Katarzyna Kozielska

Katarzyna Kozielska is a Polish ballet choreographer.
Biography.
Katarzyna Kozielska was born in Zabrze, Poland. She received her first ballet training at the State Ballet School in Beuthen. In 1999, she attended the John Cranko Schule in Stuttgart from which she graduated one year later.
In 2000/01, Kozielska joined the Stuttgart Ballet as an apprentice. She was taken into the Corps de ballet in 2001/02 and promoted to Demi-Soloist in 2006/07. In Stuttgart she has danced a wide variety of classical, neo-classical and contemporary works.
She made her first steps as a choreographer at the Stuttgart-based Noverre Society's Young Choreographers Evening in July 2011 with "Der richtige Ort" which was celebrated by the audience and critics. One year later her second choreography "Blender" followed. In celebration of John Cage’s 100th birthday, Stuttgart Ballet Artistic Director Reid Anderson commissioned Katarzyna Kozielska to create choreography for "Child of Tree", a co-production with the Young Opera of the Stuttgart State Theatre.
In 2012, she was also named as “Young Choreographer to watch” in the dance magazine "Tanz".
In January 2013, she choreographed "Symph" for the Noverre Society. In the season 2013/14 the work was taken into the Stuttgart Ballet repertory. Her as yet, not named, commissioned work for BalletNext, premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York in 2013, followed by "Anima" for a gala in Riga, Latvia. The pas de deux "Bite" and the ensemble piece "A.Memory" were commissioned by Reid Anderson for the Stuttgart Ballet. For "A.Memory" she collaborated with celebrated American artist Janet Echelman, one of whose sculptures formed the breathtaking set.
For the gala of the German Dance Prize in March 2015, Kozielska created the solo "Limelight" for prize winner Elisa Badenes, principal dancer of the Stuttgart Ballet.
For principal dancer Anna Osadcenko she choreographed the solo "Crunched" for the 20th Anniversary Gala of the Birgit Keil Foundation. Also in 2015, she created "Firebreather" for principal dancer Daniel Camargo; the solo had its world premiere in Prague at a gala organized by Filip Barankiewicz, designated Director (as of 2017) of the Czech National Ballet.
For March 2016, Artistic Director Reid Anderson has commissioned a new work from Kozielska for the Stuttgart Ballet.
On April 29, 2016 "Firebreather" has been performed at the YAGP Stars Gala.