MAGDALENA BURTAN
Dance | Art | Humanity | Social Change
When woman became the sea
Collaboration between Magdalena Burtan and Karolina Laderska during a creative residency program at ZUNYA in Malpais, Costa Rica
Concept & Creative Direction: Magdalena Burtan & Karolina Laderska
Photography: Karolina Laderska
Movement Direction: Magdalena Burtan




"In the beginning . . . was a very female sea. For two-and-a-half billion years on earth, all life forms floated in the womb-like environment of the planetary ocean— nourished and protected by its fluid chemicals, rocked by the lunar-tidal rhythms. Monica Sjöö, The Great Cosmic Mother
When woman became the sea
Collaboration between Magdalena Burtan and Karolina Laderska during a creative residency program at ZUNYA in Malpais, Costa Rica
Concept & Creative Direction: Magdalena Burtan & Karolina Laderska
Photography: Karolina Laderska
Movement Direction: Magdalena Burtan




"In the beginning . . . was a very female sea. For two-and-a-half billion years on earth, all life forms floated in the womb-like environment of the planetary ocean— nourished and protected by its fluid chemicals, rocked by the lunar-tidal rhythms. Monica Sjöö, The Great Cosmic Mother


"The fluid presence in our bodies is our fundamental environment; we are the moving water brought to land." Emily Conrad

Marianatrench music video
"Marianatrench" music video by Weronika Wardak
Music: Weronika Wardak
Video: Mikołaj Kołodziejczyk
Movement: Magdalena Burtan



Movement research into trance states in dance concluded with a theater performance at Rampa Theatre, Warsaw
Project: United Limbs
Choreography: Ilona Gumowska


Dance Protest against a ban on abortion in Poland
Project: Kraków Dance Network
Choreography: Magda Niedzielska & Monika Szpunar


Body Prayer
Photochoreography project in Sardegnia, Italy
Photography: Karolina Laderska
Movement: Magdalena Burtan





