Wygoda, Tomasz

Dancer, actor, choreographer, teacher, he graduated from the History Department at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce. He studies acting with Jerzy Grotowski’s master actors Rena Mirecka and Zygmunt Molik as well as at Pieśń Kozła Theatre acting workshops. For many years he has taught contemporary dance, butoh and contact improvisation. In 1997–2003 he danced in the Silesian Dance Theatre in Bytom.

Tomasz Wygoda appeared in productions by Jacek Łumiński and Konrad Drzewiecki, Henrietta Horn and Paul Clayden. He has also made guest appearances with Jonathan Hollander’s New York-based Battery Dance Company and received a scholarship from Vienna’s DanceWeb. With W&M Physical Theatre, he cocreated the show Made in Polska – Museum of Imagination (Calgary). With Warsaw’s Bretoncaffe Theatre he appeared in Slam Out, Dancing Sarah Kane, and The Rite of Dreams (a solo inspired by Nijinsky’s diaries) for which he received the Polish Dance Platform award for best show and best performer in 2014. He has also appeared in productions by Paweł Miśkiewicz (un-guilt), Michał Zadara (Phaedra), and Krystian Lupa (Zarathustra, Factory 2) at the National Stary Theatre in Cracow, by Krzysztof Warlikowski (Cleansed – joint production by the Współczesny Theatre in Wrocław, Polski Theatre in Poznań and TR Warszawa), Agnieszka Olsten (Lynch, Samsara Disco at the Polski Theatre in Wrocław), Krzysztof Garbaczewski (The Sky of Stone Instead of Stars, Nowy Theatre in Warsaw), and Natalia Korczakowska (The Believer, Studio Theatre). He has designed choreographies for the Grand Theatre – National Opera productions (Medeamaterial and The Fall of the House of Usher by Barbara Wysocka, Oresteia by Michał Zadara, Jakob Lenz and Halka by Natalia Korczakowska). At Wrocław Opera he has cooperated with Michał Zadara on Eugeniusz Knapik’s La libertà chiama la libertà. He designed stage movement in George Tsypin’s production of Wagner’s Ring cycle at the Mariinsky Theatre in Petersburg and Covent Garden in London.

Tomasz Wygoda has also designed choreographies for stagings by Mikołaj Grabowski, Jan Peszek, Monika Pęcikiewicz, Wiktor Rubin, Maja Kleczewska, Pia Partum, and Jan Englert. He has cooperated with Mariusz Treliński on La bohème (Washington National Opera), Boris Godunov (Vilnius and Warsaw), King Roger, Aleko, and Iolanta (Mariinsky Theatre), Orfeo ed Euridice (Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, Warsaw, Tel Aviv Opera), La traviata, Turandot (Warsaw, Savonlinna Opera Festival), Manon Lescaut (Warsaw, La Monnaie, Welsh National Opera in Cardiff), Boulevard Solitude (Cardiff), The Flying Dutchman (Warsaw), Powder Her Face (Warsaw, La Monnaie), Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle (Warsaw, MET), Salome (Prague, Warsaw), as well as Tristan und Isolde (Baden-Baden, Warsaw, New York, Beijing). March 2015 saw the premiere of Tomasz Wygoda’s Melancholia/Violetta Villas, coproduced by the Capitol Theatre and the Nowy Theatre in Łódź.