Wojciech Grudziński is the winner of the POLITYKA'S PASSPORT in the category of Theatre

For performances in which performance virtuosity is combined with a thoughtful attempt to convey personal experience, and matters of the highest rank with a sense of humour and distance. - The winner of the prize awarded by the Polityka weekly is Wojciech Grudziński.

Wojciech Grudziński is a dancer and choreographer, as well as a creator of performances which, apart from performing virtuosity, have in common the use of personal experience and a sense of humour. ‘Rhodes’, realised in 2019 at Komuna Warszawa, takes its title from the abbreviation meaning Family Allotment Gardens Surrounded by Mesh. The allotment version of ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’, a psychedelic-queer revue, was set in this setting. 

In ‘Dance Mom’ (2021, Nowy Teatr in Warsaw and Żeromski Theatre in Kielce), exploring the relationship between mother and son, he performed with, among others, his own mother, an economist. In his latest solo Threesome/Three (Swiss Belluard Bollwerk Festival and Warsaw's Nowy Teatr), he bravely and movingly evokes the ghosts of the three ballet masters of the Teatr Wielki from the communist era, becoming a medium for their - often silent - queerness.

Born in Warsaw in 1991, he graduated from the Warsaw Ballet School, then studied contemporary dance at the Rotterdam Dance Academy and DAS Graduate School in Amsterdam. He has been developing his career as a choreographer since 2013, and today his performances are distinguished not only by great choreography and performance, but also by thoughtful dramaturgy, original music or video projections.