The Polish Dance Platform, 1-4 Apr 2017, Bytom, Poland

The Polish Dance Platform

Bytom, 1-4 April 2017

The Polish Dance Platform aims to seek out and promote the most interesting original dance productions made in Poland or by Polish choreographers. The first event of this kind in Poland was the "taniec.pl" showcase held in 2003 in Warsaw as part of the Body/Mind International Contemporary Dance Festival. The idea was revived five years later. To date, Poznań’s Zamek Culture Centre and the Art Stations Foundation have made three editions of the showcase happen: in 2008, 2010 and 2012. In 2013 the two institutions made an agreement with the Institute of Music and Dance in Warsaw which made it the main organiser of the event.

Since then, the Platform has travelled Poland and has been organised in association with local dance communities. The previous edition took place in Lublin in 2014 and was organised in collaboration with the Centre for Culture in Lublin.

It is open for all contemporary and classical dance professionals. Participants of the final, three-day showcase will be selected through competition. In 2017, the pieces will be selected by a five-member jury including artists, journalists, curators and dance theorists.

The finale of the forthcoming edition of the Polish Dance Platform will be held on 1–4 April 2017 in Bytom. Fans of dance know this city well, as it is home to Jacek Łumiński and the Silesian Dance Theatre, whose work makes it one of the most important dance centres in Poland. In 2017, ROZBARK Bytom Dance and Movement Theatre will be the Platform’s main co-organiser, and partners will include the Bytom Centre for Culture, the Ludwik Solski State Drama School in Cracow – Dance Theatre Department in Bytom, and the Silesian Opera in Bytom.

Polish Dance Platform 2017 programme

saturday, 1 April

4–5:20 pm
ROZBARK Theatre
ROZBARK Theatre, "Lost in the Skin"

6–7 pm
Bytom Centre of Culture
Lublin Dance Theatre, "Stalking Paradise"

7:45–8:45 pm
Interplast Plastic Products hall
Iza Szostak, "Excavatory Ballet"

9:15 pm
Silesian Opera
Official opening

Kielce Dance Theatre, "Beyond the Horizon"

10:15 pm
Banquet

11 pm
Festival club

sunday, 2 April

10 am – 12 pm
Bytom Centre of Culture
Open Platform – networking

12:30–1:30 pm
ROZBARK Theatre – conference room
Discussions with artists

1:30–2:30 pm
Lunch

3:30–4:10 pm | 5–5:40 pm
PWST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow – Dance Theatre Department in Bytom, room 307
Aurora Lubos, '"Witajcie/Welcome"

6:30–7:20 pm
Bytom Centre of Culture
Karol Tymiński, "This Is a Musical"

8–9 pm
ROZBARK Theatre
Via Negativa /Ja Ja Ja Ne Ne Ne, "The Ninth"

10–11 pm
ROZBARK Theatre
Marta Ziółek/ Komuna//Warszawa, "Make Yourself"

11 pm
Festival club

monday, 3 April

10 am – 12 pm
PWST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow – Dance Theatre Department in Bytom
Presentation by the students of the PWST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow – Dance Theatre Department in Bytom

12:30–1:30 pm
ROZBARK Theatre
Discussions with artists

1:30–2:30 pm
ROZBARK Theatre
Lunch

4–4:40 pm
ROZBARK Theatre
Renata Piotrowska-Auffret, "Death: Exercises and Variations"

5:30–6 pm
Bytom Centre of Culture
Paweł Sakowicz, "TOTAL"

6:15–7 pm
Bytom Centre of Culture
Katarzyna Chmielewska/ Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre, "Why Don't You Like Sadness"

7:30–8:30 pm
Silesian Opera
Sławek Krawczyński, Anna Godowska, "Bataille and the Dawn of New Days"

9–9:40 pm
ROZBARK Theatre
Maria Zimpel, "noish~"

9:40–10:30 pm
ROZBARK Theatre
Discussions with artists

10:30 pm
ROZBARK Theatre
Closing Party

tuesday, 4 April

10 am – 12 pm
ROZBARK Theatre
Discussion panel 1

12–2 pm
Discussion panel 2

2–3 pm
Lunch

3–5 pm
Discussion panel 3