Choreographer & Dancer
Anna Nowicka
Come, and look with me in between the movements, at the shimmering presence transforming the raw material of the body into a lush garden of sensations, emotions, and images. Let it move you, as it moves me. Between real and imagined, recognizable and sense-felt, a dream becomes embodied and creates a world. With dreams I work. They are the foundation of my artistic practice, pedagogical work and choreography.
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Bio:
Anna Nowicka is a choreographer and dancer based in Berlin and Lüdersdorf (Brandenburg) working with dreams and embodied imagination. She aims at unfolding the body into a resourceful, alive, ever flowing entity, able to be responsive and present. Graduate of the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD), MA Choreography at the HfS Ernst-Busch / HZT in Berlin and MA Psychology at the Warsaw University, she wrote her practice-based PhD on embodied awareness as the foundation for being present at the Polish Film School in Łódź. She is a certified Saphire® teacher of Dr. Catherine Shainberg’s “The School of Images''. Anna is a faculty at the International Institute for Dreaming and Imagery, where she directs the Dream Your World® Kids program.
Recognition for Anna’s work includes the DAAD Prize and choreographic scholarships: Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Tanzpraxis and Tanzstipendium from Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe. Her solo: “the truth is just a plain picture. said bob.” (2010) was presented at the Polish Dance Platform, Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, and the Polish-Israeli Dance Platform in Tel Aviv. Her performance “Raw Light” (2017) was selected for the Polish Dance Network. “This Is The Real Thing” (2018) was chosen for the Polish Dance Platform, and for the Tanzmesse in Düsseldorf in 2022. Her latest work “This Is The Real Thing (VR)” (2023) expands on the cinematic aspects of Anna’s work. It translates the choreographic material from “This Is The Real Thing” into virtual reality, and explores the visual potential of the original stage work.
Anna’s body of work is rooted in an on-going studio practice, which expands into stage works and pedagogical praxis. She teaches and mentors students at the UdK Berlin, AdK Szczecin, AdBK Nürnberg, AdK Ludwigsburg, organizes her own workshops and classes in dance and choreography as well as in dreaming and imagination. She is currently part of the e-Co Leadership Coaching Certification Program at the George Washington University.