Kasia Wolińska is a choreographer, dancer, and writer born in Gdańsk, living in Berlin. Graduate of the Dance and Choreography Department at Music Academy, Łódź; Culture Anthropology Department at University of Łódź and Dance, Context, Choreography Program at HZT Berlin. She was a resident of R.E.D. Residency at Tanzfabrik Berlin, Body Time Space at Radialsystem Berlin, Centro Selva in Pucallpa, transeuropa Festival in Hildesheim and Zarya AiR in Vladivostok. A recipient of the Młoda Polska scholarship of The Polish Ministry of Culture in 2013 and DanceWEB scholarship (Vienna) in 2015. In 2016 she was a visiting artist at Movement Research/Judson Church facilitated through GPS/Global Practice Sharing Program, Art Stations Foundation and the Polish Institute of Music and Dance. She was one of the artists selected for the Introducing programme of the Performing Arts Festival Berlin in 2018 ( Hebbel am Ufer). In 2022/23 she was a fellow of the Critical Practice ( Made in YU) programme. She was awarded a Tanzpraxis scholarship 2024/25 in Berlin. In 2024 she was a jury member in the curatorial competition for the Dance Pavilion in Warsaw. 


As a dancer and choreographer she collaborated with artists such as Anne Mareike Hess, Lina Gomez, Hana Erdman, Sergiu Matis, Helena Waldmann, Anna Nowicka, Agata Siniarska, Marta Ziółek, Karol Tymiński, Rosalind Crisp, Anton Vidokle, Rob Hayden, Pere Faura, Rafał Dominik and Vincent Bozek. In the years 2013-2018, she ran a performative, site-specific project Hi Mary which was presented at Dansehallerne (Copenhagen), Het Veem (Amsterdam), Judson Church (New York), Norberg Festival (Norberg), DOCK 11, Ada Studios, Ballhaus Ost (Berlin), Teatr Studio (Warsaw), Galeria Tarasina (Kalisz) and Museum of Modern Art / ms2 (Łódź). Developing her own choreographic methods and approaches, she produced KISS (Radialsystem Berlin, 2022), Salvage (Nowy Teatr, Warsaw, 2021), Dance Pilgrim Dance (Art Stations Foundation, Poznań, 2017). She also created choreographies for the theatre shows directed by Agnieszka Jakimiak (Teatr Powszechny, Warsaw), Gosia Wdowik ( Teatr Współczesny, Szczecin) and Piotr Trojan ( Nowy Teatr, Poznań). In 2023 she was invited to choreograph an opening of the new Urban Culture Centre - Kunszt Wodny - in Gdańsk, and in 2024 she was one of the choreographers selected to showcase their works at the opening of the Modern Art Museum in Warsaw. 


Since 2018, she has been writing a blog on dance and politics www.danceisaweapon.com funded thanks to Einstiegsförderung and Recherche Scholarship of Berlin’s Senate for Culture and Social Cohesion. Her (collectively and individually written) texts were published in e.g. e-flux, Paletten, Dialog. Magazine for contemporary dramaturgy or Tanzraum Berlin, and in books Danceolitics (Life Long Burning) or Choreography Autonomies (Art Stations Foundation). Together with Faerieda Sandström she founded The Future Body At Work - a theory-practice duet. They published several texts and taught in Lisbon, Stockholm, Götteborg, Berlin, Warsaw and Minsk, they were also fellows of the New Alphabet School at HKW Berlin (2019-22). Since 2019, as TFBAW as well as a solo artist and researcher, she’s been collaborating with the Work Hard!Play Hard! Platform (since 2024 - Decentric Circles). 


In 2019-23 she was a board member of ZTB e.V., the organisation representing the interests of the free dance scene in Berlin. Together with Mateusz Szymanówka she initiated and moderated a collective two-years-long process (2021-22) under the name Work Culture AG, which resulted in publication of the booklet “How to (Make) Dance in Berlin – A Toolbox for a Better Work Culture in the Independent Dance Scene''. As a ZTB board member she collaborated with Tanztage Berlin, organising and moderating discursive events about e.g. work culture, power structures within performing art scenes or politics of dance production (Future Workshops, Incite!Dance!).  

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Currently she is also a member of systering, a transnational collective of artists, writers, dramaturges and cultural workers dedicated to practices of comradeship, intersectional feminism and critical collaboration. 


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