The Kraków Dance Festival is a brand-new initiative by the Kraków Choreography Centre, bringing together three of its existing brands – the SPACER Contemporary Dance Festival, the 3…2…1…DANCE! choreography competition and the BalletOFFFestival – into a single international event with a wider scope. It will be held every summer at the Nowa Huta Cultural Centre.
The aim of the festival is to elevate the significance of contemporary dance, explore its depth and interdisciplinary potential, encourage discussion among participants versus the arts, and foster the creative potential of dancers, choreographers and performers.
The review is preceded by artistic residences, with premieres of performances held during the festival. The programme also features dance workshops with instructors from Poland and abroad for participants of all levels and ages, dance spectacles, discussion panels and accompanying events.
Main programme (spectacles)
- 9 August 2021
7pm, premiere of “TYTUM”, Poernima Gobardhan, Marta Wołowiec / Nowa Huta Cultural Centre Stage, tickets PLN 20/30 - 10 August 2021
9pm “Mechanics of Distance”, Máté Mészáros / Nowa Huta Cultural Centre stairway, tickets PLN 20/30
8pm “Sticky Fingers Club” Daniela Komędera-Miśkiewicz, Dominika Wiak, Dominik Więcek, Monika Witkowska / Nowa Huta Cultural Centre Stage, PLN 20/30 - 11 August 2021
3pm “_on_line_” (spectacle for children aged 5-7 and their carers), Holobiont Collective / Nowa Huta Cultural Centre Stage, tickets PLN 50
6.30pm “_on_line_” (spectacle for children aged 5-7 and their carers), Holobiont Collective / Nowa Huta Cultural Centre Stage, tickets PLN 50
8pm PREMIERE “THE VESSEL”, Karolina Kraczkowska / KCC residence / KCC Studio, tickets PLN 20/30 - 12 August 2021
7pm “Jumpcore”, Paweł Sakowicz / Biała Gallery, tickets PLN 20/30
9.30pm PREMIERE “site specific (vertical dance + mapping), LineAct, Tomasz Gawroński / Nowa Huta Cultural Centre Rynek, free entry - 13 August 2021
9pm “Tens”, Marta Wołowiec, “Day When V. Made Me Think, Or How I Stopped Procrastinating”, Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska / Nowa Huta Cultural Centre Stage, combined ticket PLN 20/30 - 14 August 2021
4pm 10th Choreography Competition 3…2…1…Dance! / Nowa Huta Cultural Centre Stage, tickets PLN 15/25
The competition will be followed by a discussion on the presented works - 15 August 2021
6pm evening with winners of the 3…2…1…DANCE! competition / KCC Studio, tickets PLN 15/25 zlotys
8pm “Coda (a tribute)”, Janusz Orlik, Joanna Leśnierowska / Nowa Huta Cultural Centre Stage, tickets PLN 20/30
Entry passes to all spectacles: PLN 150 (not including the children’s event “_on_line_”)
Accompanying events:
- 13, 20, 27 July 20201: Online meetings with Joanna Leśnierowska “Looking at Dance”
- 1-31 August 2021: Exhibition of photographs by Klaudyna Schubert / Nowa Huta Cultural Centre Rynek
- 9-15 August 2021: evening discussions following spectacles
- 9-15 August: Contemporary dance workshops (beginners and advanced), Gaga People and Dancers, movement workshops for children aged 5-7 and their carers, Sisterhood Practice workshop, details: https://nck.krakow.pl/kcc/krakowski-festiwal-tanca/warsztaty/
