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
different character:
Krakowiak is a symbol
of youth and freedom,
mazur is serious,
sedate and stubborn,
stubborn as a farm
soul; and oberek means

 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

Grande valse brillante

Julian Tuwim - 1949
In the poem the author
mentions dancing with
his beloved woman. He
is happy because he has
fulfilled 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

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

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
Teofil Kwiatkowski 1859
Romantyzm

It is a patriotic image. The painter

painted a costume party, which took
place in Paris, the Hotel Lambert. The

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 Mehoffer 1898
Young Poland
Mehoffer
is the
author of
a series of
works
with
dancers.

Jzef Mehoffer

Dance with a flower-Woman

1905
in dance - 1907

In 19051907 he
painted a
series of
nine
figures
Dancer.

Children's procession
Witold Wojtkiewicz
-1905
Modernism

In the picture you

can see dancing
children.

Zofia 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
Mazur
Krakowiak
Highlander
Waltz
of dance:

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

Dance
Chaim Goldberg 1972
The Present

Renata Domagalska 2011

Present
A series ofThe
paintings
depicting
Colours of
flamenco
flamenco
dancers.

Flamenco-Three
graces