Ola Maciejewska

Ola Maciejewska is an artist, dancer and choreographer. Her works are distinguished for their strong interdisciplinary take on dance, based on research and controlled structural work. Through working on convergences between dance and visual art she produced critical reading of the history of dance. Since 2013, she developed a unique choreographic practice based on re-reading iconic Serpentine Dances invented by Loïe Fuller in the 1890s. Her stage works Loïe Fuller: Research, and Bombyx Mori engage the viewer in reflection on metamorphosis, synesthesia, and the hybrid nature of embodiment.

Between 2016 and 2018, she was an associated artist at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen in Normandie. 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 School of Art and Design - Geneva, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts - Limoges, and Centre National de la Danse.

In 2023, she created On Time, a performance-installation for the students of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and the solo The Second Body at the Ménagerie de Verre Paris. The new piece Ongoing, for 5 performers, will be created in March 2026 at Mac Orlan in Brest, as part of the DansFabrik festival.