PLAY
WArd/waRD Ann Van den Broek
Jumping rope, making up dance moves in front of the mirror, building your own world out of Lego or blocks. In chaos of the present, Play brings you back to the child within. This performance explores imagination as refuge, as necessity, as a way to gain control over what is larger than ourselves.
With Play, choreographer Ann Van den Broek dusts off her Barbies. She examines play as a vital need, as a way to escape from - or confront - what feels off. Play is not a nostalgic longing for a lost childhood, but a sharp, physical quest exploring the tension between imagination and reality. Playing as resistance, as comfort, as an expression of the unspeakable.
The performance is raw, poetic, and direct. Through dance, performance, live video, a gritty score, and an intense physical language, the performers constantly move between inner and outer worlds. They build, climb, fall and play - where fantasy and reality touch and collide.
Play is an ode to imagination and an invitation to dare to play again.
concept and choreography Ann Van den Broek
performers Jean-Gabriel Maury, Marion Bosetti, Isaiah Selleslaghs, Yoko Haveman, Omar Karabulut, Guilherme Carvalho
interns Mira Sopart, Ana Paula Lemus Payiatsou
music Sjoerd Bruil
light and video Bernie van Velzen
scenography Niek Kortekaas
costumes Mariëlle Vos in collaboration with Ann Van den Broek
outside eye Marc Vanrunxt
photography Rio Staelens
premiere October 4, 2025, Nederlandse Dansdagen / Bordenhal, Maastricht (NL)
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Museum of Bodies
choreography Maria Stokłosa, curator Magdalena Komornicka
Choreographic installation presented in the glass-enclosed Gallery A on the ground floor of MSN Warsaw. This space links the interior of the institution with the urban surroundings - it is located at a junction, in a passage. The installation is intended to draw attention and direct it toward the body: our own bodies, the dancers’ bodies, and the presence of bodies within the space of the museum and the city.
"Museum of Bodies" proposes to expand the field of experiencing the visual arts from the dominant sense of sight (which marginalizes the blind, and is often associated with distance and judgment), to include hearing and bodily presence. In dance, this means attentiveness towards one’s own body, thoughts and imagination. Here, dance does not function as a formal show, but as a method for processing stimuli - a form of active exploration of reality employing the body as a perceptual apparatus. Improvising dancers respond to sounds and the presence of the audience. The dancers’ motion is not based on defined moves, but on tuning into the context and entering into a relationship with the environment.
"Museum of Bodies" functions like a filter of perceptions, sensitizing us to how we perceive others and ourselves in public space. It reminds us that our vision is not neutral, but is shaped by social contexts, cultural norms, customs, and power structures. The dancing body actively engages in defining the relationship with the environment, becoming an instrument for communication - a living and political medium. The focus and attentiveness demanded by this interaction can also help us perceive other forms of art - more slowly, with reflection and openness to bodily experience.
The title of the project alludes to the first choreographic intervention at the opening of the new MSN Warsaw building in October 2024. It also references Boris Charmatz’s idea of the "Musée de la danse", which sought new contexts for presentation of chorography and dance, while stressing the role of dance as a political medium with immediate bodily impact.
choreography Maria Stokłosa
performers Omar Karabulut, Kaya Kołodziejczyk, Marta Kosieradzka, Magdalena Niedzielska, Piotr Stanek, Maria Stokłosa
dramaturgical cooperation Przemek Kamiński
light Aleksandr Prowaliński
costumes Olga Jurewicz
musical setting daisy cutter
curator Magdalena Komornicka
technical support Marek Franczak, Łukasz Zygarlicki
production Katarzyna Szybińska
visual identity and installation graphics Gosia Stolińska, Martyna Wyrzykowska
communication coordination Anna Cygankiewicz
managing editor Aleksandra Urbańska
communication Przemysław Rydzewski, Aleksandra Urbańska, Iga Winczakiewicz, Olga Zawada
translation Christopher Smith
proofreading Lingventa
photography Pat Mic
premiere Warsaw/ Poland, 20–23 May and 27–30 May 2025
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EXODOS
choreography Przemek Kamiński, curator Magdalena Komornicka
EXODOS (ancient Greek: ἔξοδος, departure) is the song sung by the chorus to mark the end of a tragedy. It does not introduce new plot, but it sums up the events and offers a lyrical and moralistic commentary.
EXODOS is the final part of Przemek Kamiński’s 5 years of research into the life and work of the American dancer and choreographer Fred Herko.
EXODOS is a dance concert that celebrates the end and the beginning, conjuring Herko’s queer utopian spirit – the spirit of the unfinished, of the belated and of the absent as of yet. The Museum of Modern Art’s new venue becomes a horizon full of potentiality and the dance a tool for imagining, affirming and ornamenting.
The event was part of the Museum of Modern Arts opening’s Choreographic Programme.
choreography Przemek Kamiński
creation and performance Michał Przybyła, Omar Karabulut
production Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
photography Pat Mic
premiere Warsaw/Poland, October 29-30, 2024
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Improvised Dance Stage [SIC!] Saute
curators Ilona Trybuła, Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska
The event takes the form of recurring evenings featuring participants from the Polish improvised dance scene. It is an extension of an international dance improvisation festival, which since its first edition in 2007 has presented and introduced methods of creation, presentation, and education through improvisation that were little known in Poland back then. Today, the situation has changed, and we can confidently say that this art form exists and continues to develop. Therefore, there is a need for regular and ongoing presentations - and that is precisely what the Improvised Dance Scene [sic!] in its “saute” edition provides.
“Saute” is a discovered and a rather raw process. The meaning and form of saute: we have the body, thought, imagination, and the floor. We have the entire external and internal world, contexts, and reasons to create. We use the resources of the “queen” of creativity - improvisation - which demands a lot and offers even more. It is a process that never ends, with boundless creative possibilities, and by nature it’s a 100% of life in life. It encompasses many methods and techniques of precise creation, where the process is equivalent to the final action.
curators Ilona Trybuła, Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska
Warsaw/ Poland - 29.06.2024; 12.04.2025
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Walpurgisnacht
Opera Rara
Łaźnia Nowa Theatre
Felix Mendelssohn: The First Walpurgisnacht
Johannes Brahms: Alt-Rhapsodie
choreography and performance Piotr Stanek, Olga Bury
performance Omar Karabulut
set design and spatial arrangement Mateusz Mioduszewski
dramaturgical support Konrad Kurowski
costumes and sculptural trousers Karina Mińkowska-Pado
alto Justyna Ołów
tenor Krzysztof Lachman
bass Jakub Borgiel
Capella Cracoviensis
conductor Jan Tomasz Adamus
premiere Krakow/ Poland, February 11, 2024
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This page presents Omar’s artistic activities since the beginning of 2024, reflecting the current direction of his creative exploration. Earlier, he developed primarily as a dancer, collaborating with Jacek Łumiński on the performances Przejścia, CPH4, and Wrócę tu po swoje serce, as well as with Maciej Kuźmiński on Plateau, event horizon - awarded at the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition - and Every Minute Motherland. At the same time, he co-founded Vagabond Physical Collective, with which he created performances such as Lorem Ipsum, A funeral concert for six dancers, and Co tu tak dudni?. His first solo work, Terminal B, received the First Prize at the 3...2...1...DANCE! choreographic competition during the Kraków Dance Festival, marking the beginning of his independent artistic path. Since then, he has been developing his choreographic practice, creating choreographic works within the Spaces of Art - Dance program in Katowice, as well as through his work at the Dance Department of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where he created, among others, the graduation performance Low States.
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