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Krakow dances. Workshops full of surprises! - Registration for workshops during 19th Cracovia Danza Court Dance Festival

War and Peace – this exciting theme will accompany us in this year’s 19th edition of the ‘Cracovia Danza’ Court Dance Festival, which will take place from 22 to 29 July 2018 in Kraków. Cracovia Danza Ballet – the organiser of this world-renowned festival – is happy to announce many attractions, both artistic performances and workshop classes, which will be available this year.   Relevant to the festival’s theme, our workshop offer has been updated to incorporate new courses, including those on dances of both war and peace. The most notable examples are historical fencing classes, taught by Mateusz Jabczanik, and a course on Indian martial dance Chhau, mentored by a New Dehli-based master of this style, Rajesh Sai Babu. Another new class in this year’s programme will focus on French contredanses. This style, as well as Baroque dance, will be taught by Pierre-Francois Dolle, dancer, choreographer and founder of Fantaisies Baroques Ensemble.   Furthermore, the offer features courses by many illustrious dancing masters: Barbara Segal (English dance, Baroque dance), Marie-Claire Bär Le Corre (French dance), Ana Yepes (Spanish dance), Gloria Giordano (Italian dance), Alaknanda Bose (Indian Kathak dance) and Leszek Rembowski (Polish dance). It also includes acting workshops: pantomime (with Krzysztof Antkowiak) and commedia dell’arte (with Agnieszka Cianciara-Fröhlich).   As one can see, Kraków will be hosting numerous dance celebrities from all over the world. The ‘Cracovia Danza’ Festival is an exceptional opportunity to meet the dancing masters all in one place and benefit from their knowledge and experience for a full week. The classes will take place in central Kraków, in the vicinity of the Planty Park, in the 19th-century building of ‘Nowodworek’ (Bartłomiej Nowodworski High School).   Cracovia Danza – Kraków dances in July!   Feel invited to join us! Workshop registration has begun – we are awaiting applications at ardentesole@ardentesole.art.pl. REGISTRATION
  • Workshop
  • Renaissance
  • Commedia dell'Arte
  • Baroque
  • Spanish baroque
  • mixed
  • All levels

Freydanz e.V.

Der Verein freydanz gründete sich 2007 aus den Renaissancetanzkursen der Universität Leipzig. Inzwischen engagieren sich 31 Mitglieder - vom Lehrling bis zum Unternehmer - als Musiker, Tänzer und Sänger. Regelmäßig tritt die Gruppe auf Mittelalterfesten wie der Lutherhochzeit in Wittenberg auf. Sie organisiert aber auch Bälle und veranstaltet zweimal im Jahr Tanzabende. In Leipzig werden offene Treffs, Kurse und Workshops angeboten.
freydanz ist überzeugt, dass jeder tanzen kann und tanzt deshalb nicht nur vor sondern auch mit dem Publikum: Den Zuschauern werden die Tänze erläutert, sodass sie gleich mittanzen können. Die Besucher genießen es, so vom Beobachter zum lebendigen Teil des Festes zu werden.

Das Repertoire von freydanz umfasst Tänze des Volkes und der Höfe aus Spätmittelalter, Renaissance und Frühbarock. Schwerpunkte legen freydanz auf französische Branlen (vorwiegend Kreistänze), englische Gassentänze und italienische Paartänze.
Die Vereinsmitglieder versuchen der Geschichte nahe zu kommen, ohne jedoch die Authentizität zum Dogma zu erheben. Die Kostüme von freydanz sind weitgehend selbst genäht und umfassen die Epochen vom 12. bis zum 17. Jahrhundert. Der Spaß an der Sache steht bei freydanz im Vordergrund und letztendlich bleibt es jedem selbst überlassen, wie detailliert historisch er sich kleiden möchte.

  • Dance group
  • mixed
Freydanz
freydanz@gmx.de

Tanzgruppe Rossina

Wir tanzen historische Tänze vornehmlich der Renaissance und des Barock. Die Gruppe ist altersmäßig gemischt. Neue Mitglieder sind uns stets willkommen; ein Partner wird dabei nicht benötigt - aber Spaß am Tanzen!

Wir treffen uns jeden Mittwoch von 20:00  bis 21:30 in Hamburg-Altona, meist auch in den Ferien. Für eine Probestunde am besten vorher per Mail (info@rossina) Bescheid sagen!

  • Ongoing classes
  • mixed
  • All levels

The Continual Triumph of Apollo: Nijinsky’s Saraband and Ballets Russes Baroque

7.30pm

with MILLICENT HODSON (choreographer/dance historian) & KENNETH ARCHER (scenic consultant and art historian)

Our venue this year is the

Sands Studio Rotherhithe, 82 St Marychurch St, London SE16 4HZ.

This year’s lecture will be part of a whole weekend of early dance in collaboration with the Commedia Festival at Sands Studio.

Read more here: http://www.earlydancecircle.co.uk/events/

  • Course
  • mixed
  • All levels

Kathreinstanz

Am Vorabend zu „stillen Zeit“ durfte traditionell noch einmal tüchtig gegessen, getanzt und gefeiert werden. Diese Tradition des „Kathreintanzes“ pflegen wir am 25. November 2022. Wir laden Sie herzlich zu unserem Tanzabend ein. Unsere Tanzmeister erklären die Tänze, Rund- und Gassentänze von der Renaissance bis in die Zeit von Jane Austen. Danach tanzen wir sie gemeinsam zur Live-Musik unserer Musikgruppen und unserer Gäste von „Wild Violett“. Für das leibliche Wohl ist durch unser Imbissbuffet gesorgt. Über gewandete Gäste freuen wir uns natürlich sehr. Dies ist allerdings nicht obligatorisch.

Wir begrüßen außerdem unsere musikalischen Gäste Wild Violett.

Beginn: 19.30 Uhr (Einlass 19.00 Uhr)
Eintritt: 19 Euro (Abendkasse)

Kurzfristige Änderungen wegen der pandemischen Lage geben wir auf unserer Homepage bekannt.

  • Ball
  • mixed
  • All levels

Per Sørensen

Per is a teacher in folk dancing and social dancing and has many years of experience. He and his wife Pia has published booklets with folk dances and social dances.

  • Teacher
  • mixed
Ole
piaper@stofanet.dk
+45 30 27 50 69

Annette Thomsen

Annette is a Danish dance teacher with many years of experience in folk dancing and social dancing and has for many years taught courses in education of dance teachers in folk dance. Annette and her husbond Ole Skov has interpreted and published old social dances and CD's with the music.

  • Teacher
  • mixed
Ole
at@os.dk
0045 51 24 80 91

The 18th Cracovia Danza Court Dance Festival

The 18th Cracovia Danza Court Dance Festival will take place in Krakow between July 30th and August 6th. Held under the In the Far East title, this year’s edition will concentrate on Asia. As usual, the Festival will welcome an international circle of dancers who will take part in open-air performances, presentations and court dance workshops. The 2017 festival edition will explore the main theme of the fan, a prop which fulfilled a role of profound importance in dances and choreographies of different styles and periods.

For the first time in the history of the festival, Korean dancers of the Chum-Sarang Arts Academy will come to Krakow and perform alongside the Jeolla Samhyenyukak music group. Jang Tae Yun with her students will present court dances of old-time Korea to mark the opening of the festival at the Renaissance Villa Decius, and will also appear during the Dances of 1001 Nights spectacle held in the Main Market Square on Saturday, August 5th. In that same performance in the Main Square we will also see Alaknanda Bose, expert of the Indian Kathak dance and a special guest of the festival for many years, with her group Sanskriti. On the second night of the festival finale, August 6th, the Cracovia Danza Ballet will appear with their Dancing Fan show alongside guest artists invited to the performance.

This year’s festival programme has been designed to unfold like a dance map of Krakow. On the Finale weekend (August 5th-6th), a veritable feast, Fiesta di Danza, will be prepared for the audience in the Main Market Square. This is where you may see not only great international spectacles, dance presentations  brought together by the participants of the festival workshops, the performance given by this year’s holder of the resident ensemble title, but also participate in the grand Ball for the public (Saturday, August 5th). Also, the performance of the acclaimed Sbandieratori group of Ferrara who will present a mesmerising show of flag juggling, alongside the musicians of the Rione Santo Spirito district of Ferrara, is sure to become another highlight of the Festival. At the same time — all throughout the grand finale on Saturday and Sunday — some of the city’s historical places, situated right in the bustling heart of Krakow, will come alive thanks to dance. The Barbican will provide a setting for Travelling with Dance, dances At the Court and In the Palace will be held at the Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace, and Collegium Maius — Jagiellonian University’s oldest building — will provide the backdrop for stories told with dance in The Study and Performance of Dance. Ages past will be conjured up through music, costumes, and, above all, the artistry of adept dancers, among them those of the Cracovia Danza Ballet and court dance masters: Barbara Segal, Marie-Claire Bär Le Corre and Gloria Giordano.

This year a distinction for young talented artists was awarded by Romana Agnel, the director of the festival, for the first time. The title of the resident ensemble and the opportunity to perform in front of a wide audience in the Main Market Square were offered to the “La Danza Antica” Music and Dance Ensemble from Lębork, laureate of this year’s “Schola Cantorum” Festival.

As every year, the festival is accompanied by 5-day long workshops, which this year will take place under the banner of “Krakow Dances”. Around 200 participants from Poland and abroad will take part in dance courses taught by dance masters from all over the world. The classes will be held in the building of the celebrated Bartlomiej Nowodworski High School No.1 situated near Plac Na Groblach square. The courses will be taught by Barbara Segal (English dance, Baroque dance), Marie-Claire Bär Le Corre (French dance, children’s workshops), Ana Yepes (Spanish dance), Gloria Giordano (Italian dance), Alaknanda Bose (Indian Kathak dance), Jang Tae Yun (Korean court dance) and Leszek Rembowski (early Polish dance). Acting workshops will also be featured in the programme. Classes devoted to the subject of commedia dell’arte will be given by Agnieszka Cianciara-Fröhlich and Jonathan Fröhlich, Poland’s only actors specialising in this theatre genre. Krzysztof Antkowiak, dancer of the Cracovia Danza Ballet, will reveal the ins and outs of the art of pantomime to his students. Each evening, for the duration of the festival week, you will also be able to see the teachers’ presentations held in the courtyard of the Bishop Erazm Ciolek Palace.

The only event of this kind in Poland, the Cracovia Danza Court Dance Festival is  also unique globally. Every summer in Krakow it brings together masters of historical dance and numerous ensembles specialising in early dances from all over the world. The initiator and the director of the festival is Romana Angel.

For detailed programme and workshop enrollment information go to www.cracoviadanza.pl/festiwal

  • Workshop
  • Performance
  • Summer School
  • Ball
  • Ongoing classes
  • Course
  • Renaissance
  • French Renaissance
  • Commedia dell'Arte
  • Baroque
  • Early Baroque
  • Spanish baroque
  • 19th century
  • Costumes
  • mixed
  • All levels

Festival of Historical Dance

We would like to invite you to one of the greatest dancing events of the year in Moscow – the annual Festival of Historical Dance. It will take place from 20 to 27 August 2017.
It is going to be a fascinating week full of dance classes, dance evenings and the magnificent Grand Ball in one of the historic buildings in the centre of Moscow. 

Most of the classes will be conducted by Arnaud Degioanni, the head of the famous “Carnet de Bals” Historical Dance Association and the main teacher of the Festival. 

At the Festival you will also have the opportunity to see the development trends and achievements of the best Russian Historical Dance Schools. 

There will be organized 8 special dance classes and seminars on 19th century ballroom dances as well as etiquette, costumes and hair styles. These meetings will be conducted by young and talented teachers from all over Russia. 

Notable dance events of the Festival will include the Opening Ball for all the participants, the Empire Ball and the Ball of Modern Era with lots of dances of the early XX century. 

The pinnacle of the whole dance week will be the Grand Ball which will take place on the 26 August in one of the most beautiful halls of the Russian capital.

The webpage: fit-msk.com

If you have any questions: info@trianon-studio.ru

  • Workshop
  • Summer School
  • Ball
  • 19th century
  • Quadrilles
  • Regency
  • Waltz
  • Costumes
  • mixed
  • Intermediates
  • Advanced
  • All levels