Monika Błaszczak - Curriculum Vitae
Education
2016-19
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, UK
BA (Hons) Contemporary Dance funded by the Talents Foundation and The Berek Trust
2010-2016
National Ballet School, Poznań, Poland
Professional Ballet Dancer
Selected choreographic works
2022
Zaplatanie, Rixdorfer Höhe, Hasenheide, supported by bbk berlin, Berlin, Germany
Mourning Songs, Porta Posnania - Interactive Heritage Center, as part of OffOpera 2022, Poznań, Poland
Shattering and Healing, Liminal Vision, Milan, Italy
Soliloquy 28.08.2022, Two Hours Ago I Fell In Love Festival, Rimini, Italy
Soliloquy 27.07.2022, Cosmati Labs, Monteleone di Spoleto, Italy
Soliloquy 16.07.2022, Alex Donaghy’s Memorial, Apiary Studios, London, UK
Soliloquy 09.07.2022, East London Dance, London, UK
MassHysteria Presents: A Moment of BLISS, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
2021
Rite of Spring: The Prelude, Malta Festival, Polish Dance Theatre, Poznań, Poland
W Tobie Trwam..., Scena Robocza, Poznań, Poland
Soliloquy 29.04.2021, National Institute of Music and Dance in Poland, Poznań, Poland
2020
Mass Hysteria Presents: The Game, Tate Modern, London
How To Mimesis, The Place, London, UK
2019
Welcoming Female Fantasy, Sadler’s Wells, Lilian Baylis Studio (private sharing as part of the Sadler’s Wells Young Associates selection process), London, UK
Soliloquy 28.09.2019, United Cowboys, Eindhoven, Netherlands
silk, Laban Theatre, London, UK
Soliloquy 08.08.2019, V.O Curations, as part of Translucent, London, UK
Soliloquy 15.06.2019, Trinity Laban, as part of New Choreography Now, London, UK
2018
Modern Couples (performance at the exhibition), The Barbican, London, UK
2017
The Ants Inside Are Full of Flowers, Trinity Laban, London, UK
2016
Śnienie, Polish Dance Theatre, Malta Festival, Poznań, Poland
Selected digital works
2021
mh4v&a_1.prologue, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2020
in this.net, Trinity Laban, London, UK
Selected works as performer
2021
1-800-LONGING4IT, choreography: Leah Marojevic, Present Futures Festival, Glasgow, Scotland
Game Change, choreography: Paweł Sakowicz, Weronika Pelczyńska, Warsaw, Poland
2018
Shift, choreography: Sasha Pirogova, Art Night London, UK
Benchmark, choreography: Ioanna Bili, Thessaloniki, Greece
Residencies
2023
Dancing Together, Again!, organised by the National Institute of Music and Dance in Poland; Tbilisi, Georgia
2022
La Wayaka Current, Atacama Desert, Chile
Artistania, Berlin, Germany
SET Woolwich, London, UK
Robert Jones Community, Brussels, Belgium
2019
Trinity Laban, London, UK
2018
Lublin Dance Theatre, Lublin, Poland
2017
Kamenjak, Croatia
Warsaw Dance Department, Warsaw, Poland
Prizes and scholarships
2022
Choreographic Commissions, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Poland
Adam Mickiewicz Institute’s scholarship for participating in the La Wayaka Current residency in the Atacama Desert, Chile
2021
ZAIKS, Poland
2020
Stipend of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw, Poland
SET studio resident, 1 year of free studio award, London, UK
2019
Trinity Laban Innovation Award, London, UK
Sadler’s Wells Young Associate Artist nominee from Trinity Laban, London, UK
2017
Berek Trust – funding the 2 years of university fees and costs of living in London awarded for outstanding achievements, London, UK
2016
Fundusz Talenty (Talents Foundation), Poland
Person of the Year (in the field of culture) by kulturapoznan.pl and IKS magazine, Poznan, Poland
Medal Młodej Sztuki (Young Arts Medal), Poznań, Poland
2014
Krajowy Fundusz na Rzecz Dzieci (Children’s Fund), Poland
Teaching
2023
Independent Dance, London, UK (guest teacher)
2022
4-week online Soliloquy course organised independently
Soliloquy workshop, Galerie Molitor, Berlin
2021
4-week online Soliloquy course, as part of the MLitt Curation at Glasgow School of Art Final Projects, Glasgow, Scotland
Polish Dance Theatre, Poznań, Poland (guest teacher)
Polish Theater, Poznań, Poland (guest teacher)
Dancing Poznań Festival, Poznań, Poland
Laboratory of movement, memory and intimacy, Concordia Design, Poznań, Poland
Choreographic Lab: Investigating movement, image and meaning, Pilates and Dance Centre Pendulum, Poznań, Poland
2020
Pilates and Dance Centre Pendulum, Poznań, Poland (contemporary dance, improvisation, Soliloquy; 2020-2022)
Internships
2018
Dimitris Papaioannou, Sadler’s Wells, London, UK
2017
Peeping Tom, Luna Theatre, Maubeuge, France and The Barbican, London, UK
2016
Polish Dance Theatre, Poznań, Poland
Theatre Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Other
2021
Curator of I Independent Dance Congress, Teatr Powszechny, Warsaw, Poland
Choreographing the birth of an apocalyptic landscape of affection (performative lecture), Łódź University, Poland
2020
Curator of The Trouble with Dance conference, London, UK
2019
Curator of Difficulty in Dance Discourse symposium, London, UK
President of Dance for the Trinity Laban Students’ Union
2017
Founding member of MassHysteria Collective, London, UK (ongoing)