Spring 2025/Programme

Mazurkas of the World Festival 2025 – “On the Dancehouse Trail”
Warsaw, April 23-26, 2025
PROGRAMME

WEDNESDAY, April 23, 2025
Centrum Promocji Kultury Praga Południe, Podskarbińska 2 street
10 a.m. – 5 p.m. WORKSHOPS in dancing, singing, and playing musical instruments

7 p.m. – 9 p.m. CONCERT the finale of the Old Tradition competition
Performers: finalists of the competition

Centrum Promocji Kultury Praga Południe, Podskarbińska 2 street
9.30 p.m. – 1 a.m. FESTIVAL CLUB
Performers: finalists of the competition and guests

THURSDAY, April 24, 2025
Centrum Promocji Kultury Praga Południe, Podskarbińska 2 street
10 a.m. – 5 p.m. WORKSHOPS in dancing, singing, and playing musical instruments

Terminal Kultury Gocław, Nowaka-Jeziorańskiego 24 street

7 p.m. – 1 a.m. CONCERT Celebrating 30 Years of the Dance House of Poland
A meeting of all the friends of the Dance House of Poland – activists, musicians, and dancers from all across the country.
The guests include: Tęgie Chłopy, Dia Bu Bu, Chłopcy z Nowoszyszek, Andrzej Malik band, Wiesia Gromadzka band, Kożuch, Niwińscy band, Mateusz Kowalski, Warszawsko-Lubelska Orkiestra Dęta, Zwykli Ludzie, Raszewski band and many, many others.

FRIDAY, April 25, 2025
Terminal Kultury Gocław, Nowaka-Jeziorańskiego 24 street and
Centrum Promocji Kultury Praga Południe, Podskarbińska 2 street

10 a.m. – 5 p.m. WORKSHOPS in dancing, singing, and playing musical instruments

Terminal Kultury Gocław, Nowaka-Jeziorańskiego 24 street

7 p.m. – 9 p.m. CONCERT On the Dancehouse Trail
Performers:
Muzička band and dancers: Alfred Lincke, Antónia Rokošná (Slovakia)
Klervie and Awena Guelou /singing; Tangui Pensec /binioù and Julien Tymen /bombard (France, Brittany)
Erdőfű band and dancers Zalán Pásztor and Melinda Balogh (Hungary)
Maria Siwiec and Janusz Prusinowski Kompania with dancers (Poland)

Terminal Kultury Gocław, Nowaka-Jeziorańskiego 24 street
9:30 p.m. – 1 a.m. FESTIVAL CLUB

SATURDAY, April 26, 2025
Forteca Kręgliccy, Zakroczymska 12 street

11 a.m. – 6 p.m. INSTRUMENT FAIR
– instrument traders from all across Poland
– instrument building shows
– presentations and stories
– Little Mazurkas – activities for kids

Forteca Kręgliccy, Zakroczymska 12 street

7 p.m. – 5 a.m. NIGHT OF DANCE
Performers playing dance music include: festival guests from Slovakia, Hungary, France / Brittany, Tęgie Chłopy, HrayBery (Ukraine / Poland), Agopsowicz band, Warszawska Orkiestra Sentymentalna, Janusz Prusinowski Kompania, Kapela Zastawnych and many others
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The Festival is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage National cultural programme of the Polish presidency of the EU Council 2025.

Co-financed by: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund, the City of Warsaw, funds from the Mazovian Voivodeship Self-Government in the framework of the ‘Strategy for Cultural Development in the Mazovian Voivodeship 2023-2027’
Co-organizer: National Centre for Culture Poland
Organizer: Fundacja Wszystkie Mazurki Świata
Honorary patron: The National Institute of Culture and Rural Heritage
Media patrons: Polskie Radio Dwójka, Radiowe Centrum Kultury Ludowej, Radio Dla Ciebie, TVP Kultura, Muzykatradycyjna.pl
Partners: Stowarzyszenie Dom Tańca, Dom Bretanii, Instytut Słowacki w Warszawie, Instytut Liszta – Węgierski Instytut Kultury w Warszawie, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Terminal Kultury Gocław, Centrum Promocji Kultury Praga Południe, Forteca Kręgliccy, Noclegi Stadion, Restauracja Zapętlona