Pictures from performances.
18 - 29 August 2010
About Festival

This is the 10th edition of the International Mime Art Festival at the Na Woli Theatre, thus far the largest selection of international shows. This year, the Festival will feature performances and short theatrical forms by artists from Puerto Rico, Spain, Germany, Russia, Italy, USA, Czech Republic and Poland. We are also going to hold a ten-day open workshop on mime theatre. We will present to you the first part of the "Warsaw Pantomime" exhibition; we will also invite you to meetings and conversations with artists. read more

 

Bartlomiej Ostapczuk

Photo of Bartek OstapczukA mime artist, a pantomime director, a choreographer and a stage movement designer, a choreography and pantomime consultant in drama performances, a teacher.

Since 2005, he has been art director of the International Mime Art Festival at the Na Woli Theatre in Warsaw. He was the originator and founder of the Mimo Pantomime Theatre and the Warsaw Pantomime Centre at the Na Woli Theatre. He is chairman of the Pantomime Centre Foundation. He has co-authored projects and art productions related to pantomime and movement theatre. He has been running the Pantomime Studio in Warsaw since 2005. He is lecturer in pantomime under the "Inspirations" project of the Mazowieckie Culture and Art Centre.

In 1998-2001, he was an actor at the Warsaw Pantomime Theatre and the Mime Studio. He was awarded several scholarships of The School for Mime Theatre in the United States (2001, 2003, 2004). He has also studied mime arts in Spain.

He plays in Warsaw's theatres including the Great Theatre - the National Opera, the Na Woli Theatre, the Powszechny Theatre as well as the Królewski Theatre in Wilanów. Since 2005, he has been guest starring in the American pantomime theatre "Alithea Mime Theatre".

His roles include parts in performances directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski, Mariusz Treliński, Mikołaj Grabowski, Tomasz Konina, Achim Freyer, Jan Buchwalt and Laco Adamik. He performed in theatres in Japan, Puerto Rico, the USA, the UK, Germany, China, Lithuania, Russia, France, Israel and South Korea.

Język polski English language