Rose Klekotko

Rose is a professional dance teacher, trained actor, choreographer and a movement artist/director of Polish origin. She had started performing in the age of 7 with Opera Nova Ballet Company in various ballet shows on the stage of Opera Nova House in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

For the next 10 years Rose trained under the watchful eyes of various champions and great teachers from all over the world and she successfully competed until 2013. In 2015 she became a qualified Ballroom and Latin Dance Instructor certificated by the Polish Sport Agency.

Alongside her dance career, Rose pursued her acting career and education, primarily in Warsaw Film School (BA), then at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (MA) in London. Her credits include: Beatrice Roxanne, The Changeling, dir. G Brockis, Hilde, The Lady from The Sea, dir. L. Miller, Kattrin, Mother Courage and Her Children dir. S. Gonella and Masha, Three Sisters, dir. M. Miklasz. She has also worked in film and TV industry in Poland (Victoria 1920, dir. T. Dobosz, Sztormiak dir. M Tyburski, who Are You, M. Lazarkiewicz).

Rose hasn’t stopped developing and exploring new physical forms, dance cultures and techniques. She’s also a passionate practitioner of GAGA movement created by Ohad Naharin with whom she was working with. In 2021 she graduated from Chopin’s Music University in Warsaw and accomplished MA Choreography programme, by writing and defending a thesis on the influence of movement in the character development process in acting. In 2021 she created her first movement piece titled “I’m Not Ready Now.”