The Cracovia Danza Court Ballet is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2016. Plenty of featured events will be held especially for the people of Krakow to mark the occasion throughout the whole year, among them theatre premieres, open-air spectacles, urban space happenings, as well as a symposium with the participation of foreign ballet stars. The main jubilee celebrations are scheduled to take place in October, when Cracovia Danza will showcase the premiere of Caught While Dancing at the ICE Kraków Congress Centre, with music composed for this occasion by Zygmunt Konieczny and Jacek Stankiewicz. As part of the celebrations, the ensemble will also produce Sleeping Beauty in the style of a Baroque fable, especially for its younger audiences.
Cracovia Danza’s 2016 calendar already abounds in numerous performances in Poland and abroad. The ballet will appear, amongst others, at such prestigious venues as the Stanislawowski Theatre in Lazienki Park in Warsaw, Poland, jointly with Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense Early Instruments Ensemble of the Warsaw Chamber Opera, and at the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw, Poland, where it will perform along with The Violin Consort. Also upcoming are tours of India, Greece, Germany and France. Despite having no stage of its own, performing in its home city of Krakow has always been and will continue to be the company’s priority. In its anniversary year, Cracovia Danza will stage extra performances in its home city to celebrate its 10 years with the people of Krakow.
Honorary patronage: The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, The Mayor of the City of Krakow Jacek Majchrowski Media patrons of the jubilee year: Rzeczpospolita, Dziennik Polski, TVP3 Kraków, Radio Kraków, Gość Niedzielny, portal taniecPOLSKA.pl, Kwartalnik Taniec, Miesięcznik Kraków, GlobMedium.com, CzasDzieci.pl, PolskaMuza.euEditorial support: Karnet
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The following events are just a few of those scheduled to take place in Krakow as part of Cracovia Danza’s 10th anniversary celebrations:
- Cracovia Danza: for dance - a series of performances featuring venues where the ballet company has already appeared, and in new spaces as well;
- a symposium with the participation of ballet stars from all over the world, including speakers from the world of science;
- Cracovia Danza: ballet in the city - a series of monthly happenings where the Ensemble will perform for residents and tourists alike in unusual formats, and in unconventional spaces like squares, streets, shopping centres, the railway station and the airport;
- participation in the city’s important cultural events: the Lajkonik Procession, the Wreaths Festival (Queen Bona’s Masquerade with a grand parade), Theatre Night, the Cracovia Sacra Night, World Youth Day (historical re-enactments of the mediaeval Main Market Square, fragments of the Around Veit Stoss performance, and greeting the Pope);
- "Cracovia Danza" Court Dance Festival where dance presentations in the Main Market Square and two performances featuring international artists will be held;
- TIME FOR DANCE! - a series of meetings presenting ballet and choreography masters;
- Cracovia Danza: for children - a series of performances for children living in group homes, young patients at hospitals, and schoolchildren attending all types of schools and other educational centres.
