The performance, choreographed by Romana Agnel and Dariusz Brojek, takes the audience on a journey to the Branicki Palace in 18th-century Bialystok, where the art of ballet flourished.
The performance not only shows how the first Polish ballet schools and companies were established, but also reveals the secrets of the education, the methods used and the mastery of the teachers of that time. We can see original choreographies of European ballet from the first half of the 18th century (by the French choreographer Louis Pecourt) and a careful selection of music and dances. The story of the ballet's beginnings is filled with dances such as, among others, minuet, allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue, gavotte or la folias well as music of popular composers of that time, including Corelli, Boccherini or Lully. Fragments of André Campry's ballet ‘L'Europe Galante’ (Exquisite Europe), which were very famous at the time, are also part of the performance.
Video is only available in Poland.
