News From Polska Performing Arts Festival – fifth edition May 5 – 11, 2025
National Center for Dance Bucharest & Teatrelli
Under the theme Resisting Bodies, the News From Polska Festival proposes a curatorial concept dedicated to the human body as a space of resistance, transformation and empowerment in a world of crises on all levels. The fifth edition proposes to the Bucharest audience four performances from Poland, which provoke questions, lead to unfamiliar ways of thinking, imagining and defining multiple forms of the protest potential of the body in movement. All performances are subtitled in Romanian, and tickets will be available soon on bilet.ro.
The schedule of the performances is:
May 5, 2025, 19:30
𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐊𝐀 𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐊𝐀 𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐊𝐀 𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐊𝐀 𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐊𝐀 𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐊𝐀
Concept, direction, choreography: Dominika Knapik
Production: Performa Foundation
@Centrul Național al Dansului București
May 7, 2025, 19:30
To bitch or not to bitch
Directed, choreographed, performed by Hertz Haus (Magdalena Kowala, Natalia Murawska, Joanna Woźna, Anna Zglenicka)
Production: Hertz Haus
@Centrul Național al Dansului București
May 9, 2025, 19:30
WoW
Concept, direction, choreography: Marta Wołowiec
Production: Przestrzenie Sztuki Taniec 2023, Wrocławski Teatr Pantomimy
@Centrul Național al Dansului București
Alongside these performances representative of contemporary Polish performing arts, the organizers also propose workshops for dance professionals, exploring the connections between other artistic languages and the moving body, as well as the expressive power of improvisation and intuitive dance.
May 5, 2025, 9:00 am
Between disciplines
Contemporary dance workshop for professionals
With Dominika Knapik
@Centrul Național al Dansului București
May 8, 2025, 4:00 pm
Open Bodies. Intuitive dance / Improvisation
Contemporary dance workshop for professionals
With Marta Wołowiec
@Teatrelli – CREART
Project team
Andreea Andrei – curator
Paweł Rutkowski – project manager Polish Institute in Bucharest
Alex Iliescu – graphic design
Anca Spiridon – PR and communication
Gabriel Copoeru – teaser video
The event is organized within the framework of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2025 and the Poland-Romania Cultural Season 2024-2025, the result of the cooperation between the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, the Romanian Ministry of Culture and the Romanian Cultural Institute, with the support of the Polish Institute in Bucharest.
Organiser
Polish Institute in Bucharest
Co-financed by
Adam Mickiewicz Institute Warsaw
Partners
The National Center for Dance Bucharest, Teatrelli – CREART
Media partners
Bookhub, Daily Magazine, Happ.ro, Haute Culture, Iscoada, LIFE.ro, Liternet, Modernism, Observator Cultural, Radio România Cultural, Revista Arta, Revista BIZ, Revista Golan, The Institute, Visit Bucharest, Zeppelin, Zile și Nopți.