Anna Piotrowska / Warsaw / '74 - choreographer, director, dance teacher, and performer, as well as the founder and president of the Dance Development Foundation in Warsaw. She received her Masters degree in management in 2002. In 2004 she was recognized by the British Council Awards and received a scholarship as a “Young Polish Arts Entrepreneur” to visit schools of contemporary dance in London and Leeds. She organized and handled the artistic direction for the Polsih Dance Festival PolemiQi in Warsaw, and twice was awarded distinctions in Budapest at the International SoloDuo Dance Festival (2005/2006). As the founder and director of “mufmi dance theatre” in Warsaw, she has made over 40 works since 1995. She is actively involved in the artistic community of Poland and organizes local and international projects such the Polish edition of the International Dance Festival “SoloDuo Dance Festival / Budapest” (2007 & 2008), jam sessions “bosa.stopa_jam party”, “direction.(Europa_Warsaw).dance”, “British.4.Polish Dance”, laboratory of choreography, summer workshops, and the Warsaw Fiilm Spring Festival.
Anna Piotrowska was invited as the artist to the international programme apap (advancing performing arts project) making the performance “Look_4_faces”. She worked in 2008 on new performances on various artists among others on dancers of Polish Dance Theatre (“6x9”, “farfalla”), former dancer of Silesian Dance Theatre (“CoCo_Klimt”) and former dancers of Great Theatre in Warsaw (“papa papu”) and on the new production of “mufmi dance theatre “God of 8 Day”. She started also cooperation with theatrical director Paweł Kamza and is working on productions among others in “Teatr Współczesny” in Szczecin & “Teatr Łaźnia Nowa” in Cracow.