ANNA WAŃTUCH

Choreographer, dancer, performer, and certified teacher of the Contakids method.

She completed the Sherborne Development Movement course (1st degree), PINK Training Segni Mossi and Instructor Qualification Course with a specialization in Contemporary Dance. 

A graduate of master degree in philosophy and film studies at the Jagiellonian University in Cracov. 

From 2009–2011 she was a dancer of the Cracovia Danza Court Ballet, and from 2003–2014 soloist of the Dance Theater DF in Cracov.

Scholarship holder of the Alternative Dance Academy 2018 and 2019, implemented by Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk. A resident of Dance Moves Cities, an international project co-implemented by Krakow Theater Reminiscences. Participant of Dramaturgic Forum with Christine de Smedt, organized by the Institute of Music and Dance. She was qualified for the ATLAS choreographic program at the ImPulsTanz Festival in 2021 in Vienna, where she started working on the performance "Mothersuckers: Production about reproduction ". Scholarship holder of Polish Culture on the World of the Institute of Adam Mickiewicz. Resident of Residance 2022 in Bratislava organized by the PLAST organization at Dance Residential Center Telocvičňa.

Together with Maria Kwiecień, she co-authored an interactive performance for one viewer "Words do dance" and is the author of a series of video performances "MOT / HER KC", in which observed the bodily changes during pregnancy. The latter work was presented at the Festival Parallel in Vienna, at the Cracow Art Week KRAKERS festival and many others.

Participant of the Grand ReUnion project, under which she took part in an online performance "Tender Hotel" (initiative: Rivca Rubin) and virtual sound installation "SomaPark" (authors: Joanna Leśnierowska and Patryk Lichota).

Since 2012, he has been experimenting with the movement of an adult with a child as part of performances Postnatal Project. In 2015, she took part with her family in the Warsaw version of Familly Affair of the ZimmerFrei group. As part of the Creative Scholarship of the City of Krakow, she worked on an original format of choreographic performance with the participation of families with young children (premiere: December 12, 2020), which was then presented as part of the 23rd Biennale of Art for Children in Poznan. Thanks to the cooperation with the Performat Foundation, the project also appeared in the program "Stage for Dance" of the National Institute of Music and Dance.