BIOGRAPHY
Anna Krysiak
Anna Maria Krysiak is a graduate of the State Ballet School of Poznań,Poland (1990) and danced with the Grand Opera Ballet in Poznań from 1990-1992 . From 1992-2005 she was an original member of Silesian Dance Theatre in Bytom, Poland, directed by Jacek Łumiński. Through her time with SDT she performed and worked with Melissa Monteros, Anna Sokolov ("Dreams"), Condrat Drzewiecki and Avi Kaiser (Batsheva Dance Company, Israel), Paul Clayden (DV8, UK), David Dorfman NY, Mark Haim, Stephan Brinkman (Pina Bausch Theatre) and others. She has performed and taught in countries all over the world, including Canada, USA, Germany, Russia, Austria, Lithuania, India, Great Britain, Holland, and all throughout Poland. In 2000, Anna was awarded the Karol Szymanowski Medal by the Polish Ministry of Culture for her unique achievements in dance. As a guest artist with the University of Calgary Dance program 2005-2007, she worked in association with W&M Physical Theatre Canada (Melissa Monteros and Wojtek Mochniej). From 2006-2008 she was a member and choreographer of Theatre Junction's RCA ,(Grand Theatre inCalgary-Canada). In 2008 she cooperate with Mariusz Treliński in projection King Roger of Karol Szymanowski in the Marińskij Theatre In Petersburg (Russia), where the orchestra was conducted by Valery Giergiev. From 2009 she has worked as an independent choreographer, dancer, and teacher in Poland and out of country. In 2010 she worked with Maja Kleczewska in..Between.. (Grand Theatre, Warsaw), music Agata Zubel. In 2011 she cooperates with Aura Dance Company (Lithuania, Kaunas) and made her own piece Apie Mus. In 2012 she danced in the opera Latajacy Holender (Roger Wagner) directed by Mariusz Treliński (Grand Theatre, Warsaw) and Media; directed by Barabara Wysocka (Grand Theatre, Warsaw). In June 2012 she performed in the world premiere of Slow Man, libretto Jahn M.Coetzee, music Nicholas Lens, directed by Maja Kleczewska (Grand Theatre, Poznań). In 2013-2015 she performed as the soloist-dancer in Moby Dick, directed by Barbara Wysocka, choreography Jacek Przybyłowicz (Grand Theatre, Warsaw) and as the solist-dancer in Faust, directed by Maciej Prus Opera Nova, Bydgoszcz. From 2014 she has worked as choreographer with Polish director Wojtek Klemm, (Antigone, Lucerne Theatre; Św.Joanna Szlachtuzów Brecht, Theatre of Bogusławski Kalisz-Poland). Her technique explores suspentions, momentum, and impulses in very strong, physical movement. She uses all the possibilities of human body and its impulses: weight, energy flow, momentum, balancing between equilibrium and falls, using gravity, movement, and standstills.