It is a fairy-tale episode, told with tenderness, gushing with the intense colours of flowers and élan vital. Choreography composed to a suite by Edward Grieg and presented by the artists-dancers of the Polish Dance Theatre takes the audience into the world of flora. It allows to explore a day in the life of a plant from the moment it blooms to the end, drowned in warm nostalgia. We invite you to immerse yourself in the beautiful world of flowers and leaves, in the greens, reds and purples transitioning to the greys and browns of the autumn. And all this told with movement to the rhythm of the dynamic sounds of the suite Peer Gynt op. 1 performed by Trondheim Symfoniorkester & Opera.

Script and direction: Iwona Pasińska

Music: Sergei Rachmaninoff "Die Toteninsel" (The Isle of the Dead) op. 29 conducted by: Sergei Rachmaninoff, performed by: Philadelphia Orchestra

Performed and co-created by: Sandra Szatan and Zbigniew Kocięba, dancers of the Polish Dance Theatre 

Guest appearances by: Róża Gulik, Genowefa Jóźwiak, Alicja Lisiak-Osińska and Rosalia Łakatosz

Camerawork: Marek Grabowski

Editing: Natalia Jacheć

Set selection and costumes: Andrzej Grabowski

Post-production and colour correction: Felix Mirosław Mamczur

Costume assistant: Adriana Cygankiewicz

Set organization: Monika Zembrzycka

Camera operator A: Marek Grabowski

Camera operator B: Felix Mirosław Mamczur

Camera assistant/focus: Michał Leśniewski

Set management: Dariusz Szych, Michał Stenzel, Dzianis Mandzik

The Polish Dance Theatre would like to thank the District Infrastructure Board in Wrocław, the 4th Military Economic Unit in Gliwice and the 10th Opole Logistics Brigade for lending their land within the boundaries of Góra Świętej Anny located in the municipality of Leśnica for the production of the film.

Production:

Polish Dance Theatre - Institution of Culture of the Self-Government of the Wielkopolska Region

Contact:

Regina Lissowska - Postaremczak

mobile: +48 505 672 331

e-mail:  r.lissowska@ptt-poznan.pl

Official selections and screenings:

Festiwal 1 strona/1 spojrzenie/180 sekund, Poznań, Poland, December 13th,  2024 - Prapremiere screening

DANCINEMA, Vancouver, Canada, January 31, 2025 - Official Selection

Kino Tańca Online, Warsaw, Poland + online, 19-22.06.2025 - Screenieng

It is a fairy-tale episode, told with tenderness, gushing with the intense colours of flowers and élan vital. Choreography composed to a suite by Edward Grieg and presented by the artists-dancers of the Polish Dance Theatre takes the audience into the world of flora. It allows to explore a day in the life of a plant from the moment it blooms to the end, drowned in warm nostalgia. We invite you to immerse yourself in the beautiful world of flowers and leaves, in the greens, reds and purples transitioning to the greys and browns of the autumn. And all this told with movement to the rhythm of the dynamic sounds of the suite Peer Gynt op. 1 performed by Trondheim Symfoniorkester & Opera.

Duration: 13:23:00

Source Video/Audio: HD recording / Stereo

Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Shooting Format: RED/digital

Recording Compression: H264/MP4

available movie formats: DCP / mov / MP4

script and direction: Iwona Pasińska 

scenic design and costumes: Andrzej Grabowski

score: Edward Grieg 

camerawork: Marek Grabowski

editing: Edyta Pietrowska

colour correction and post-production: Mirosław Feliks Mamczur

costume assistant: Adriana Cygankiewicz

set manager: Dariusz Szych 

set maintenance: Bartłomiej Baran, Adriana Cygankiewicz , Michał Drozda, Przemysław Gapczyński Zuzanna Majewska, Grzegorz Potocki

set organization: Robert Chodyła

project coordination: Alicja Hafke

cast: Evelyn Blue, Kacper Bożek, Julia Hałka, Paulina Jaksim, Patryk Jarczok, Jerzy Kaźmierczak, Zbigniew Kocięba, Katarzyna Kulmińska, Dominik Kupka, Daniel Michna, JinWoo Namkung, Pau Perez-Pique, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Zofia Tomczyk, Emily Wong-Adryańczyk

The film uses excerpts from the suite Peer Gynt op. 1 by Edward Grieg performed by Trondheim Symfoniorkester & Opera  conducted by Han-Na Chang.

The Polish Dance Theatre would like to thank Trondheim Symfoniorkester & Opera for providing the recording and the permission to use the piece.

photo by: Andrzej Grabowski

production: Polish Dance Theatre, Institution of Culture of the Self-Government of the Wielkopolska Region

co-production: Adam Mickiewicz Institute / Culture.pl

copyrights: Polish Dance Thetare and Adam Mickiewicz Institute, 2021

Contact:

Regina Lissowska - Postaremczak

mobile: +48 505 672 331

e-mail:  renelisso@gmail.com

Manager: Alicja Hafke

mobile: +48 535 104 550

e-mail: a.hafke@ptt-poznan.pl

Awards:

International Choreographic Festival of Blois – Dance, Blois, France, June 10 - July 10, 2022 - Audience Award

RIFF - FESTIVAL – NORWAY, Eina, Norway, July 8-10, 2022 - 1st Jury Award. Short Film Winner: Art Piece 

Door Kinetic Arts Festival, Baileys Harbor, USA, September 19 – 24, 2022 - Best Dance Film Award

Imajitari - International Dance Film Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia, September 14, 2022 - Award Winner

XII Encuentro Para Cinéfagos (Festival de CineArte en la Frontera), San Cristóbal, Venezuela, October 7 – 9, 2022 - Award: Best Direction (MEJOR DIRECCIÓN DE ARTE) 

XII Encuentro Para Cinéfagos (Festival de CineArte en la Frontera), San Cristóbal, Venezuela, October 7 – 9, 2022 - Honorable Mention (Category: Best Dance FIlm)

Classical Arts Film Festival, Napa/California, USA, October 7 – 8, 2022 - Audience Choice Award

Portland Dance Film Fest, Portland, USA, September 30 – October 3, 2022 - Audience Award

IMMAGI]NA Film Festival, Pozzuoli, Italy, November 19-21, 2022 - Award Winner

Moving Body Festival: Critical Moves, Varna, Bulgaria, October 28 – November 5, 2022  - Audience Award

Beirut International Women Film Festival, Beirut, Lebanon, March 5-10, 2023 - Best Dance Film

PlatArtístic, Spring Dancefilm Fest, Barcelona, Spain, April 21 – 30, 2023 - Special Mention

FASS Forward - Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur, Saint-Sauveur, Canada, May 31, 2023 - Best Dance Film Short Award

ReelHeART International Film and Screenplay Festival, Toronto, Canada, July 3 – 9, 2023 - Award: Best Dance Film

Utah Dance Film Festival, Salt Lake City, USA, August 5 – 6, 2023 - Jury Award: Best of Production Design 

Art Film Awards, Skopje, Macedonia, September 24 – 25, 2023 - Award Winner

Exeter Dance International Film Festival, Exeter, UK, October 14 – 22, 2023 - Award Winner - Film of the Festival

Exeter Dance International Film Festival, Exeter, UK, October 14 – 22, 2023 - Award Winner - Best Concept

Exeter Dance International Film Festival, Exeter, UK, October 14 – 22, 2023 -  Award Winner - Choreography

Exeter Dance International Film Festival, Exeter, UK, October 14 – 22, 2023 - Best Costume: HONOURABLE MENTION

Exeter Dance International Film Festival, Exeter, UK, October 14 – 22, 2023 - General category: HONOURABLE MENTION

Joinville International Film Festival, Joinville, Brazil, June 1, 2024 - Award Winner (1st Award)

Mignolo International Screendance Festival, Metuchen, New Jersey, United States, October 13, 2024 - Award Winner (Best of the Fest)

Nominations: 

Inspired Dance Film Festival, Queensland, Australia, October 19 – 22, 2022 - Finalist

Cannes Indie Shorts Awards, Cannes, France, February 11-15, 2023 - Semi-Finalist

ROLLOUT Dance Film Festival, Macau, China, 27.01.2023 - 12.02.2023 – Finalist

SHORT to the Point, Bucharest, Romania, April 15, 2023 - Nomination: Short Dance/Musical

Official selections and screenings:

Kino Tańca Online, Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury & Fundacja Artystyczna PERFORM, online, Poland, February 10-13, 2022 -  Screening

DANCINEMA, Vancouver, Canada & online, July 4, 2022 - Official Selection

Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK, November 1-6, 2022 - Official Selection

Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds, UK, November 3-17, 2022 - Official Selection

Thessaloniki Cinedance International, Thessaloniki, Greece,  September 23 – 25, 2022 - Official Selection

Cuerpo Mediado Festival de Videodanza, Santa Fe, Argentina, October 15 – 30, 2022  - Official Selection

PÖFF Shorts (Black Nights Film Festival), Tallin, Estonia, November 15 – 23, 2022 - Official Selection

Dance On Screen FilmFestival, Graz, Austria, November 11 – 13, 2022 - Official Selection

13th ATHENS VIDEO DANCE PROJECT, Athens, Greece, December 12-13, 2022 - Official Selection

InShadow - Lisbon Screendance Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, November 15 – December 15, 2022 - Official Selection

ROLLOUT Dance Film Festival, Macau, China, December 2022 - February 2023  - Official Selection

AÚRA Performing Arts Festival, La Plata, Argentina, 13th November - Screening

Midwest RAD Fest, Kalamazoo, USA,  March 3-5, 2023 - Official Selection

ROLLOUT Dance Film Festival, Macau, China, 27.12.2022 - 08.01.2023 – Finalist

Kinetoscope: International Screendance Film Festival, Missoula, USA, February 11-12 2023 - Official Selection

Paris Play Film Festival, Paris, France, December 2022 - Official Selection

International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), Montreal, Canada, March 14-26, 2023 - Official Selection

New Renaissance Film Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 30th -April 2nd, 2023 - Official Selection

ADF's Movies By Movers, Durham, United States, April 15 – September 30, 2023 - Official Selection

Korean Film Festival Canada, Montreal, Canada, May 26 - 28th, 2023 - Screening

ScreenDance Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, April 22 – 30, 2023  – Official Selection

Dance Film Festival Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, May 11-13, 2023  - Official Selection

Flatpack Festival, Birmingham, UK, May 16 – 21, 2023 - Official Selection

CineVox Dance Film Festival, Portland, USA, May 11 – 13, 2023 - Official Selection

ViDEOSKiN III, Pokhara, Nepal, April 1 – 3, 2023 - Official Selection

Aaretaler Kurzfilmtage, Münsingen, Switzerland, November 17 – 19, 2023 - Official Selection

London International Screen Dance Festival, London, UK, October 13-14, 2023 - Official Selection

kNOwBOX dance Film Festival, Dallas, Texas & Seoul, Korea, October 5 – November 5, 2023 - Official Selection

Exeter Dance International Film Festival, Exeter, UK, October 14 – 22, 2023 - Official Selection

Frame x Frame Film Fest, Houston, USA, November 2 – 11, 2023 - Official Selection

Paris Art and Movie Award (PAMA), Paris, France, September 28, 2023 - Official Selection

F-O-R-M (Festival of Recorded Movement), Vancouver, Canada,  November 4-18, 2023 - Official Selection

Moovy TanzFilmFestival, Cologne, Germany, March 14 – 23, 2024 - Official Selection 

InShadow LisbonScreenDance Festival, Lisboa, Portugal, November 15 – December 15, 2024 - Screening

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Montreal, Canada - February 24th, 2024 - Screening

Alabama Dance Festival//Alabama Dance Council in Birmingham, AL USA January 20, 2024 - Screening

Le Sixièmagence/Dance Festival - Espace Magnan, Nice, France , April 24, 2024 - Screening 

Cinedans FEST, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 21-30,  2024 - Official Selection

Discover Indie Film TV - VOD platform (from March 2024)

The Martha's Vineyard Dance Film Festival, May 31-June 1, 2024  - Official Selection

BRAGA INTERNATIONAL VIDEO DANCE FESTIVAL, Braga, Portugal, April 13, 2024 - Official Selection

'AVIFF' le festival du film d'artiste, Cannes, France, May 14 – June 29, 2024 - Official Selection

Festiwal Tańca Współczesnego TAŃCZmy, Świebodzin, Poland, April 20-21, 2024 - Screening

Dare Dance Festival, Athens, Greece, May, 2024 - Screening

FASS Forward - Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur, Saint-Sauveur, Canada, May 29, 2024 - Official Selection

Film Invasion Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA, June 18 – 23, 2024 - Official Selection

Manifest Dance-Film Festival, Puducherry, India, July 26 – 28, 2024 - Official Selection

Dare Dance Festival, Athen, Greece, 25 May 2024 - Screening

Mignolo International Screendance Festival, Metuchen, New Jersey, United States, October 13, 2024 - Official Selection

YoFiFest, The Yonkers Film Festival, Yonkers, New York, United States, November 8 – 17, 2024 - Official Selection

The INDIE Channel / The Discover Indie Film foundation - VOD Streaming platform 

Tanz.tausch festival, Wuppertal, Germany, July 4th - Screening 

Drawing from various forms of expression, from line drawing through collage, patchwork, and cartoons, "Historiae vivae" revives the unique atmosphere of silent cinema. It is permeated with the warmth exuded by body language, yet simultaneously surreal due to its black-and-white tonality—these are the "splinters of everyday life" that allow us to embark on a journey through time.

This journey takes us back to the origins of cinema, captivating us with the use of historical filmmaking methods, stylish frames, and the characteristic text boards seen in black-and-white films. Live music performed by a pianist adds another layer, reminiscent of the old cinema where live improvisation accompanied the displayed scenes.

"Historiae vivae" is also a journey into the second half of the 20th century, evident in the graceful references to fashion, social customs, and popular ballroom dances. The patina of the past, visible in both form and content, causes us to watch these "living stories" from a distance, as if in detachment. Yet, at the same time, we are aware that they could have occurred in the past, present, or future. We watch with attention, a desire to capture the quickly passing moment, with amusement at the comedic situations, and with tenderness for human quirks.

The essence of silent cinema lay in the use of gesture and facial expressions as means of expression. "Historiae vivae" draws from this source, narrating ordinary things in a light and playful manner, transforming them into something extraordinary through the magic of the silver screen.

Duration: 18:10:00

Prapremiere: November 28, 2023, InShadow Festival, Portugal

available movie formats: DCP / mov / MP4

Script and direction: Iwona Pasińska 

Music and Performance: Krzysztof Dys

Soundtrack Mastering: Michał Garstecki Free Fly Music

Cinematography: Marek Grabowski

Camera Assistant: Michał Leśniewski

Post-production/VFX/Color Correction: Felix Mirosław Mamczur

Set Design and Costumes: Andrzej Grabowski

Makeup: Adriana Cygankiewicz

Assistant Costume Designer: Olga Gąsior

Typography: Piotr Zdanowicz

Production Coordination: Małgorzata Mikołajczak

Technical Team: Dariusz Szych, Dominik Dudek, Krzysztof Ludwiczak, Zuzanna Majewska

Performed and Contributed by: 

Artists-Dancers from the Polish Dance Theatre: Evelyn Blue, Kacper Bożek, Momoko Den, Bartosz Dopytalski, Julia Hałka, Patryk Jarczok, Jerzy Kaźmierczak, Zbigniew Kocięba, Mateusz Krzysiak, Katarzyna Kulmińska, Dominik Kupka, Daniel Michna, Jinwoo Namkung, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Zofia Tomczyk, Emily Wong-Adryańczyk

In the role of the tap dancer: Dominik Dudek and the tap dancer's assistant: Michał Beszczyński,

and the dog Spiner.

Production: Polish Dance Theatre 2023

Organizer: Polish Dance Theatre – Cultural Institution of the Local Government of the Wielkopolska Region

Contact:

Regina Lissowska - Postaremczak

mobile: +48 505 672 331

e-mail:  r.lissowska@ptt-poznan.pl

Awards:

SHORT to the Point, Bucharest, Romania, March 14, 2024 - Award Winner - BEST DANCE/MUSICAL

Art Film Awards, Skopje, Macedonia, March 22, 2024 - Honorable Mention

Exeter Dance International Film Festival, Exeter, England, October 19 – 27, 2024 - Honorable mention

Athens International Digital Film Festival AIDFF, Athens, Greece, December 12 – 18, 2024 - Honorable mention

Nominations: 

Inspired Dance Film Festival, Sydney, Australia, October 11 – 20, 2024 - Nomination

Official selections and screenings:

InShadow LisbonScreenDance Festival, Lisboa, Portugal, November 15 – December 15, 2024 - Screening

Historiae Vivae - Kino Tańca Online - Warsaw, Poland + online, January 18th -21st, 2024 - Screening

RIFF - FESTIVAL - NORWAY, Eina, Norway, May 31 – June 2, 2024 - Official Selection

DANCINEMA, Vancouver, Canada, July 4, 2024 - Official Selection

Short Waves Festival "Czas Letni", Poznań, Poland, July 13, 2024 - Official Selection

kNOwBOX dance Film Festival, Dalls, USA, Seul, Korea, October 4 – November 4, 2024 - Official Selection

Dance Camera Istanbul / Dans Kamera Istanbul, Istambul, Turkey, November 8 – 11, 2024 - Official Selection

IMMAGI]NA Film Festival, Pozzuol, Italy, November 8 – 10, 2024 - Official Selection

Athens International Digital Film Festival AIDFF, Athens, Greece, December 12 – 18, 2024 - Official Selection

Cuadro por Danza Festival - dance film & dance photography, Caracas, Venezuela, March 28-30, 2025 - Official Selection

Rethink Dance Festival, La Crosse, United States, January 11, 2025 - Official Selection

Beirut International Women Film Festival, Beirut, Lebanon, April 27 - May 3, 2025 - Official Selection

ROLLOUT Dance Film Festival Macao, China, January 20 – February 2, 2025 - Official Selection

eeny meeny miny humpy

not your son nor your daughter

eeny meeny rumpy-pumpy

cling cling lamb for slaughter 

'Beast' is the latest film project of the Polish Dance Theatre.

Which species is the biggest predator?

Behind seven lakes, seven hills, seven forests, there is a seemingly idyllic land. And in it, as if by magic, an unexpected meeting happens not only once but three times. The first time, as if from a flying carpet, we see an animalistic figure in the thicket. The second time, we observe a frisky animal herd colliding with otherness. For the third time and final meeting, the moment when a man enters the ordered world of nature. How does the relationship between animals differ from the relationship between humans and animals? In which interdependence can you see innocence, carefreeness, and curiosity and in which bestiality, destruction, and the burden of domination? – this is asked by the creators of the sixth choreographic film project by the Polish Dance Theatre 

Duration: 00:09:30

Source Video/Audio: HD recording / Stereo

Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Shooting Format: RED/digital

Recording Compression: H264/MP4

screenplay and direction: Iwona Pasińska

camera: Marek Grabowski, Felix Mirosław Mamczur 

Film Editor: Natalia Jacheć 

music composer: Michał Lorenc

music remix: Michał Blicharz - EHO 

set design &costumes: Andrzej Grabowski

characterization: Adriana Cygankiewicz  

lighting master: Artur Schubert

lighting and grip: Artur Schubert, Shapoval Yevhenii, Stern Pictures s.c. light&grip

postproduction/color correction: Mirosław Mamczur

production secretary: Małgorzata Andrzejewska

dancers of the Polish Dance Theater: Evelyn Blue, Momoko Den, Julia Hałka, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Zofia Tomczyk, Emily Wong-Adryańczyk, Kacper Bożek, Bartosz Dopytalski, Patryk Jarczok, Jerzy Kaźmierczak, Zbigniew Kocięba ,  Mateusz Krzysiak, Dominik Kupka, Daniel Michna, JinWoo NamKung. Drivers: Artur Dolata, Andrzej Frankowski 

technical crew: Michał Beszczyński, Artur Dolata, Zuzanna Majewska 

project coordinator: Robert Chodyła 

production: Polish Dance Theatre 2022

Contact:

Regina Lissowska-Postaremczak

mobile: +48 505 672 331

e-mail:  renelisso@gmail.com

Awards: 

Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA, September 21 - October 21, 2023 - Official Honorable Mention

Mignolo International Screendance Festival, Metuchen, USA - September 22 – 23, 2023 - Finalist

Play Short - International Film Awards, CCB - Film Society, Best Dance Film - Award Winner

New Renaissance Film Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 1-6, 2024 - Award Winner

ReelHeART International Film and Screenplay Festival, Toronto, Canada, July 8 – 14, 2024 - Award Winner / Best Dance Film

Mov(i)Flow - Polish Dance Film Showcase & Mentoring (Organised by:Adam Misckiewicz Institute, National Institute for Music and Dance, Partner: M4Culture Foundation) , Poland, November 1-30, 2024 - Award Winner

Art Film Awards / Winter 2025, Skopje, Macedonia, Award Winner: Best Experimental Film

ROLLOUT Dance Film Festival, Macau, China, January 20 – February 2, 2025 - Award Winner: Audience Choice Award

Nominations:

Inspired Dance Film Festival, Moore Park, Australia, October 12 – 15, 2023 - Finalist

Flatlands Dance Film Festival, Urbana, USA, January 27, 2024 - Semi-Finalist

Play Short - International Film Awards, Lisboa, Portugal - Nomination

Official selections and screenings:

Choreoscope - The International Dance Film Festival of Barcelona, 2023 Barcelona, Spain (October 18-22) - Official Selection

Dance Camera North, Minneapolis, USA, May 20, 2023 - Official Selection 

DANCINEMA, Vancouver, Canada, April 4, 2023 - Official Selection

South London Screendance, London, England, June 2, 2023 - Official Selection

Manifest Dance-Film Festival, Pondicherry, India, July 28 – 30, 2023 - Official Selection

Portland Dance Film Fest, Portland, USA, October 19 – 22, 2023 - Official Selection 

Bucharest International Dance Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania, July 31, 2023 - Official Selection

International ScreenDance Festival, Iowa, USA, August 26 – 27, 2023 - Official Selection

Thessaloniki Cinedance International, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 22-24, 2023 - Official Selection

DANCE CAMERA ISTANBUL-Impro Dance Fest Edition - Istanbul, Turkey, September  22 – October 2, 2023 - Official Selection

Encuentro Para Cinéfagos (Festival de CineArte en la Frontera), San Cristóbal, Venezuela, October 5 – 7, 2023 - Official Selection

Exeter Dance International Film Festival, Exeter, UK, October 14 – 22, 2023 - Official Selection

Short Waves Festival, Poznań, Poland, November 14-19, 2023 - Official Selection

Los Angeles Dance Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA, November 4, 2023 - Official Selection

Cuadro por Danza Festival - dance film & dance photography, Caracas, Venezuela, September 9 – October 7, 2023 - Official Selection

14th ATHENS VIDEO DANCE PROJECT, Athens, Greece, December 18-19, 2023  - Official Selection

YoFiFest, The Yonkers Film Festival, Yonkers, USA, November 10 – 19, 2023  - Official Selection

Rethink Dance Festival, La Crosse, USA, October 14-15, 2023 - Official Selection

Kinetoscope: International Screendance Film Festival, Missoula, USA, January 20 – 21, 2024 - Official Selection

InShadow LisbonScreenDance Festival, Lisboa, Portugal, November 15 – December 15, 2023 - Screening

Beirut International Women Film Festival, Beirut, Lebanon, April 14 – 19, 2024 - Official Selection 

Greensboro Dance Film Festival, Greensboro, USA, February 23 – 24, 2024 - Official Selection 

PlatArtístic - Spring Dancefilm Fest, Barcelona, Spain, April 4 – 12, 2024 - Official Selection

The International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA, Montreal, Canada, March 12 – 24, 2024 - Official Selection

Joinville International Film Festival, Joinville, Brazil, June 16 – 23, 2024 - Official Selection

ScreenDance Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, April 23 – 30, 2024 - Official Selection

BODYVOX / Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival (D2D), Portland, Oregon, May 9-10th - Screening

Dance Filmmaking - online platform presentation + live event, Los Angeles, USA, April 15-16, 2024 - Official Selection

Dance Camera Istanbul at Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey, April 27th, 2024 - Screening

On Art - Poland, Warsaw, Poland, July 4 – August 31, 2024 - Official Selection

Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Boulder, USA, August 30 – December 15, 2024

San Francisco Dance Film Festival, October 16 – 20, 2024 - Official Selection

Stockholm Fringe Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, August 15-30, 2024 - Screening

Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual, Guadalajara, Mexico, October 1 – November 30, 2024 - Official Selection 

Frame x Frame Film Fest, Houston, United States, November 2 – 30, 2024 - Official Selection

ADF's Movies By Movers, Durham, United States, November 1 – 3, 2024 - Official Selection

Cuerpo Mediado Festival de Videodanza, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, November 15 – 17, 2024 - Official Selection

On Art - Poland, Warsaw, Poland, October 28 – 31, 2024 -  Screening

Athens International Digital Film Festival AIDFF, Athens, Greece, December 12 – 18, 2024 - Official Selection

IMARP 10 anos - Mostra Internacional de Dança - Imagens em Movimento - Videodança, São Paulo, Brasil, December 8 – 15, 2024 - Official Selection

Festival Videodanza de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 14 – 17, 2025 - Official Selection

Park Mużakowski / Muskauer Park, located on the Polish-German border, on the Lusatian Neisse river, has become the set for the fourth choreographic film project of the Polish Dance Theater. Distinct parts of the park, extending on two riverbanks, complement each other creating a compositional wholeness. Such a different character of the eastern and western sides of Muskau Park inspired and created a natural canvas for the film image TA MARA.  Saturated colours and lines of colours taken from the works of Tamara Łempicka create the compositions of respective scenes. The movement created by female dancers from the Polish Dance Theater team reflects the elegance, precision and figurality visible in Łempicka's paintings. You can also feel fire and tension in the choreography, which characterise the work of Tamara de Lempitky.

Tamara Łempicka claimed until the very end of her life that she "had tried everything". She saw openness to new experiences as an artist's duty. She enjoyed the beauty "be it a sensual female body or an angular male body". These are her pictures: non-obvious, beautiful, with clearly outlined lines, "angular", full of art deco atmosphere.

The park, whose founder was Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, has been on the UNESCO List of World Cultural and Natural Heritage since 2004. The uniqueness of this area is still being discovered. We hope that the landscapes of the park captured in the film will become an inspiration to visit it, while the film image composed in the spirit of art deco and the dance of extraordinary women—artists of the Polish Dance Theater will cause a creative frenzy and the courage to go beyond what is conventional.

Duration: 10:06:00

Source Video/Audio: HD recording / Stereo

Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Shooting Format: RED/digital

Recording Compression: H264/MP4

available movie formats: DCP / mov / MP4

script and direction: Iwona Pasińska

artists-dancers of the Polish Dance Theatre: Evelyn Blue, Agnieszka Jachym, Julia Hałka, Paulina Jaksim, Katarzyna Kulmińska, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Emily Wong-Adryańczyk 

music: Andrzej Rohaczewski, Canzona a 4; Paweł Szymański, Partita III /part/

director of photography: Marek Grabowski

editing: Edyta Pietrowska

lighting director: Andrzej Grabowski

camera assistant: Michał Leśniewski

color correction and post-production: Mirosław Felix Mamczur

location selection and costume idea: Andrzej Grabowski

makeup and hairstyles: Adriana Cygankiewicz

costume making: Usługowy Zakład Krawiecki Elżbieta Sobańska

set staff: Piotr Grywaczewski, Daniel Wiśniewski

film equipement: 2K4K  film rental, Samo Pro Rental House 

set manager: Piotr Grywaczewski

collaboration on the part of the Muskauer Park in Łęknica: Janusz Pasturczak

production manager: Małgorzata Andrzejewska

Canzona a 4 performed by IL TEMPO, 2004 with the consent of DUX Lech Tołwiński Małgorzata Polańska Szostakowska Sp. J.

Partita III performed by Wielka Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiego Radia w Katowicach, 1994, Polskie Radio S.A., CD Accord, ACD38, 1997

The photographs were taken during the film choreographic project TA MARA in the Muskauer Park in Łęknica and Bad Muskau.

For making the project possible the Polish Dance Theatre would like to express gratitude to: the National Institute of Cultural Heritage

and the Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau Foundation.

Special thanks for help with the photo shots to: Barbara Iwlew ‒ Head of the Field Laboratory of the National Heritage Institute "Park Mużakowski" in Łęknica and Ewa Johny ‒ landscape architect and coordinator of Polish-German cooperation.

production: Polish Dance Theatre, Institution of Culture of the Self-Government of the Wielkopolska Region

co-production: Adam Mickiewicz Institute / Culture.pl

cooperation: Polish Institute in Düsseldorf 

copyrights: Polish Dance Thetare and Adam Mickiewicz Institute, 2020

Contact:

Regina Lissowska - Postaremczak

mobile: +48 505 672 331

e-mail:  renelisso@gmail.com

Manager: Alicja Hafke

mobile: +48 535 104 550

e-mail: a.hafke@ptt-poznan.pl

Awards:

Inspired Dance Film Festival 2021, Perth, Australia, November 13-14, 2021 - Honorable Mention

Art Film Awards, Skopje, Macedonia, December 2022 - Award Winner - Best Experimental Film

On Art – Poland, Warsaw, Poland, July 7 September 9,  2022 - 1st Award - Short Film 

International Fine Arts Film Festival, Holywood, USA + Online Event, November 1 + December 2023 - Honorable Mention

Nominations: 

ROLLOUT Dance Film Festival, Macau, China, 27.01.2023 - 12.02.2023 – Finalist

Play Short - International Film Awards, 2023 - Nomination: Best Dance Film 

Official selections and screenings:

FilmFest by Rogue Dancer, April 2021, online - Official Selection

Short Waves Festival 2021, Poznań, Poland June 14--20 - Official Selection

Granice Natury - Granice Kultury, Poznań, Poland, April 23-30, Online Festival - Screening

RIFF ​​(R.E.D. International Film Festival / dance-art-cinema) 2021, Eina, Norway, June 25-July 3 - Official Selection

Versatility Dance Festival, 2021, Boulder, Colorado, United States, August 14–15 - Official Selection

FIVideodanza (Mexico City Videodance Festival), 2021, Mexico  City, September 2-12 2021 - Official Selection

WildDogs International Screendance Festival 2021, Calgary, Canada, September 18-19 - Official Selection

Thessaloniki Cinedane International 2021, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 24–26  - Official Selection

Festival Internacional VideoDanzaBA 2021, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 15 - November 11, 2021 - Screening

InShadow - Lisbon Screendance Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, November 14 – December 17, 2022 - Official Selection

IMARP - Mostra Internacional de dança - Imagens em Movimento - Video dança - São Paulo, Brasil, December 13 – 18, 2021 - Official Selection

Cuerpo Mediado Festival de Videodanza, Santa Fe, Argentina - November 22-28, 2021 - Official Selection

12th ATHENS VIDEO DANCE PROJECT, Athens, Greece, December 17-19, 2021 - Offficial Selection

Midwest RAD Fest, Kalamazoo, USA, March 3-6, 2022 - Offficial Selection

Beirut International Women Film Festival, Beirut, Lebanon, March 6, 2022 - Official Selection

International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), Montreal, Canada, March 15-27, 2022 - Official Selection

ScreenDance Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, April 24 – 29, 2022 - Official Selection 

Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 4 – June 30, 2022 - Official Selection 

ReelHeART International Film and Screenplay Festival, Toronto, Canada, July 3 – 9, 2022 - Official Selection

On Art – Poland, Warsaw, Poland, July 7 September 9,  2022 - Official Selection 

NewGrounds Dance Film Collection, Tampa, USA, January 21-22, 2023 - Official Selection

Athens International Digital Film Festival AIDFF, Athens, Greece, December 8 – 14, 2022 - Official Selection

SHORT TO THE POINT (STTP) Bucharest, Romania - Nomination: Short Dance/Musical,  November 2022 - Official Selection

Moving Images videodance festival, Nicosia, Cyprus, November 19, 2023 - Official Selection

International Fine Arts Film Festival, Hollywood, USA, October 30 – November 30, 2023 - Official Selection

Dance on Screen, Graz, Austria, November 3-5, 2023 - Official Selection

InShadow LisbonScreenDance Festival, Lisboa, Portugal, November 15 – December 15, 2023 - Screening

RSI - Radiotelevizione Svizzera, 'Paganini'cultural program, January 14th, 2024 - TV Broadcast 

 DVDanza Habana Movimiento y Ciudad International Video Dance Festival, Havana, Cuba, April 25th-27th, 2005 - Screening

Beautiful mountain landscapes, from which the figures of dancers grow, rocks, bushes, the severity of nature and its strength, everything intertwines with each other, thus emphasizing the strong bonds between nature and man. This was the set of the latest film project of the Polish Dance Theatre entitled Toporzeł. The project was inspired by sculptures by Stanisław Szukalski. In the works of this artist, who causes strong emotions, the motif of the human body appears; one can see muscle tension, movement, gesture and expression. The sculpture is made of earth, of nature, of which man is a part – this was the interpretive code of the project. The Toporzeł project could not have been created anywhere else than in the Izerskie Mountains in the “Stanisław” quartz mine in Szklarska Poręba. The Karkonosze and Izerskie Mountains hide secrets, they are a place where magic mixes with reality, where the history of the legendary Mountain Spirit is still alive. The film and the accompanying album are further elements building the story of the Polish Dance Theatre. We hope that apart from the beauty and aesthetics of the presented shots, you will see the Spirit of Dance Theatre in these materials. 

Duration: 09:20:00

Source Video/Audio: HD recording / Stereo

Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Shooting Format: RED/digital

Recording Compression: H264/MP4

script and direction: Iwona Pasińska

music: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

director of photography: Marek Grabowski

editor: Edyta Pietrowska

costume designer assistant: Adriana Cygankiewicz

sound mix: Aleksandra Konik

location selection: Andrzej Grabowski

grip: Stern Pictures Sterzyński Sp. J., Artur Schubert, Marcin Drobniuch

color correction and post-production: Mirosław Felix Mamczur

artists-dancers of the Polish Dance Theatre: Kacper Bożek, Jerzy Kaźmierczak, Zbigniew Kocięba, Dominik Kupka, Paweł Malicki, Michał Przybyła, Adrian Radwański

production manager: Małgorzata Andrzejewska

set manager: Robert Chodyła 

set security & safety: Grupa Regionalna Górskiego Pogotowia Ratunkowego, Grupa Karkonoska 

catering: Hotel Biathlon Sport & Spa w Jakuszycach

The photographs were taken on the premises of the "Stanisław" Quartz Mine, owned by Zakład Wielobranżowy HEDAR Henryk Łożyński with its seat in Łaziska Górne, Hutnicza 3 street.

The producers would like to thank the Szklarska Poręba Forest Inspectorate for making the shooting of the film possible 

Appears courtesy of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited.  

Symphony No. 4 (Tansman Episodes) 

Appears courtesy of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited. 

production: Polish Dance Theatre, Institution of Culture of the Self-Government of the Wielkopolska Region / 2019

Contact:

Regina Lissowska - Postaremczak

mobile: +48 505 672 331

e-mail:  renelisso@gmail.com

Manager: Alicja Hafke

mobile: +48 535 104 550

e-mail: a.hafke@ptt-poznan.pl

Awards:

MOVING BODY Festival 2020, Varna, Bulgaria, November 5 - Encouragement Award (category: Experimental)

ROLLOUT Dance Film Festival, Macau, China, 28.12.2020 - 11.01.2021 – Special Mention

Utah Dance Film Festival,Orem, USA, 28.05.2021 -  Award / Best Short Film

Play Short - International Film Awards, May 30, 2021 - Dance Film / Honorable Mention

17th Annual ReelHeART International Film and Screenplay Festival, Toronto, Canada, July 5-11, 2021 - 2nd Award (category: Best Dance Film)

FASS Forward, Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur, Canada, July 29th 2021 - Award - Best International Dance Film Short

On Art Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland, 3rd July - 9th September 2021  - 1st Award / category: Short (pro&ind)

ZED Festival Internazionale Videodanza, Bologna, Italy, September 22nd-29th, 2021 - Best Choreography

Art Film Awards - Skopje, Macedonia, November 5, 2021 - Honorable Mention

Athens International Digital Film Festival AIDFF, Athens, Greece, December 9-15, 2021 - Honorary Distinction

SHORT TO THE POINT (STTP) Bucharest, Romania , April 11, 2022 - Award: Best Dance/Musical

Cuerpo Mediado Festival de Videodanza, Santa Fe, Argentina - November 22-28, 2021 - Honorable Mention

Nominations:

Inspired Dance Film Fest Australia, November 8 2020  - Finalist

European Film Festival (Mainstream & Underground), Moscow, Russia, October 2 2020 - Finalist 

ZIEL SPRING DANCE FILM FESTIVAL, Brooklyn/New York, USA, 26.03.2021 - Finalist

SounDance Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain, April 30, 2021 - Finalist 

MiraBanART Showcase Competition, London - Quarter-Finalist

Official selections and screenings:

Short Waves Festival 2020, Poznan, Poland (August 18-23) – Official Selection

Moovy Tanzfilmfestival 2020, Köln, Germany (July 24-26)  – Official Selection

ScreenDance Festival 2020, Stockholm, Sweden  – Official Selection

EnCore: Dance on Film 2020, Georgia, USA (May 22) – Official Selection

Festival Quartiers Danses 2020, Montreal, Canada (September 11-29) - Official Selection

RED INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2020, Eina, Norway, (July 3-10) - Official Selection

ADF's Movies By Movers 2020, Durkham, USA (June 6) - Official Selection

Choreoscope - The International Dance Film Festival of Barcelona, 2020 Barcelona, Spain (September 14) - Official Selection

Portland Dance Film Festival 2020, Portland, USA (October 1)  - Official Selection

Mexico City Videodance Festival 2020, Mexico City - Official Selection

Thessaloniki Cinedance International 2020, Greece, (September 26 to October 4) - Official Selection

LA Dance Shorts Film Festival 2020, Los Angeles, USA (October) - Official Selection

Kinetoscope: International Screendance Film Festival 2020, Missoula, USA (November 7, 2020) - Official Selection

Cinedanza Festival 2020, Modena, Italy  (October 23 - 25, 2020) - Official Selection

MOVING BODY Festival 2020, Varna, Bulgaria, November 5 - Official Selection

FilmFest by Rogue Dancer, November 2020 - Official Selection

InShadow – Lisbon Screendance Festival 12th Edition, Lisbon, Portugal,  20th of November to the 13th of December 2020 - Official Selection.

IMARP - Mostra Internacional de dança - Imagens em Movimento - Video dança 2020, São Paulo, Brasil, December 7 -12, 2020 - Official Selection

Midwest RAD Fest 2021, Kalamazoo, USA,  March 5, 2021 - Official Selection

Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual 2021, Guadalajara, Mexico, January 31st - February 8th  - Official Selection

DANCINEMA, Vancouver, Canada, 31.01.2021 - Official Selection

Kino Tańca Online, Poland, 25-28.03.2021 - Screening

Lago Film Fest 2021 / Moving Bodies Competition, Revine Lago, Italy, July 23 - 26  – Official Selection 

Dance Film Festival Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, June, 3-5, 2021 - Official Selection 

Austin Dance Festival presents DANCE ON FILM, Austin, USA, May 28 2021 - Official Selection 

Granice Natury - Granice Kultury, Poznań, Poland, April 23-30, Online Festival - Screening

DANCE ON SCREEN FESTIVAL 5th Edition, Graz, Austria, June 18-20, 2021 - Official Selection

Dance Camera North, Minneapolis, USA, June 19, 2021 - Official Selection

ScreenDance Festival by Art Spaces Dance, Katowice, Poland, July 7-9 -  Screening

TDP'21 International Dance Festival, Tipperary Dance Platform, Tipperary, Ireland, October 6th-16th 2021 -  Official Selection

Light Moves Festival of Screendance, Limeric, Ireland, September 23-26th 2021  -  Official Selection

Festival Internacional VideoDanzaBA 2021, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 15 - November 11, 2021 - Screening

Capitol Dance&Cinema Festival, Washington DC, United States, October 10-24th, 2021 - Official Selection

Moving Images Videodance Festival, Nicosia, Cypr 20-21.11.2021 - Official Selection 

Agite y Sirva Festival Itinerante de Videodanza, 11-15.10.2021 - Official Selection

Cuerpo Mediado Festival de Videodanza, Santa Fe, Argentina - November 22-28, 2021 - Official Selection

Dallas Dance Film Festival, Dallas, USA, November 18, 2021 - Official Selection 

Flatlands Dance Film Festival, Urbana, USA, January 22, 2022 - Official Selection

International Fine Arts Film Festival, Hollywood, USA, July 1 – August 1, 2022 - Official Selection

SHORT to the Point (STTP) Bucharest, Romania, June 13, 2022 - Official Selection 

Cinedans FEST, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 22 - 26 June 2022 - Official Selection

Aaretaler Kurzfilmtage 2022 Münsingen/Bern, Switzerland, November 4 – 6, 2022 - Official Selection 

kNOwBOX dance Film Festival, Dallas, USA /Seul, Korea & online, October 5 – 23, 2022 - Official Selection

Frame x Frame Film Fest, Houston, USA, November 3 - 12, 2022 - Official Selection

FIFTH WALL FEST,  Philippines, October 7-16 - Screening

dança em foco - Festival Internacional de Vídeo & Dança, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, November 7, 2022 - Official Selection

YoFiFest, The Yonkers Film Festival, Yonkers, New York, USA, December 2 – 11, 2022 - Official Selection

TANZAHOi International Festival for Dance, Hambirg, Germany, November 2-54, 2023 - Official Selection

Jumping Frames, Hong Kong, China, September 12-17, 2023 - Screenieng

InShadow LisbonScreenDance Festival, Lisboa, Portugal, November 15 – December 15, 2024 - Screening

RSI - Radiotelevizione Svizzera, 'Paganini'cultural program, January 14th, 2024 - TV Broadcast 

Art Dance Video - Paris, France - March-Novenber 2024, cinema screeniengs upon invotation from the Institut Polonais de Paris - Screenng

The first and last scene of the short film "Bória" is filled by the painting of Zofia Stryjeńska entitled "Seasons. November - December (Pageant I - with a deer), growing out of the inspiration with the Polish and Hutsul folk culture. The dynamics of the bursting canvas, which is the quintessence of the decorative style in the painting of the Polish interwar period, prompts you to launch the action, wake up the flat composition, and introduce live movement. The director of the film, Iwona Pasińska, treated a painter’s approach, namely the procession of the characters glittering with all colours, as an impulse to compose the choreography and build subsequent scenes that make up the metaphor of life in the community, moving on the line of life, experiencing good and evil, happiness and pain, unchanging rhythm of the nature and change of fate. Two worlds – the one of the individual and the one of the community – are separated by an invisible border. Because the community under a fabulously colourful and ludic mask of customs, traditions and ritual hides a different face. It throws outside the margin, "bites" and rejects.

The visual layer of the 9-minute film is co-created with ornamental motifs drawn from Stryjeńska's painting. Fragmentary narration is built of the words of traditional songs in the arrangement and performance of the Malisz Band, which overlap with the language of contemporary dance. Interspecific combination of the dance film and painting makes the second-ever film production of the Polish Dance Theatre an interdisciplinary experiment from the borderland of arts.

Based on Zofia Stryjeńska's painting „Seasons. November-December” (Pageant I - with deer)

Duration: 09:24:00

Source Video/Audio: HD recording / Stereo

Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Shooting Format: RED/digital

Recording Compression: H264/MP4

screenplay and direction: Iwona Pasińska 

photos: Marek Grabowski

editing: Edyta Pietrowska

music: „Ballada o sierotce” [A Ballad about the Orphan] - folk song, arranged and performed by „Malisz Mand” composed of Zuzanna Malisz, Jan Malisz, Kacper Malisz, „Huculska fantazja” [Hutsul Fantasy], composed and performed: Jan Malisz

set designs: Andrzej Grabowski

costumes designs: Zofia Grzybowska, Kuluza Studio, Andrzej Grabowski, Adriana Cygankiewicz, Ostrzyciele - Reclip Sp. z o. o. , Marcin Kołodziejczyk, Norbert Wojciechowski

grip: Stern Pictures s.c. light&grip , Artur Schubert , Mateusz Rybczyński , Marcin Śmigielski

color correction & post-production: Mirosław Mamczur

mastering the soundtrack: Michał Garstecki Free Flay Music

artists-dancers of Polish Dance Theatre: Evelyn Blue , Kacper Bożek, Julia Hałka, Paulina Jaksim, Jerzy Kaźmierczak , Victoria Kennett, Katarzyna Kulmińska, Dominik Kupka, Volodymyr Makovskyi, Michał Przybyła, Adrian Radwański, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Dominik Więcek, Emily Wong 

guest artists: Amy Basley, Nordang Brage, Wiktoria Ślęzok, Damian Zatoński

technical staff: Przemysław Gapczyński, Zuzanna Majewska, Grzegorz Potocki, Andrzej Przybyszewski, Daniel Wiśniewski

production manager: Małgorzata Andrzejewska

production: Polski Teatr Tańca 2018

Contact:

Regina Lissowska- Postaremczak

mobile: +48 505 672 331

e-mail:  renelisso@gmail.com

Manager: Alicja Hafke

mobile: +48 535 104 550

e-mail: a.hafke@ptt-poznan.pl

Awards:

• RIFF: R.E.D. INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 2019 Eina, Norway – 2nd Award

• LA Dance Film Festival 2020, Los Angeles, USA - StandardVision Award - 3-month exhibition on the SVLA1 screen at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles 

• Fine Arts Film Festival 2020, Venice, USA - Best Music/Performance Film

• On Art - Poland 2020, Warsaw, Poland - 1st Award (Category Short - professional)

• MOVING BODY Festival 2020, Varna, Bulgaria, November 5 - Encouragement Award (category: Social)

• ViDEOSKiN II, Pokhara, Nepal, April 15-19, 2021- Official Selection,  Honorable Mention 

• Imajitari - International Dance Film Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia, October 28 – November 4, 2021 - Best Film Award/International Competition

Nominations:

• MiraBanART Showcase Competition, London - Finalist

• ROLLOUT Dance Film Festival, Macau, China, 28.12.2020 - 11.01.2021 – Finalist

• Braga International Video Dance Festival, Braga, Portugal, April 11, 2025 - Semi-Finalist

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Official selections and screenings:

• Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual, 2019 Guadalajara, Mexico – Official Selection

• 6th International Meeting on Video-dance and Video-performance, 2019 Valencia, Spain – Official Selection

• International Fine Arts Film Festival, 2019 Santa Barbara, USA – Official Selection

• Raksa Dance Film Festival/ Raksa Ciné-Danse du Monde 2019 Paris, France – Official Selection

• InShadow 2019, Lisbon, Portugal – Official Selection

• LA Dance Film Festival 2020, Los Angeles, USA – Official Selection

• Master of Art Film Festival 2020, Sofia / Varna, Bulgaria – Official Selection

• FilmArte Festival 2020, Madrid, Spain – Official Selection

• ReelHeART 2020, Toronto, Canada (7th of July) - Official Selection

• On Art - Poland 2020, Warsaw, Poland, (July 3th) - Official Selection

• MOVING BODY Festival 2020, Varna, Bulgaria, November 5 - Official Selection

• Desert Edge Global Film Festival, Rajasthan, India, 8 - 11 March, 2021 - Official Selection

• DANCINEMA, Vancouver, Canada, 31.01.2021 - Official Selection

• 39th Festival International du Film sur l'Art (FIFA), Montreal, Canada, 16.03.2021-38.03.2021 - Official Selection

• EnCore: Dance on Film, Decatur, USA - May 28, 2021 - Official Selection

• The BeBop Channel Dance and Theatre Film Festival, New York, USA, August 10, 2021 - Official Selection

• Desert Edge Global Film Festival, Andore, March 8, 2021 - Official Selection

• Granice Natury - Granice Kultury, Poznań, Poland, April 23-30, Online Festival - Screening

• San Francisco Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, USA, October 15–24 - Official Selection

• ScreenDance Festival by Art Spaces Dance, Katowice, Poland, July 7-9 -  Screening

• Festival Internacional VideoDanzaBA 2021, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 15 - November 11, 2021 - Screening

• Cuerpo Mediado Festival de Videodanza, Santa Fe, Argentina - November 22-28, 2021 - Official Selection

• FilmFest by Rogue Dancer, USA, Online Event, December 23, 2023 - Official Selection

• InShadow LisbonScreenDance Festival, Lisboa, Portugal, November 15 – December 15, 2024 - Screening

• RSI - Radiotelevizione Svizzera, 'Paganini'cultural program, January 14th, 2024 - TV Broadcast 

• Joinville International Film Festival, Joinville, Brazil, April 2024 - Official Selection

• Kinetoscope: International Screendance Film Festival, Missoula, USA, January 24 – 26, 2025 - Official Selection

• Kino Tańca Online: "Żywe obrazy", Warsaw, Poland, December 26-29, 2024 - Screenieng

• Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, December 7, 2024 - Official Selection

• Cineteca Municipal Silvestre Revueltas, Durango, Mexico, March 1, 2025 - Screening

Auteur video-dance: expression without partner. About Initiation and Brzemie by Iwona Pasińska

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"Initation" is a musical and film experiment directed by Iwona Pasińska, with the hypnotising music of Jacek Sienkiewicz and the ascetic stage design of Andrzej Grabowski, in which each of the props is significant. The sophisticated visual form, saturated with a subtle play of artificial light and evening darkness, intertwines with the broadly understood physical expression of artists - dancers of the Polish Dance Theater. Each of the black and white frames that make up this short film is a separate, picturesque composition that could appear as an independent image or artistic photography. They are arranged in an oneiric story in which the viewer's perception is strongly influenced by the motion of the camera, in addition to the dancers` movement, which regularly returns to the same places. Looking into the depths of human habitats, toxic relationships and untamed fears, we see that the demons with which characters are struggling are often an exemplification of social problems that can be read on the front pages of newspapers. One of the characters learns about human traumas, experiencing scenes from life in the space of the imagination. What will end his "initiation" or attempt to enter into reality?

Duration: 18:00:00

Source Video/Audio: HD recording / Stereo

Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Shooting Format: RED/digital

Recording Compression: H264/MP4

screenplay and direction: Iwona Pasińska

camera: Marek Grabowski

Film Editor: Edyta Pietrowska

music and sound: Jacek Sienkiewicz

stage designer: Andrzej Grabowski

costumes: Zofia Grzybowska, Urszula Szkudlarek, Kuluza Studio

lighting master: Artur Schubert

lighting and grip: Artur Schubert, Shapoval Yevhenii, Stern Pictures s.c. light&grip

color correction: Mirosław Mamczur

production secretary: Małgorzata Andrzejewska

dancers of the Polish Dance Theater: Urszula Bernat – Jałocha, Fabian Fejdasz, Julia Hałka, Paulina Jaksim, Jerzy Kaźmierczak, Zbigniew Kocięba, Katarzyna Kulmińska, Paweł Malicki, Marcin Motyl, Michał Przybyła, Adrian Radwański, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Dominik Więcek, Emily Wong and (guest starring) Kacper Bożek, Marta da Pinto and Iga Włodarczyk

technical team: Przemysław Gapczyński, Grzegorz Okupniak, Grzegorz Potocki, Andrzej Przybyszewski

project coordinator: Ewelina Chatłas

production: Polish Dance Theatre 2017

Contact:

Regina Lissowska-Postaremczak

mobile: +48 505 672 331

e-mail:  renelisso@gmail.com

Manager: Alicja Hafke

mobile: +48 535 104 550

e-mail: a.hafke@ptt-poznan.pl

Awards:

• ARTS TRIANGLE - Dance Film Festival 2018, Dallas, USA – Official Selection, 1st Award

• Mexico City Videodance Festival 2018, Mexico City, Mexico – Official Selection, 1st Award

• 15th Annual ReelHeART International Film and Screenplay Festival 2019, Toronto, Canada  – Official Selection, 2nd Award: Dance and/or Music Film

• On Art Film Festival 2019, Poland, 1st Award: Video-art

• Play Short – International Film Awards, Edition 2019, Main Competition Award, Category: Best Dance Film

• Movimiento en Movimiento, 2019 Mexico City, Mexico – Official Selection, International Award

• Austin Arthouse Film Festival 2019, Austin, USA - Official Selection, Lynch Award – Best Arthouse Film

• Woodengate Film Festival 8th edition, 2020, Maramures  - Award - Best Experimental

• Beijing Fringe Festival, 2020, Zebra Award - Best International Project

Nominations:

• SHORT TO THE POINT (STTP) Bucharest, Romania - Nomination: May 2018 Experimental Selection, Finalist

• Choreoscope - The International Dance Film Festival of Barcelona, 2018 Barcelona, Spain -  Official Selection, International Short Dance Film – Finalist

• AltFF Alternative Film Festival, 2018 Toronto, Canada – Nomination: Short Films – Semi-Finalist

• Hyperwave Film Awards, 2018 Carson, USA  – Nomination: Short Film - Experimental/Dance Finalist 

• Oniros Film Awards™, 2019 Aosta, Italy – Nomination: Best Experimental Film – Finalist

• Rethink Dance Film Festival, 2019 - Finalist

• EuropeNow Film Festival 2020 - Semi-Finalist

• Inspired Dance Film Fest Australia, November 8, 2020  - Semi-Finalist

• ROLLOUT Dance Film Festival, Macau, China, 28.12.2020 - 11.01.2021 - Finalist

• CANNES INDIE SHORTS AWARDS, Cannes, France 2022 - Semi-Finalist

Official selections and screenings:

• Short Waves Festival 2018, Poznań, Poland – Official Selection

• KRoki – International Festival of Contemporary Dance 2018, Kraków, Poland - screening

• DADC International Short Dance Film Competition / DesArts//DesCinés Festival, 2018 Saint-Etienne, France – Official Selection

• ADF's Movies By Movers, Durham, USA – Official Selection

• RIFF: R.E.D. INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 2018 Eina, Norway  – Official Selection

• San Francisco Dance Film Festival, 2018 San Francisco, USA – Official Selection

• Thessaloniki Cinedance International,  2018Thessaloniki, Greece – Official Selection

• InShadow, 2018 Lisbon, Portugal – Official Selection

• Kino Tańca / Centrum Sztuki Tańca w Warszawie 2019 Warsaw, Poland – screening

• Klub Krótkiego Kina / Centrum Kultury Zamek 2018, Poznań, Poland – screening

• 4th Braga International Video Dance Festival 2019, Braga, Portugal  – Official Selection

• EnCore: Dance on Film 2019, Atlanta/Houston, USA – Official Selection

• 6th International Meeting on Video-dance and Video-performance, 2019 Valencia, Spain – Official Selection

• Portland Dance Film Festival, 2019 Portland, USA – Official Selection

• Festival Internacional VideoDanzaBA, 2019 Buenos Aires, Argentina – Official Selection

• Unseen Festival, 2019 Denver, United States – Official Selection

• IMZ Dancescreen 2019, Wuppertal, Germany – Official Selection

• Nice Dance Film 2019, Nice, France – Official Selection

• YoFiFest, The Yonkers Film Festival 2019, Yonkers/New York, USA – Official Selection

• Dance On Screen Festival 2019, Graz, Austria – Official Selection

• Kino Tańca, Dance Art Center Warsaw / The Mazovia Institute of Culture, Warsaw, Poland, April 2019 – Screening

• Red Finch Film Festival 2020, Utah, United States – Official Selection

• Theater Freiburg/ The International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy (Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne, December 2019, Freiburg, Germany - Screening

• National Choreographic Development Center of Avignon,  Les Hivernales , February 2020, Avignon, France - Screening

• National Choreographic Center La Briqueterie, Val-de-Marne, March 2020, France – Screening

• 10th Athens Video Dance Project 2020, Athens, Greece – Screening

• South London Screendance at the Albany Theatre, London - Screening

• Moovy Tanzfilmfestival 2020, Köln, Germany (April 17-19)  – Official Selection

• FilmFest by Rogue Dancer, May 2020 - Official Selection

• Beijing Fringe 2020, Beijing, China 

• International Fine Arts Film Festival, Santa Barbara, USA, November 1, 2020  – Official Selection

• ROLLOUT Dance Film Festival, Macau, China, 28.12.2020 - 11.01.2021 – Official Selection

• DANCINEMA, Vancouver, Canada, 31.01.2021 - Official Selection

• 39th Festival International du Film sur l'Art (FIFA), Montreal, Canada, 16.03.2021-38.03.2021 - Official Selection

• Granice Natury - Granice Kultury, Poznań, Poland, April 23-30, Online Festival - Screening

• New Renaissance Film Festival 2021, London, UK, September 24-26 - Official Selection

• Festival Internacional VideoDanzaBA 2021, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 15 - November 11, 2021 - Screening

• Dance On Screen FilmFestival6th Edition,Graz,   Austria November 12-14, 2021 - Screening

• short/age - Shortfilms for a New Age, Viseu, Portugal, August 31, 2023 - Official Selection

• InShadow LisbonScreenDance Festival, Lisboa, Portugal, November 15 – December 15, 2023 - Screening

Auteur video-dance: expression without partner. About Initiation and Brzemie by Iwona Pasińska

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Women Cinemakers, Special Edition  

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Performance without age limit, suggested for audiences 14+

Premiere: September 12, 13, 15 and 16, 2023 at Polski Teatr Tańca

Duration: 60 min

Creators and implementers:

Choreography, set design, lighting direction, sound direction, text: Jo Strømgren  

Costumes: Bregje van Balen  

Assistant choreographer: Rebecca Hoback  

Artist-dancers: Evelyn Blue, Kacper Bożek, Momoko Den, Julia Halka, Patryk Jarczok, Jerzy Kazmierczak, Zbigniew Kocięba, Mateusz Krzysiak, Katarzyna Kulmińska, Dominik Kupka, Aleksandra Kuś, Daniel Michna, Jinwoo NamKung, Sandra Szatan, Zofia Tomczyk, Emily Wong-Adryańczyk 

Staff and preparation of the performance: Michal Beszczynski, Adrianna Cygankiewicz, Dominik Dudek, Przemyslaw Gapczynski, Krzysztof Ludwiczak, Zuzanna Majewska, Dariusz Szych 

Music: Mr. Enirbod, Abe Schwarz, Bergmund Waal Skaslien, Kevin Keller, Shimon Dzigan, Carlos Gardel, Maria Tanase, Vaska Ilieva, Jørgen Knudsen 

Production: Polish Dance Theatre - Polish Dance Theatre 

Co-produced by Jo Strømgren Kompani 

CREATIVES

Direction, choreography, set design and lyrics: Jo Strømgren

Co-produced by Jo Strømgren Kompani

Light direction: Hans J. Skogen

Costumes: Bregje van Balen

Assistant costume designer: Adriana Cygankiewicz

Music: Jo Strømgren, Viljo Vesterinen, George Brassens, Frederic Chopin, Giacomo Puccini, Francisco Tarrega, Serge Gainsbourg, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Antonio Vivaldi, Norbert Gabla, Ronan Hardiman, Ich Troje, Astor Piazzolla, Alfredo Catalani, Eleni Karaindrou, Lars Årdal

Music arrangement: Krzysztof "Wiki" Novikov

Artists-dancers: Evelyn Blue, Kacper Bożek, Momoko Den, Bartosz Dopytalski, Julia Hałka, Paulina Jaksim, Patryk Jarczok, Jerzy Kaźmierczak, Zbigniew Kocięba, Mateusz Krzysiak, Katarzyna Kulmińska, Dominik Kupka, Daniel Michna, JinWoo NamKung, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Zofia Tomczyk, Emily Wong-Adryańczyk.

Premiere: June 20 and 21, 2021 at Malta Festival Poznań

Duration: 60 minutes

CREATIVES

Co-production: Polish Dance Theatre and bodytalk

Concept and choreography: Yoshiko Waki

Assistant choreographer: Rene Haustein 

Dramaturgy: Rolf Baumgart 

Set and costume design: Nanako Oizumi 

Lights: Przemyslaw Gapczynski, Nanako Oizumi, Dariusz Szych

Live music: Damian Pielka 

Performance assistant: Marcus Bomski 

Costume Assistant: Adriana Cygankiewicz

Technical manager: Dariusz Szych

Artist-dancers: Evelyn Blue, Kacper Bożek, Julia Halka, Paulina Jaksim, Patryk Jarczok, Jerzy Kazmierczak, Zbigniew Kocięba, Katarzyna Kulmińska, Dominik Kupka, Daniel Michna, JinWoo NamKung, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Emily Wong-Adryanczyk.

Songs used: Old Town Road (remix), A. Ross, T. Reznor, K. Roukema, M. L. Hill, B. R. Cyrus, J. Donald | Garbage, #1 Crush time, B. Vig, D. Erikson, S. Manson, S. Marker | Cut Chemist, The Garden, A. Powell, L. Macfadden, R. Gilbert, V. de Moraes | Amon Tobin, Stoney Street | Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts IV - 34, T. Reznor, M. Reznor, R. Atticus | Sergei Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet, Op.64 - Act 1, Balcony Scene, Romeo's Variation, Love Dance, The Cleveland Orchestra, L. Maazel

Spectacle with no age limit, suggested for audiences of 12+

Duration: 80 minutes

Premiere: April 29, 2019

Creators

Script and direction: Katarzyna Raduszynska

Assistant Director: Adrian Radwanski

Choreography: Artur Bienkowski

Assistant Choreographer: Paulina Jaksim

Scenography, video and costumes: Pawel Walicki

Music: Wojtek Zrałek-Kossakowski

Technical director: Dariusz Szych

Dancer-artists:Evelyn Blue, Kacper Bożek, Momoko Den, Bartosz Dopytalski, Julia Halka, Paulina Jaksim, Patryk Jarczok, Jerzy Kazmierczak, Zbigniew Kocięba, Mateusz Krzysiak, Katarzyna Kulmińska, Dominik Kupka, Aleksandra Kuś, Daniel Michna, JinWoo NamKung, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Zofia Tomczyk, Emily Wong-Adryanczyk

Full performance recorded by TVP Kultura

Recording date: 17th December, 2020 at Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Poznan (Poland)

CONTACT for license and full performance video distribution:

Head of International Sales: Aleksandra Kaźmieruk

e-mail: aleksandra.kazmieruk@tvp.pl

phone: +48 22 547 66 21

mobile: +48 605 605 403

CREDITS (video recording):

vision engineer: Józef Kowalewski

cooperation: Michał Patecki

music editor: Eliza Orzechowska

sound engineer: Michał Nowak

light: Zbigniew Feliksiak, Miłosz Tulewicz

film editing: Grzegorz Rybak

managing editors: Katarzyna Ryzel, Julia Starostecka

production: Dominik Zieliński, Szymon Matuszak

producer: Mirosław Łękowski

CREDITS (performance):

choreography: Jacek Przybyłowicz

music: Andrzej Konieczny, Kacper Krupa

lighting design: Carsten Wank

costumes: Joanna Klimas 

choreographer's assistant: Anna Krysiak

lighting: Przemysław Gapczyński

stage support: Zuzanna Majewska

sound support: Grzegorz Potocki, Daniel Wiśniewski

CAST:

Amy Basley, Evelyn Blue, Julia Hałka, Agnieszka Jachym, Paulina Jaksim, Katarzyna Kulmińska, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Emily Wong-Adryanczyk, Kacper Bożek, Jerzy Kaźmierczak, Zbigniew Kocięba, Dominik Kupka, Paweł Malicki, Daniel Michna, Michał Przybyła, Adrian Radwański

Upcoming shows:

23rd Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival, Limassol, June, 2022 (postponed from June 2020)

The aim of the Festival is to present to the audience of Cyprus the trends, creations and currents of contemporary dance, while setting bridges with the world choreographic community. The dynamics and breadth of the Festival were awarded with EFFE Label 2017-2018, which is a very important international recognition. 

Past presentations:

Borderland of Dance Tour, Poland, 31st of January -  8th of February, 2020 - 5 shows in southeastern Poland

Thalia Hall - The State Philharmonics Sibiu , Romania, 1st of October, 2019

Cēsis Concert Hall, Latvia,  6th of October 2019

The Cēsis Concert Hall is also a popular venue for music and art festivals. Every summer, the building hosts events of the Cēsis Art Festival; the Kremerata Baltica Festival, founded by the world-famous violinist Gidon Kremer; the Cello Cēsis international cello festival; the summer festival of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra; a festival of rock movies and review performances of dramatic theatre productions. The concert hall has welcomed and co-hosted a number of international forums and conferences. The Cēsis Concert Hall is a place where the historical cultural heritage rubs shoulders with contemporary art, creative people and youthful and free spirit. We will be happy to welcome people from our home town and from the Vidzeme Region, as well as guests from every corner of Latvia and the world: everybody will find something to his or her taste here. 

Malta Festival, Poznan, Poland, 29th of June, 2019 (premiere of the performance)

JACEK PRZYBYŁOWICZ, director

45 (premiere: 26 Jun '19) 

Choreographer, deputy director of the Grand Theatre’s ballet in Poznań. He graduated from the State Ballet School and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw – in pedagogy. In 1987–1991 he was a dancer in the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw. At that time he made his debut as a choreographer, creating Negotiations set to music by Alessandro Marcello. The piece was awarded the first prize for choreography and the prize for interpretation at the 2nd National Chorography Competition in Łódź. Negotiations were also presented in the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw and at the 6th Warsaw Ballet Days. 

In the recent years he created three ballets for the Polish National Opera in Warsaw: A few short sequences (Men’s dance) with a video presentation created by Katarzyna Kozyra, Alpha Kryonie Xe (2010) and 3rd Symphony Pieśń o nocy (the evening Szymanowski i taniec at the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw, 2006). In 2010 he created Sono nero for the dance gala organized by UNESCO in Rome. In 2012 he will create Six wings of angels at the Polish National Ballet directed by Krzysztof Pastor.

Together with the Polish Dance Theatre and the National Opera Ballet, he presented his choreographies at numerous dance festivals, including Bolzanodanza in Italy, Rencontres Choreographique de Cartage in Tunisia, Moscow Dance Festival in Russia, Drugije Tancy in Ukraine, European Dance Festival in Cyprus, Kassel Tanz Festival in Germany. Since 2008 he has produced performances with the groups from the Czech Republic and Spain. 

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Full performance recorded by TVP Kultura

Recording date: 18th December, 2020 at Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Poznan (Poland)

CONTACT for license and full performance video distribution:

Head of International Sales: Aleksandra Kaźmieruk

e-mail: aleksandra.kazmieruk@tvp.pl

phone: +48 22 547 66 21

mobile: +48 605 605 403

CREDITS (video recording):

vision engineer: Józef Kowalewski

cooperation: Michał Patecki

music editor: Eliza Orzechowska

sound engineer: Michał Nowak

light: Zbigniew Feliksiak, Miłosz Tulewicz

film editing: Grzegorz Rybak

managing editors: Katarzyna Ryzel, Julia Starostecka

production: Dominik Zieliński, Szymon Matuszak

producer: Mirosław Łękowski

CREDITS (performance):

dramaturgy and director: Igor Gorzkowski

music: Eugeniusz Rudnik and Adam Strug

choreography: Iwona Pasińska and Polish Dance Theatre artists

costumes: Adriana Cygankiewicz

lights: Przemysław Gapczyński, Mariusz Porada

sound project: Michał Garstecki (Free Flay Music)

assistant: Katarzyna Rzetelska

artists: 

Urszula Bernat-Jałocha, Fabian Fejdasz, Julia Hałka, Paulina Jaksim, Zbigniew Kocięba, Jerzy Kaźmierczak, Katarzyna Kulmińska, Kornelia Lech, Paweł Malicki, Marcin Motyl, Michał Przybyła, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Dominik Więcek, Emily Wong - Adryańczyk and guest artist Maciej Cymorek

Past presentations:

27th Quinzena de Dança de Almada – International Dance Festival , Almada, 26th of September, 2019

Founded in 1992, the Quinzena de Dança de Almada – International Dance Festival is now a space for Dance presentation and promotion, offering its audiences a complex of events well representative of national and international Contemporary Dance. 

A4 Space for Contemporary Culture in Bratislava, 30th of October, 2018

A4 - Space for Contemporary Culture is multifunctional and non­commercial center in the centre of Bratislava, which is oriented to creation, presentation and education in actual forms of contemporary theater, dance, music, film, contemporary visual culture and new media art. Project A4 ­ space for contemporary culture is the completion of hard work of many civic & cultural organizations in creating centre that supports and presents actual art forms in the field of performing arts and new media art supporting live and innovative artistic creation. 

20th China Shanghai International Arts Festival (CSIAF),  21st and 22nd of October, 2018

CSIAF is one of the largest cultural events in the city of Shanghai, focused on cultural exchange with foreign countries and the presentation of art from around the world. The scale and prestige of the event is evidenced by the total number of spectators, in 2017 amounting to 4 million people, as well as the rank of artists who took part in previous editions, among whom we could see the Berlin Philharmonic and the theater director, Peter Brook. 

VEF Culture Palace, Riga, 14th of October, 2018  

VEF Culture Palace is one of the largest cultural institutions in Latvia. 48 artistic groups and study spaces found their place in this venue. There are international meetings, concerts, congresses and exhibitions, guest performances and performances by local theater groups. 

Polish Culture Center, Vilnus, 11th of October, 2018 

The Polish Culture Center is one of the largest Polish institutions in Lithuania aimed at organizing the cultural life of Poles. 

International Theater Forum TEART at the Central Officers House, Minsk, 8th-9th October, 2018

International Theatre Forum TEART is an opportunity to see the best theatre projects from all over the world. There are no incidental titles in the playbill of the Forum: all the performances represent recognized models of dramatic art awarded with different theatre prizes and making part of prestigious international festival programmes. 

Thalia Hall - The State Philharmonics Sibiu , Romania, 2nd of October, 2019

Malta Festival, Poznan, 19th of June, 2017

IGOR GORZKOWSKI, director

THE HARVEST (premiere: 21 Jan '17) POLKA (premiere: 3 Feb '18)

A director and playwright, co-founder of Studio Teatralne Koło in Warsaw (since 1988) – an independent theater in which he has made most of his performances. He also directed in numerous institutional drama and opera theaters. Nominated two times for the prestigious Warsaw Feliks Theater Award for directing "Starucha/Biddy" (2011) and "Burza/Tempest" (2012). In 2013, he received the Grand Prix at the Two Theaters Festival for his debut radio play inspired by Mewa. Since 2011, he has acted as a deputy artistic director at Teatr Ochota. His original theater has a chamber form that assumes an almost intimate contact between the actor and the viewer. It is a minimalist theater, deprived of staging fireworks.

1. STAGE:

• Stage: 

  • width:  14m (optimum), 10m (minimum)

  • depth:  12m (optimum), 10m (minimum) 

  • height:  10m (optimum),  5m  (minimum)

If stage is smaller a contact with the performance director is required.

• Side wings: black plush, 5 pieces for each side of the stage;

• Stage floor: ballet floor black (for whole stage), carpet or felt backing under the floor; Minimal requirements: canvas backing or floor fabric BT set for whole ballet floor;

• Horizon: black smooth material for the whole width of the stage;

• Place for site specific part of the performance is needed where audience can watch the prolog of the performance before dancers enter the stage.

2. Lighting:

• Dimers: minimum 10A - 49 circuits

• Sidelights tower: 

  • 10 pieces height ca. 2 m – 3 levels to fix lights;

• Headlights: 

  • 15x PC 1kW

  • 19x Fresnel LED RGBW Arri L7-C

  • 6x Fresnel 2kW

  • 24x PAR 64, CP62

  • 12x Profil 750W, 25-50*

  • 10x Profil LED RGBW 25-50*

  • 10x Naświetlacz liniowy LED Cameo Pixbar 400 Pro

  • 2x Robe ColorWash 250 AT

  • 2x Robe ColorWash 575 AT Zoom

  • 4x Martin MAC Quantum Profile

• Controller: Chamsys MagicQ MQ80, standard connection DMX 5pin or art-net required;

3. Sound:

• Stage sound: two ways broadband monitors 4 x 300 W; 2 pieces for each side.

• Audience sound: matched to the size of the audience, free of interference and noise;.

• Mixing console: 

  • Minimum 24 inputs XLR

  • Minimum 4 outputs XLR

  • Possibility of independent amplification level regulation (stage and audience).

• 2 players Tascam SS-R200 or similar that operate SD cards with autopause;

• 2 wireless microphones;

• 1 Di-Box stereo on stage with jack cable 3,5mm (it has to be possible to connect a music player device)

5. Dressing room:

Artistic team is men and female – 17 dancers;

Optimal solution: 4 rooms with mirrors, chairs and dressing tables; 

6. Working time:

• 1h – unloading, loading (in case of our equipment delivery)

• 14h – lighting assembly and programming;

• 2h – rehearsal  

• 1,5h - main performance

• 2h – disassembly

• Technical team on site required:

  • Stage editor – 1 person minimum

  • Batten (bar) service - 1 person

  • Lighting electrician – 2 persons

  • Acoustician – 1 person

  • Stage cleaning person – for 2 hours: to clean ballet floor twice: before a rehearsal and main performance;

Duration of the performance: 60 minutes

Contact:

Producer: Robert Chodyła

mobile: +48 797 636 996

e-mail:  r.chodyla@ptt-poznan.pl

Manager: Alicja Hafke

mobile: +48 535 104 550

e-mail: a.hafke@ptt-poznan.pl

premiere: 29nd June, 2019 at MP2 MTP, Malta Festival 2019

CREDITS:

choreography: Jacek Przybyłowicz

music: Andrzej Konieczny, Kacper Krupa

lighting design: Carsten Wank

costumes: Joanna Klimas 

choreographer's assistant: Anna Krysiak

lighting: Przemysław Gapczyński

stage support: Zuzanna Majewska

sound support: Grzegorz Potocki, Daniel Wiśniewski

CAST:

premiere cast: 

Amy Basley, Evelyn Blue, Julia Hałka, Agnieszka Sara Jachym, Paulina Jaksim, Katarzyna Kulmińska, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Emily Wong, Kacper Bożek, Jerzy Kaźmierczak, Dominik Kupka, Gabriel Lawton, Paweł Malicki, Brage Nordang, Michał Przybyła, Adrian Radwański, Dominik Więcek, Patryk Zamojski 

current cast:

Amy Basley, Evelyn Blue, Julia Hałka, Agnieszka Jachym, Paulina Jaksim, Katarzyna Kulmińska, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Emily Wong-Adryanczyk, Kacper Bożek, Jerzy Kaźmierczak, Zbigniew Kocięba, Dominik Kupka, Paweł Malicki, Daniel Michna, Michał Przybyła, Adrian Radwański

1. STAGE:

stage: optimum 12m x 12m, minimum 12m x 10m height: minimum 6m 

side wings: black, five pieces per each side of the stage floor: black ballet floor (stage size) 

backdrop: black on the width of the stage – 1 piece 

Notice: We do not use an open fire or any pyrotechnical effects on the stage 

2. LIGHTING:

List of the lights and placement – according to the plan of lights. 

Number of dimmers (minimum): 48 pieces 2,5kW each; 

Sidelights tower 2m height – 10 pieces, 3 levels to fix lights. 

Floor stands for lights – 4 pieces, 1 floor level. 

3. SOUND:

Stage sound (12mx12m):

4 x 300W, two ways broadband monitors, two on each side, left and right. 

Audience sound:

In accordance to needs, for around 500 people is 1,5kW on each side (three way speakers set) plus effect speakers as a fulfillment. 

Mixing console: 2 microphone inputs, 3 stereo inputs or 6 line inputs, possibility of independent amplification level regulation (stage and audience). 

• 2 minidiscs with autopause or good quality player on a SD cards (double) 

• 1 wireless microphone for rehearsal 

• 1 microphone headset for vocal 

4. DRESSING ROOM: 

• Artistic team is mixed (male, female). There are 16 people performing. Optimum 4 rooms with mirrors, tables, chairs. 

Duration of the performance: 65 minutes

Contact:

Producer: Robert Chodyła

mobile: +48 797 636 996

e-mail:  r.chodyla@ptt-poznan.pl

Manager: Alicja Hafke

mobile: +48 535 104 550

e-mail: a.hafke@ptt-poznan.pl

Premiere: 21st January 2017 in Poznan, Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan

dramaturgy and director: Igor Gorzkowski

music: Eugeniusz Rudnik and Adam Strug

choreography: Iwona Pasińska and Polish Dance Theatre artists

costumes: Adriana Cygankiewicz

lights: Przemysław Gapczyński, Mariusz Porada

sound project: Michał Garstecki (Free Flay Music)

assistant: Katarzyna Rzetelska

artists: 

Urszula Bernat-Jałocha, Fabian Fejdasz, Julia Hałka, Paulina Jaksim, Zbigniew Kocięba, Jerzy Kaźmierczak, Katarzyna Kulmińska, Kornelia Lech, Paweł Malicki, Marcin Motyl, Michał Przybyła, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Dominik Więcek, Emily Wong - Adryańczyk and guest artist Maciej Cymorek

It is a fairy-tale episode, told with tenderness, gushing with the intense colours of flowers and élan vital. Choreography composed to a suite by Edward Grieg and presented by the artists-dancers of the Polish Dance Theatre takes the audience into the world of flora. It allows to explore a day in the life of a plant from the moment it blooms to the end, drowned in warm nostalgia. We invite you to immerse yourself in the beautiful world of flowers and leaves, in the greens, reds and purples transitioning to the greys and browns of the autumn. And all this told with movement to the rhythm of the dynamic sounds of the suite Peer Gynt op. 1 performed by Trondheim Symfoniorkester & Opera.

It is a fairy-tale episode, told with tenderness, gushing with the intense colours of flowers and élan vital. Choreography composed to a suite by Edward Grieg and presented by the artists-dancers of the Polish Dance Theatre takes the audience into the world of flora. It allows to explore a day in the life of a plant from the moment it blooms to the end, drowned in warm nostalgia. We invite you to immerse yourself in the beautiful world of flowers and leaves, in the greens, reds and purples transitioning to the greys and browns of the autumn. And all this told with movement to the rhythm of the dynamic sounds of the suite Peer Gynt op. 1 performed by Trondheim Symfoniorkester & Opera.

Premiere: June 20 and 21, 2021 at Malta Festival Poznań

Duration: 60 minutes

Creators

Coproduction:Polish Dance Theatre and bodytalk

Concept and choreography: Yoshiko Waki

Assistant Choreographer: Rene Haustein

Dramaturgy: Rolf Baumgart

Scenography and costumes: Nanako Oizumi

Lights: Przemyslaw Gapczynski, Nanako Oizumi, Dariusz Szych

Live music: Damian Pielka

Performance Assistant: Marcus Bomski

Costume assistant: Adriana Cygankiewicz

Technical manager: Dariusz Szych

Dancer-artists: Evelyn Blue, Kacper Bożek, Momoko Den, Bartosz Dopytalski, Julia Halka, Paulina Jaksim, Patryk Jarczok, Jerzy Kazmierczak, Zbigniew Kocięba, Mateusz Krzysiak, Katarzyna Kulmińska, Dominik Kupka, Daniel Michna, JinWoo NamKung, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Zofia Tomczyk, Emily Wong-Adryanczyk