About the festival

24th Lodz Ballet Festival
3rd May – 20th June 2017

 

The Lodz Ballet Festival is the only dance festival in Poland of such a long-standing tradition and important artistic rank. Since its first edition in 1968, the stage of the Lodz Grand Theatre has hosted all the most prominent dance companies in the world, and the festival itself – thanks to an appropriate choice of repertoire – has become an exceptional forum of a confrontation between all that in the art of ballet and the dance theatre is most worth-while, current and worth of note. 

The rank and uniqueness of the Lodz Ballet Festival have been brought out by the names of such choreographers and their companies as Maurice Béjart, Alicia Alonso, John Neumeier, Jiří Kylián, William Forsythe, Daniel Ezralow, Boris Ejfman, Mats Ek, Birgit Cullberg and many others, whose work on the stage has set to the rest of the world the directions in which the art of choreography and ballet as such is to develop.

We have striven to construct the programme of the 24th Lodz Ballet Festival in such a way so as to continue the assumptions of the festival – its idea of an openness to what is novel and worth-while in the art of dance while retaining the memory of great ballet classics.


The Organizer of the Lodz Ballet Festival is Lodz Grand Theatre, with generous support from the Regional Government of Lodz.
 

24th Lodz Ballet Festival
under the Honorary Patronage of the Marshal of the Lodzkie Region