Maria (Marysia) Stokłosa is a choreographer and dancer, president of Burdąg Foundation. Her focus is on experimental dance, working with, among others, the Warsaw-based Centre in Motion (Centrum w Ruchu). In her work, she combines choreography with her long practice of dance improvisation.

Maria is the author of the solo performance Departing from Action, which has been presented 50 times (in Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Centre for Contemporary Art, Austriackie Forum Kultury, independent community centres, existing stage sets from performances in TR Warszawa and Nowy Teatr, and many others). Her other works include Queen of Water (premiered during the exhibition Other Dances at U-jazdowski Centre, Warsaw, 2018); Golden Demons (premiered in MCK Nowy Teatr, Warsaw, 2016), and Ecdysis (premiered in the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2014), as well as Intercontinental (2013), MaMa Perform (2012), The Right Hemisphere (2009), and Vacuum (2007). As a choreographer and performer, she has worked with director Wojtek Ziemilski (A Show for Tourists and Come Together). She regularly works with choreographers Meg Foley and Peter Pleyer. Moreover, she has performed in shows by Jeremy Wade and Maija Reeta Raumanni, as well as in Tuning Scores by Lisa Nelson and Tribes by Sara Shelton Mann, among others. Furthermore, Maria created the stage movement for Paweł Mykietyn’s opera The Magic Mountain. Maria is a graduate of the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam and the London Contemporary Dance School. She is currently working on her master’s degree at the Department of Cultural Studies of the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw.