Dorota Sajewska is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum. From 2016 to 2023 she was Assistant Professor of Interart at the University of Zurich and of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on performative arts, body anthropology and decolonisation of knowledge. She is the author of numerous texts on performative practices, theories and archives, including the monograph Necroperformance. Cultural Reconstruction of the Body (2019) and the anthology Crisis and Communitas. Performative Concepts of Commonality in Art and Politics (2023). From 2008-2012 she was chief dramaturge and deputy artistic director of Teatr Dramatyczny in Warsaw. Since 2019 she has been working as a dramaturge with Alexandra Bachzetsis. In 2024, together with Fabienne Liptay, she founded the Institute for Performance and Film Expanded – a platform for the transformative power of transdisciplinary thinking and art.