Natalia Dinges is a dancer, choreographer, educator.
A graduate of WTT in Bytom, AST in Krakow (2013), before her studies, she professionally trained sports acrobatics (master class).
She currently collaborates as a lecturer with the Faculty of Dance Theater in Bytom, Academy of Theater Arts in Cracow.
Dinges works in the area of broadly defined performing arts. She draws her inspiration from movement in and of itself.
Currently, she conducts classes in body awareness, contemporary dance techniques, floorwork with elements of acrobatics, and partnering, for all age groups, as well as persons from excluded communities.
Dinges has been associated with many spaces, both repertory theaters (Zagłębie Theater, Silesian Theater, Słowacki Theater, Ochota Theater, Silesian and Krakow Dance Theater, Alias Cie – Switzerland, POK, WOK and others) and non-repertory, independent theater companies (O.de.la Theater, Living Space Theatre, Ruchomy Kolektyw, Cricoteka), alsow working with filmmakers and independent artists: Cyz, Vedral, Marciniak, Jabrzyk, Rychcik, Piekorz, Godowska, Krawczyński, Bury, Buy Ngoc, Botelho, Lewandowski, Łumiński, Hefczyńska – Lewandowska, Raźniak, B. Peszek, Garbacik, Cohen, Rapoo, Klimkiewicz, Woźniak, Radzikowska.
She has developed and co-developed several choreographies (Glory Game, Bum, Humanimal, Cockroaches, Dark Water, Lobotomy, Kurde le bele, Horror Frenzy, Messiahs, Szac, The Fourth Commandment, The New Jungle Book, Tartuffe and others).
A scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage for artistic achievement and academic performance 2010 and Erasmus Program implemented at Codarts – University for the Arts in Rotterdam, dance department (2010), she is also the winner of such prizes as Grand Prix dla Profanum, Roma Teatro Festival, and honorable mention dla Profanum, OFTeN Festival, Ostrów 2014. She is the laureate of the 10th edition of the Stanislaw Wyspiański Theater Award Competition in Cracow for 2020.
Official website: nataliadinges.com (webnode.page)
Photos
Natalia Dinges; Photo from the artist’s private archive.
Bataille and the Dawn of New Days chor. by Anna Godowska I Slawomir Krawczynski. Pictured – Natalia Dinges and Lukasz Przytarski; Photo by Kasia Chmura-Cegiełkowska for Ciało/Umysł 2016.
O.de.la Theater, Crash, chor. by Marta Bury, Photo by Maciej Ralowski.
Natalia Dinges, photo by Grzegorz Krzysztofik.
Theater O.de.la, Crash chor. by Marta Bury, Photo by Maciej Ralowski.
O.de.la Theater, Crash, chor. by Marta Bury, Photo by Maciej Ralowski.
Bataille and the Dawn of New Days, chor. Anna Godowska I Slawomir Krawczynski. Pictured – Natalia Dinges and Bartosz Ostrowski; prod. by Art. Station Foundation; Photo: Maciej Zakrzewski.
O.de.la Theater, Ecstasy, chor. by Marta Bury; Photo by Sebastian Stankiewicz.
O.de.la Theater, Ecstasy, chor. by Marta Bury, Photo by Sebastian Stankiewicz.
Natalia Dinges, photo by Grzegorz Krzysztofik.
Living Space Theatre, Q&A Polish Edition, chor. Rachel Erdos; photo by Piotr Jaruga
Living Space Theatre, Q&A Polish Edition, chor. Rachel Erdos; photo by Piotr Jaruga
Living Space Theatre, Q&A Polish Edition, chor. Rachel Erdos; photo by Piotr Jaruga
Living Space Theatre, Q&A Polish Edition, chor. Rachel Erdos; photo by Piotr Jaruga
Living Space Theatre, Q&A Polish Edition, chor. Rachel Erdos; photo by Piotr Jaruga
