Creations 18

After the Saturday evening performance (14 February), Katarzyna Dąbrowska, the editor-in-cheif of Glamour, will host an open meeting with the artists.  

 

MoveLab, or see movement up close and personal

45 minut before the performances on 12, 13, and 14 February, the young choreographers will present their creative process in the downstairs foyer.    

'We came to the conclusion that a choreographic workshop should be an integral part of a ballet company’s life if the company harbours the ambition to carve out an original artistic style for itself. Without attempts to find new paths, fresh means of expression and even a new language, ballet would be a mildly unexciting art, offering little

surprise or challenge to its audience. Perhaps it would be a dead art.  
'For this reason, each year our dancers take it upon themselves to stage new choreographic creations,  handling the whole production process and preparation of the programme brochure, poster, and other promotional efforts. Naturally and most importantly, they both choreograph and perform the works.

'Each year sees new miniatures, mostly choreographed by dancers with prior choreographic experience from the previous editions of the workshop, but there are some newcomers, too. I look forward to seeing each and every one of them, because that is how new choreographic talents are born. Some – such as Robert Bondara and Anna Hop – have already gained our admiration.'
 

Krzysztof Pastor
Director of the Polish National Ballet

PROGRAMME

Antonio Lanzo 
L’après-midi d’un faune (The Afternoon of a Faun)

Dancers:  
Faun: Nikodem Bialik, Nymph: George Edwards
Projections: Claire Barrow 
Music: Claude Debussy 

Antonio Casti 
Dance and I 

Dancers: Aoi Choi, Laurence Elliot 
Music: Edvard Grieg 

Olga Yaroshenko 
Kiedy się boję (When I Am Scared)

Dancer: Vladimir Yaroshenko 
Music: Karolina Sienkiewicz 

Mateusz Buszka 
Zanurzeni (Submerged)

Dancers: Jagoda Świderska, Mikołaj Spiżewski 
Music: Szymon Brzóska, Zygmunt Stojewski 

INTERMISSION

Kristóf Szabó 
Beyond Pas de deux

Dancers: Jaeeun Jung, Natalia Pasiut, Jaime Bustamante, Kasper Górczak, Ryota Kitai   
Music: Moritz Moszkowski, Giuseppe Valentini 

Gianni Melfi  
Unititled

Dancers: Chinara Alizade, Bogdan Verbovoy 
Music: Benjamin Rimmer 

Ivan Pal 
5x5 dances

Dancers: Diogo de Oliviera, Gianni Melfi, Alan Polański, Roberto Olivieri, Cezary Szlachta 
Music: Akira Yamaoka 

Joanna Drabik  
Fuzja błon komórkowych (Cell Membrane Fusion)

Dancers: Oliwia Górecka, Wiktoria Kotlińska, Paulina Magier, Daria Majewska 
Music: Rodrigo Gallardo, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Assistant choroegrapher: Bartosz Zyśk 
Aria from Don Giovanni: Paweł Czekała (bass)
Lights: Bartosz Zyśk