Following the success of the first years of the project and of LEAVENING, (ZACZYN) the continuation of the project has been commissioned by Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Music and Dance Institute (as part of Choreographic Territories: New Traces of the avant-garde program celebrating 100 anniversary of Polish Independence/ Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-annual programme NIEPODLEGŁA 2017–2021.). Thus THE YANKA RUDZKA PROJECT: POLIPHONIES has been born to travel to Caucasus and to bring together artists of Armenia, Georgia, Brazil and Poland
THE YANKA RUDZKA PROJECT: POLIPHONIES was further following Yanka Rudzka’s interest and humble investigations of traditional culture. The first step of it (trip to Caucasus in early Spring 2018) was designed as in-depth study (in practice and in theory) of Armenian and Georgian non-stylized authentic dances (respectively – group dances of kochari and perchuli). The main part of the project (August 2018 in Poznan) brought together artists from Armenia, Georgia, Brasil and Poland in the shared choreographic venture into the dance roots of our four cultures. Following the popularity of the techno culture in Georgia, the work also offered a new perspective on techno dance as a new contemporary form of folk.
The final part of the project was a tour of the performance in Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia and Armenia, accompanied by an open to everybody TECHNO FOLK workshop.
The performance was also presented in 2019 in Lublin (International Meetings of Dance Theaters) and Krakow (Cricoteka).
