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KINGA ŁAPIŃSKA

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Born in Lodz. Kinga Łapińska is a graduate of the Feliks Parnell Comprehensive Ballet School in Lodz and the Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz (specialty: Dance Pedagogy). Currently, she is a student at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw (specialty: ballet pedagogy). While attending school, she participated in national and international ballet competitions and performances at The Grand Theatre in Lodz, including Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. Since 2015, she has danced with the company of The Grand Theatre in Lodz as an ensemble dancer and then as a coryphée. In the 2022/2023 season, she made guest appearances with the International Festival Ballet and the Royal Polish Ballet.

Career:

since 2015 – The Grand Theatre in Lodz

The most significant parts:

C.C., Casanova (Grey Veredon/Antonio Vivaldi)
Niobe (Antonina Jakubowska/Jan Gromski)
Cupid, Don Quixote (Aleksander Polubentsev/Ludwig A. Minkus)
Bolero (Jacek Przybyłowicz/Maurice Ravel)
Displaced (Joshua Legge/ Edward W. Elgar)
French Dance, The Nutcracker (Giorgio Madia/Piotr Czajkowski)
Grace, Chopin (Hanna Marasz/Giacomo Orefice)
The Way of Life (Bogumiła Szaleńczyk/Hans Zimmer)
Dragonfly, Snow White (Witold Borkowski/Bogdan Pawłowski)

Awards:

2010: Special Jury Award, Gold Pointe Shoes, Szczecin
2010: the Honourable Mention, “IV Spotkania Konkursowe Młodych Tancerzy”, Warsaw
2010: ZASP Special Award
2011: 3rd place, the 17th National Wojciech Wiesiołłowski Dance Competition, Gdańsk
2011: Artistic Scholarship of the Marshal of the Łódź Province
2012: Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage
2013: a finalist of the 18th National Wojciech Wiesiołłowski Dance Competition, Gdańsk
2018: the Rector's Scholarship for the best students, the Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz