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#Wojciech Klimczyk - Instytut Porównawczych Studiów Cywilizacji

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Dr hab. Wojciech Klimczyk, prof. JU

Dr hab. Wojciech Klimczyk, prof. JU

e-mail: wojciech.klimczyk@uj.edu.pl
www: https://jagiellonian.academia.edu/WojtekKlimczyk
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3331-1721

Sociologist by profession, currently more interested in cultural studies and cultural history, Wojciech Klimczyk has published diverse works on the body in contemporary culture, including the following books: Postmodern Eroticism, Visionaries of the Body. Panorama of contemporary dance theatre and The Virus of Mobilisation. Dance and the formation of modernity 1455-1795, vol. 1-2. Together with Agata Świerzowska he has edited the anthology Music and Genocide and with Julia Hoczyk Re-writing Dance Modernism. His doctoral thesis entitled Anthropology of Contemporary Dance Theatre. Dynamics of artistic practice was defended with honours. He teaches also in Bytom at the Faculty of Dance Theatre of the Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków. Formerly a co-creator of the Harakiri Farmers artistic collective, he currently on occasion works as independent contemporary dance artist.

 

Academic interests

  • dance history,
  • dance theory,
  • cultural theory,
  • popular culture.

Selected publications

Books

  • 2022, Prze-pisać taneczny modernizm/Re-writing Dance Modernism, ed. J. Hoczyk, W. Klimczyk, Kraków i Warszawa
  • 2020, The Virus of Mobilization. Dance and the Shaping of Modernity, 1455-1795, vol. 1-2, Kraków
  • 2015, Music and Genocide, ed. W.Klimczyk, A. Świerzowska, Frankfurt
  • 2010, Visionaries of the Body. Panorama of contemporary dance theatre , Kraków (in Polish)
  • 2008, Postmodern Eroticism, Kraków (in Polish)

Recent articles

  • 2026, Forgotten Link: Theorising the Absence of Polish Modern Dance in Historiography, w: The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Memory, red. S. Franco, M. Nordera, New York
  • 2026, ‘I played very nervously today’: A Molecular Analysis of Vaslav Nijinsky's 1919 Dance of Crisis, „Deleuze and Guattari Studies”, https://doi.org/10.3366/dlgs.2026.0638
  • 2025, Kinetic Polishness: A Sociopolitical History of the Polonaise (with T. Nowak), „Nations and Nationalism”, https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.13134
  • 2025, Cross-temporal pedestrian mobility: walking-after Nietzsche in the Upper Engadine, „Rethinking History. The Journal of Theory and Practice”, https://doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2025.2544453
  • 2024, ‘It was not Sinai’: Wayfaring with Nijinsky in and around St. Moritz. Some Reflections on Practising Dance History in the Field, „Dance Research”, https://doi.org/10.3366/drs.2024.0417

Research projects

  • 2018-2019, Republican Moves: The Dutch Roots of Modern Kinesis – preliminary research (Miniatura 2)
  • 2007-2009, Contemporary Dance Theatre in Anthropological Perspective. Rituality, Transgression and the Body Dynamics in Symbolic Culture (grant promotorski N N116 096934).

Other achievements

  • 2023, fieldwork, St. Moritz, Szwajcaria
  • 2019, visiting scholar, Leiden University, Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
  • 2015, „Wirus mobilizacji” nominated for T. Kotarbiński Prize and Polish Theatre Studies Association Award
  • 2008, visiting scholar, New York University, Department of Performance Studies
  • 2007,  fieldwork, Haga, Holandia

Hobbies

  • music
  • fantasy/sci-fi/ horror films and TV series
  • basketball