ORGANIZING & COLLECTIVES
born in 1992 in central Poland
currently based in Berlin (DE)
since 2024 //
co-founder of PLANT BABES col.
since 2023 //
member of OTUCHA col.
since 2020 //
co-founder of DOOM MOOD col.
websites
https://otuchacollective.squarespace.com/
https://doom-mood.com/
https://www.mixcloud.com/doro_ta/
education
2019-2021 // MA in Intercultural Communication (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań & National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
2016-2019 // BA in Tanz, Kontext, Choreographie (Hochschulübergreifende Zentrum Tanz Berlin)
2011-2014 // BA in East-Central European Studies (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
selected training
since 2025 // Body-Mind Centering ® Somatic Movement Educator training
2015-2017 // Alternative Dance Academy scholarship (Art Stations Foundation Poznań). Teachers: Rebecca Lazier, Etienne Guilloteau, Peter Player, Dalija Aćin Thelander, Colleen Thomas Young, Anna Godowska, Sławomir Krawczyński, Andrew Morrish, Maria Stokłosa, Christos Papadopoulos.
2012-now // Body-Mind Centering ®, teachers: Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (Perception as a Key to Embodying and Repatterning the Nervous System), Nicole Bindler (Clitoral Embodiment), Iwona Olszowska, Florence Augendre (Body-Mind Centering and Fasciapulsology in dance practice)
2011-2014 // Mime, Movement Theater, Devising Theater, Acting Training at Poznań Academy of Performing Arts
selected works:
choreography (research & creation)
2025 // Polyphonic Ancestral Disco with OTUCHA
2025 // LUSH BLAST: Tasting the untamed (collab. Alica Minar)
2023-25 // Vocal Performances with OTUCHA
2024 // Poliester (collab. Lena Czerniawska & Malwina Kołodziejczyk)
2023-24 // LUSH BALST: Walking performance (collab. Alica Minar)
2022-2024 // Dance in Planthroposcene – research & video essay
2023 // Marshy Grounds – durational intervention (collab. Ola Zielińska & Róż Różyński)
2022 // Nudes and Conspiracies (collab. Julek Kreutzer & Xenia Koghilaki)
2022 // Woods Won’t Vaporize – research (collab. Alica Minar)
2022 // Wild Arugula Love Potion – distillery installation
2021-22 // EXPOSURE: Meshwork Choreography – MA thesis
2020 // Siory – choreography for music video
2019 // A bee a unicorn
2019 // Doing things (collab. Borys Słowikowski & Lena Czerniawska)
2016 // Divine smell of paste – Boski Smród Klajstru
teaching & facilitation
2025 // Phyto-Somatic Dance Party
2025 // Sounding with OTUCHA
2021 // Plant-Becoming Dance Sessions #1
2018-21 // Becoming-Body
2019 // Working with the obvious (collab. Borys Słowikowski)
2019 // BODY/CIAŁO (collab. Poznań Improvisers Orchestra)
2015-2017 // New dance for amateurs
organizing, curating & social projects
2024-2025 // Singing Gatherings with OTUCHA
2024 // Plant Babes Residency in Przystawy as part of Dance in Planthroposcene
2023 // Cry of the Soil: Sonic Dances to Live Through (collab. DOOM MOOD)
2021 // EXPOSURE: Practices of Reclaiming Space (collab. Katerina Delakoura & Iro Grigoriadi)
2020-21 // Common Space - collective of horizontal learning initiated by Alicja Czyczel
2019 // Doing Things: Soiree Perfo
2019 // Propositions for Social Dreaming by SenseLab
2015-16 // Space Reclaims - Ataki Przestrzeni (collab. Centrum Amarant Foundation Poznań & Collectif Néphésh Caen)
performance
2023-25 // Bodies in Rebellion chor. Zufit Simon
2022-25 // Radical Cheerleading chor. Zufit Simon
2024 // Greyline chor. Renae Shadler
2022-24 // Under my gaze chor. Renae Shadler
2022-23 // Dance gatherings by Alice Chauchat
2022-23 // High Tide chor. Pauline Payen
2014-22 // Collective Jumps chor. Isabelle Schad
2022 // In Return chor. Moritz Majce & Sandra Man
2020 // Potrzebuję cię jak wody chor. Krystyna Lama Szydłowska
2019 // We are all teeth and claws chor. Magdalena Meindl
2019 // What (else) they are instead of chor. Angela Schubot & Jared Gradinger
2018 // Hygiene of Identity chor. Krystyna Lama Szydłowska
2017 // 3×20 by Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska & Zofia Tomczyk
2017 // Jaded chor. Sheena McGrandles
2017 // PHASE SPACE chor. SSM Collective
2016 // Up side down chor. Dalija Aćin Thelander
2015-16 // 8x8 chor. Collectif Néphésh
residencies & co-productions
2025 // BAZAAR Festival, CO.LABS, Alica Minar & col. (LUSH BLAST: Tasting the Untamed)
2025 // Residency at Teatrul Andrei Muresan in Sfantu Gheorghe, RO (LUSH BLAST: Tasting the Untamed)
2024 // BAZAAR Festival, Studio ALTA, Alica Minar & col. (LUSH BLAST: Walking Performance)
2024 // Residency at REZI.DANCE in Komarice,CZ (LUSH BLAST: Walking Performance)
2023 // HELLERAU in Dresden,DE (LUSH BLAST: Walking Performance)
2023 // Residency at Contact Zone in Kojły,PL (Voices from the Forest with Otucha)
2023 // Residency at Kultura Kresu in Białowieża,PL (Cry of the Soil: Sonic Dances to Live Through)
2023 // Residency at Queens Collective in Marrakesh,MA (Cry of the Soil: Sonic Dances to Live Through)
2022 // Kinship Residency at Studio ALTA in Prague,CZ (Nudes and Conspiracies)
2022 // Residency at HELLERAU in Dresden,DE (Woods Won’t Vaporize)
2021 // Residency at Utopia Laboratory in Athens,GR (EXPOSURE: Practices of Reclaiming Space)
2019 // Ada Studio in Berlin,DE (Doing Things)
2019 // Residency at ECHO HOUSE in Montréal,CA (Doing Things)
2019 // Visit at SenseLab - Laboratory for Thought in Motion in Montréal,CA
2018 // Xarkis Residency in Koilani,CY (Becoming-Body)
2015 // Residency at la Fabrique & le Sillon in Caen,FR (Space Reclaims)
awards & scholarships
2025 // Culture Moves Europe
2022-24 // Tanzpraxis Scholarship by Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa
2023 // DIS-TANZEN grant by Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, NEUSTART KULTUR program
2022 // #takeheart Residenzförderung von Fonds Darstellende Künste in collab. with Hellerau in Dresden
2022 // Artistic Research Abroad by Goethe Institute
2021 // DIS-TANZEN grant by Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, NEUSTART KULTUR program
2021 // Erasmus Scholarship, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Communication and Media
2021 // DanceWEB Scholarship, ImpulsTanz, Vienna international Dance Festival
2019 // PROMOS grant by DAAD for the visit at SenseLab - Laboratory for Thought in Motion in Montréal (CA)
2018 // Młoda Polska Scholarship by Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
rehearsal space
2021-2025 // Dance Studio Marzahn co-shared with a group of HZT alumni and other artists, supported by KulturRäume Berlin