Fot. Kasia Chmura-Cegiełkowska.
Friday, 7 November, sees the launch of the Polish Dance Platform. The event, to last until Sunday, is a competitive showcase of the most interesting dance performances produced by Polish artists in the last two years. The finals of the Polish Dance Platform 2014 are taking place in Lublin on 7?9 November. This year’s event is organised by the Institute of Music and Dance in Warsaw in association with the Centre for Culture in Lublin. The pieces presented this year have been selected by a nine-person Artistic Commission. They spent the last year and a half travelling across the country to watch almost a hundred works entered into the competition, and chose 13 to go to the finals. Among the successful works there are ones by recognised artists who have already become legends of the Polish dance scene, and by young, emerging creators.
Apart from the chance to see dance performances, the Platform offers presentations of the latest developments on the dance scenes of selected Central and Eastern European countries (Mapping dance), and a series of meetings with artists recommended by the Platform?s Artistic Commission (Artist at a Glance). As part of the Platform, a networking event Open Platform will be held to facilitate new contacts between artists and institutions that support contemporary dance here in Poland and abroad. Finally, the event sees two panel discussions featuring Polish and foreign guests: Dance platform: a short user?s manual and Where? And what for?). All of the additional events are held on Saturday and Sunday, 8?9 November.
The festival venues are the Centre for Culture in Lublin and the “Chatka Żaka” Academic Art Centre.
List of acts featured at the final showcase of the Polish Dance Platform 2014 (A-Z):
3. For living in, Hygin Delimat
6. Insight, Janusz Orlik, Joanna Leśnierowska
9. Re:akcje (Re:actions), Pracownia Fizyczna
12. Upadek przyszłości (The Failure of a Future), Irad Mazliah, Zbigniew Szumski
13. Zagraj to, czyli 17 tańców o czymś (Play It, or 17 Dances About Something), Dada von Bzdülow Theatre
Artist at a Glance:
Izabela Chlewińska, Iza Szostak, Magdalena Jędra, Daniel Stryjecki, KIJO Group, Koncentrat Artistic Group, DanceLab, Amareya Theatre, Irena Lipińska, Barbara Bujakowska, Clever Team (Radek Hewelt, Filip Szatarski), Anna Steller.
The finals of the Polish Dance Platform will, as always, gather festival directors, representatives of dance centres, journalists, and curators from Europe, the USA , and Asia. We believe that this way the Platform helps Polish contemporary dance artists to secure themselves a permanent spot on the national and international cultural map.
Programme and more information: www.polishdanceplatform.pl
and in the Events section on taniecpolska.pl.
