Ewelina Ciszewska

Poland

Polish actress and teacher at PWST national theatre school in Wrocław. He enjoys and confronts different art genres. This is where the idea of founding and running TEATR SZTUK (THEATRE OF THE ART) came from. Bound by her body to Wrocław. Actress, mime, puppeteer and choreographer. In 2011, she debuted as a director with the performance “Pinocchio” at the Wałbrzych Puppet and Actor Theatre. Graduated in history of art at the University of Wrocław. In 2006 she graduated from the State Higher School of Theatre in Wrocław, in May 2009 she received her doctoral degree at the same faculty, where since 2006 she has been working with students on the plasticity of stage movement. Over the years, she has collaborated with the Forma Theatre; she has taken part in almost all of the theatre’s full-length productions. Together with Robert Baliński, she founded the TEATR SZTUK (THEATRE OF ART) in 2010.

She is a winner of a scholarship awarded to “Young, Talented Wrocław Inhabitants”. She has participated in Polish and international theatre festivals. Conducts pantomime and movement expression workshops in Poland and abroad. Invited twice to run The Summer Mime Intensive School at Teatr na Woli in Warsaw, August 2009 and 2010. She has been involved in performance art for several years. Invited by visual artists to participate in Survival – Review of Young Art in Extreme Conditions in Wrocław, she presented performance: “pretext”/2004 and “act 168″/2005 and in June 2008. “Roma feast” (realised together with Monika Konieczna). In June of this year, her following performances premiered: “with your head in the clouds…” (Rita Baum Festival) and “sympatyczna Pani Krysia” (at the Geppert’s Apartment gallery in Wrocław). She danced during Możdżer & Danielsson’s live concert at the Jazz Oscars in the Grand Theatre in Łódź. She made her debut as a director in May 2004, in Wrocław, with the performance “Love story, or the defect of love”. She uses her skills and thinking about the body when working on choreography for drama, musical and puppet shows.