Kaya Kołodziejczyk is working in the fields of choreography, performance art and contemporary dance. She creates performances based on cross-art ideas, incorporating an experimental approach to the body and its materiality, somatic techniques, film images, AR/VR, contemporary music and original movement scores. She has created numerous choreographies, including Gorycz (Bittersweet) for the Polish Dance Theatre in Poznań, AUDITION V - opera in 22 scenes (2016), for the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, solo work SOL (2013), Aria di Prefiche (2013) to music by Witold Lutosławski for the ballet company of Opera in Szczecin. She was part of the European performing arts network APAP (Advancing Performing Arts Project).
As a performer Kaya worked with, among others, opera director Mariusz Treliński, theatre director Maja Kleczewska (Hamlet, The Painted Bird, Wut), choreographers Mette Ingvartsen, David Wampach and the company Rosas/Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. In addition to her performance work, she is a movement director, intimacy coordinator and choreographer with film director Agnieszka Smoczyńska (e.g. The Lure - winner of Sundance Film Festival 2016, Fuga)
As a contemporary dance and composition teacher, Kaya collaborated with the National Theatre Academy in Warsaw, the Warsaw Film School, HfMDK in Frankfurt, P.A.R.T.S. and La Rafinerie in Belgium, San Diego State University in the USA, Architanz in Japan and Tanzhaus in Zurich.
In addition to her artistic activities, Kaya is involved in social projects for children and young people. She supports NGOs which fight for social equality regardless of age, race, origin, social status, health condition or gender identity. She is a member of the Cultural Commission at the Polish Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport, tasked with drafting a law on the status of the artist.
She graduated from P.A.R.T.S, the National Ballet School in Warsaw and holds a master's degree in dance pedagogy from the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (HfMDK). She lives in Poland and Belgium.