movement
Kata Kwiatkowska (b. 1994) is a Polish-born, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist. Her practice draws on humanistic design, embodied storytelling, and a deep interest in intimacy, memory, and the quiet power of the body. Kata’s work is rooted in personal and ancestral landscapes. Her projects often engage with Slavic cultural memory, rural womanhood, and the body's quiet resistance. She collaborates with the Berlin-based Otucha Collective, exploring the healing power of voice and Slavic folk singing. Whether through dance, photography, or sound, she creates spaces where tenderness meets rawness, and care becomes a radical act of attention, emphasising human experience over aesthetics. She explores ritual in dance, sound and body attention, fostering connections on a sensory level both to oneself and to one another.
PROJECTS
SELECTED WORKS (detailed below)One Cup of Seawater EP. 2 - co-creator and dancer, work created within the frame of research residency REINKOMMEN at ADA studio, Uferstudios Berlin together with Julie Peters (2025)“FOLKLORNO - what was left” - chor. Mirjam Sadjak, dancer, Klagenfurt, Austria, (2025)ENDLESS BODY - facilitator- body attention and guided improvisation as tools for creativity and connection (2025 - ongoing)Strings, Pulse and Tendons - body and sound live improvisation series with Florina Speth, Özgur Akgul and Max S. (2024- ongoing)OTUCHA COLLECTIVE - member and performer of Berlin-based Otucha singing collective (2024-ongoing)BOSZKI - co-creator, choreographer, and dancer, Living Corridors pop-up space, Berlin (2023)Heartbreak Microdosing - choreographer and solo dancer, Cordillera, Berlin (2023)Innen - co-creator and dancer for site specific performance with jazz singer Anja Smolnik, mentored by Anna Hein, premiered at Lange Nacht des Tanzes in Bleiburg, Austria (2023)Surrender Express - choreographer and dancer, Internationales Solo Tanztheater Festival, Stuttgart (2023)One Cup of Seawater - co-choreographer and dancer w/Julie Peters SoloDuo Festival, Barnes Crossing Kölln (2022)Triptychon - dancer for site specific creation facilitated by Anna Hein, Lange Nacht des Tanzes in Bleiburg, Austria (2023)Weglänge Wehklänge dir. Nathalie Rosenbaum - dancer, BAT, Berlin (2022)The Repetit’sis - movement research practice of Ari Adamski, HZT maC, Berlin (2021 - 2023)
One Cup of Seawater EP. 2 (2025)
created within the frame of research residency REINKOMMEN at ADA studio, Uferstudios Berlin
Choreography & Dance: Julie Peters & Kata Kwiatkowska
Dramaturgical support: Maria Ladopoulos
Music/Sound: aheich, Acrartep, Sugai Ken
Camera & Editing: Alicja Hoppel
Special thanks to: Gabi Beier (ada Studios), aheich, Jan Burkhardt, Tilo Käbel
photo : Aïsha Mia Lethen Bird
video upon request
One Cup of Seawater EP. 2 (2025)
"One Cup of Seawater EP. 2" is a dance piece exploring the topics of fluidity, trust and connection. Using the human body as both a vessel and a carrier, we examine how the interplay between movement, environment, and the relational dynamics of “carrying” in its many forms - carrying each other, carrying water, and being carried by water - can exist. It becomes a central motif in the performance, reflecting the unpredictable and uncontrollable nature of water itself.
Article "Dreams of Water" by Miriam Taschler (tanzschreiber)
Article by Akiles Agaili (Studioschreiber)
photo : Aïsha Mia Lethen Bird
FOLKLORNO - what was left (2025)
Idea: Mirjam Sadjak
Dance: Vincenzo Gatta, Kata Kwiatkowska, Julie Peters, Mirjam Sadjak
Music: Yegor Zabelov
Skirts: Monika Šumah
Outside Eye: Dušana Baltić, Maria Colusi, Tim Winter
Supported by: Land Kärnten Kultur, Land Kärnten Volksgruppenbüro | biro za narodno skupnost, KPD Šmihel, Theaterhaus Berlin
photo: Daniel Kaiser
Strings, Pulse and Tendons (2024 - ongoing)
An ongoing research project embodying the idea that, despite efforts to control and predict outcomes, the organism of space, bodies, and sound shifts unpredictably. Kata (movement and voice), Florina (cello), Özgür (strings and electronics) and Maxi (electronics) collaborate to create an improvisational score through a dynamic dialogue between sound and movement.
Dance and Voice: Kata Kwiatkowska
Cello: Florina Speth (Schloss Mirabell)
Violin: Özgur Akgul
Electronics: Max S.
video upon request
BOSZKI (2023)
BOSZKI On passages, feasts and ancestral connections (2023)
Curated by Zeren Oruc
An exhibition by Anna Jarosz
Sound composition by Agatha Lewandowski
Dance performance by Kata Kwiatkowska
Kraboszki masks by Marta Derewiecka
Living Corridors Gallery in Berlin hosted by Atelier JungleInk
video upon request
still from the video by Jara López
Innen (2023)
Dance and Sound performance created as part of the CCB residency
performed in the frame of Lange Nacht des Tanzes in Bleiburg 2023
Kata Kwiatkowska (dance)
Anja Smolnik (sound and voice)
How to translate the bloodstream of nature? “Innen” is an organic, non-linear storytelling dialogue between the body and sound. Playing with the idea of opening the eyes of the skin and the contrast between the soundscape of nature and generating rhythm on the spot, the audience is invited to dive into the unpredictable inner world of sensorial memory.
video upon request
photo Dominik Kristof
Innen (2023)
photo Dominik Kristof, LNT Bleiburg 2023
Heartbreak Microdosing (2023)
(work in progress)
A new solo exploration that navigates a heartbreaking journey of never ending little unspoken mishaps of everyday life. It is an attempt of embodying the awkward silence and certain hopelessness - what people don’t say.
In my sensory movement research practice “Partnering Alone” I follow the body as a partner. I play with gestures, clashes with sound, allowing a surprise to enter the room while still being true to the vulnerability of being human.
Created at the @cordilleraberlin as part of their Artists in Residency program
Special thanks to Roberta Stein, adding a beautiful sound exploration to the project.
video upon request
photo Raquel Lanziner
Heartbreak Microdosing (2023)
(work in progress) Created at the @cordilleraberlin as part of their Artists in Residency program
video upon request
photo Raquel Lanziner
TRIPTYCHON (2023)
Created during a residency at CCB Bleiburg under the mentorship of Anna Hein (dance) and Julian Gamisch (sound)
presented at Lange Nacht des Tanzes, Bleiburg 2023
3 musicians and 3 dancers meet. In 5 residency days, directly before the LNT, the nature of the 6 different performers created 3 duets with 3 main moods, which were emotionally rearranged musically and dance-wise in the 4th part of the performance as a “TRIPTYCHON”, a kind of shadow sextet.
dancers Giuliana Corsi, Kata Kwiatkowska, Benedykt Król
music Anja Smolnik (voice) Carla Boregas (bass guitar) Yingshuo Ma (saxophone)
photo Dominik Kristof
Surrender Express (2023)
What is a journey leading up to surrender? Is it a choice? And can you practice surrender when there's a fly sitting on your face? A short study on hope and control when it comes to taking a risk of loss or gain.
Surrender Express is a solo piece that challenges the conversation about the difference between letting go and surrendering. The audience joins the intimate and absurd journey of the human fragility that gets put on display when stepping into unavoidable vulnerability. How does one choose to really surrender to the unknown, to the fear, admitting to being human in all its flaws and beauty? And what then?
Premiered at the 27th Internationales Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival in Stuttgart
dance and choreography Kata Kwiatkowska
photo Jo Grabowski
video upon request
special thanks to Dor Mamalia for the outside eye
Weglänge / Wehklänge (2022)
Weglänge Wehklänge is Nathalie Rosenbaum's second dance theater production as part of her directing studies at the HfS Ernst Busch. In collaboration with the musician and composer Deniz Deli, the puppeteer Enikő Mária Szász, the dancers Jojo Büttler, Kata Kwiatkowska and Tabea Antonacci, a musical evening is created in the field of tension between contemporary dance and object theater. Premiered on December 12th, 2022 in the bat Studio Theater, Berlin.
click to see the video (trailer)
photo Moritz Friese
One Cup of Seawater (2022)
dance and choreography Kata Kwiatkowska and Julie Peters
sound Edgardo Rudnitzky
with special thanks to Maria Colusi
In our creation we seek to show the complex universe of a vocabulary we developed together, constructing and deconstructing shapes and movements as well as our connection to each other. On the journey of exploring the questions and challenges of relating to each other, we also offer to carry one another through it without judgement and with trust. In a concentrated atmosphere, the sounds and momentums introduced through each movement bring up a certain rhythmicality that constantly feeds new interactions between us. We wish for people to experience the intimate atmosphere we created through allowing one another’s world to appear, and by constantly adapting to the ever-changing realities we live in.
“One Cup of Seawater” premiered at the SoloDuo festival in Cologne in May 2022.
video upon request
photo Alessandro de Matteis
