We invite you to the 22nd edition of the international zawirowania dance festival! This year, companies from Italy, Spain, Morocco, Mexico, and Laos will be performing. There will also be Polish productions, including the Zawirowania Dance Theatre. line up:
19.06 18:00
BORDER BODIES
Mandala Dance Company & Zawirowania Dance Company
Six bodies inhabit an invisible line.
They seek each other, repel each other, cross each other. The border is obstacle and desire, distance and denied contact. Over time it breaks, shifts, dissolves in the bodies that cross it.
Between friction and listening, different identities contaminate each other, shaping an unstable geography, where the limit does not disappear, but transforms into possibility.
Choreography: Paola Sorressa, Elwira Piorun
Dance: Giulia Avola, Gabriele Crosta, Davide Galuppi, Martyna Dmitroca, Aleksandra Jarząbek, Martyna Sobiech
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21.06 18:00
BALANCIER
Mandala Dance Company
We are all looking for a static or dynamic
balance, but probably we are simply asked to oscillate endlessly in the dual without ever
reaching it.
Concept, choreography and direction: Paola Sorressa
Dance: Alessia Stocchi, Gabriele Crosta, Davide Galuppi
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21.06 18:00
WAITING FOR SPRING
Zawirowania Dance Company
A performance that explores the tension between the need for change and the fear of its consequences. Each dancer embodies a different mechanism for coping with uncertainty: withdrawal, self-control, and an impulsive search for stimulation. The bodies are not only “dancing”, but also negotiating their own boundaries: between tension and relaxation, isolation and the need for contact.
Choreography: Elwira Piorun
Dancers: Anna Banasik, Aleksandra Krajewska, Emilia Nowak
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21.06 18:00
MOVING ASHES
Larumbe Danza
Ashes as the remnant of devastation, of the desert, and the poetry of what remains, of what endures and how it transforms.
Viewing it as a rebirth, embracing it, carrying on, moving forward and walking the path of life, existing...
Being in the present moment of life and living it.
Choreographers: Maruxa Salas and Erick Jimenez
Dancers: Moisés González and Susana Q. Rodríguez
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22.06 19:30
AFRICA
CZD2 - compagniazappala'danza2 & ocram dance movement
There are still uncontaminated lands, a refuge for good souls, where beauty becomes a bridge between heaven and earth and spirituality turns tangible. AFRICA, far from Eliot’s “waste land”, arises from the four elements, a place where existence is filled with joy. The hope of rain and renewed spirituality suggests “rebirth horizons”, where humanity rediscovers its role as guardian of nature.
Choreography and direction: Claudio Scalia
Dancers: Rebecca Bendinelli, Ismaele Buonvenga, Rachele Pascale, Nunzio Saporito
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23.06 19:30
SOUNDS ALIVE
MASH Dance House
In “Sounds Alive”, two women meet during a time of war, bound by a shared fate. At times they are enemies, at others – sisters. Both are inextricably connected to each other and to the place they inhabit. Their journey is marked by moments of closeness and distance, strength and fragility. The protagonists attempt to sing, scream, and speak – yet ultimately, only a single sound emerges, through which they tell their story.
Choreography: Ofra Idel
Performance: Yasmin Gariv, Yulia Mejetskaya
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24.06 19:30
PARADISE BIRDS
Dancehood
This solo unfolds as an inner journey through doubt, resistance, and acceptance — a fall without support, a reaching without touch. The body moves between fragility and quiet strength, learning to remain within uncertainty. Between the need to belong and the search for boundaries, a new presence emerges. Gentleness becomes strength. This is a story of transformation — of losing, becoming, and learning how to be again through movement.
Concept, choreography: Yana Reutova, Yanitsa Atanasova
Performers: Yana Reutova
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24.06 19:30
CERCLE
KHAM Company
Solo at the crossroads of the cultures with which the choreographer dialogues, borrowing from the West and the East, from street gestures or those from of the classical arts.
In Cercle, the choreographer tries to push the limits of what his dance is today, to explore new energy.
A space of interior and exterior research, the circle is also the inspiration of a universality in his dance, and in those of certain traditional dances.
Choreographer and dancer : Olé Khamchanla
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25.06 19:30
[ RÆM PROJECT]
Javier Martín
Even while we sleep—when we manage to sink into that state in which, as Bukowski put it, the world “inhales and exhales through our body”—our bodily posture seems to express the fundamental form of our relationship with the world. Adorno observed that “our connection with the wind during sleep reveals whether we are happy or not.” Our relationship with the world does not simply fade away when we sleep; rather, it continues to operate in vegetative and subliminal realms.
Creation and performance: Javier Martín
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27.06 19:30
ROUH
Col'jam
A fine gestural language and a deep sensitivity of interpretation form the liberating energy of this creation. It weaves and unweaves the real and the unreal within a spiritual space.
A desire for grounding anchors the journey in a new spiritual horizon of refinement, where the depth of gesture unfolds through a Whirling Dervish-inspired dance.
"Rouh" (“soul”) invites us into a subtle world of refined movement and heightened sensitivity, illuminating the very essence of life—both divine and eternal.
Choregraphy and dance: Ahlam El Morsli, Wajdi Gagui
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27.06 19:00
THE MOURNERS
Marta Kosieradzka
“The Mourners” is a contemporary dance project centered on the figure of the mourner—women who embodied grief on behalf of the community. The project uses this motif to explore collective female emotions, such as anger, sadness, and suppressed expression in times of crisis. Drawing on the traditions of contemporary and modern dance, the performance reflects on the female experience of anger, grief, and emotional restraint within collective and historical structures.
Choreography: Marta Kosieradzka
Dance: Marta Chudzyńska, Juliana Jelińska, Marta Kosieradzka, Leeloo Morgan
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28.06 19:00 creatures of interest
Gruppo e-Motion
"Creatures of Interest" explores the encounter of two bodies that discover, study, touch and reject each other, creating a silent dialogue in which the interest in understanding the other leaves no room for abuse and conflict.
The face to face with the other is a unique experience for which we must take responsibility: the denial of the other is the destruction of our humanity.
Concept and choreography: Antonio Taurino
Choreography assistant: Andrea di Matteo
Dancers: Angela Caputo and Camilla Perugini
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29.06 19:00
UNHEARDS WHISPERS
Ola Komarnicka
“Unheard Whispers” is a choreographic meditation on longing and unfulfillment, intertwining the existential dimension with the physical experience of absence. Two characters, immersed in solitude and inner monologues, traverse a space of exploration where every discovery gives rise to a new desire. The movement draws on the physiology of longing—an accelerated pulse, muscle tension, stress hormones—giving the symbolic narrative a material foundation.
Concept and choreography: Antonio Taurino
Dancers: Angela Caputo and Camilla Perugini
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29.06 19:30
NOA
Balletto Teatro di Torino
The body appears and gestures come to life. Fleeting images, invisible forces and distant echoes shape instants and unlock horizons. This solo is an intimate and powerful exploration of the dancing body and its presence in the here and now.
What do we see when we look at a body in motion?
How do we engage in a solo dance – as makers, as dancers, and as viewers?
Every gesture reveals what it shows, but also what remains hidden within the folds of the choreographic and creative process.
Choreography: Jye-Hwei Lin
Dancer: Noa Van Tichel
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29.06 19:30
WHITE PAGES. DEDICA AL DINAMISMO
Baletto Teatro di Torino
There is the body’s dynamism and emotional dynamism. The union of these two dimensions generates a wave-like choral movement that acts as the glue between physicality and emotion in Perego’s choreographic research.
“Dedica al Dinamismo” is not meant to be purely physical, nor purely interpretative, but a clash of both dimensions. A clash that generates the undefined. Choreographic relationships and dynamisms are created – they alternate in a painting, changing the nuances and atmosphere of the scene.
Choreography: Manfredi Perego
Dancers: Noa Chatton, Bailey Kager, Ivo Santos, Noa Van Tichel
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30.06 19:30
STUDIES FOR AN ECCE HOMO
Cuatro X Cuatro
Human beings face the immensity of the universe, the world, others, their own moral unease, and the awareness of their own finitude. A moment of contemplation for a body that recognizes itself in the strangeness of knowing it has been cast into the world. A body that is present—that looks, that seeks, that learns, that persists, that decides, that renounces. A body that thinks, desires, and imagines. Through language and physicality, Shantí Vera and Fernando Renjifo have created a kind of scenic poem that could be a manifesto, a landscape, a celebration.
Creation, choreography and performance: Shantí Vera
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three-event pass
Ticket for three events during the 22nd International Zawirowania Dance Festival.
ATTENTION! After purchasing the ticket, please contact us to book specific performances: ttzawirowania@gmail.com.
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seven-event pass
Ticket for three events during the 22nd International Zawirowania Dance Festival.
ATTENTION! After purchasing the ticket, please contact us to book specific performances: ttzawirowania@gmail.com.
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pass for all events
Ticket for all eleven events during the XXII International Zawirowania Dance Festival.
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22nd International Zawirowania Dance Festival
The project is co-financed by the capital city of warsaw.
Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund – a state special-purpose fund, as part of the „Dance” programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.
funding: 105 000 PLN
total value: 338 000 PLN
