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Ober, polka, foxtrot, tango, slow foxtrot, and many more dance styles – all this to celebrate the 100thanniversary of Poland regaining its independence. On Saturday, 10thof November, on the eve of National Independence Day, we had great fun together in the very heart of Warsaw.
11 November 2018 was a very special day. We celebrated it in a bit less formal way, in the form of a dancing eve. We actually had two reasons two celebrate – the Cultural Heritage Foundation just turned 6!
We danced for a good few hours to the music of Kapela Witka Brody, Orkiestra Taneczna Bonanza, Kapela Dobrzeliniacy, and Kapela Romana Wojciechowskiego.
Traditional Polish music is an element of shared intangible heritage, a fact that seems to escape our notice in our everyday routine. But that evening made us come together to the sound of this very special music.
Thank you for being and celebrating with us on that day!
At 20:00 we had dance classes run by Grzegorz Ajdacki, expert in traditional dance and a dancing instructor with many years of experience.
Featured performers:
Kapela Witka Brody – a Polish folk band founded in 1992. The musicians play both secular and sacred music from the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from the collections of Oskar Kolberg, of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, of the Department of Etnomusicology and Hymnology of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, and from other sources.
Orkiestra Taneczna Bonanza – a young band playing traditional obers and polkas, newer foxtrots, tangos, slow foxtrots, and waltzes, but also vaudeville radio hits known by all pre-war Warsaw nightclub-goers.
Kapela Dobrzeliniacy – set up in 1978 at the Dobrzelin Commune Cultural Centre. Currently operating under the auspices of the Municipal and Communal Cultural Centre in Żychlin. The band’s repertoire and style are influenced by three ethnographic regions: the Łowicz region, the Łęczyca region, and the Kuyavia region. Musicians perform in Łowicz folk costumes although they live outside the borders of the former Duchy of Łowicz.
Kapela Romana Wojciechowskiego – a band of Roman Wojciechowski, a fiddler from the Opoczno region, winner of the 2012 Oskar Kolberg Award. Born in 1949 in Ciełbowice Duże, now living in Tomaszów Mazowiecki. His band plays mainly “sung” obers from the Opoczno and Rawa-Opoczno regions (some musicians from these regions call their music “wedding” or “continuous” obers, or “śpiwoki”).
The event was organised in collaboration with the Dom Tańca association.
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Photos by Anastasija Kukaleva: FANPAGE
