Magdalena Jakubów

Butoh performer. Since 2016 has been collaborating with the Limen Butoh Theatre in Warsaw. Studied sociology, her specialisation being social psychology and coaching. Her butoh dance teachers were Sylwia Hanff, Imre Thorman, Rui Ishihara, and others. Participant of theatre projects “Grochów Grochów”, “I don’t know who Grotowski was. Laboratory of active culture” and an international workshop led by VestAndPage artists. In performance art, she most often explores topics related to identity, myth and ritual. The subject of her MA thesis was theatre with community as a tool for restoring memory and identity in western Poland. For several years she has been running the site-specific performance project “The figure of the lost_Chinkon” dedicated to the memory of places excluded from the collective memory of her hometown Myślibórz. She runs a grassroots animation project by performing her butoh performance “Houses of Presence. Anamnesis” and runs the butoh workshop Body Home. Since 2019, she has been actively supporting the international Butohpolis Festival in Warsaw.

27.07.2025, 11.00 – 11.40 – Houses of Presence. Anamnesis, performance                                           
Large educational room, 6 Kolegialna Street

Houses of Presence. Anamnesis is a butoh performance, a ritual that is a journey into the depths of identity, an encounter with Those who are within us, written in the memory of our bodies, in our subconscious. It is a performance that came from the hereafter, and which I call my ritual of Forefathers It is a space of inner imaginarium in which new presences keep appearing, creating a continuum between the past and the present. The performance is at the same time a ritual of gratitude and remembrance to the history and spirits of the western lands from which I come – lands of displaced persons and settlers of the “wild west”, which to some extent is a continuing to this day “provisional” identity – morphing, searching, redefining. Magdalena Jakubów, a butoh dancer