Paweł Szynkarczuk was born in Gdansk, Poland. He completed a Master degree in Law in the University of Gdansk in 2000 and a Master degree in Philosophy in 2001. In 2004-2005 he taught epistemology at the Philosophy Department in the University of Gdansk.
Currently, he is working on his PhD research at the Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths University of London. In his reasearch, he explores the phenomenon of intercorporeality via practice of Butoh dance and theoretical framework of Ontology of Flesh of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
Since 2003 he has participated in Butoh projects directed by his master Atsushi Takenouchi and has taken workshops of other Butoh masters including Ko Murobushi, Yuri Nagaoka and Seisaku. He danced in “Mandala of Life and Death” (Zak Theatre, Gdansk 2005), “Butoh Procession”, a street performance in Venice (2006), Butoh dance street Performance (Paris, 2008), and co-deviced two Duo and two Solo performances at the Japanese Cultural Centre (Paris, 2008).
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