The Polish Dance Theater is embarking on a unique tour of the performance “TOACA”, which will visit two important cultural centers in Romania in June 2025: Sibiu, as part of one of the largest theater festivals in the world, the Sibiu International Theatre Festival (FITS), and Timișoara, where the company will make a guest appearance at the Hungarian Theatre - Csiky Gergely.

TOACA is a performance that grows out of the need to talk about ritual, spirituality and passing - but not through pathos, but through dance, costume, rhythm and symbol. The toaca of the title is a wooden bell used in Orthodox monasteries - an instrument that announces the time of prayer, death, life and community time.
In the performance, it becomes a metaphor for transformation, as well as a point of contact between two traditions - Romanian and Polish.

The performance was created by an international team: its creators are choreographers Mădălina Dan, Andrea Gavriliu and Ștefan Lupu - artists with strong roots in Romanian movement theater - who collaborated
with Polish Dance Theater dancers in the second half of 2024. The result is a show full of images, masks, rituals and music inspired by folk motifs, which moves and moves with the full power of body and presence, but also with words.

Between Sibiu and Timișoara: the first part of the tour

The first leg of the tour will include two prestigious venues:
- June 26 and 27, 2025 - the show will be presented as part of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival (FITS) - one of the largest and most respected theater events in the world, which for more than 30 years has attracted the most interesting productions from around the globe.
- On June 30, 2025, the show will also appear at the Hungarian Theater in Timișoara (Csiky Gergely) - one of the most important artistic institutions in the Banat region, known for its openness to contemporary dance theater and international projects.

Poland-Romania 2024-2025 Season and International Partners
Tournée “TOACA” is part of the celebration of the Poland-Romania 2024-2025 Cultural Season, which aims to strengthen artistic and social relations between our countries. The project is implemented in cooperation with:

- Adam Mickiewicz Institute - co-organizer of the Season
- Romanian Institute of Culture in Warsaw, which supports Polish-Romanian cultural projects and builds bridges between artists
- The Polish Institute in Bucharest, which actively supports the presence of Polish culture in Romania.

The Poland-Romania Cultural Season 2024 - 2025 is organized by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, with the support of the Polish Institute in Bucharest together with the Romanian Ministry of Culture and the Romanian Institute of Culture. The season features dozens of events including exhibitions, music, theater, film and literature.

The “TOACA” tour is not just a performance presentation - it is an invitation to empathize, to listen to what bodies can say about memory, identity and community.

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🔗 Project partners and supporting institutions:
Local Government of the Wielkopolska Region
Adam Mickiewicz Institute
FITS Festival - Sibiu International Theatre Festival
Csiky Gergely Hungarian Theatre - Timișoara
Romanian Cultural Institute in Warsaw
Polish Institute in Bucharest