Ola Maciejewska

Ola Maciejewska is an artist, dancer and choreographer. Her creations are distinguished for their strong interdisciplinary take on dance, based on research and controlled structural work. Through studying convergences between dance and visual art, she produced a critical reading of the history of dance. Since 2013, she has been developing a unique choreographic practice based on a re-reading of the iconic serpentine dances invented by Loie Fuller in the 1890s. Her stage works Loie Fuller: Research and Bombyx Mori engage the viewer in a reflection on metamorphosis, synaesthesia and the hybrid nature of embodiment. Between 2016 and 2018, she was an Associate Artist at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen in Normandie, France. In 2020, she led research on the scenography of Rolf Borzik in the Pina Bausch Foundation’s archives. In 2022, she received a fellowship from The Watermill Center, founded by Robert Wilson. She develops frameworks to share her research, notably at HEAD –
Geneva University of Art and Design, the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Limoges and the Centre national de la danse. In 2023, she imagined ON TIME with and for the students of Atelier Emmanuelle Huynh at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. In 2024, she premiered The Second Body, a duet performance involving a dancer and an ice object, an allegory of a fragile relationship between the human and the elements. A new piece, Ongoing, designed for five performers, was created in March 2026 at Mac Orlan in Brest, as part of the DansFabrik festival.