Tatiana Cholewa

Tatiana Cholewa is a dancer and choreographer from Poland. She has taken part in many projects organised and supported by Europe Beyond Access, including an international artistic laboratory in Maastricht with Holland Dance Festival, laboratories with Marc Brew in Bytom and with the Institute of Music and Dance at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle.

Most recently she has been working with artist and director Lotte Mueller to develop the aerial performance IM/MOBILITY, a work that lies at the intersection of contemporary circus and dance. She has also been developing Perfect Man with Anna Jurek and Łukasz Wójcicki looking at the construction and portrayal of gender.

She has performed in For a Moment (directed by J. Karcz, group “Direction” at the Bytom Cultural Center), Look (solo, charity concert in Zawiercie), Protected Species (directed by Rafal Urbacki), Let Erynie stay behind the door (dir. R Urbacki, performative action lasting 24 hours, Teatr Stary in Krakow), Taniec na Rymera (R. Urbacki), residency in Prague (preparation of a performance for the DanceAble # 3 festival, directed by Marc Brew), Quarantine (social action Dancers during a pandemic). She has also taken part in workshops with Justyna Wielgus, Rafał Urbacki, Magdalena Przybysz, Ewa Sobiak, Sylwia Hefczyńska-Lewandowska, and Paulina Wycichowska.

Perfect Man

Description: The legacy of communism was met not only with great political changes, but also with significant individual changes, which we are particularly interested in the context of the socialist "new man", whose final emanation was Homo Sovieticus. The Perfect Man project explores what's left of Homo Sovieticus in contemporary post-communist societies.

Extra information: Łukasz Wójcicki: idea, concept, text
Anna Jurek, Łukasz Wójcicki, Tatiana Cholewa: performance, dance, choreography
Marcin Miętus: dramaturgical consultations
The work was created with support of the International Visegrad Fund, Center of Choreographic Development SE.S.TA from Prague and Institute of Adam Mickiewicz from Warsaw