Choreographer. A graduate of the State Ballet School in Bytom. Her whole stage career was linked to the Łódź Ballet, of which she was a leading soloist in 1958-1982. She was especially famous for character parts and those requiring acting skills. Her important interpretations include Zarema in The Fountain of Bakhchisaray, the She-Devil and the Beauty in Pan Twardowski, the Bride in Harnasie, the Black Queen in Sakh-mat, the Partisan in the Polish production of Kurt Jooss’s famous The Green Table, Yerma in Teresa Kujawa’s ballet based on Garcia Lorca, Proserpine and Mesagera in Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo in the famous Łódź production by Erich Walter.

   She became involved in choreography at an early stage, initially working mainly for television and film. Especially popular in the 1970’s were her choreographic revues in the Good Evening, Łódź Here series, broadcast nation-wide. She has also worked as a choreographer for drama and opera theatres in Bytom, Cracow, Łódź and Warsaw. He greatest individual production was Ludomir Różycki’s Pan Twardowski at the Wielki Theatre in Łódź (1985). At the same theatre, her choreography in opera productions, Gounod’s Faust and Penderecki’s Ubu Rex, gained great recognition. In the latter production, she worked with director Lech Majewski and won Łódź’s Gold Mask award for it. She is a long-time teacher at the State Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź. She has received many state medals and numerous professional and regional awards. She received the Gold Mask, an award from Łódź critics and audiences for artistic achievements, several times.

   At the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, she prepared the choreography for two opera productions: Bizet’s Carmen directed by Lech Majewski (1995), and Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera directed by Waldemar Zawodziński (1998) as well as the choreography of Kurpiński’s Dancing Fun (2007).

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