Author: Filip Pawlak
Freak show – film
Expected premiere – Spring 2026 Is it possible to express sadness against the dominant ideologies of bodypositive and inspiration porn? How to build pride in what is socially accepted as an image of failure? And – how to skilfully ‘mutilate’ popular cultural clichés that set the social optics against all otherness? Freak Show is a…
Brakarki (Workers of lack)
Producer: Central Muzeum of Textile in Łódź The hum of the machinery of the Łódź textile mills is history, the new era is that of knowledge-based industry. Looms have been replaced by computers. In our performance, however, we return to the tradition of hard body work and look for links with another fabric – dance.…
Crip networking / KPO Scholarship
Project Professionalisation and artistic development of the Polish sector of artists with disabilities in the performing arts. A series of meetings and workshops for the Polish community of artists with disabilities working in the field of performing arts, aimed at professionalising their activities, increasing the internationalisation of their artistic practice but also enhancing their professional…
Can you help me?
8 May ’25 – premiere Malmö Theatre Academy (SE) 13 June ’25 – premiere Scena Robocza, Poznań (PL) After all, we deserve it, don’t we? We’ve earned it with our hard work. The fatigue from waking up to going to sleep. Our dreams were not exorbitant, just to always have something to put in the…
Where do we go from here?
Production: Foreningen for Integreret Moderne Dans i Danmark (FIMD) / Dansekapellet Copenhagen Where do we go from here? took the audience on a physical walk in an audience costume where the audience was tied together. The audience started at Bispebjerg Cemetery and walked through Dansekapellet, where studios and corners of the building take the form of…
Learning Journeys – Europe Beyond Access
Europe Beyond Access’ Learning Journeys are a digital series of toolkits and educational resources specifically for disabled artists, producers and promoters, and funders and policymakers. These Learning Journeys include a series of new films, discussions, podcasts, creative tasks, reports and more to support professional development. Films are hosted on YouTube and many have translated subtitles…
Nowy Teatr Warsaw
From 2019 to 2022, I was a producer and, in season 21/22, head of the production department at the Nowy Teatr International Cultural Centre in Warsaw. While working there, I have had the pleasure of producing performances by Krzysztof Warlikowski, Katarzyna Kalwat, Michał Borczuch, Małgorzata Wdowik, Anna Smolar, Marcus Ohrn and Jan Klata, among others.…
Gatunki Chronione (Protected species)
Authors: Rafał Urbacki, Anu Czerwiński Four dancers in the unusual space of the Silesian Masuria. The choice of location is not accidental, a nature reserve, species that have to be protected by the state in order to survive, and young people with alternative motor skills. The choreography, composed for the dancers involved in the project,…
May the sun never shine on this day
Dir. Rafał Urbacki, Fredro Theatre in Gniezno, Poland Once upon a time, maybe a century ago, maybe two centuries or three centuries ago, in a certain kingdom far away…. the king of beggars, monarch of the crippled and the handicapped, of convicts and lunatics, ruler of poverty and contempt, pronounced a curse on the city,…
