Weronika Pelczyńska, Choreography
Weronika Pelczyńska is a dancer, choreographer, movement researcher based in Warsaw, Poland. She graduated from the Experimental Academy of Contemporary Dance SEAD in Salzburg as well as Warsaw University of Technology (Faculty of Production Engineering and Faculty of Management) and Warsaw University (Institute of Polish Culture). Her artistic development was supported by a scholarship awarded by City Hall Warsaw, the Institute of Music and Dance in Warsaw, by Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Alternative Dance Academy of the Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk, and a 2013 danceWEB scholarship. She teaches at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art and the SWPS University in Warsaw.
She is interested in collective forms of working. Since 2013 she has been part of Centre in Motion – a space for performing arts in Warsaw. Between 2018-2020 Weronika was a member of ICoDaCo (international dance collective). In 2019, she initiated a choreographic initiative called ”sisterhood practice” which has recently resulted in the work “The Sculpturesess”, produced by the National Museum in Warsaw and was chosen as one of Aerowaves Twenty24. Together with researcher Dr Aleksandra Janus and organization FestivALT, she explores sisterly forms of connecting choreography in public spaces and care for the common past. They develop this archive within the framework of the “Still Standing” project. On her path she has appreciated all of her artistic encounters, especially collaborating with Matej Kejžar, Agnieszka Glińska, Agnieszka Zawadowska, Anna Nowicka, Maria Stokłosa, Peter Pleyer, Stephanie Thiersch, Jozef Frucek and Linda Kapetanea, Rafeala Giovanola, Joanna Leśnierowska, Magda Szpecht, and Nina Martin.
Elizabeth Ward, Choreography
Elizabeth Ward (b. Detroit 1977) is a choreographer and performer currently living in Vienna. Previously she has lived and worked in New York City, Athens, Brussels, and Portland, Oregon. Her work explores the collective histories of dance lineages accumulated in a dancer’s muscle memory as a living archaeology. Recent projects include Hedera helix (2022, TQW; ImPulsTanz), Dancing’s Demons (2020, TQW), Un-dedication (2019, steirischer herbst), Anti Fascist Ballet School (2017, Wiener Festwochen; 2016 WIEN WOCHE), and Corps de Balle (2016, brut). Previously her work has been shown through the Kitchen (NYC), Danspace Projects (NYC), Movement Research at the Judson Church (NYC), Disjecta (Portland), La Poderosa (Barcelona), ANA (Copenhagen), Pieter PASD (LA), and Trinosophes (Detroit). As a performer, she has participated in the works of Cathy Weis, Yvonne Meier, DD Dorvillier, Michikazu Matsune, Manuel Pelmus, Frédéric Gies, Jennifer Lacey, Miguel Gutierrez, Samuel Feldhandler, Nathalie Rozanes, Veza Fernandez, Rebecca Brooks, Philipp Gehmacher, and Anne Juren, among others. Elizabeth received her BA from Bennington College in Vermont, where she studied Dance and Ecology and participated in the now defunct a.pass post graduate program in Brussels. In Autumn of 2024 she will set a new work on Tanzquartier Wien’s Parasol Group.
