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LISTEN / TOUCH / SEE: Polska Arts in Edinburgh 2012
The programme aims at delivering a broad scope of contemporary Polish culture – from classical music, through open-air and experimental theatre performances, to improv evenings at the Festival’s club.
The Listen / Touch / See: Polska Arts programme encompasses the widest range of Polish cultural events to be presented in Edinburgh to date. Polish artists mark their presence at four different festivals, scattered across numerous venues of the Scottish capital, where they present theatre performances, concerts, and exhibitions and take part in various meetings. The programme aims at delivering a broad scope of contemporary Polish culture – from classical music, through open-air and experimental theatre performances, to improv evenings at the Festival’s club.
The highest artistic level of the proposed events has been ensured through close cooperation with leading Scottish and British curators and artistic directors. The current selection continues a historic tradition of Poland’s presence in Edinburgh. In the past, audiences had the luck of witnessing perfomances by the legendary figures of Tadeusz Kantor and Jerzy Grotowski, some of the greatest revolutionaries of 20th century theatre. Since the 1990s, the Festival was visited by such acclaimed Polish theatres as TR Warszawa, Provisorium, neTTheatre, Biuro Podróży, Teatr Kana, Wierszalin and Song of the Goat, which garnered numerous awards as well as special mentions of the Festival.