Sebastian Solecki

Soloist

Born

Poznań, Poland

Education

  • Olga Sławska-Lipczyńska State Ballet School, Poznań, Poland (1990–1998)

Important teachers

  • Vladimir Bulanov, Liliana Kowalska, Małgorzata Połyńczuk, Jarosław Piasecki, Walery Mazepczyk

Engagements

  • Ballet of the Poznań Opera House, from 1998 as Coryphée, from 2000 as Soloist, from 2006 as First Soloist
  • Ballet of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, Warsaw, from 2007 as Soloist
  • Polish National Ballet, Warsaw, since 2009 as Soloist

Gallery

Repertory

  • With the Polish National Ballet

    • Gorvenal in Tristan (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Levin in Anna Karenina (Alexei Ratmansky)
    • Yes-Sayer in Kurt Weill (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Wie lange noch? (male duet) in Kurt Weill (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Toy Soldier in The Nutcracker (Andrzej Glegolski)
    • Benno (Pas de trois) in Swan Lake (trad. /Irek Mukhamedov)
    • Lady's Partner (de Musset) in Chopin, the Romantic Artist (creation, Patrice Bart)
    • Prince Charmant in The Sleeping Beauty (trad. / Yuri Grigorovich)
    • Prince (Cinderella's Partner) in The Sleeping Beauty (trad. / Yuri Grigorovich)
    • Dancing-Master in Cinderella (Frederick Ashton)
    • Prince's Friend in Cinderella (Frederick Ashton)
    • Five Young Men in Le Sacre du printemps (Vaslav Nijinsky / Millicent Hodson)
    • Him 3 in Persona (creation, Robert Bondara)
    • Classic Seraphim in Six Wings of Angels (creation, Jacek Przybyłowicz)
    • Soloist in the Waltz of Flowers in The Nutcracker (Toer van Schayk & Wayne Eagling)
    • Starveling-Moonshine in A Midsummer Night's Dream (John Neumeier)
    • Polonius in Hamlet (creation, Jacek Tyski)
    • Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • 1st Juliet's Friend in Romeo and Juliet (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Gamache in Don Quixote (trad. / Alexei Fadeyechev) 
    • Quartet in Nevermore...? (creation, Robert Bondara)
    • Warlord in Nevermore...? (Robert Bondara)
    • Prince Lubomirski in Casanova in Warsaw (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Petruchio's Servant in The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko)
    • Don Juan in The Nutcracker (Toer van Schayk & Wayne Eagling)
    and solos in
    • When You End and I Begin... (creation, Robert Bondara, 1st Choreographic Workshop)
    • Donna (creation, Jacek Tyski, 1st Choreographic Workshop)
    • The Garden's Gates (creation, Robert Bondara, 2nd Choreographic Workshop)
    • In Search of Colours (creation, Jacek Tyski)
    • The Green (Ed Wubbe)
    • Afternoon of a Faun (creation, Jacek Tyski, 3rd Choreographic Workshop)
    • And the Rain Will Pass... (creation, Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Love (creation, Arkadiusz Gołygowski, 4th Choreographic Workshop)
    • It's too Much at Once (kreacja, Michał Chróścielewski, V Warsztat Choreograficzny)

Awards

    • 1997: Third Senior Prize at the 10th Polish Dance Competition in Gdańsk
    • 1997: Artistic Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw
    • 1997: Scholarship of the Polish Children's Fund
    • 1998: Artistic Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw
    • 1998: Olga Sławska-Lipczyńska Award in Poznań, Poland
    • 2014: Silver 'Gloria Artis' Medal for Merit to Culture in Warsaw