SYLVIA HANFF CV
 
EDUCATION
·    Yoga Kundalini Teacher Training (Kundalini Research Institute certificate)
·    Instructors Course in Dance Improvisation, body symbolic and experimental dance theatre led by Dr Detlef Kappert (Dance and Movement Dynamics Institute, Essen, Germany)
·    Hatha yoga, Akademia Hatha-Jogi, Joga Centrum, workshops with teachers from the USA
·    Relaxing techniques training (University School of Physical Education, Warsaw)
·    Culture Manager Diploma, Culture Managers College, Market Research Centre and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, branch in Warsaw
·    Stefan Niedzialkowski Mime Studio at the Na Woli Theatre in Warsaw;
·    Dance classes in the Dance-Actors Studio (Ballet School in Warsaw) and at international contemporary dance workshops (Exit03- Butoh Dance Festival: Exchange Project&Symposium Schloss Broelin Germany, Mamu Butoh Festival in Gottingen Germany, Dance of the World in Warsaw, Polish Dance Theatre, Silesian Dance Theatre - International Conference of Contemporary Dance and Dance Art Festival, Small Forms of Dance Theatre Festival in Warsaw, International Meetings of Action Art in Warsaw, International Presentations of Modern Theatre Forms in Kalisz, Baltic Dance University, and others); workshops in modern and contemporary dance techniques (Marth Graham, Cunningam, Taylor, and others), classical ballet, improvisation, Hindu dance workshops (bharatha natiam i manipuri), African and Aztec dances workshop; theatre workshops, Noh Theatre, capoeira workshops, tai chi, choreotherapy (Contemporary Dance Biennial Poznan, Centre of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw, Dance Conference Bytom).
·    Butoh dance study-workshops: Ko Murobushi, Daisuke Yashimoto, Carlotta Ikeda, Atsushi Takenouchi, Tadashi Endo, Yuko Kawamoto, Kan Katsura, Fran Barbe.
·     Philosophy Institute, Warsaw University, M.A. (the subject of the thesis was the philosophical premises of the theatre of Antonin Artaud)
·    VI Liceum Ogólnoksztalce im. T. Reytana (High School) in Warsaw;
·    artistic gymnastics, Youth Palace in Warsaw.

 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
·    I has been leading the LIMEN THEATRE  – butoh dance and body theatre since 2002, directing all the performances and choreographing most of them (Everything has the evening face, Un-done-being, Apoptosis, An Empty Space or Dreams of an Ocean, Ukiyo-Teika, Ukiyo-the floating world, Shironuri, Black Venus and many improvisations)
·    I was an actress of The Warsaw Mime Theatre c/o The State Jewish Theatre in the years 1997-2001 (The faces of Truth, dir. and chor. S. Niedzialkowski, At Night on the Old Market, dir. Sz. Szurmiej, chor.: Z. Starczynowski)
I performed in:
·    Dance of the Forest, butoh performance choreographed by Kan Katsura
·    National Theatre (Halka Spinoza, New Bloomusalem, November Night, Giacomo Joyce, A Midsummer Night's Dream, all dir. by J. Grzegorzewski)
·    National Opera (Simone Boccanegra, dir. Pierre Luigi Pier’Ali, The masked Ball, dir. W. Zawodzinski, Paradise Lost, dir. Weiss-Grzesinski, Don Giovanni, dir. Weiss-Grzesinski, King Roger, dir. M. Trelinski, The Haunted Manor, dir. M. Grabowski, Wozzek, dir. K. Warlikowski)
·    Na Woli Theatre –Stefan Niedzialkowski Mime Studio (Initiations III/Metamorphosis, dir. and chor. S. Niedzialkowski)
·    Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw (Marriage blanc, dir. G. Wisniewski)
·    Mimages Theatre (A journey and etudes Angels and a Tree)
·    Akt Theatre (Perperuna, street performance, The Hollow Land, dir. M. Kowalski)
·    King’s Fools Theatre (Away with God’s Judgement, dir. Jean-Claud Denoue)
·    Amok.Positive & Limen Theatre (Buddacity)
·    Pracovnia Maat & Limen (Testing the Life Awhile)

I has danced in performances produced during workshop sessions and international meetings: Towards the Orient, butoh dance performances, choreography by A. Takenouchi (Japan), Butoh performance choreographed by Fran Barbe (London) and a contemporary dance performance choreographed by Katy Juhasz (Budapest) at Ex...it’03 Butoh Dance Festival (butoh meets contemporary dance) in Germany.

I has worked as a creative dance teacher and led workshops: body expression workshops, body awareness, butoh dance, dance therapy, creative dance and mime, hatha and kundalini yoga, meditation dance  – for children, adolescents and adults, theatre groups, instructors and amateurs.

I cooperate with the Japanese butoh dancer Atsushi Takenouchi in the organisation of his workshops (in cooperation with the Educational-Cultural Centre ‘Lowicka’ in Warsaw). We have also realized the Lunatix project together.

I delivered the lecture, A Skinned Actor (philosophical theatre antrophology), qualified for the scientific conference, Human body – a universal sign at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków 2003, also a lecture on the theoretical session at the International Festival of Intuitive Art Fortalicje Zamosc 2003.