Figzał-Janikowska, Magdalena International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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Theatre scholar and cultural studies researcher with a PhD in  the humanities. Assistant Professor at the Institute of Culture  Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice. She is the author of  Władysław Hasior’s Visual Performances (2024) and Musical  Spaces in Contemporary Polish Theatre (2017), coeditor of Writing for the Stage: Narratives of Contemporary Theatre (2019) and  Drama and Experience(2014). She also wrote the guide A Walking Guide. Cracow of Tadeusz Kantor (2020). A theatre critic,  she edits the “Theatre” section of the biweekly cultural journal artPapier and contributes to Didaskalia. Gazeta Teatralna,  the monthly Teatr, the theatre quarterly Nietak!t, and the web portal teatralny.pl. From 2018 to 2022, she codeveloped the Musical  Trace of Cracow project with the Cracow Culture Forum, devoted  to Polish theatre music. From 2014 to 2021, she worked with Crico teka, the Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz  Kantor in Cracow, devising original exhibition tours and musiceducation projects. Her research focuses on contemporary performance, stage music, and experimental forms of music theatre.  She leads the research team Archive – Text – Stage: Performative  Spaces of Contemporary Theatre at the Institute of Culture Studies, University of Silesia.