Actress, vocalist, folk singer, musician, pedagogue, theatre instructor. Graduate of Ukrainian Philology at the University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska in Lublin. She started her vocal career in the musical group Orkiestra Św. Mikołaja, exploring the Lemko and Hutsul musical traditions. In 1994-2005 actress of Centre for Theatre Practices 'Gardzienice'. In 2002, together with Dorota Porowska, she founded a dance project 'Labyrinth Dances', based and inspired by the idea of recreating dance and choreography from ancient Greek iconography. In 2005, together with Tomasz Rodowicz, Dorota Porowska and Maciej Rychły, she co-founded CHOREA Theatre Association. Since 2005 she collaborates with: the University of Jan Józef Lipski in Teremiski, founded by Danuta and Jacek Kuroń, and the Association For Earth, which creates projects addressed to refugees. Among others, she cooperates with neTTheatre and the Sztuka Nowa Association. She co-creates many artistic and musical projects, including: 'Przystanek Poezja' with Waldemar Rychły and Mandar Purandare, and 'Koncert Jeden / Wiele' with Karolina Cicha. Endless imagination, desire to learn and to gain different experiences are her main features. She likes to change places and activities, but she also likes to come back to what she left - and the returns are different and better each time. She loves to travel, and she loves animals and nature. Probably if she could, she would be an ornithologist or physicist. She really likes people and their stories. She knows how to listen. She has friends all over the world. Kalinka, her sister's daughter, once said that she is 'a joker sometimes as funny as a clown'. She speaks Ukrainian and English, and she learns Greek too.
