photo by Wojciech Sobolewski

Alka Nauman (she/her, b. 1992, Warsaw): experimental choreographer, Theater and movement director, performer and author of texts. She graduated in choreography from the London Contemporary Dance School and in anthropology from the University of Warsaw.Together with Justyna Szklarczyk, she co-creates the research and artistic duo Lesbi Pensjonari. Nauman lives and works between Warsaw and London.

Her artistic practice is rooted in Anarcho-feminism and choreographic work with absurdity, humor, textiles, and queer and antifascist archives.She likes to think of creating as composing elixirs that alter consciousness.

her newest creation Pneuma explores the circulation of air through breath and wind in the context of today’s “polycrisis”. collaboration with Kasia Dębska and jerzy mączyński. Premiere at sauna, an old spa complex in warsaw, fringe, 25.09.2025.

As a performer, Alka has collaborated with choreographers such as Eva Recacha (The Picnic, Sadler’s Wells) and Eve Stainton & Florence Peake (Impending: Head to head, Head to bump, crotch to crotch, The Place).

As a movement director she worked with:

  • lina lapelyte (cosmic home, Tr Warszawa, Pl)
  • Wojtek rodak (The History of Sin, The Helena Modrzejewska National Old Theatre, cracow Pl)
  • Jaśmina Wójcik and jakub Wróblewski (Cosmic childern, guliwer theatre, Warsaw, Pl)
  • marta Jalowska (I want, Theatre Komuna-Warszawa, Warsaw, Pl)

Her works have been presented at venues like:

  • The Place (London, Uk)
  • Chisenhale Dance Space (London,UK)
  • the place, (london, Uk)
  • Black Box (Outburst Queer Art Festival, Belfast, Uk)
  • Montevideo (Transform queer art festival, Marseille, Fr)
  • TR Warszawa (Warsaw, PL)
  • Theatre Komuna-Warszawa (Warsaw, Pl)
  • National Museum in (Warsaw, PL)
  • Zachęta – National Gallery of Art (Warsaw, PL)
  • curie city (Warsaw, Pl)
  • Central Museum of Textiles (łódź, Poland)

Timeline

  • 2025 Artistic scholarship from the city of warsaw project on spiritualist séances.
  • 2023 co-funding Lesbi pensjonari with lover and partner justyna szklarczyk.
  • 2022 co-organisation of the first Grassroots Dance Congress Against Violence in Warsaw — a platform for resistance, care, and collective action within the dance and performance community. With monika Błaszczak and hanna raszewska-kursa.
  • 2021 artist-in-residence with Adelina cimochowicz at Komuna Warszawa (season curated by Markus Öhrn).
  • 2020-2022 part of PEER Programme at Studio Wayne McGregor in London.
  • 2020 named one of the emerging choreographers to watch by Springback Magazine, published by Aerowaves – Dance Across Europe.

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e-mail: naumanalicja@gmail.com

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