Renata Piotrowska-Auffret is a choreographer and the artist; in her works she uses tools of experimental dance, performative arts, dramaturgy and theatre.
Piotrowska-Auffret contemplates the contemporary world by deriving the inspirations from intimate experiences, real and fictional, embedded in a given social context. She is interested in the perversity of relations between the historical and contemporary body politics, between public and private, as well as between text and movement.
She was a priority artist in the frame of Aerowaves Twenty17 and Aerowaves Twenty19.
Since 2014 she started a series of Private Pieces – performances putting at stake female body politics, oscillating between private and public. Within it, she has created: “Death: Exercises and Variations” (2014), “The pure gold is seeping out of me” (2017), “Flatland of limp muscles” (2019), and “Uteri Migrantes” (2022).
As she describes her works: „I am a female artist, I am a women, I am a mother – so the polarization of the body touches me directly. I always have a personal and autobiographical urgency to do the work.” As a result of working with politically involved themes, the private pieces have already been created.
“The pure gold is seeping out of me” has been already presented in the frame of many European festivals: Malta Festival in Poznań, Generation After showcase in Warsaw (Poland), Spring Forward in Paris (France), Cloud Festival in Tirana (Albania), NORMA Festival in Ostrava (Czech Republic), Festival Culturescapes in Dornach and Museum Susch in Zernez (Switzerland), Baazar Festival in Prague (Czech Republic), Open House Festival in Lemesos (Cyprus), Off Europa Festival in Dresden (Germany), as well as in Bora Bora Dans & Visuelt Teater in Aarhus (Denmark), Circe Platform in Tbilisi (Georgia) and KVS in Brussels (Belgium).
In 2020 she created “Danse macabre” (JK Theatre, Opole, Poland) and “As long as we dance” (Studio Hrdinů, Prague, Czech Republic).
Piotrowska-Auffret graduated from master choreographic program ex.e.r.ce. in Montpellier and Theatre Academy in Białystok.
She is a member of choreographer’s platform from Warsaw – Center in Motion.
photo: Michal Ureš