ARTISTIC ASSISTANT of the JK Theatre in Opole since OCTOBER 2025
Dancer, choreographer, and curator of the Opole Dance Stage. Author of performances including Exérèse monobloc, Love thy neighbor as thyself, Live on stage, The Rite of Spring, Mute, Insight (Special Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for Best Choreography at the Polish Dance Platform 2014), Koda (a tribute), and III Symfonia (honorable mention in the “Competition for a Choreographic Work to the Music of a Polish Composer” organized by the Authors’ Association ZAiKS).
His choreographic works have been presented in Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Brazil, China, Denmark, Georgia, Spain, Israel, Luxembourg, Germany, Palestine, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and Italy. Since 2002, he has been a permanent member of Vincent Dance Theatre (UK). Since 2021, he has collaborated with the JK Opole Theatre and theatre director Norbert Rakowski, creating choreography for the productions Top Secret Research. New Constructive Ethics, Four Good Reasons to Leave All of This Behing, and I'm Nowhere/Desvanecimiento.
He is the author of the dance and movement workshop series Poruszeni (Moved), which took place throughout 2018 in collaboration with various institutions across Poland and was dedicated to individuals facing social exclusion for different reasons.
Since 2021, he has served as the artistic supervisor of Teatr Klucz, operating within the ZAMEK Culture Centre in Poznań. For Teatr Klucz, he created the performances Tranquillo (main award at the 5th edition of the “The Best Off” Independent Theatre Competition), Intermezzo, and Amoroso.
He has collaborated with artists such as Charlotte Vincent, Nigel Charnock, Rosalind Crisp, Joanna Leśnierowska, Isabelle Schad, Ugo Dehaes, Olga Cobos & Peter Mika, and Daniel Landau. He conducts numerous choreographic workshops in educational and cultural institutions in Poland and abroad.
Website: www.januszorlik.com
