21 October 2017 8:00 PM
Antresola CSM
The jury will be headed by:
fot. Jacek Giluń
ZOFIA RUDNICKA - Polish dancer, choreographer, actress, lecturer at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, and a graduate of the Turczynowicz Ballet School. She has performed at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw as a ballet soloist, and worked on the choreographies for various opera and ballet performances.
Since 1970s, she has cooperated with the Polish Television, and participated in numerous revue, music and ballet programmes. She has developed choreographies for recitals, fashion shows, song festivals and ballet films. Moreover, she has cooperated with the Entertainment Theatre in Chorzów, the Jerzy Szaniowski Dramatic Theatre in Płock, the Syrena Theatre in Warsaw, the Music Theatre in Gliwice and the Mazovia Musical Theatre Operetta.
In 2003, she was awarded the Golden Mask Prize in recognition of the choreography for the ballet performance “Rudolf Valentino” with music by Krzesimir Dębski. At present, she works as an assistant professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, where she teaches dance composition.
The jury will include also:
JACEK PRZYBYŁOWICZ − choreographer. Graduate of the State Ballet School in Warsaw and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. From 1987 to 1991, he was a dancer in the Grand Theatre in Warsaw. He had his debuted as a choreographer then, designing “Negocjacje” [Negotiations] to music by Alessandro Marcello. The composition was awarded first prize for choreography and the prize for interpretation at the II Polish Choreography Competition in Łódź. It was also presented on the stage of the Grand Theatre in Warsaw at the VI Warsaw Ballet Days.
In 1991, he left Poland and danced with groups in Germany and Israel. He had been part of one of the best contemporary dance groups in the world, the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company (Israel). Between 1994 and 2001, he danced with the group at the most prestigious contemporary dance festivals, visiting over 50 countries all over the world, including the USA, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan.
In 2002, he came back to Poland to produce “The Ring of the Dove” (2003) in Polish Dance Theatre, under the direction of Ewa Wycichowska. A year later, invited to Biennale de la Danse in Lyon, he produced “Barocco” (2004). He also prepared “Jesień-Nuembir” [Autumn-Nuembir] (2008) for Polish Dance Theatre.
In recent years, Przybyłowicz produced three ballets for the National Opera in Warsaw: a few short sequences with a video realised by Katarzyna Kozyra, Alpha Kryonie Xe (2010), and the Symphony No. 3, Song of the Night (as part of the event Szymanowski and dance in the Grand Theatre’s National Opera in Warsaw, 2006). In 2010, he created “Sono nero” [I Am Black] for the dance gala organised in Rome by UNESCO. In 2012, he created “Six wings of angels” for Polish National Ballet, directed by Krzysztof Pastor.
He co-created “Teren Tańca – Reinterpretacje” [Dance Area – Reinterpretations], a cycle popularising dance and teaching about it, organised with the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. In 2010, he became the curator of the annual Poznan Ballet Spring festival in the Grand Theatre. From the season 2009/2010 to the season 2013/2014, he was the Deputy Director for Ballet at the Stanisław Moniuszko Grand Theatre in Poznań.
He received three scholarships from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
photo: archives of the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow
WITOLD JUREWICZ - dance teacher, choreographer, director, performer, lecturer at the Music Academy in Łódź (field of study: choreography), the State Post-Secondary College for Cultural Operators in Kalisz, and coach courses in modern dance across the country.
The founder, art director and choreographer of the Alter Dance Theatre. In the period from 1992 to 2008, he was the art director of the International Presentations of Modern Dance Forms Festival in Kalisz.
The author of an educational programme on modern dance and theory of movement. He developed a movement technique which uses a pressure point as a basis for movement corresponding to individual motor skills of a body.
Moreover, he cooperates with various theatres of drama across Poland, including the Jaracz Theatre in Łódź, the Bogusławski Theatre in Kalisz, the Słowacki Theatre in Krakow, the Polish Theatre in Poznań and the Modrzejewska Theatre in Legnica. He participates in numerous dance and theatre projects, and runs workshops at home and abroad.
