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Janusz Orlik - bio
born in 1981, is a graduate of ballet school in Warsaw and was a student of Brucknerkonservatorium Linz (Austria). During his studies he became a founding member of the company x.IDA (Austria) dancing and toured internationally with productions created by Olga Cobos (E), Peter Mika (SL), Catherine Guérin (D/USA), Rebekka Murgi (I), Nicole Caccivio (D) and Charlotte Vincent (UK), who invited him to join her dance theatre in 2002. Since then Janusz has been a member of Vincent Dance Theatre (Sheffield, UK) devising and dancing in four of the company's productions.
Since the beginning of his dancing career, Janusz has created his own choreographic pieces, presented at different contests and venues in Poland and abroad. In 2004 he made "Exérese monobloc” at Stary Browar with former ballet dancer Pia Libicka.
In 2001 Orlik won the 1st price at “Das Podium” competition for choreography (Linz, Austria) for “Monodrama” which was also presented at the “Young Choreographers Debuts” in Gdansk, Poland. In 2006, a student of “School of Ballet and Dance Fouette” (Poznan, Poland) won the 2nd price at “Jugend Tanzt” (Dortmund, Germany) dancing in Janusz’s choreography “Not perfect”.
As well as performing Janusz delivers dance workshops in different venues and dance schools in Poland and abroad. Janusz’s choreographic work focuses on asking questions about the meaning, delivery, honesty and truthfulness of movement.
“...most breathtaking of all is Janusz Orlik
who dances with immense grace ...
his arms so precise and eloquent.”
- Edinburgh Guide
„it is hard to easily define „Exérèse monobloc” by Pia Libicka and Janusz Orlik and actually there is no need to do that.”
- Gazeta Wyborcza
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