#24 What is it like to be followed for years for a documentary?

Weronika Frodyma was followed by the director Aneta Popiel-Machnicka and her husband, Michał Popiel-Machnicki for the documentary called "Sometimes I dream I'm flying" released in 2013. During 6 years, from the Warsaw Ballet School to the Berlin Staatsballett, the two Polish cinematographers got to film her professional and private life, in the dance studio, on stage, at home, in hospital and more.

Get to know Weronika's impressions on this experience and how this chapter of her life - approached from the angle of frustration, loneliness and pain - made her grow and blossom.

Mentioned in this episode:
• Aneta Popiel-Machnicka
• Michał Popiel-Machnicki
• Warsaw Ballet School
• National Opera in Warsaw
• Vaganova Academy
• American Ballet Theatre
• Carmen de Robles Dance Academy in Las Palmas, Anatol Yanowsky and Carmen Robles
• Berlin Staatsballett
• Polina Semionova
• knee injury (patella)
• rehabilitation and physiotherapy
• Xenia Wiest

Watch “Sometimes I dream I’m flying” here.