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Polish Dance Platform (Wrocław 2026)

17–20 September 2026

Programme

17 September (Thursday)

Workshop for dance professionals, Session 1*
Led by: Nazareth Panadero, Michael Strecker, Janusz Subicz
Studio Na Grobli, Grotowski Institute

16:30–18:00
Official opening ceremony, featuring the jury and the event organizers
Centre for Performing Arts, Grotowski Institute (Piekarnia Żywa Kultura)

19:00–20:00
Premiere of a co-created with Wrocław-based dancers
Choreography: Maria Stokłosa
Centre for Performing Arts, Grotowski Institute (Piekarnia Żywa Kultura)

19:00–19:20 and 20:30–20:50
Who Cares
Choreography and production: Agnieszka Brzezińska
Wrocław Contemporary Theatre

21:30–22:30
I Love Ballet
Choreography: Ramona Nagabczyńska
Production: Komuna Theatre Warszawa
National Forum of Music

23:00–01:00
Festival social
Sikalafą Freaky Neon Bar

18 September (Friday)

10:00–14:00
for dance professionals, Session 2*
L: Nazareth Panadero, Michael Strecker, Janusz Subicz
Studio Na Grobli, Grotowski Institute

10:00–13:00
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Panel discussion on funding sources for the performing arts**
AST Wrocław

14:00–15:30
Performance lunch**
Barbara

16:00–18:00
Pitching session by artists and institutions**
AST Wrocław

18:30–19:30
Glory Game
Choreography: Dominik Więcek
Production: Komuna Theatre Warszawa
National Forum of Music

20:00–21:15
To bitch or not to bitch
Choreography: Hertz Haus (Magdalena Kowala, Natalia Murawska-Zydek, Joanna Woźna, Anna Zglenicka)
Production: Stowarzyszenie Córy Kultury
Wrocław Contemporary Theatre

22:00–23:00
Threesome/Trzy
Choreography: Wojciech Grudziński
Production: Fundacja 910113, Nowy Teatr
Centre for Performing Arts, Grotowski Institute

23:00–01:00
Festival social
Sikalafą Freaky Neon Bar

19 September (Saturday)

10:00–14:00
for dance professionals, Session 3*
Led by: Nazareth Panadero, Michael Strecker, Janusz Subicz
Studio Na Grobli, Grotowski Institute

13:00–16:00
Speed dating/ **

17:00–18:20
Rooms by the Sea: Exercises in Listening
Production: Kraków Choreographic Centre – Nowa Huta Cultural Centre, Joanna Leśnierowska SFX
Centre for Performing Arts, Grotowski Institute (Piekarnia Żywa Kultura)

19:15–20:15
Rapeflower
Choreography: Hana Umeda
Production: Komuna Theatre Warszawa
Wrocław Contemporary Theatre

21:15–22:15
WoW
Choreography: Marta Wołowiec
Production: Przestrzenie Sztuki Taniec – Wrocław Mime Theatre
AST Wrocław

22:45–03:00
Dance Battle Party **
Studio Na Grobli, Grotowski Institute

23:00–01:00
Festival social
Sikalafą Freaky Neon Bar

20 September (Sunday)

12:00–14:00
Performance walk
Park Szczytnicki

14:30–16:00
**

17:00–18:30
The Maids: Materials by
Centre for Performing Arts, Grotowski Institute (Piekarnia Żywa Kultura)

19:00–20:00
My Home, No Home
Choreography: Nazareth Panadero and Michael Strecker
Wrocław Contemporary Theatre

19:00–19:30 and 20:30–21:00
The Spell
Choreography and production: Marta Kosieradzka and Marta Luiza Jankowska
AST Wrocław

21:15–23:00
Official closing ceremony
AST Wrocław

Festival social
Sikalafą Freaky Neon Bar
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* Paid event. Participants will be chosen in an open selection process.

** Closed event. For dance professionals only. Requires registration.

 

Wrocław Dances!

April to September 2026

Programme

Wrocław Dances! is a season of dance events that will run from April to September in the city of Wrocław, opening on International Dance Day with the seventeenth edition of the Circulations Wrocław Movement Festival (29 April – 5 May).

The month of May will primarily see dance workshops and presentations held at Centrum na Przedmieściu. In June, dance will become part of the Wrocław Festival celebrations, with the premiere of the ballet A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Wrocław Opera (13–19 June) and the twentieth jubilee edition of the Mandala Performance Festival (25–30 June). In July, dance will feature in the programme of the New Horizons International Film Festival (23 July – 2 August).

These are just a selection of the events that will make Wrocław dance through the summer. Throughout the season, there will be dance parties, workshops, open classes and presentations – including intergenerational and senior citizen events.

Wrocław Dances! has an open-structure programme which is continuously complemented with new suggestions from the public. Ideas for dancing activities can be submitted via an online form from 29 April.

Selected events:

24 April
Wrocław Dance Compositions (seventh edition)

Nowy Pafawag Cultural Centre

25 April
Deadline for submitting pitchefor the thirty-first issue of Performer 
Issue theme: ‘Dance of Knowledge: Investigating Performative Practices as a Bodily Experience’

25 April
‘The Choreography of Presence: Awakening’
Workshop with Kinga Senczyk
Lifery BWA Wrocław

29 April – 3 May
Circulations Wrocław Movement Festival (seventeenth edition)
Przestrzenie, Grotowski Institute

21 May
Performance by the ‘Wrocław’ Lower Silesian Song and Dance Ensemble
Archipelago of Kindness (fifteenth edition)
Na Ciepłej Day Care Centre

29–30 May
Dance workshop with Tomasz Bazan
CAL in Przedmieście Oławskie – Centrum na Przedmieściu

31 May
Centre for Dancing and Dance Education
Performance, workshops, classes
CAL in Przedmieście Oławskie – Centrum na Przedmieściu

13–19 June
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (premiere)
Wrocław Opera Ballet

21 June
Meetings in Motion
CAL in Przedmieście Oławskie – Centrum na Przedmieściu

25–30 June
Mandala Performance Festival (twentieth edition)