Warsaw’s leading ballet dancer, she debuted at the Teatr Wielki while still a student of the Warsaw Ballet School, dancing the title role in Adam Hanuszkiewicz’s Romeo and Juliet on the small stage. She has been performing on the Warsaw stage since her graduation (1972), becoming a soloist in 1974, and principal dancer in 1977. She is a winner of the Grand Prix of the Third National Dance Competition in Gdańsk (1979), the Third World Ballet Competition in Osaka (1980), the First-Degree Wyspiański Youth Award (1985), the First-Degree Minister of Culture and Art Award (1985), and many other honours. She has been teaching dance. In recent years, and is invited to judge ballet competitions.

   The artist’s most important parts in classical repertoire include: the title roles in Giselle and La Sylphide, M-me Taglioni in Grand pas de quatre, Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, Aurora and the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty, Queen of the Dryads in Don Quixote, the Snow Queen in The Nutcracker, the Soloist in Les Sylphides, the Girl in Le Spectre de la Rose and the title role in The Dying Swan by Fokine, and Queen of the East and Diamond in Pan Twardowski. She has danced the following parts in ballets by contemporary choreographers: Aili in Birgit Cullberg’s Moon Reindeer, Sylphide in Lichine’s Graduation Ball, the title role in Yelizarev’s Carmen, Consuelo in Méndez’s Afternoon Siesta, the Friend in Walter’s Fantasies, the title role of Anna in Stanisław and Anna Oświecim, Liza Woka in "Salmo gioioso", the Princess in "The Very Sleepy Princess" and Nina in Masquerade by Gruca, the Girl in Konwiński’s Variations to the music of Britten, the Bride in Kujawa’s Harnasie, Zobeida in Kuznetsova’s Scheherazade, the Woman in Ostinatio determinare and Zypcios Fiancé in Insatiability by Rudnicka, Delfina in Wołk-Karaczewski’s Chopin’s Muses, Potiphar’s Wife in Wesołowski’s Legend of Joseph, and Flora in Fodor’s Carmina Burana. She has danced solo parts in Lifar’s Suite en blanc (Adagio), in Neumeier’s ballet Love and Pain and the World and the Dream, Balanchine’s Serenade, Béjart’s Variations on "Don Juan", van Manen’s Adagio Hammerklavier, and in ballets by Polish choreographers: Graczyk, Pastor and Sokólski.

   Głowacka has also taken part in films and television programmes. She performed with the Warsaw ballet company during all its tours - in practically all of Europe as well as the United States, Canada, Peru, Japan, Cuba and Taiwan. The artist left the Teatr Wielki in 1999, but she still gives guest performances here, as Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, and the Queen in The Sleeping Beauty. She also danced the part of Gradisca in Zofia Rudnicka’s La dolce vita and The princess in Swan Lake choreographed by Irek Mukhamedov.

  
   Now she works as a guest teacher with the Polish National Ballet.

 

Photo: Henryk Bietkowski