Dance

motive
in Polish
Literature and Art

Dance motive
in Literature
Dance is often with us
in everyday life. Polish writers
and poets wrote about it as well.

Song of Sobotka's Eve

Jan Kochanowski - 1586
In the play was described
spontaneous Slavic dance
with pagan traditions,
derived from the rite
celebrated on the night of
the summer solstice. Girls
can be carried away to the
rhythm of dance, for each
of them it is something
else.

Pan Tadeusz
Adam Mickiewicz - 1834
Polish epos
In the most important
Polish literary work Polish
national dance
polonaise is described.
This native Polish dance
has many meanings here.
It is associated with
celebrations and fun. It is
an element of passing
Polish tradition.

 The Peasants
Wadysaw Reymont 1904
Nobel prize - 1924
Described wedding fun and
types of dances. Each of them
has a dierent character:
Krakowiak is a symbol of youth
and freedom, mazur is serious,
sedate and stubborn, stubborn
as a farm soul; and oberek
means love and joy, because it
is lively and nimble dancing.

 The Wedding
Stanisaw Wyspiaski - 1901
The most important scene of
the work is called chocholi
dance. The characters
undergo magnetic rhythms of
the mulch. This symbolic
scene is supposed to represent
passivity, apathy and general
malaise of Polish society
dancing the dance of slavery.

Grande valse brillante

Julian Tuwim - 1949
In the poem the author mentions
dancing with his beloved
woman. He is happy because he
has fullled his dream, he feels
as if his partner is not included,
but the whole world. She's out of
breath, embarrassed silent
looking down, surrendering to
the will of the leading dance
man. Both are in the conjecture
and fog".

Waltz
Czesaw Miosz - 1942
The realistic description of the
New Year's Eve, full of
dancers, lights and mirrors
creeping dark, cruel scenes of
war. Nobody, however, in
1910 when the ball is held as
described, is not expected that
the times of the murders,
slavery, and death are soon to
come. Unique is also the
rhythm of the line,
reminiscent of the roll bars.

 Long live the ball

Agnieszka Osiecka - 1984
The author names life
as the Ball life, for
which a second time do
not invite us ...". Life
takes as much as dance,
so you can use it to end,
even if you had to live in
dicult times.

Dance motive
in Art
The popularity of dance made
it an inspiration for many
painters.

Minuet in the park

Daniel Mikoaj Chodowiecki 1760
Rokoko

Chodowiecki painted events from the life of the

Polish magnates. In this image - minuet.

Chopin's Polonaise
Teol Kwiatkowski 1859
Romantyzm

It is a patriotic image. The painter painted a costume

party, which took place in Paris, the Hotel Lambert.
The dance accompanied by Frederic Chopin.

Tatar dance
Juliusz Kossak 1885
Realism
Tatar dance is a
former order of
battle.

Krakowiak
Wodzimierz Tetmajer 1889
Young Poland
Tetmajer painted
the life of the
village near
Krakow. The image
presented his own
wedding.

Dance Naive
Jzef Mehoer 1898
Young Poland
Mehoer is
the author of
a series of
works with
dancers.

 Jzef Mehoer
Dance with a ower- 1905 Woman in dance - 1907

In 1905-1907
he painted a
series of nine
gures
Dancer.

Children's procession
Witold Wojtkiewicz -1905
Modernism

In the picture you can see

dancing children.

Zoa Stryjeska 1927

Interwar
Painted a series of paintings
presenting Polish folk dances.

Feliks Wygrzywalski 1932

Interwar

He painted a series of fourteen paintings

devoted to the history of dance:
Mazur

Krakowiak

Highlander

Waltz

Highland wedding
Jerzy Kossak 1944
The Present
A scene from
the highland
wedding.

Dance
Chaim Goldberg 1972
The Present

Renata Domagalska - 2011

The Present
A series of paintings depicting amenco dancers.
Colours of amenco

Flamenco - Three graces