Kasia Tórz new theatre and dance programme manager Holland Festival 

Kasia Tórz joins the Holland Festival from 1 September as programme manager Theatre and Dance. Together with director Emily Ansenk and programme manager Music and Music Theatre Jochem Valkenburg and programmer Katinka Enkhuizen, who joins on 1 October, she will form the new artistic team of the Holland Festival. 

Emily Ansenk on Kasia's appointment: "Her broad experience with and knowledge of the performing arts, her international network and her academic skills make Kasia Tórz an excellent, substantively highly competent programme manager for Theatre and Dance. I look forward to our cooperation and consider her a valuable addition to the artistic team."

Kasia Tórz (Pozna?, 1982) is a curator, researcher and writer. After receiving a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Warsaw, she studied at a.pass (advanced performance and scenography studies) in Brussels, and completed her doctoral studies at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Between 2007 and 2011, she collaborated with the Polish urban art group Two?ywo on projects such as Twilight.

At the National Audiovisual Institute in Warsaw (2011-2017), she programmed artistic projects and publications, bringing together Polish audiovisual heritage, new critical approaches to archives and new digital ways of seeing. Between 2010 and 2019, she programmed and coordinated The Idioms a thematic line in the programming of the Malta Festival Pozna?, where she collaborated with curators such as Romeo Castellucci, Lotte van den Berg, Tim Etchells, Rodrigo García, Stefan Kaegi, Needcompany and Nástio Mosquito. She contributed to magazines such as Didaskalia, Teatr and Klaxon, and edited several books on theatre, art and culture. From 2019 to 2021, Kasia Tórz worked with Brussels-based Needcompany where she was responsible for artistic and programme development. Alongside her work, Kasia Tórz continued her writing and reflection practice. Between 2017-2019, she conducted academic research on the theatrical work of Gisèle Vienne. It concluded in her dissertation (2021): The Posthuman Theatre of Gisèle Vienne, based on the close, participatory observation of the creation process of Crowd (Holland Festival, 2017) and became "a biography" of this performance. Tórz is a regular contributor to magazines and books on performing arts.

The seventy-sixth edition of the Holland Festival will take place in Amsterdam in June 2023.