Kasia Rozycki was born in Lublin, Poland. After graduating in Drama Studies from the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, she completed an MA in Directing Classical and Contemporary Text at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly RSAMD), and was a member of the Young Writers Group and Emerging Directors at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. Now living in London, Kasia is a member of the Young Vic Directors Program and her directing credits include Healing Waters by Rob Drummond performed at the Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), RCS Chandler Studio (Glasgow) and Cockpit Theatre (London) and At the End of the End (her own adaptation of The Chairs by Ionesco) performed at The Arches (Glasgow).

March 2015

Maja is a multilingual singer & songwriter, actress, model & travelling tea lover based in London. On a quest to fill her life with her two loves: music & travelling, she is planning to record some of her latest songs with a help of a pledge music campaign: http://www.pledgemusic.com/artists/planetmaja You can find more about her music & other projects on her website www.planetMaja.com or twitter.com/planet_maja.

August 2015

Zuza Tehanu is a dancer, choreographer, performance director, actress, musician and photographer. She started her dance training with the Dada von Bzdulow Theatre, and photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland, then dance and performance at Lewisham College in London.

Zuza is a founder and director of Dark Soul Dance Theatre, and since 2010 has been performing regularly at commercial venues in London (BGWMC, Rich Mix, 1001 Cafe, The Space Theatre). She celebrated her theatre’s 17th premiere of the “Isle of Penumbra” in October 2014. Since 2012 she has collaborated with PAiL London on Festival of Female Performers’ as a part of East in East festival at Rich Mix and in a recent production “HEReins”, commissioned by the London Metropolitan Archives. She choreographed for fashion designer Paulina Palian in “Project Anna” in 2013, as part of the One Billion Rising Festival. She also performed in the play “In beak we trust” play produced by POSK London and in “Crimson” performance with Neti-Neti Theatre Company, produced by Goldsmiths University.
Zuza has also appeared in a number of commercials and films with the most successful “Obstacle” (2013) by Nilesh Vasave and “Blackout”(2015) by Eddie Sain-Jean. In February 2014 she debuted in two English plays with the London Drama Group and in 2015 joined Transform Dance Company performing “Bird Women” at various dance festivals.

Zuza is thoroughly experienced in acting on camera, devising theatre productions, classical plays and dance and physical theatre shows. She is also a singer, musician, and song writer; she was part of Sunlight Service Group, Gadjo Form, Emanon and Glimmer bands over the last 7 years. Zuza often works in collaboration with artists from various fields, creating interdisciplinary outcomes that don’t fall into one art category.

August 2015

Marta completed an MA Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts in London. Her work has gained international recognition and she has worked with clients from Canada, Turkey, France, Poland and the United Kingdom.During her time at Camberwell College of Arts together with her friends she co-founded Hurdy Gurdy, an illustration collective specialising in organising art events and workshops. As a collective they worked together for the Museum of London, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Edit Stein Society.
Her practise is focusing around storytelling and narrative illustration. She uses different techniques from digital illustration, ink drawing to mono printing. Currently she is working on her own range of fashion accessories.

August 2015

Bart Soroczynski was born to a circus family in Poland. When still a boy, his family moved to Canada where Bart trained at the Montreal National Circus School. For five years he had a lead role in the show Nomade by Cirque Eloize, directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca, which toured around the world. He then immersed himself in theatre having trained and performed in Montreal, New York, Buenos Aires, Paris and London where he now lives. He recently appeared in Chekov’s Three Sisters as Baron Tuzenbach at the Cockpit Theatre. In the winter of 2012-13 he performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company appearing as Doctor Caius in the Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Phillip Breen, and The Mouse and His Child, directed by Paul Hunter. In summer 2011 he debuted in London at The Arcola Theatre alongside Kathryn Hunter, Marcello Magni and Patrice Niaimbana in Tell Them That I Am Young and Beautiful, directed by Marcello Magni from Complicité Theatre Company. In England he has also worked with Terry Gilliam and Leah Hausmann on Benvenuto Cellini at the English National Opera and Amit Lahav on Missing with Gecko Theatre Company, at The Place in London and on tour.
In Paris he was a member of the Irina Brook Theatre Company from 2008 to 2012 playing The Tempest as both Ferdinand and Trinculo as well as Somewhere La Mancha, an adaptation of Don Quixote touring worldwide.
In film he has worked with French director Philippe Muyl in his film Magique and Swiss director Michael Finger playing the lead in Son Of A Fool (The Fool And the Princesses).
Other roles include: Papa You’re Crazy a monologue adapted for the stage and directed by Nora Armani from the novel by William Saroyan, presented at the William Saroyan Centenary Festival in Yerevan, Armenia; Tiresias in Oedipus Rex with Trama Theatre Company directed by Luca Giacomoni in France; Arlequin in The Island of The Slaves by Marivaux with the Théâtre du Conte Amer in Paris, directed by Marc Zammit; Julien Sorel in The Scarlet and The Black (adapted from the novel by Stendhal) with the Théâtre du Conte Amer in Paris, directed by Ophélia Teillaud; The Mother and The Shoemakers by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, directed by Monique Stalens, also in Paris.
He was involved as a teacher, performer and artistic consultant in the project Inussiq-Cirque Arctique coordinated by Guillaume Saladin on four separate occasions. The project was a part of initiatives to support youth in the Inuit community tackling issues such as depression, substance abuse and youth suicide. In conjunction with others from the National Circus School he travelled to Igloolik, Nunavut in the Arctic Circle, where he established creative projects for Inuit youth to involve young people in the community in creative projects while at the same time confronting them with new challenges (1999-2007).
His prizes include the GEMINI AWARD in 2005 together with the artists from Nomade (Cirque Eloize) for the film Nomade : At Night, the Sky is Endless in the Best Performance in a Performing Arts Program or Series Category, Toronto Film Festival, Canada.
He was a finalist for the 2011 Off West End Theatre Awards in the category Best Ensemble with Tell Them That I’m Young And Beautiful directed by Marcello Magni.
In 1999 he wrote a book entitled Le Monocycle. This was published in Canada by Éditions Logiques and distributed in France, Switzerland and Belgium. Le Monocycle is a helpful guide for both beginners, as well as experienced unicycle enthusiasts.

March 2015

Eva Lis was born in Lublin, Poland. With the fall of the Berlin Wall she moved to Berlin and joined the vibrant art scene there, before moving to London where she graduated in Sculpture from UCL’s Slade School of Fine Arts.

Her work varies from printmaking to site-specific installations. Originally more interested in social dynamics and the construction of morality through socio-political motives, she now explores more abstract concepts often using elements of hypnosis (in video and sound) and surrealism.

A labyrinth motif reappears frequently in Eva’s work, reflecting our struggle to ever grasp more than a small part of the universe we inhabit. Eva focuses on fragmentary experience, our longing for meaning, unity and the struggle to understand the totality of our internal and external world; the dichotomy of being part of a universe that we never will be able to know, to describe, to comprehend.

June 2016

Hello, my name is Bibi Kujawa.
I am an illustrator, passionate about creating characters and places that tell a story. My main inspiration comes from everyday life, literature and the press. I love to create strange abstract characters presented in comic and tragic life situations. They are very often animals with human features, aliens or monsters. I hope my art with its weirdness can make people think of it in a symbolic way and help understand our reality with sense of humor.

April 2015

I met and photographed Agnes a few days ago in her home and workshop in north London. Talking to her was a reminder that coming to a new country, establishing a regular income and then branching out to set up your own business is not for the faint-hearted. It has taken grit and determination and, most of all, sheer hard work to get established, and it takes continuing hard work to earn an income. When I met her, Agnes was working her way through a mountain of dress orders to be completed by Christmas, other own and without help. Of course, it is better to have orders than not to have them, but the pressure of having some 50 dresses to complete in a three month period is not to be under-estimated.

November 2015

Born and educated in Poland, Marta studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw before completing her Masters’ Degree in Painting and Artistic Tapestry, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Following this, Marta enjoyed domestic success with many joint and solo exhibitions, though her work never ventured from her native Poland. Her move to England, a few years ago, saw an abrupt halt to Marta’s artistic output. Indeed, living and working in London, meant she did not paint anything new for some years. Recently, though, Marta has returned to her vocation with novel and exciting results. In her own words; “I have to fall deeply in love with the object or landscape I am painting.” This is immediately apparent when viewing her rich and evocative images. Texture is an important part of her painting, but Marta believes it is “colour and dynamic” that really define her work.

December 2015

Born in Warsaw, in a communist Poland under martial law, Emiliyah has been immersed in music since before birth. Her parents were opera singers and her mother was singing at concerts right until almost the day Emiliyah was born. Emiliyah is proud that she was born knowing how to sing.

Now living in London, Emiliyah values common sense and good energy and feels a strong affinity to Afro-Caribbean culture; its rhythms, flavors and colours. Her singing reflects her personality, combining volcanic sensuality, untamed roughness and a sensitive angelic delicacy. Vibrant on stage and in life, authentic and emotional, sometimes to the extreme, Emiliyah knows that only when she sings is she fully alive.

August 2016

Olga Kaleta was born in Krakow. Her passion for circus emerged from love of theatre.  She is interested in the creative process from the perspective of a performer and a director. She studied Theatre and Drama at Jagiellonian University. One Monday morning, unimpressed with the model of the Polish theatre industry, she felt like leaving. She was gone on Wednesday…

In 2008 she moved to Cardiff and begun training as an aerialist at No Fit State.  She graduated from Circomedia in 2015, specialising in Corde Lisse and Physical Performance.

She’s interested in work at a two different scales; exploring dramatic possibilities of circus itself, and using circus in context of medium to large-scale multidisciplinary community based projects. As an artist she is interested in creating performances that engage with social and political issues and that simultaneously explore artistic concepts. She performs regularly with Mary Bijou Cabaret and Social Club, collaborates with Splatch and co-runs street performance company The Bad Eggs. She’s committed to fostering creativity amongst NoFit State Community and she runs their youth circus performance troupe.