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Jakub Truszkowski was born in Gdansk, Poland. He started his dance training in 1987 at the State Ballet School in Gdansk, where he obtained degree in 1996 and begun his stage experience at the Opera House of Gdansk. In 1996 Jakub was admitted to Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s school P.A.R.T.S., graduating in 1999.

In January 2000 joined the company Rosas, dancing in and participating to the creation of Drumming, Mozart Concert Arias, Mikrokosmos, In Real Time, Rain, April Me, Repertory Evening (2002), Bitches Brew, Kassandra and The Six Brandenburg Concertos.

In 2008 he joined the company Les Ballets C de la B, dancing in Import Export and participating to the creation of Ashes.

He is a teacher at P.A.R.T.S.(Brussels) and guest teacher at several other schools including De Theaterschool, Amsterdam and The Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen.

As a rehearsal director, he participated in staging of Rosas repertory at Opéra de Lyon, P.A.R.T.S., Opéra de Paris, Companhia Nacional de Bailado and Opera Ballet Vlaanderen. In 2019 he participated in the Broadway creation of the “West side Story” by Ivo van Hove.

As a choreographer he created several works including: bodyScapes, White Noise, Today/Everything, TotoTo, Vibration of a Single String , Present Continuous and Stand/Still.