26/09—03/10/2025
festival
Crossroads 2025
- Carolyn Carlson is one of the most distinguished dancers and choreographers at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. Born in California, where she studied dance, she has been active in Europe since 1971 and a French citizen since 2019. In the 1960s, she was a soloist with the renowned Alwin Nikolais dance company in New York. In Europe, she directed, among others, the Group de Recherches Théâtrales at the Paris Opera, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, and the Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm. She was the first choreographer in history to receive the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale. In 2014, she founded the international Carolyn Carlson Company, based in Paris. She has created approximately 100 choreographies that have influenced the development of dance. Her works are distinguished by their spiritual message, dance perfection and visual qualities. The artist has never visited Poland. Her Company’s performance at the Rozdroże festival will be the first in Poland, and one of the last in its history, as the group will disband in December 2025.
- The dance spectacle Islands (Short Stories) will feature: Celine Maufroid (France), Sara Orselli (Italy), Juha Marsalo (Finland), Yutaka Nakata (Japan)
- Akira Kasai is one of the pioneers of butō and one of its most distinguished dancers, teachers, and choreographers. He began practicing butō in the 1960s, studying with butō founders Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, with whom he also performed. Before that, he pursued other dance forms. From 1971 to 1979, he ran his own dance studio, Tenshi-Kan (a school and dance company), before moving to Germany, where he studied eurythmy. He returned to Japan in 1986. In 1994, he reopened the Tenshi-Kan studio and performed in the dance performance Seraphita. Since then, he has choreographed, performed, and taught in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Kasai has developed his own syncretic dance style. The artist has never visited Poland.
- Takashi Morishita is the director of the Tatsumi Hijikata Archives at the KEIO University Art Center in Tokyo, a researcher and author of publications on Tatsumi Hijikata's butoh dance, and a lecturer of the course "Exploring Japanese Avant-garde Art Through Butoh Dance." The professor has never visited Poland.
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