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The choreography of your dance company’s repertoire is where excellence begins. It should be entrusted to a choreographer who has deep knowledge as well as long practical experience. Whether your dance troupe has three couples or fifty, it deserves an artist/teacher with experience, expertise and enthusiasm.

The ethnographer/choreographer Donna Kalinowska-Werter has danced, taught and choreographed for the past twenty years. She has taught children and adults, and guided dancers with considerable training and others with none at all.

•	Donna Kalinowska-Werter was a member of the dance troupe “Slowianki” in Krakow and studied choreography in Lublin and Rzeszow under Kazimiera Walczak, Alicia Haszczak, Zbigniew Kwiatkowski, Wanda Zach, as well as many other distinguished choreographers.
•	She pursued ethnographic studies in the various regions of Poland (including Slask, Wielkopolska, Rzeszow, Podhale, Zywiec, Lublin and Opoczno).
•	She directed the distinguished “Zespol Piesn i Tanca Wawel” (Wawel Song and Dance Troupe) for 20 years.
•	She has performed in Poland and in cities across the United States.
•	She has lectured on choreography and was invited to speak at the University of Hawaii.
•	Like Ignacy Paderewski, she performed for the ambassador at the Polish embassy in Washington, D.C.
•	She was honored for her distinguished achievements as a dancer, choreographer, lecturer and commitment to the preservation and promotion of Poland’s cultural heritage, by the New York City Comptroller, Alan G. Hevesi

Donna Kalinowska-Werter can teach your company’s Polish regional or national dance workshop, create suites of dances and song for every age group, as well as consult on authentic costume replication or its purchase.

She can provide essential information and direction on maintaining the character and nature of national and regional Polish dances often unknowingly performed by many opera and ballet companies.

She can instruct your group, leading them from the most basic steps to the intricate patterning of complex suites while maintaining and infusing the true nature of a national dance like the Polonez or a regional oberek.

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