We invite you to the YOUTH GROUP of Adepts of the Krakow Dance Theatre in the 2024/25 season!

The Krakow Dance Theatre has been operating for 28 years. It is recognized and appreciated both in the country and abroad. Through its versatile artistic, educational, and impresarial activities, it stimulates local communities and builds a dance environment. It organizes events and produces performances that have been seen by tens of thousands of viewers.

The Krakow Dance Theatre has been educating hundreds of dancers, both amateurs and professionals, for years. Education is one of the most important pillars of its activities.

🔴 IDEA
The youth group of Adepts of the Krakow Dance Theatre is a permanent group of individuals aged 14-18, interested in the systematic development of the language of movement expression. Training takes place through regular practice in the form of movement lessons (twice a week) and choreographic rehearsals (once a week). The main 'language' of work is broadly understood contemporary dance. We refer to aesthetics, techniques, and movement codes such as: Polish contemporary dance technique, modern dance, physical dance, floorwork, release, improvisation, classical dance, and others. Key issues in the educational process include: the body as a medium, embodied knowledge, the relationship between body and mind, functionality, organicity, deepening technique and body awareness.

🔴 WORK ORGANIZATION
We work with individuals aged 14-18, without health contraindications to physical exertion, who have experience in contemporary dance. We invite individuals who are in good physical condition, disciplined, and open to new challenges, who want to expand and deepen previously acquired skills through the realization of complex movement tasks, choreographic phrases, as well as basic expressive, improvisational, and creative assumptions.

Work in the Adepts groups takes place in an academic system – it is divided into two semesters – winter and summer. Classes will start on September 23, 2024, and will last until June 20, 2025. The group will work three times a week, within 75-minute lessons.

September lessons (23, 25, 26, and 30) are free and serve as RECRUITMENT LESSONS (trial) for those wishing to join the group. They prepare for the season and further work, serving to build the group!

Joining the groups is only possible in September (winter semester) and in February (summer semester). The declaration of participation in classes is semester-based!

🔴 CLASS SCHEDULE
Monday, 16:30-17:45
Wednesday, 16:30-17:45
Thursday, 16:30-17:45

🔴 FEE
In the 2024/25 season, the price of a monthly pass is 350 PLN (payable from October). The monthly amount is fixed, regardless of the number of classes in a given month, and is part of the semester fee divided into monthly installments.

🔴 LOCATION
All classes take place in the studio of the Krakow Dance Theatre, ul. Grzegórzecka 69, II floor (next to the Variete Theatre).

🔴 TEACHERS
The organizational and substantive supervision of the group is provided by 💕Yelyzaveta Tereshonok.

Group teachers:
🔝Yelyzaveta Tereshonok - dancer and performer from Ukraine. Since 2014, she has actively collaborated with international dance and theater companies, including circuses from Peru, Chile, and France. She has participated in film productions in India and Malaysia. As a performer, she has appeared in performances by Ukrainian, Polish, Hungarian, and Spanish choreographers. She danced in projects of the Krakow Dance Theatre, presented as part of the 'Rollercoaster, young creators of experiences' program, at the Krakow Cricoteka. In 2022, she realized a performative installation 'Dutch Window' and the performance 'Translations' with the Krakow Dance Theatre. In 2023, she completed the Intensive Summer Dance Academy in Budapest. In 2023, she participated in the production of the performance 'Szekspirie' (choreographed by Eryk Makohon, Agnieszka Berdnarz-Tyran, Yelyzaveta Tereshonok), which received the Stanisław Wyspiański Theatre Award. In 2024, she performed in the performance 'Treatise' (choreographed by Milan Tomasik). She graduated with a master's degree from the Institute of Culture at the Jagiellonian University (in the field of Contemporary Culture Laboratory).

🔝Patrycja Marszałek - graduate of acting from the Academy of Theatre Arts at the Faculty of Dance Theatre. She graduated from XXX High School in the Dance-Theatre class. She has participated in numerous workshops, including with Iwona Olszowska and Jacek Owczarek. She teaches modern jazz, high heels, and contemporary dance. She appeared in two diploma performances: 'Mokosz' directed by Eryk Makohon and 'See you tomorrow, see you tomorrow!' directed by Maciej Sajur. She collaborates with the Theatre of Reflex, with which she realized the performance 'karma.', awarded the Grand Prix at the Tychy Theatre Meetings. As a dancer of the Krakow Dance Theatre, she appeared in the performances 'The Little Prince,' 'Takarazuka camp,' 'Treatise.'

🔝Agnieszka Kramarz - Graduate of the Faculty of Dance Theatre in Bytom, Academy of Theatre Arts named after S. Wyspiański in Krakow. From 2015 to 2017, she was a dancer in the Rzeszów Dance Theatre [O.de.la.](http://O.de.la/). She trained under the guidance of such teachers as Sylwia Hefczyńska-Lewandowska, Jacek Łumiński, Janusz Skubaczkowski, Eryk Makohon, Maciej Kuźmiński, and many other outstanding dancers and choreographers. She performed in the performances 'Winter Funeral' (dir. P. Bułka and P. Kania), 'Flying Fish' (choreographed by Ferenc Feher), 'Gentle,' 'Gardens of Pleasure,' and 'Expedition to Żmirłacz' (choreographed by Marta Bury), 'Translations' and 'Takarazuka Camp' (choreographed by Eryk Makohon), 'Treatise' (choreographed by Milan Tomasik), as well as in etudes 'Blue Almonds' (choreographed by Agata Jędrzejczak), 'Meeting' (choreographed by Agnieszka Ferenc), 'poor attempts' (choreographed by Agnieszka Kramarz), and in numerous stage or television projects.

Guest teachers:
🔝dr Eryk Makohon – creator and leader of the Krakow Dance Theatre. Vice-Dean of the Bytom Faculty of Dance Theatre and lecturer at the Faculty of Drama Directing at the Academy of Theatre Arts named after Stanisław Wyspiański in Krakow. Scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Creator of dozens of performances. Author of educational projects and many artistic events, including festivals, competitions, and cycles of contemporary dance presentations. Dancer of the Silesian Dance Theatre (2003-2005). He collaborates with the city Theatre KTO - he is the creator of movement in performances from several recent seasons, shown and awarded at many theater festivals around the world. As a choreographer of the Krakow Dance Theatre, he is a laureate of prestigious awards (including the Krakow Stanisław Wyspiański Theatre Award). Eryk Makohon was the curator of the dance presentation program 'Goodbye Superman! Man in Polish Choreography,' and is currently co-creating the cycle 'Rollercoaster. Collectors of experiences' at the Krakow Cricoteka. In recent years, he has realized artistic projects in collaboration with, among others, the Central Europe Dance Theatre, Sinfonia Varsovia, and the Kameny Artistic Agency, ICE Kraków Congress Centre, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Capella Cracoviensis, Institute of Promotion of Polish Culture, Groteska Theatre, and many others. He is the initiator and founder of the Krakow Choreographic Center.

🔝Paweł Łyskawa - educator, dancer, choreographer, and producer. Leader of the Krakow Dance Theatre. Graduate of the Faculty of Dance Theatre at the Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow and cultural studies at the Jagiellonian University. He is a laureate of the Krakow Stanisław Wyspiański Theatre Award and the Krakow Theatre Exchange (together with the team led by Wojtek Faruga). Scholarship holder of the City of Krakow in 2018 and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in 2020. Curator of the year-round dance presentation program 'Rollercoaster. Collectors of experiences,' organized by the Krakow Dance Theatre and Cricoteka. As an animator, producer, and co-organizer, he has collaborated with almost all major cultural institutions in Krakow and with many institutions and organizations from across the country. He successfully implements projects of international scope (Visegrad Fund, Creative Europe). As a dancer and actor, he has collaborated with many directors and choreographers, including Idan Cohen, Jan Peszek, Cezary Tomaszewski, Henrik Kaalund, Jerzy Stuhr, Waldemar Raźniak, Wojciech Faruga, Jerzy Zonie, Jacek Łumiński, Anna Konjetzky, Ayrin Ersoz, Michał Kotański. As a choreographer, he collaborates with the Stefan Żeromski Theatre in Kielce and the W. Horzycy Theatre in Toruń. For seventeen years, he has been collaborating with Eryk Makohon as part of the Krakow Dance Theatre.

🔝Agnieszka Bednarz-Tyran - dancer, choreographer, academic lecturer. Currently a lecturer in Contemporary Dance at the Department of Dance at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Graduate of the Faculty of Dance Theatre at the Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow, where she was a lecturer in Contemporary Dance Technique from 2015 to 2022. For several years, she has been conducting research on holistic methods of working with the body and their impact on creating performances in the field of dance-theatre and dance art. She has danced on stages in Poland and around the world, including Brazil, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Lithuania, Russia, Germany, and Hungary. She is a co-creator of multiple award-winning and acclaimed dance theatre performances such as: 'Project: 3 Sisters,' 'Heimsuchung,' 'Operculum – looking for heimat,' and 'I am Helena.' She had the pleasure of collaborating with creators such as Maciej Kuźmiński in the performance 'Difference and Repetition,' Cezary Tomaszewski in the performative concert 'Songs of Love and Death,' Jacek Łumiński in 'The Rite of Spring…100 years later' (a performance realized in collaboration with the Kwadrofonik group and the Lublin Dance Theatre) and 'I love only and exclusively with all my heart inseparably Magdalena.' In August 2016, she co-created with Jacek Łumiński the performance 'Whiplash' realized by dancers of LDTX Beijing Company in Beijing. Presented, among others, at the National Opera and the Guangzhou Festival. In 2017, her original dance theatre performance 'Let it be – poBYT organized' premiered at the ROZBARK Dance and Movement Theatre. Since 2018, she has been collaborating with the Musical Theatre Castello, where she serves as a choreographer. Her latest work created in cooperation with the Krakow Dance Theatre and director and choreographer Katarzyna Kostrzewa is the solo/monodrama 'Liberi.'

🔴 APPLICATIONS
All individuals interested in joining the youth group of the KTT Adepts are asked to send information containing their previous dance experience. Applications should be sent to: ktt.mlodziez@gmail.com. The number of places is limited !!

🔺 ATTENTION🔺
Sending an application does not guarantee acceptance into the group. Admission to the group is based on a practical assessment of the candidate's skills during the September recruitment lessons (September 23, 25, 26, and 30, 2024)!