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Olga Sawicka

Polish choreographer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ11797889
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Olga Sawicka (7 February 1932, in Poznań – 2 April 2015) was a Polish dancer and choreographer. She was the prima ballerina of the Opera St Moniuszko, Poznań (1963–74). She was director of the ballet at the Music Theatre in Poznań (1974–76).

Sawicka died in Skolimów-Konstancin, Poland, aged 83.

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“Olga Sawicka” enters the record as polish choreographer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Olga, Sawicka and Polish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from Olga Sawicka” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.