movement
Kata Kwiatkowska is a multidisciplinary artist born in Poland, professionally active in the fields of dance, costume and photography. In 2021 she completed Dance Intensive training at Tanzfabrik Berlin and continued to develop her movement language in Berlin afterwards. She uses an intuitive yet storytelling approach to movement, exploring the value of the subconscious mind. Her main focus is on the sensual totality of a creation and the process of discovering a specific universe unique to every piece that allows both the performer and the audience to be transported someplace else, together. Since becoming also a Grinberg Method trainee she’s working a lot with body awareness, cellular memory and links it with desires for surprise and absurd in her creations. Her recent dance works have been presented at Internationales Solo Tanztheater Festival in Stuttgart, SoloDuo Festival Köln, B12 festival in Berlin, Lange Nacht des Tanzes in Bleiburg (Austria) and as a guest solo artist at “Boszki” multidisciplinary exhibition in Berlin. Currently she’s working on her next piece “Heartbreak Microdosing” - an organic live dialogue with a sound artist Roberta Stein. As work in progress it has been shown in July 2023 as part of Artist in Residency program of Cordillera, Raum für Körper und Utopien in Berlin.
Apart from creation Kata is also passionately working on a body awareness workshop to offer to a wider group of people interested in movement and body attention.
PROJECTS
BOSZKI (2023)
BOSZKI On passages, feasts and ancestral connections (2023)
Curated by Zeren Oruc
An exhibition by Anna Jarosz
Sound composition by Agatha Lewandowski
Dance performance by Kata Kwiatkowska
Kraboszki masks by Marta Derewiecka
Living Corridors Gallery in Berlin hosted by Atelier JungleInk
video upon request
still from the video by Jara López
Innen (2023)
Dance and Sound performance created as part of the CCB residency
performed in the frame of Lange Nacht des Tanzes in Bleiburg 2023
Kata Kwiatkowska (dance)
Anja Smolnik (sound and voice)
How to translate the bloodstream of nature? “Innen” is an organic, non-linear storytelling dialogue between the body and sound. Playing with the idea of opening the eyes of the skin and the contrast between the soundscape of nature and generating rhythm on the spot, the audience is invited to dive into the unpredictable inner world of sensorial memory.
video upon request
photo Dominik Kristof
Innen (2023)
photo Dominik Kristof, LNT Bleiburg 2023
Heartbreak Microdosing (2023)
(work in progress)
A new solo exploration that navigates a heartbreaking journey of never ending little unspoken mishaps of everyday life. It is an attempt of embodying the awkward silence and certain hopelessness - what people don’t say.
In my sensory movement research practice “Partnering Alone” I follow the body as a partner. I play with gestures, clashes with sound, allowing a surprise to enter the room while still being true to the vulnerability of being human.
Created at the @cordilleraberlin as part of their Artists in Residency program
Special thanks to Roberta Stein, adding a beautiful sound exploration to the project.
video upon request
photo Raquel Lanziner
Heartbreak Microdosing (2023)
(work in progress) Created at the @cordilleraberlin as part of their Artists in Residency program
video upon request
photo Raquel Lanziner
TRIPTYCHON (2023)
Created during a residency at CCB Bleiburg under the mentorship of Anna Hein (dance) and Julian Gamisch (sound)
presented at Lange Nacht des Tanzes, Bleiburg 2023
3 musicians and 3 dancers meet. In 5 residency days, directly before the LNT, the nature of the 6 different performers created 3 duets with 3 main moods, which were emotionally rearranged musically and dance-wise in the 4th part of the performance as a “TRIPTYCHON”, a kind of shadow sextet.
dancers Giuliana Corsi, Kata Kwiatkowska, Benedykt Król
music Anja Smolnik (voice) Carla Boregas (bass guitar) Yingshuo Ma (saxophone)
photo Dominik Kristof
Surrender Express (2023)
What is a journey leading up to surrender? Is it a choice? And can you practice surrender when there's a fly sitting on your face? A short study on hope and control when it comes to taking a risk of loss or gain.
Surrender Express is a solo piece that challenges the conversation about the difference between letting go and surrendering. The audience joins the intimate and absurd journey of the human fragility that gets put on display when stepping into unavoidable vulnerability. How does one choose to really surrender to the unknown, to the fear, admitting to being human in all its flaws and beauty? And what then?
Premiered at the 27th Internationales Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival in Stuttgart
dance and choreography Kata Kwiatkowska
photo Jo Grabowski
video upon request
special thanks to Dor Mamalia for the outside eye
Weglänge / Wehklänge (2022)
Weglänge Wehklänge is Nathalie Rosenbaum's second dance theater production as part of her directing studies at the HfS Ernst Busch. In collaboration with the musician and composer Deniz Deli, the puppeteer Enikő Mária Szász, the dancers Jojo Büttler, Kata Kwiatkowska and Tabea Antonacci, a musical evening is created in the field of tension between contemporary dance and object theater. Premiered on December 12th, 2022 in the bat Studio Theater, Berlin.
click to see the video (trailer)
photo Moritz Friese
One Cup of Seawater (2022)
dance and choreography Kata Kwiatkowska and Julie Peters
sound Edgardo Rudnitzky
with special thanks to Maria Colusi
In our creation we seek to show the complex universe of a vocabulary we developed together, constructing and deconstructing shapes and movements as well as our connection to each other. On the journey of exploring the questions and challenges of relating to each other, we also offer to carry one another through it without judgement and with trust. In a concentrated atmosphere, the sounds and momentums introduced through each movement bring up a certain rhythmicality that constantly feeds new interactions between us. We wish for people to experience the intimate atmosphere we created through allowing one another’s world to appear, and by constantly adapting to the ever-changing realities we live in.
“One Cup of Seawater” premiered at the SoloDuo festival in Cologne in May 2022.
video upon request
photo Alessandro de Matteis
