KRAKOW DANCE THEATRE
Dance Communication Lab
18th-20th September 2024, Kraków, Poland
Krakow Dance Theatre invites you to the secondKrakow edition of the Dance Communication Lab!
DCL – Dance Communication Lab – is a space for the exchange of experiences between participants. The main purpose of the meeting is for six dancers to get to know each other through improvisation which is the most expressive and characteristic creative process in contemporary dance.
The main theme of the DCL will be SPACE.
The DCL is based on the democratisation of the creative process, on the cooperation of all participants on equal terms. The DCL organised in Krakow envisages inviting a local artist - the idea supervisor for this year's DCL will be Jakub Mędrzycki.
Jakub Mędrzycki - dancer and choreographer. He obtained a Bachelor's degree at CODARTS - University of the Arts in Rotterdam. From 2015 to 2019 a member of the Swedish dance theater Norrdans. He has worked with such choreographers and directors as: Jan Martens, Club Guy and Roni, Shahar Binyamini, Jo Stromgren, Fernando Melo, Shumpei Namoto, Yossi Berg & Odded Graf, Mari Carassco, Peter Svensson, Lenka Vagnerova, Mariusz Treliński. He has performed in over thirty countries around the world. Jakub is the author of several dance creations performed in Poland, the Netherlands and Sweden. He also cooperated with the La Monnaie Theater in Brussels, Bobbiloproduktion in Malmo, the Grand Theater in Warsaw and the Rampa Theater. In 2020 together with other artists he created the United Limbs collective, bringing together various artistic communities. Currently Jakub collaborates with the Norwegian group Jo Stromgren Kompani.
The DCL will close with a public performance as part of the ROLLERCOASTER dance presentation programme on the stage of the Cricoteka - Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor in Krakow.
The project is carried out within the framework of Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery is a Creative Europe project (2023-2026) created by Central Europe Dance Theatre – CEDT (Hungary), Bunker (Slovenia), Hrvatski institut za pokret i ples - HIPP (Croatia), Krakow Dance Theatre (Poland), M Studio (Romania) and Vitlycke – CPA (Sweden) to foster local development of the contemporary dance fields.
The main goal of the Dance Communication Lab is to facilitate networking between dance artists from different countries and provide them with relevant experience that will help them develop their careers in the international dance scene.
Who is the DCL for?
The DCL is aimed at dance professionals, dancers, choreographers and practitioners of movement activities. The workshop will be a creative meeting of independent artists who will share their experiences, ways of acting and creative tools.
We invite artists from Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania and Sweden to apply.
Time and place
17th Sep 2024 – arrival in Krakow
18th-19th Sep 2024 – creative process
20th Sep 2024 – open show for the public
21st Sep 2024 – departure
Place: Cricoteka - the Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, Krakow, Poland
What do we provide?
Krakow Dance Theatre provides:
The Beyond Front@ project partner from your country will cover:
travel costs
fees (EUR 150 gross)
We will announce the results of the open call by 30th June.
Any questions?
Write to us! Krakow Dance Theatre – Beyond Front@ project: krakowdancetheatre.bf@gmail.com