He holds an MA in Choreography and Performance from the Justus Liebig University Gießen (Germany) and an MA in Acting from the Film School Łódź (Poland). Romuald comes from a working-class background and identifies as a queer person.
His artistic work is nourished by expanded choreographic practices that incorporate visual and performative elements. The resulting movement-based performances, site-specific installations, participatory projects, videos, and other hybrid formats, explore themes such as labor, resistance, class struggle, climate change and potential exchanges between humans and more-than-humans.
His recent stage performances resulted from extended artistic research processes. “To See Climate (Change)”, in which more than 60 house plants were invited to co-choreograph the piece, was rooted in ecological discourse in art. His last solo performance “All that I left behind is here” was finalising Romuald’s research about the social class discourse and various aspects of classism in the context of the creation and production of performing arts.
The body, its labor and performativity, viewed not only through the prism of physicality, but situated in a social context, are usually at the center of Romuald’s artistic interest. He likes to work with given situations, performatively exploring circumstances that are already there (in the theater, in an institution, in a social context, in working conditions, etc.) by questioning their borders and limitations. Speculative forms, a good dose of humor and a conceptual approach are usually good allies of Romuald’s artistic practice.
Among others, he collaborated with the following artists – Monica Duncan, René Alejandro Huari Mateus, Agata Siniarska, Carolina Mendonça, Tamara Antonijević, Komuna//Warszawa collective.
His works have been presented in venues like Kunstverein in Frankfurt, Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris, Biennale Warszawa in Warsaw, as well as at numerous festivals and theaters, among others HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Sophiensaele, Uferstudios, Performing Arts Festival, Ballhaus Ost in Berlin; HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts in Dresden; Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt; Kaserne Basel in Switzerland; Nowy Theatre and Komuna Warszawa Theatre in Warsaw/Poland; Gdańsk Dance Festival/Poland.
Romuald was awarded numerous artistic and research scholarships, including the Tanzpraxis as well as Work and Research Scholarship funded by Berlin Senat, WimmelResearch-Fellowship founded by Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, artistic scholarship of Nowy Teatr in Warsaw and the Young Poland scholarship awarded by the National Centre for Culture in Warsaw.