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Overview

  • 25 references 14 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German, Polish, Russian
  • 38, Female
  • Member since 2007
  • culture manager/freelance translator/activist
  • culture studies
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

make israel surreal!

ABOUT ME

I graduated from university, where i studied culture studies with a focus in antrophology. I'm a fresh culture manager working in an Institute for Performing Arts in Warsaw and a freelance translator from Russian. Besides, i'm an activist involved in a Warsaw feminist movement, very much interested into theory and practice of social movements, different aspects of globalisation, culture-related stuff.

I practice contact improvisation which gives me a great pleasure.
I love to be in a move - both in body and in mind.

Friends are extremely important for me. Acting together - whether we are just hanging out or we are writing a theater play together or travelling is always what just MAKE SENSE to me.

PHILOSOPHY

I never take organized trips...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hosted several travellers from different corners of the globe and i was a guest in many great houses. No matter, if i'm a host or a guest, I show INTEREST, CARE AND RESPECT. Because when i'm a guest, i like to feel welcome, it's important for me as a host to share my time, to make my guest feel comfortable, to give her/him any support, but not to overwhelm them.

I really enjoy showing around - I can take you to the nicest cafes and bars in the city, art galleries and give a tour in Praga - a neighborhood with a very special ambience of old Warsaw.

Here some nice websites for the lost ones:

http://unlike.net/warsaw - a very good one! a city guide giving you lots of insider tips. the website is well-structured and clear.

http://artmuseum.pl/en?langset=true - WARSAW MOMA ! a great filmoteka online!

to be continued :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

head full of the most beautiful memories, heart made of pieces of my friends' hearts & my mind is a patchwork made of my travels

Interests

music, dance, social and political philosophy, sociology, utopias, theatre, travels

  • arts
  • culture
  • writing
  • theater
  • performing arts
  • acting
  • dancing
  • cooking
  • traveling
  • music
  • freelancing
  • languages
  • sociology
  • tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: too much to write it all as i listen to almost all genres, but what i like most is avantgarde, tzadik label, free jazz, klezmer, etno, noise, psychodelic from '60 and '70, contemporary classic, film music, old school hip hop, trip hop.

Books: elfriede jelinek, witold gombrowicz, j.m. coetzze, herta mueller, ryszard kapuscinski, thomas mann, anton chekhov, andrei platonov, fiodor dostoyevski, friedriech nietzsche, philip roth, richard sennet

fassbinder, schliengensief, allen, bergman, scorsese, coen brothers, jarmusch, wong kar wai, kurosava, fellini, pasolini, soviet movies, documentaries

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i slept on a roof in Brooklyn. a windy night, silence disturbed only by some religious speech on a spanish radio. i don't know who my god is, but i started to pray. it felt like a film with very little action but a big tension.

Teach, Learn, Share

i can tell you or show what contact improvisation is about
i can tell you a lot about polish and russian art, music and society
i can share slow-cooking
i can listen
i can share ups and downs

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Russian Federation, South Africa, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Poland, Russian Federation

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