Julia Asperska, an experienced curator, coach, entrepreneur, and co-founder of the startup KinetiQ Lab, will lead the second community meeting in the “Dance Professionals” series. Group mentoring is part of a series of regular meetings with experienced female managers and producers at the Dance Pavilion, dedicated to people who work on a daily basis in institutions or on projects in the field of dance and other performing arts, in roles other than creative and artistic ones.

The aim of these meetings is to create a platform and forum for the exchange of information, knowledge, and experiences, as well as to invest in the resources and competencies of Warsaw’s dance community.

Here’s how the facilitator herself invites you to the mentoring session:

Bring your current challenge to the workshop. Are you wondering how to build a global network of contacts without giving up local partnerships and your local audience? Are you concerned about overproduction in the performing arts sector? Are you worried about burnout? Do you want to build lasting relationships with local and international audiences? Do you have an idea for a project but lack partners? Do you complain about too many collaborations or a complete lack of them? Don’t know where to start? Or maybe you don’t know how to say “no”? 

I don’t have a ready-made strategy for the sustainable development of an international career or a perfect formula for international or local collaboration, but I believe we learn fastest by drawing on mutual inspiration and exchange.

The workshop is based on small-group work, used to discuss case studies and then collaboratively solve or reframe challenges using the Mastermind method. Each participant presents one key challenge they’re currently facing. The group collectively selects two cases for in-depth group work.

The meeting lasts 3 hours, including a 20-minute break.

Please note! The event will take place at WOK Lab, located at 34/50 Marszałkowska Street.

Curator, coach, and entrepreneur. Her interest in performing arts began with an internship at Brisbane Powerhouse in Australia (2008). For nine years (2011-2020), she represented choreographers at Key Performance, a boutique agency in Stockholm. For two years, she was the vice-director of the Something Great agency (2020-2022), where she worked as the manager of the Something Great Collection, a Berlin-based project dedicated to the conservation, research, and presentation of performing arts. From 2018 to 2024, she collaborated with Campo Abierto, a Uruguayan non-governmental organization focusing on social integration through culture and art. From 2021 to 2024, she was a member of the curatorial team at Internationale Tanzmesse NRW in Düsseldorf.

She currently curates and produces cross-sector and international art projects. She is part of the curatorial and artistic collective Institute of Fundamental Importance, together with Bek Berger (AU/DE) and Peter Dlouhy (CZ). Together with Ania Mościcka, in 2025 she founded a startup—the KinetiQ Lab development studiokinetiq-lab.com —which works with challenges in organizations, combining facilitation and artistic tools.