Follow Mazowsze - the National Song and Dance Ensemble of Poland before and during their 2010 North American tour.
Background information on the dances, the songs, and the performers, along with historical information, and a view of Mazowsze
backstage, on-the-road, sightseeing, and personal. TEXT IN ENGLISH AND POLISH.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Mazowsze Returns!

Chopin Tribute to Premiere
by Staś Kmieć

The best way to experience the magic and magnificence of Mazowsze – The National Song and Dance Ensemble of Poland is to see the company perform live. The world-renowned company  returns to North America in a special 60th Anniversary celebratory tour of live performances November 14 – December 12. Presented by 2Luck Concepts, the tour will feature 90 dancers, singers and the full 23-member orchestra.

New Program
The concert program will differ greatly from the PBS television program and will include many different dances and three U.S. premieres.
A 200-year birthday anniversary tribute to Fryderyk Chopin will include a choreographic work by Witold Zapała to Rondo à la Krakowiak in F major, written by the composer in1828. In stylized costumes, the piece is an homage to the Polish tradition of such folk ballets such as Pan Twardowski, Wesele w Ojcowie and Harnasie. The women are attired in Romantic period balletic costumes and the men in stylized short-length Kraków kabaty. The song Życzenie G-dur op. 74 will also be presented.

Songs from Racibórz in the Śląsk region will showcase a new set of costumes and will be accompanied by the okaryna folk instrument – a vessel flute in the shape of an egg with ten finger-holes.
Popular favorites will include Dances from Wilanów, Kaszuby, Szczawnica, Lublin, Jurgów, Szamotuły, Podegrodzie, Limanowa; Winegathering in Lubusz: Dances of the Żywiec townspeople and from the Podhale Mountains; the national dances Krakowiak, Polonez, Mazur, Kujawiak; folk songs and the customary opening Chodzony and Łowicz finale.

Mazowsze Dance Workshop and Wigilia Dinner
During the tour Mazowsze will be teaching a 5-hour Polish Folk Dance Workshop in Youngstown, OH on December 5. This "once in a lifetime" opportunity has never been done in the United States.  The schedule will include:  children, instrumental and lecture sessions 

For information call Polish Youngstown: 330-744-1934 or visit: www.polishyoungstown.com. Youngstown welcomes dancers from across the country to attend.

A special Wigilia Dinner will occur at 5:00 pm ren's and adult dance, choral, orchestraat the Youngstown Club with a performance of Mazowsze singing Polish Christmas kolędy.
The full tour itinerary and theater contact information are as follows:
November:
December:
  • 12/1: Milwaukee, WI - Marcus Center - Uihlein Hall(414) 273-7206; www.marcuscenter.org
  • 12/3 & 4: Detroit, MI - Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts (313-887-8501); www.musichall.org
  • 12/5: Youngstown,OH - Dance Class Workshops, lectures and performance; Wigilia Dinner – Polish Youngstown 330-744-1934; www.polishyoungstown.com
  • 12/6: Cleveland,OH - Palace Theatre/Playhouse Square Center (216-771-8403, 866-546-1353); www.playhousesquare.org
  • 12/8: Worcester, MA - The Hanover Theatre(508-831-0800 or 1-877-571-7469); www.boxoffice@thehanovertheatre.org
  • 12/9: Baltimore, MD – France-Merrick Performing Arts Center (410-837-7400, 1-800-551-7328); www.france-merrickpac.com/home.html
  • 12/10: Waterbury, CN - Palace Theatre (203-346-2000); www.palacetheaterct.org
  • 12/11: Bronx, NY - Lehman Center for the Performing Arts (718-960-8833); www.lehmancenter.org
  • 12/12: New Brunswick, NJ - State Theater(732 246-7469); www.statetheatrenj.org.
Bus from Passaic, NJ
The Association of the Sons of Poland has tickets for the December 11, 7:00 pm performance at Lehman College in the Bronx, NY. The cost for the evening includes bus transportation from the Polish Home on Monroe Street in Passaic, a ticket to the show, and a box Polish gourmet dinner prepared by the chef of Royal Warsaw, plus a chocolate treat from Genevieve's of Garfield.
For more information, call 201-935-2807 

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