Anna Piotrowska

Habilitated Doctor of Arts in the discipline of film and theatre arts. Doctor of Musical Arts in rhythmics and dance. Choreographer, theatre director, contemporary dance teacher, dancer. Founder and President of the Board of the Dance Development Foundation – eferte, and founder of “mufmi” in Warsaw (1995).

Since 1996, she has created over 130 original choreographies and theatre productions. She is currently the Director of Rozbark Theatre and a Professor at the Faculty of Dance Theatre in Bytom, part of the Stanisław Wyspiański Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków. From 2019 to 2023, she served as Vice-Dean of the Faculty. She is a two-time recipient of the Silesian Voivodeship Award “Golden Mask” (2016, 2022).

Artistically, Piotrowska is focused on improvisation and on deepening body–mind awareness as a tool for multiplied, multifunctional observation. She explores the relationship of the objective body within a category she has defined as “onebodyspacerecognizer.” For many years, she has been engaged in process-based artistic work, developing tools for laboratory work with text and character creation, as well as intensifying experiences of heightened states of body and mind through imagination- and emotion-based practices. These processes influence movement creation and the search for energetic channels that release dance itself.