e-mail: barbaradutkiewicz@hotmail.com

website: http://www.barbaradutkiewicz.pl 

Barbara Dutkiewicz – work as an Associated Professor in the Department of Music Education and Eurhythmics at The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland. She teaches eurhythmics, music choreography, plastique animée, movement techniques, methodology of eurhythmics teaching and piano improvisation. From many years she also teaches children, teenagers and seniors on a daily basis. She also works with actors, singers and instrumentalists teaches stage movement, court dancers, movement improvisation.

She graduated with distinguished diploma at Master of Art in Eurhythmics at 1995. In addition, she attended the Pantomime Studio 'Mime Theater of Sound and Movement IOTA', and The School for New Dance Development at Theater School in Amsterdam, as well as classes of court dance leaded by Dorothée Wortelbour in Utrecht. In 2005 she broadened her education by writing PhD thesis: 'Improvisation as a creative method at theater of second half of 20th century'. In 2012 she published a book entitled: 'Polystylistics or Discourse with the Past - Choreography of Music in the Light of Postmodernism on the Basis of Chosen Musical Works' – as a part of her post-doctoral study. She also works as a researcher (wrote over 20 articles about eurhythmics method).

Her artistic activities include choreography of music, compositions of stage movement as well as performative author’s project (presented in Poland, Austria, France, Germany, The Czech Republic, The Netherlands and Ukraine). 

The most important projects include: 'Time and again' in collaboration with ‘Fiori di folia‘ of Utrecht (1999); L'Histoire du Soldat' by I. Stravinsky - in collaboration with the New Music Orchestra (2000); 'Idiomatic compounds, or a radio program in movement' (2007); 'Delirio amoroso - based on J. F. Handel's cantata - an stage version for soprano, instrumental and dance ensembles' (2007); 'Barca di Venetia per Padova by A. Banchieri' - performance for vocal and dance ensembles' (2009), „The Fairy Tales of Mother Goos“ - a performance of musical fairy tales for children based on the music of Maurice Ravel (2015). She made also over 70 music choreographies based on tradition of eurhythmics method (plastique animée).

She also gives many lectures and workshops in Poland, Austria, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Hongkong, Italy, Sweden, USA.

She was the scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and Art, and she was awarded the first prize at the First European Eurhythmics Competition in Trossingen in 1994.