The master’s thesis of Ms. Magdalena Bartczak, titled „Cultural Aspects of Polish Dance Technique,” is an exceptional work. It is the first attempt in Poland to analyze the most important formal, aesthetic, and philosophical aspects of Polish dance technique, which has been consistently shaped and developed by Jacek Łumiński since the 1980s. The author takes on the challenge of constructing a monograph that identifies the significant cultural inspirations for this technique, as well as the ways in which they are transformed, recontextualized, and remediated within the choreographic structures of Jacek Łumiński. She very precisely outlines the references to traditional Polish music and dance from the Podhale and Kurpie regions, as well as the culture, religion, philosophy, and dance of Polish Hasidic Jews. Bartczak shows how multifaceted Łumiński’s perspective is, spanning between multicultural Polish tradition and the works of artists such as Drzewiecki, Grotowski, and Kantor. The author finds all of this in his choreography, dramaturgy, and performative structures, which allows for an understanding of the depth of the style of Polish dance technique. In the work, it appears as a consequence of Łumiński’s anthropological and ethnological field research, which allowed him to create a dance theater that, through its specific movement, conveys the entire complex mosaic of Poland’s multicultural history, its internal tension, and the continuous collision of fragments of various traditions.The work of Magda Bartczak is written from the perspective of a practitioner who is well-versed in the style, choreographic, and dramaturgical approach to Łumiński’s art, and thus it is a dissertation that is written from a position of experience and engagement in the analytical process of the paradigm of embodied knowledge. It is an original work of high scholarly quality, (after some stylistic and editorial corrections) I strongly recommend it for publication.