).

Currently, Kasia is a member of systering, a transnational collective of artists, writers, dramaturges, and cultural workers committed to practices of comradeship, intersectional feminism, and multidisciplinary collaboration.


Photo above was taken by Bela Dieterich
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