The 8th edition of the Gdańsk Dance Festival will be dominated by the elements. In June, the Suwnicowa Hall of the Żak Club will be covered by earth and flooded by water, with airborne monsters and fiery dancers floating over it. As in the past, the festival will open with local premieres, to be followed by performances of artists from Poland and abroad. The festival will also include dance and theatre criticism workshops.
The event will conclude with the Solo Dance Contest, an international competition that has attracted 60 applications from dancers from 11 countries. The following performances were selected to be presented before the jury and audience on 8?12 June:
1. Smirk / Sara Bleasdale / UK
2. Secret Charm / Joanna Aeltonen / Luxembourg
3. When Princess Green Sees Life In Red / Cindy Clech / France
4. Dynamo / Carmen Laraz / Spain
5. Effacée(s) / Wendy Cornu / France
6. Ospite Lontano, Sindrome di Ulisse / Maxime Freixas / France
7. La la la la / Magdalena Widłak / Poland
8. Jak uprawiać żeby wyszło (How to Practice Successfully) / Kalina Porazińska / Poland
9. We Are Time / Federica Bottini / Italy
10. Divigacion / Carlos Gonzales / Spain
11. Zenit:Nadir / Laura Garcia / Spain
12. Rytm Przestrzeni (Rhythm of Space) / Krystyna Szydłowska / Poland
13. Solo for Real / Jernej Bizjak / Slovenia
14. Inspiracje ? Planetoidy (Inspirations ? Planetoids) / Marta Zawadzka / Poland
15. Tam i tu, tu i tam (There and Here, Here and There) / Agnieszka Janicka / Poland
16. Re:Birth / Yunyi Sun / Spain
17. The River of Her Life / Laura Guy / France/Denmark
18. 6th Dance / Joseph Aka / France
19. Beyond / Jolanda Leoellman / Germany
20. The Dwarf / Canan Yücel Pekiçten / Turkey [UWAGA: POPRAWIĆ IMIĘ I NAZWISKO W TEKŚCIE POL.]
21. Gaveston / Bruno Duarte / Portugal
22. A Step Towards / Enrico Paglialunga / Italy
23. Homogemonia (Homogemony) / Ewelina Drzał Fałkiewicz / Poland
24. Symptoma / Fabian Fejdasz / Poland
25. Requiem for a Cannibal / Stephanie Roser / Germany
26. Timor / Carlitos Aller / Spain
27. Archeopteryx / Yasmin Avissar / Germany
28. Logos / Adel el Shafey / France
29. The Voice and Movement Solo / Ann Kathrin Granhus / Norway
30. Woman on Boarder / Laura Witzleben / Germany
31. The Outfit / Afina Feodassidi / Germany
The Gdańsk Dance Festival is organised by the Żak Club. The event is co-financed by the City of Gdańsk and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The festival is held under the auspices of the Gdańsk Water and Sewage Infrastructure Company.