Jagoda Ignaczak

A Polish philologist, theater scholar, and dance historian. Jagoda began her professional career as a teacher at the Psychiatric Clinic of the Medical Academy in Łódź. From 1987 to 1997, she served as Senior Assistant at the Department of Drama and Theater at the University of Łodź. Between 1989 and 2016, she was the literary director, playwright, and spokesperson for the Polish Dance Theatre. Jagoda is a lecturer for Postgraduate Studies in Dance Theory at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, as well as in the field of dance at the Academy of Physical Education in Poznań. In her panel piece, she will examine the art of dance as a cross-border art form and a social phenomenon, which is not exempt from repressive situations. She intends to revise the attitudes and definitions that have occurred in the history of dance in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Photo by Leszek Zadoń Fresh-Frame