Dominika Knapik

Dominika Knapik is a choreographer, dancer, actress and director. She is a co-founder of the artistic collective Harakiri Farmers and works regularly with various institutions such as the Moscow Artists' Theatre MChAT, the Schauspielhaus Bochum or the University of Michigan. In 2016, she was the first choreographer to be nominated for the prestigious Polish cultural award Paszport Polityki in the category "Theatre". In 2017, she received the Polish theatre prize "Golden Mask" for choreography. Alongside directors such as Iga Gańczarczyk, Maja Kleczewska, Anna Smolar, Paweł Łysak, Bartosz Szydłowski, Jan Klata, Monika Strzępka, Paweł Miśkiewicz, Malcolm Tulip, Julia Wissert and Olaf Kröck, she works closely with Ewelina Marciniak. She is the author of the choreographies for most of Ewelina Marciniak's performances (including Amateurs, Portrait of a Lady, Morphine, Death and the Maiden), most recently The Boxer at the Thalia Theater Hamburg (Faust Prize), The Maid of Orleans at the Nationaltheater Mannheim (invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2022), The Books of Jacob at the Thalia Theater Hamburg and Iphigenia (Salzburg Festival/Thalia Theater Hamburg) and Werther at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Since 2017 Dominika Knapik has also worked as a director and staged Afternoon of a Faun at Teatr Rozrywki in Chorzów, Bang Bang at Teatr Jaracza in Łódź, Camp Cataract at Teatr Słowackiego in Kraków, Baba-Dziwo at Teatr Dramatyczny in Wałbrzych as well as Agon - a choreographic monodrama which premiered at Divine Comedy Festival (Kraków) 2020 and Twitching and Other Games at Wrocław Mime Theatre - 2021. Her latest show at the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław is Valeska Valeska Valeska, inspired by Valeska Gert. www.dominikaknapik.com