Filip Kijowski is a dance artist and improviser researching embodied allyship, care, and solidarity as action. He co-creates and facilitates artistic and educational processes in which the body becomes a site of research for softness, connection, and courage.
In 2021, he established an LGBTQIA+ library and community centre (Biblioteka Azyl), offering space for research, expression, and connection for the local queer community in Lublin (Poland). He initiates the co-creation of safer spaces, through active participation, and works towards social integration by bringing visibility to queer identities, theories, and methodologies across cultural spaces in Poland.
He completed a BA (Hons) in Dance Studies at Roehampton University in 2018, receiving The Andy Hardy Prize upon graduation. He is amongst the pioneering MA Dance: Participation, Communities, Activism cohort, who completed their studies in 2025. He facilitated workshops and at institutions including Central Saint Martins, Roehampton University, University of Dhaka, European Cultural Foundation, National Gallery of Art in Warsaw and QUEERCIRCLE. He presented choreographic works at Bangkok Theatre Festival (2018), Eco Art: International Performance Art Festival in South Korea (2019), Open Out Festival in Norway (2022), and The Biennale of Art in Örebro, Sweden (2024). He is a recipient of the Young Poland award in the Dance category (2025).
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Studying on MA PCA encouraged me to step back and witness my context with critical thinking, compassion, and active hope. The course invited me to pay attention to the distinctions and connections between the storytelling, theoretical, performative, and reflective registers of my work, therefore supporting me in articulating it to diverse audiences. As I invite communities to move today, I wonder how we can repair shared spaces through embodied encounters, through a creative process that becomes a container for both learning and unlearning, uncertainty, and collective growth.
Filip Kijowski