Adela Karsznia - OPeRe

About
Adela received her PhD in Theatre from the University of Wrocław, and professional diplomas in Translation (Kraków) and Cultural Management (Warsaw). She is a former Head Archivist and International Publishing Coordinator at the Grotowski Institute, where she co-founded the Icarus/Routledge book series, and is co-editor of Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP), a peer-reviewed scholarly and artistic resource that investigates Polish theatre cultures – past and present – and brings them into dialogue with other world traditions of critical and creative practice. Since 2012, she has served as co-director of the nonprofit organization TAPAC (Theatre and Performance Across Cultures) and of Culture Hub, a new digital platform for multilingual exchange in the arts.
Professional activities
editing, translating, publishing, research, lecturing, web development
Areas of interest
cross-cultural performance, theatre & performance studies, Polish theatre, literature, Polish identity, theatre history, disability culture, gender & performance, memory studies
Working languages
Polish, Polish (sign), English, French, Yiddish

Contact

E-mail
adela.karsznia@tapac.co
Phone
+44 871 218 9090
Website
www.culturehub.co

Mailing address

Culture Hub
86-90 Paul Street
City
London
Postcode
EC2A 4NE
Country
UK

Featured Work

Journal

Polish Theatre Perspectives 1

Edited by Duncan Jamieson and Adela Karsznia

Publishing series
Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP)
Keywords

Tadeusz Kantor Polish theatre cross-cultural directing memory Krzysztof Warlikowski Nowy Teatr TR Warszawa Jacek Poniedziałek Magdalena Cielecka Piotr Gruszczyński Krystian Lupa ensemble acting William Shakespeare Jedwabne Jan T. Gross Hanna Krall Polish Jewish culture Polish identity Second World War Greek tragedy Jan Klata migration Andrzej Wajda film Germany Russia Anatoli Vassiliev documentation exclusion minority identities

Book

Tadeusz Kantor’s Memory: Other pasts, other futures

Edited by Michal Kobialka and Natalia Zarzecka

Publishing series
Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP)
Keywords

Tadeusz Kantor Cricot 2 Polish theatre directing Theatre of Death memory

Event

European Theatre Perspectives: Symposium Programme

by Culture Hub and the Grotowski Institute

Keywords

theatre & performance studies cross-cultural migration adaptation performance European theatre digital humanities translation networks multilingualism digital culture European performance cultural translation internationalization transnational symposium European Theatre Perspectives (ETP) preservation activism co-action statelessness

Event

European Theatre Perspectives: Book of Abstracts

compiled by Culture Hub

Keywords

theatre & performance studies cross-cultural migration adaptation performance European theatre digital humanities translation networks multilingualism digital culture European performance cultural translation internationalization transnational symposium European Theatre Perspectives (ETP) preservation activism co-action statelessness

Book

Voices from Within: Grotowski’s Polish Collaborators

Edited by Paul Allain and Grzegorz Ziółkowski

Publishing series
Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP)
Keywords

Polish theatre directing ensemble acting rehearsals Jerzy Grotowski Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski & Thomas Richards training Wrocław Laboratory Theatre Opole Ludwik Flaszen Theatre of Sources set design Maja Komorowska Andrzej Bielski Ryszard Cieślak Zbigniew Cynkutis Zygmunt Molik Antoni Jahołkowski Waldemar Krygier Jerzy Gurawski Jacek Zmysłowski active culture Przemysław Wasilkowski Irena Rycyk Stefania Gardecka Teo Spychalski Stanisław Scierski paratheatre Rena Mirecka

Resource

Krzysztof Warlikowski: Chronology of life and work

by Adela Karsznia, with Katarzyna Łuszczyk

Publishing series
Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP)
Keywords

directing Krzysztof Warlikowski Nowy Teatr TR Warszawa Redbad Klijnstra Małgorzata Szczęśniak Jacek Poniedziałek Stanisława Celińska Magdalena Cielecka Renate Jett Piotr Gruszczyński acting Paweł Mykietyn opera Felice Ross

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Connections

Duncan Jamieson

Co-Director, Culture Hub

London, UK

Working languages
English, Spanish, French, Polish, Polish (sign), Italian
Professional activities
research, editing, publishing, translating, directing, web development
Areas of interest
theatre & performance studies, cross-cultural performance, ethics, acting, directing, rehearsal practices, performer training, psychophysical performance, practice research, cultural translation, cognitive studies, decision making, gender studies, theatre history, historiography, contemporary philosophy, digital culture, social & cultural networks, memory studies, Polish theatre, Polish culture, Jerzy Grotowski, Laboratory Theatre, Tadeusz Kantor, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Krystian Lupa, Latin American performance

Grotowski Institute

cultural centre, archive, publisher, studio, performance venue

Wrocław, Poland

Working languages
Polish, English, French, Italian
Professional activities
performances, seminars, publishing, research
Areas of interest
Jerzy Grotowski, Laboratory Theatre, theatre, performance

Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP)

publisher, resource, nonprofit organization

London, UK

Working languages
English, Polish
Professional activities
publishing
Areas of interest
Polish theatre, theatre, performance, drama, acting, directing, performer training

Paul Vickers

Postdoctoral Researcher, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

Giessen, Germany

Working languages
English, Polish, German, Ukrainian
Professional activities
translating, research
Areas of interest
theatre & memory, theatre & performance studies, Polish theatre, Ukrainian theatre, German theatre, cultural memory, popular memory, vernacular memory, autobiography, biography, censorship, social history, cultural history, historiography, translation, migration

Michal Kobialka

Minneapolis, USA

Working languages
Polish, English, French
Professional activities
research, lecturing
Areas of interest
theatre & performance studies, Tadeusz Kantor

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Affiliations

Culture Hub, UK
Co-Director (co-founder)
TAPAC, UK
Co-Director (co-founder)
Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP), UK
Editor (co-founder)
Translators Association, UK
Member (elected)

Timeline

Main professional and background information:

Polish Theatre Perspectives (2015)

Launched the Anglo-Polish online resource and companion book and film series Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP), on Culture Hub.
Professional Diploma (2013)

Professional Diploma in International Cultural Management, awarded by the National Centre for Culture (Poland) and Marcel Hicter Association for Cultural Democracy (Belgium).
Culture Hub (2013-present)

Co-conceived and co-founded the multilingual e-publishing and networking platform Culture Hub.
TAPAC (2012-present)

Co-founded the nonprofit, independent publisher TAPAC: Theatre and Performance Across Cultures (London and Wrocław).
Postgraduate Certificate (2009)

UNESCO PGCert in Literary Translation, Jagiellonian University, Kraków.
Grotowski Institute (2005-2013)

Employed first as Archivist, then as Head Archivist and International Publishing Coordinator at the Grotowski Institute (Wrocław).
PhD in Theatre (2009)

Awarded with Distinction, University of Wrocław.
MA in Theatre (2003)

Awarded with Distinction, University of Wrocław.

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