Ramona Nagabczynska

Body Parts

Poland The Twenty21

Fascinated by the face in a choreographic sense, Ramona Nagabczyńska in Body Parts delves into its plasticity and its cultural status.

Surrounded by a romantic aura, the face is considered to be the window of the human being’s psyche. Recent research into motor neurons gives us insight into the reasons why the face has achieved such cult status, but somehow scientific research never manages to overthrow the older discourses of the face.

While observing the face’s ability to be an ever-changing image which generates meaning, emotion and identity, Nagabczyńska also wonders; where did contemporary dance’s obsession with the neutral face come from and what is this neutral face? What is the connection between the grotesque and female subjectivity? What does the contemporary choreographies of the face tell us about cultural oppression?

Biography

Born in Toronto, Ramona Nagabczyńska is a dancer and choreographer based in Poland. Ramona’s recent choreographic interests lie in the grotesque female body and re-evaluating classical forms of performing arts and visual culture.

She trained as a dancer at the Warsaw State Ballet School, the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt and at The Place in London. She also obtained a degree in Cultural Studies at the University of Social Sciences in Warsaw.

Ramona has performed with various companies and artists, including Polish Dance Theatre, Fleur Darkin, David Wampach, Ula Sickle, Rebecca Lazier, Paweł Sakowicz, Alex Baczynski- Jenkins, Marta Ziółek and Clod Ensemble.

Her own work includes New (Dis)Order (selected by Aerowaves in 2014), RE//accumulation, The Way Things Dinge, pURe, More, Networking and Body Parts. She is currently working on Silenzio!.

Between 2016 and 2020 Ramona was an apap Network artist.

Performances

18 June 2021 Body Parts at Kalejdoskop Festival Bialystok, Poland Find out more

2 October 2022 Body Parts at Open House Festival Limassol, Cyprus Find out more