Joanna Sibilska is a ballet historian, lecturer in dance and ballet history
She graduated from the State Ballet School in Poznań and ballet directing at the Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, receiving master’s degrees in ballet history and criticism and ballet pedagogy and tutorship. She received her doctorate in the humanities, in the discipline of art sciences at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Sibilska worked at the Theater Museum in Warsaw and the State Ballet School in Łódź. She has been a lecturer in dance history at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw for over twenty years. In 2015, she worked at the Grand Theater – Polish National Opera in Warsaw as the chief specialist for ballet collections for the company’s digitization program (247 premieres and about a hundred biographies). She cooperates with the National Institute of Music and Dance, contributing texts on the history of ballet. She is the author of biographical entries on ballet artists in the Polish Biographical Dictionary and the Biographical Dictionary of the Polish Theater (vol. III), as well as texts in ballet programs of the Grand Theater in Warsaw, the Wrocław Opera and the Silesian Opera in Bytom. Her articles have been published in “Pamiętnik Teatralny,” the academic journal of the UMFC, and “Vestnik” of the Agrypina Vaganova Ballet Academy, as well as on Teatrologia.pl. She is also a teacher of dance history at the Roman Turczynowicz Ballet School in Warsaw, a lecturer at the Mazovian Institute of Culture and collaborator of the Universities of the Third Age. She sits on the editorial team of the Center for Artistic Education’s quarterly “Artistic School,” to which she also contributes articles. She actively participates in conferences organized in Poland and abroad, as well as popular science programs devoted to the history of dance culture.
Joanna Sibilska was awarded the badge “Meritorious for Polish Culture.
Pictured: Joanna Sibilska. Photo: private archive of J. Sibilska
