5-6 May, 2018
Piwnica Kany, 4/5 św. Piotra i Pawła Square, Szczecin

We invite you to another adventure with the Traveling Academy of Traditional Dance. It will take place during the long May weekend (ie 1-3 May). This time, we will look at different ways of dancing not only in the villages but also in cities in the interwar period, as well as post-war period.

The dancings under the open sky, on the carefully arranged Roofs, were a permanent part of the cultural landscape not only of Warsaw, Lublin or Krakow but also - and perhaps most of all - Szczecin, Międzyzdroje, Darłówek and other coastal cities and towns. The bands that came to Westpomeranian Region from different sides were playing not only familiar polka or oberek but also imported, rumors, sentimental tango and waltzes heard on the radio or cinema.

The workshop will be conducted by Piotr Zgorzelski - an ethnologist, dancer, actor and culture animator who is known in Szczecin for over 25 years. He has been disseminating, promoting and teaching Polish traditional dances in non-static forms for almost 25 years. He is the author of online dance lessons posted on the YouTube channel - Taniec Tradycyjnia. Together with IMiT he co-created the website www.taniec.edu.pl.

He gained his experience by learning directly from rural dancers as well as analyzing available archival sources, developing his own curriculum, taking into account contemporary predispositions and skills of the generation devoid of lively contact with folk music. He runs the Traditional Dance Academy which includes dance and dance workshops in Poland and around the world.

He conducts workshops of Polish traditional dances in non-physical forms in the country and abroad. He is a co-founder of the Warsaw "Dom Tańca" Association (1994).

05/05/2018

10.00 am - 02.30 pm (with a 30-minute break) - workshops;
02.40 am - 03.40 pm - lecture / screening of films / discussion panel with the lecturer.

06/05/2018

11.00 am - 01.00 pm - workshops.

Expense:

PLN90 for payments until 27/04/2018
PLN110 after the deadline of 27/04/2018

The condition for participation in the workshop is e-mail application.

Registration: oj.pio4@gmail.com

Contributions to the account 65 1240 1053 1111 0010 2755 1434
in the title: "THE TRADITIONAL DANCE ACADEMY OF CHANCE - SZCZECIN + name and surname".

You should bring comfortable shoes with you, a comfortable outfit (girls would be nice if they had skirts with them) and drinking water.