13.09.2025 at 12.00, Genius Loci Archaeological Reserve / European Heritage Days

"Polish Dance Theater in Genius loci!"

Creative co-creation workshop with the implementers of the Dancing Histor(y)ies project. "Movement, Thought, Memory."

We invite everyone willing to create the project "Dancing Histor(y)ies - bonding local communities and cultural heritage through dance". Together with the audience, we will create the performance "Who's spirit lives here?". The audience will have the opportunity to join in the creative action or watch behind the scenes of the emerging idea.

Curator/Organizer: Polish Dance Theater and Archaeological Reserve Genius loci

13.09.2025 at 20.00, Polish Dance Theater

"Out of the hat"

Choreography, set design, light direction, sound direction, text: Jo Strømgren

Assistant choreographer: Rebecca Hoback

Costumes: Bregje van Balen

Music: Mr. Enirbod, Abe Schwarz, Bergmund Waal Skaslien, Kevin Keller, Shimon Dzigan, Carlos Gardel, Maria Tanase, Vaska Ilieva, Jørgen Knudsen

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Before the Polish-Norwegian co-production is presented at the EXPO 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, Kansai (Japan), the largest and most important economic and cultural event in the world, the performance "From the Hat" will be seen at the Polish Dance Theater in Poznan. Like sepia-toned, "old-fashioned" photographs bathed in warm shades of brown, the choreographic images conjured up by director and choreographer Jo Strømgren and the Polish Dance Theater Company will remind us that memories, though fleeting and existing immaterially, do not lose their reality. Shuffled by passing time, they show echoes and mirages of events, scraps of what has passed, phantasms of situations, speaking several languages of the world and a dozen languages "spoken" by the bodies of the dancers of the Polish Dance Theater.

What can be taken out of the magic hat? What action will this (un)ordinary object set in motion?"

What action will this (un)ordinary object set in motion?

Jo Strømgren is one of the most internationally renowned Scandinavian choreographers, theater director, dance filmmaker, winner of many prestigious awards, resident choreographer at the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, where "Out of the Hat" had its world premiere.

The world premiere of "Out of the Hat" was held in Oslo.

13.09.2025, 9 pm , Polish Dance Theater / European Heritage Days

"Genius loci in the Polish Dance Theater" - meeting after the performance "From the hat"

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Polish Dance Theater, through the performance "Out of the Hat," draws the viewer into a séance of memory, which allows one to penetrate the hidden meaning of what is old, past, not fully realized. We invite you to meet and talk after the evening performance about the restored memory of distant times, with archaeologists - experts from the Genius loci Archaeological Reserve.

Curator/Organizer: Polish Dance Theater and Archaeological Reserve Genius loci