3rd edition
ON THE SILK ROUTE OF DANCE 9th – 15 th March 2008, Krakow
Under auspices of the Poland’s First Lady Maria Kaczyńska and the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the Mayor of the City of Krakow
conference ● workshops ● performances ● exhibitions
in cooperation with Jagiellonian University
The third edition of the festival is dedicated to cultures of dance of Asia and it embraces both anthropological and cultural richness of the continent’s chorea Asiana. The emphasis has been put on the sacred and epiphanic character of the oriental dance as manifested itself in the dynamic course of the realative aesthetic experience. The identical fracture of the movement substance of all separate dance cultures of the world is composed according to the aesthetic canons of the local communities in their numberless and differentiated forms resulted from dancer’s cognitive penetration of the world when the aesthetic and cognizable values fuse. For the essence of aesthetic of dance, as it seems, is the unity of the felt beauty with the ontic truth of a dancer what is funding the metaphysics in dance when it becomes art. The striking feature of the festival was it comparative character that juxtaposed the eastern and western idiom of movement.
The conference topics:
- Dance and the body, here and there
- India, the everlasting cosmogony in dancing
- Japan, dance that bridges nature with culture
- Varia orientalia
photo by PSAD©
- key note speakers:
Richard Schusterman, Maria Krzysztof Byrski, Komala Varadan, Zbigniew Osiński, Estera Żeromska
- workshops’s runners:
Komala Vardan, kathakali dance, India
Rekha Tandon, odissi dance, India
Wiesna Mond, Rudolf Laban’s moveent improvisation, Poland
- perfomances
Komala Varadan, India
Denise Fujiwara, Japan/Canada
Rekha Tandon, India
The Kibbutz Dance Company, Israel
exhibition: Representaion of dance in Asian art, The Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum of Krakow
Festival Venues
SOLVAY, the Nowa Huta Cultural Center, Akademia Ignatianum,
The Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum of Krakow
Postconference monograph
