Alicja Czyczel

Alicja Czyczel (she/they) is a choreographer, artist, somatic educator, dancer, activist and facilitator dedicated to creating networks of care. She lives in the Bug River Landscape Park. She holds a master's degree in choreography from ICI-CCN Montpellier and a master's degree in cultural studies from Warsaw University. She is a graduate of the Experimental Choreography Course at the Centrum w Ruchu in Warsaw and the postgraduate studies "Collective Practices" at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She creates non-hierarchical educational processes where she shares her knowledge and intersectional approach in which the body is a site of resistance and deep listening. She is a member of feminist-queer communities, groups and collectives: the Common Space and squir. As a community organizer she is committed to building safer spaces based on cooperation, resource sharing and a culture of consent (“The Big Book of Scores”). She is author of black box choreographies (“LAGMA”), outdoor sound installations (“Becoming Permeated with the World”), site-specific performances (soundscape album “Toń”) and walks in the landscape. She performed in works of Daniel Kotowski, Anna Nowak, Joanna Piotrowska and Vincent Dupont. As a choreographer in the dramatic theaters, she co-created “The Hearing Trumpet,” dir. by Weronika Szczawińska, and “Antigone in Molenbeek,” dir. by Anna Smolar. She is the author of “Manifesto for the Ecologization of Independent Choreography and Performing Arts” (Puzyna's Dialogue).