Biography
Prof. dr hab. Wojciech Klimczyk, Jagiellonian University is a dance scholar whose research centers around the social and political role of dance. He is the author of Erotyzm ponowoczesny [Postmodern Eroticism] (Universitas 2008), Wizjonerzy ciała. Panorama współczesnego teatru tańca [Visionaries of the Body. Panorama of Contemporary Dance Theatre] (Haart 2010) and Wirus mobilizacji. Taniec a kształtowanie się nowoczesności 1455-1795, vol. I-II (Universitas 2015) (reprinted in English as The Virus of Mobilization: Dance and the Shaping of Modernity 1455-1795 (WUJ 2020)). He works at the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilizations at the Jagiellonian University. He spent nearly a decade as a member of the Harakiri Farmers artistic collective working at the intersection of contemporary dance and theater. His collaborations as a dance dramaturge include Andre Gingras, Kirstine Ilum Soerensen, Marta Wolowiec and Poernim Gobardhan.