Dancing Together, Again! Creative Residencies Programme

Finally Warsaw I am very grateful that I was chosen to be a participant in this project. It was an immense pleasure to meet colleagues from other countries again after a year. It was also an excellent idea to meet Croatian artists from other residencies who made it easier for us to get to know their partners and meet new artists. In fact, very soon after the first meeting and we quickly caught up again. The whole project was brilliantly organized. The accommodation was nice and in a convenient location, as well as all other necessary things such as shops, food, etc. I was, honestly, a little scared at the beginning because of the size of Warsaw. All the streets are very spacious, and if you get out of the subway on the wrong side, you must walk for 10 minutes until you find your way again. But we overcame that very quickly and found our way to the Dance School and the Film Institute. One of the goals of this project was networking, that is, getting to know artists from Your own as we...

I'm very grateful I could take part in this residency as a researcher and author, because in this way I could have explored the movement in the environment of different artists, dancers and performers in new ambient and situations within a multicultural approach. The first meeting and work in Rijeka culminated in our All together point in Warsaw, where we all met and did our performances. We finally met each other in movement and dance. In the beautiful city of Warsaw we had our rehearsals at a Ballet dance school and the last few days of preparation and performances in front of the audience were in FINA, a very good audiovisual institute with a good team of people who helped us to put everything exactly on the stage. I love the creative process we went through. We had a lot of physical dance work but also with interactions and communication between each other, so we learned a lot. Also we were so friendly, supportive and caring for each other all the time. This very pleasant and ...

My final residency in Warsaw was a truly unique journey. It was a great pleasure to reconnect with my colleagues from different countries and share daily life moments with them. I had the opportunity to work on something new, including a small homage to Kieslowski's work. Traveling and being in different places is always a powerful experience for me—exchanging ideas and artistic visions with other artists is invaluable, especially for my personal growth. As I reflect on this time, I find myself hopeful that some collaborative projects among us artists will emerge in the near future. By Toni Flego

I remember: Toni's birthday party almost immediately after arriving. A bunch of people, some I know, and some entirely new dancing in front of the Student Centre. Soplica. Life bursting. Satisfying exhaustion. Lots of creativity, energies, ideas, some familiar, some completely new. Big, beautiful but somewhat cold city. Impressive and unfamiliar. Enjoying walking its huge streets. Resetting, recharging, rethinking, redancing. Again. I remember: rehearsals, a chair placed in the window at the Ballet School, two days of final productions, more impressions than I can hold, deciding to let it go, lingering with what stays in naturally. Somehow feeling like returning to some familiar but completely new ground, travelling through a movement of thought that finally danced into consciousness. By Josipa Bubaš

Re-connecting in final residency in Warsaw It was a great opportunity for me to be a part of dance residency EU Project "Dancing together again" and to connect to other colleagues from participating countries, first in Napoli, then finally meeting all colleagues in Warsaw who have participated in previous residencies in Tbilisi, Rijeka and Napoli. I am very grateful to be able to participate in this project as the residencies were a rare opportunity for me to be able to focus only on dance artistic process, without needing to take care of other everyday duties. The weather in Warsaw was much cooler than in my hometown Zagreb during summer, which I really liked. However, this time it affected me in such a way that after the first few days of residency I got sick with a high fever and was forced to spend a few days in my room before I recovered. This unexpected situation allowed me enough space to process all the new information about first impressions of Warsaw residency on ...

Doll house In the grand tapestry of human experience, we are all in search of something. For some, it's a sense of purpose, for others, it’s love or success. But underneath it all, there lies a universal desire: the need to find where we belong—a place that feels like home, where we fit in perfectly, where we are accepted and understood. This journey to finding our place can often feel like being trapped inside a box, one that both defines and confines us. Imagine life as a dollhouse. Each room represents a different aspect of society, with its own set of rules, expectations, and behaviors. As you move through the rooms, you try to find the one that feels right, that resonates with who you are. But what happens when none of the rooms seem to fit? When you can’t find the one space where you feel comfortable, seen, and valued? This is the struggle of trying to find a place where you belong. It’s a challenge many face—feeling like an outsider, like a square peg in a world full of roun...

What if I like Joanna Łuczkowska photos from final presentations… What if I write about famous ballet The Rite of Spring… *inspired by the Ogólnokształcąca Szkoła Baletowa im. Romana Turczynowicza w Warszawie The first performance of the famous ballet The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) remains to this day the most scandalous ballet performance ever. The ballet premiered in 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950) and performed by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The music for the ballet was composed by Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971). At that time, Stravinsky was exploring the theme of pagan Russian rituals, and inspired by the paintings of the Russian artist Roerich, he composed powerful, rhythmically complex music. Nijinsky's ballet is subtitled Scenes from Pagan Russia. The ballet follows a legend from pagan (pre-Christian) Russia, which tells the story of the ritual sacrifice of a virgin who must dance to death to ...