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Katarzyna Julia Pastuszak (Ph.D.) - dancer and artistic director of Amareya Theatre, dance researcher, curator of the Gdansk Dance Festival (Club ZAK Gdansk, Poland), member of the CID (International Dance Council). Graduated from Scandinavian Studies (Gdansk University, MA Tracing the Essence of Odin Teatret) and Theatre Studies (Theatre Academy, Warsaw, MA Introduction to Butoh). She completed her Ph.D. at the Gdansk University in 2010, the title of the dissertation - Hijikata Tatsumi’s Ankoku butoh – theatre of body-in-crisis. She has a broad experience in such techniques as butō (she visited Japan twice in order to research butoh), contemporary dance, improvisation and composition. Since 2003 she works as the programmer of the Theatre Stage of Club ZAK where she coordinates such events as Butoh Dance Festival (which she initiated in 2003), Beyond the Borders project, Dream Regime project, Gdansk Dance Festival. Between 2007-2009 she was lecturer at the Department of Cultural Studies of the Gdansk University where she lectures on culture animation and Japanese theatre. In 2010 she founded Gdansk School of Butoh where she gives lectures about butoh history, leads workshop sessions and invites butoh masters from Asia and Europe. As dancer and artistic director of Amareya Theatre she has created performances presented on festivals in Poland and abroad: The Dream of Icarus (2004), Xenos (2005), Mandala of Life and Death with Atsushi Takenouchi (2005), Haiku of Three Bodies (2005), Ten ku Youran with Daisuke Yoshimoto (2006), Anatomical Theatre – The Mystery of Life and Death with Joan Laage (2006-2007), Dream Regime – Theatre for Community 2007-2008 in cooperation with Gekidan Kaitaisha (2007-2008), Caravan Project with Ang Gey Pin (2008), Exit – Transgressive Feminal Tryptodram (2008), Faceless solo by K. Pastuszak (2009), Inscriptions (2011), Nocturnes (2011). She cooperated also with Gdansk dance groups such as Theatre of Dance and Music Kino Variatino (Quiet Body, 2010) and Sopot Dance Theatre (Wojna polsko-ruska, 2011). In 2011, together with Amareya Theatre, she performed in performances in Morishita Studio – Tokyo, Japan within the Dream Regime Project organised by Gekidan Kaitaisha.
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Movement artist(dancer/interdisciplinary performer), Actor (theater), Producers (art venues/ festivals/ residencies), Academic Educators (formally teaching and researching in a university)
