Anna Królica – A curator, art critic and dance historian. She graduated in theatre studies and in Russian philology from the Jagiellonian University. Since 2017 works as curator at Polish dance Theatre in Poznan. Also, she works on the programme of the Kalejdoskop Festival in Białystok, together with Karolina Garbacik and Joanna Chitruszko.. Her major projects include “Maszyna choreograficzna” (Choreographic Machine) at the Cricoteka Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor; “Z perspektywy żaby” (A Frog’s Perspective, 2015); “Archiwum ciała” (Archive of the Body, 2013) at the Zamek Culture Centre in Poznań; “Goodbye Superman” (together with Paweł Łyskawa and Eryk Makohon, Nowa Huta Culture Centre, Cracow 2015) and “Portrety. Kobiety w polskiej choreografii” (Portraits. Women in the Polish Choreography, Staromiejskie Culture Centre, Cracow 2014).
Królica is the author of “Pokolenie solo” (The Solo Generation, Cracow, 2013), a book comprising a series of interviews conducted within an artist scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in 2012, and “Sztuka do odkrycia. Szkice o polskim tańcu” (An Art to Discover. Essays on Polish Dance, Tarnów, 2011), the first book about the most recent history of contemporary dance in Poland. She has written many articles for “Balet i taniec” (Ballet and Dance), a DVD collection published by Agora. She has collaborated with Dwutygodnik.com, Teatr, Didaskalia and Konteksty. In 2006–2010, she ran an opinion-making portal about contemporary dance, www.nowytaniec.pl.
Earlier, she was a member of the Artistic Commission of the Polish Dance Platform in 2008 and 2012, and the head of the Programme Council for Dance in the Institute of Music and Dance in 2011–2013. In 2011 she was the programme coordinator of the First Dance Congress in Warsaw. In 2008–2015 she taught her own original course on dance theatre at the Jagiellonian University, in the Institute of Contemporary Culture and the Department of Performatics. Currently she is writing a PhD thesis on memory and body in Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre of Death and in Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.