Workshop: Ola Maciejewska

Workshop Info.

Date｜2025/11/10 (Mon.) - 11/14 (Fri.) 
Language of Instruction｜English
 

Workshop Description

Through immersion in the visual, rhythmic, and sculptural universe of Loie Fuller's serpentine dances, participants explore the process of metamorphosis at work in these dances, and incorporate the interplay of tensions between dance and sculpture, as well as between the physical experience of the performer and the images they produce.

About the Artist

Ola Maciejewska is a Polish choreographer and dancer based in France. She focuses on the frictions between materiality and ephemerality, as well as movements and the conditions surrounding them. Based on the convergences between dance and the visual arts, she emphasizes the serpentine dances invented by Loie Fuller to encourage reflection on metamorphosis, the natural world, and the hybrid nature of embodiment.

Between 2016 and 2018, she was associate artist at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen Normandie and her works Bombyx Mori (2015) and Dance Concert (2018) were chosen for the New Settings program of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès. In 2020, she received a grant to research Rolf Borzik’s scenography at the Pina Bausch Foundation archives.

In 2022, she earned a fellowship from the Watermill Center founded by Robert Wilson, and was associate artist for the project Campement artistique pour littoral. That same year, her project FIGURY (przestrzenne) received the Gallery Prize from the Nadežda Petrović Gallery in Cacak (Serbia).

In 2023, she created On Time, a performance-installation, and a solo The Second Body. Her new choreographic piece ONGOING will premiere in 2026 at the Théâtre Mac Orlan as part of the DañsFabrik Festival by Quartz Brest in France.