Originally from Poland, Ella Jaroszewicz is a French artist. As a choreographer at Opera Wroclaw, she met Henryk Tomaszewski at the time he had decided to create his Pantomime Theatre.

She collaborated with the Polish master to develop a new language of gesture that combines the art of mime and the science of choreography.

As leading artist of the Pantomima National Theatre in Wroclaw, she created several roles, including La Femme and Marika in Woyzek, Le Livre, Masques, Ballade, Condamné à Vivre, Jaselka, and Le Détective.

She gradually moved to Paris where she opened her own school of mime and
founded her company, Magenia, "dream" in Polish, which symbolizes the artistry of Ella Jaroszewicz by transcending anecdotal mime to reach abstraction.

She became the mime teacher at the Ecole de Danse de l'Opéra de Paris.

As a teacher at the Ecole Internationale de Mimodrame Marcel Marceau, she introduced dance and acrobatics to the curriculum, building a bridge between the two disciplines.

She developed her own style, fruit of her experience in diverse forms of Western expression and the rigor of the Wroclaw school.

Opera Wroclaw School of Dance, Poland, with Neuman, Mroz - Moscow School.

American School of Dance, Los Angeles, with Tchouki Matei, Graham method.

Spanish dance with De Triana, Paris.

Ballet with Peretti, Paris.

Polish National School and Company of Pantomime, Director: Henryk Tomaszewski.

Principles of movement with Zora Semberova (teacher of Jiri Kylian and Fialka).

Jazz with Robins, Paris.

Drama with Waligorski in Poland and Jean Huet in Paris.

Gold medal at the Moscow Pantomime Festival.

Gold medal, Danse et Culture

Humor Prize, Fondation de la Danse de Paris.

Medal of the City of Wroclaw (Poland)

Jury Award winner at Sitges (Spain)

Awarded at the Ballet pour Demain (Ballet for Tomorrow) competition.

Co-creator of the International Mimography Competition, Paris

Décorée de la Croix d'Officier de l'Ordre du mérite

Pioneer in France in theatre and dance fusion, Ella Jaroszewicz presents her creations with the

They have been hailed by the critics :

In the finest theatres

Théâtre Rive Gauche, Centre Georges Pompidou, Théâtre Orsay (Renaud/Barrault) Espace Cardin,

Théâtre du Marais, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Théâtre du Lucernaire, Théâtre 14

And on tour

In numerous festivals

And in the theatres of

From the critics

Danser
If Magenia didn't exist, you would have to invent it... impeccable mime technique and a good dose of ingenuity makes this show one of the most remarkable we've seen in recent times ... You literally savor what the talent of Ella Jaroszewicz offers us, the art of the gesture, snapshots from a dream... a jewel beautifully"crafted."

 

El Pais
...A story of magnificent settings, with a finely sculpted composition at a tender, easy-going, and moving pace. Everything is as if in a pleasant, warm, harmonious dream of exquisite poetry.

 

Instantanés (David Souffran)
...Probably the best school for taming movement, shaping gesture, sketching, and bringing emotion to maturity...

Her creation "La Lune" received an award at the "Ballets pour Demain" international competition.

This was the first time a mime performance company participated in a choreography competition.

The only ballet resulting from this creation was interpreted by several principal dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet: Georges Piletta, Jean-Yves Lormeau, and Charles Jude (and others, in homage to Rudolf Nureyev in London and at the Opéra Nationale de Bordeaux), as well as Hervé Moreau, dancer at the Paris Opera Ballet, in Istanbul for a gala event in support of the victims of the 1999 Turkish earthquake.

Ella has been widely celebrated in the press and continues to perform on stage throughout France and the rest of Europe.

Soloist in Les Troyennes at the Paris Opera in her choreography, L’Oiseau.

Controlling stage movements in traditional performances (Molière, Paris).

In Poland, choreography in satirical theatre and fine tuning artist performances in "musicals and variety shows."

Daphnis et Chloé for François Reichenbach, with Florence Clerc and Charles Jude.

In Poland, choreography in satirical theatre and fine tuning artist performances in "musicals and variety shows."

Her last creation, "Parallèles," was performed at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France during the International SIBMAS Congress and then on tour in the Netherlands.

Performer of several roles for Magenia over 12 years:

Knotek, La Forêt, La Violette, La Rencontre, Pic-Nic, Errances, La Lune, Le Chapeau, Le Duel, Le Doigt, Dodo, La Goutte d'Eau, Le Cerf Volant, Les Fourmis, La Robe, La Parade, Le Tabou, L'Aube Lunaire, La Mélancolie, La Surprise, La Cuisine.

Film (A. Wolf, Roman Polanski)

Conference series - demonstrations, Understanding the Art of Mime in France with Jean Dorcy, Danse et Culture gold medal winner for these works (presented by Serge Lifar).

Teacher of mime-expression at the Ecole de Danse de l'Opéra de Paris.

Ecole Internationale de Mimodrame Marcel Marceau, Paris

Guest lecturer at Flinders University, Australia

International workshops in Germany, France, and Austria.

Drama classes at the Théâtre du Soleil, Director: Ariane Mnouchkine

Course manager, University of Paris III and Paris VI

Vienna Academy, Austria.

AFDAS workshops, Paris.

Certified teacher, Fédération Française de Danse

Physical training of Roman Polanski for "The Metamorphosis".

Movement instructor at the Chaincourt Theater in Frankfurt.

Special license from the French Ministry of Culture for dance education.

Workshop at the Jerzy Grotowski Center for Cultural Research in Poland.

Workshop at the English National Ballet School of Londres

" ...Ella Jaroszewicz's pantomime classes [are] probably the best school for taming movement, shaping gesture, sketching, and bringing emotion to maturity  "

David Souffran