Zespół pieśni i tańca Śląsk 2

Coming back to the topic. I told here the story to encourage you to find something out about polish culture. I'm sure that many other people think that folklore is not an interesting thing. That it's out of date and fit museum only. I'd like to draw your attention to how mistaken these opinions are. I think that folklore has a lot of things which are worth to discover. Music, dance and clothes, in my opinion are great and told us a lot about polish history, how people used to wear, how they used to spend their free time. It reminds polish people where do they come from and how do their ancestors looked like. It reminds of tradition.

The group Śląsk in my opinion is amazing and really worth seeing. The dance technique is on the highest level (no wonder, most dancers have graduated from ballet schools). The performance is wonderful. Costumes are prepared in every small detail, this is the art on the highest level. I have a great respect for Śląsk. So, I think, this is very sad that the tickets on their performance are gave out for free. With all this great preparation and great message, the message of polish culture and tradition the group definitely deserves for something more.

Thanks for reading !

Zespół pieśni i tańca Śląsk

I have no idea how to translate it into english. It will be probably something like "Song and dance group Śląsk", but I don't really know.  I don't want to zoom in the history of the group, I just want to share here my feelings about it. Last year, on june, my aunt received three tickets on a performance of Śląsk. She got it for free, and you know how you feel about things which you get for free, they should be kind of "not interesting" since nobody bought the tickets.

I have to be honest. I always like folk culture, music, clothes, I think this is very beautiful. But when I was thinking about dance group of folk, I was always perceived theme as amators who can follow only super easy steps, not really complex choreography and with not really good technique. Generally, they are mainly prepared to give a concert for country parties where people (I think) don't care so much about the quality of the performance. It should be nice, cheerful and colourful, and that satisfy theme enough. People in the city look for more 'entertaining' performance, mostly young people.

So having mixed feeling, I went on the concert, took my seat and was waiting for a group who's gonna be not really well-prepared, not really professional, just nice to look at, let's say. And after one hour I found out how wrong I had been ! The performance was amazing, I have to say, everything in it. Dancers, costumes, music, everything. I felled in love, totally. I came back home, and at once, I signed up for the workshops which are organised by Śląsk. By the way, ther're lovely as well. (Next part in the next post)

Styledigger

Hi!
Today I want to write a post about one of my favourite blog. It is Styledigger who's owner is Joanna Glogaza. At the beggining the blog took up the subject connected mainly with fashion. The blogger made outfits which she presented online and shortly describe theme. This kind of blogging is  nowadays very popular in Poland and in the world. When girls or boys promoted their sites very well they can profit from a big fame and even from the great amount of money. Coming back to Styledigger, the owner after two years of blogging decided to change a little bit the subject and started writing about other things which made the blog more kind of lifestyle.

Blog contains posts about travel, where the author tells readers about trips she took, she describes places, shows photos taken by herself and just encourage to go there(:

We can read there a lot of about new lifestyles which are called "slow life" and "slow fashion". The author is a big fan of these and she places a lot of  posts related to these topics. She focuses mainly on slow fashion, she talks about problem of massive production, bad quality of clothes and bad qualities of work people who works in a factory. She also gives a lot of life's advices, how to live happier, how to live calmer how to slow down and feel more relaxed in life.

The last thing I want to mention about is a selection of the most interesting things on internet called Hatifnaty which she uploades once a week or two weeks. I think this is great because me myself, I don't really like spending much time surfing on internet and looking for sth interesting. This is very tiring and I'm not patient for this. But on the other hand I always feel like I'm losing a lot because of it, and that on Internet I can find many surprising things and it's a pity to loose this occasion. So I always check this selection and feel satisfied and calm.

I really recommend this blog ! (;
(every photo goes from the blog styledigger)

Fred Astaire

Hi! Today I'm going to tell you something about Fred Astaire. I'm not sure if he's well-known nowadays, but I think he's worth meeting. So let's start!

Fred Astaire was born in 1899 in Omaha. Fred began his adventure with a stage at age 7, when together with his sister Adele they started training at the Alviene Master School of the Theatre and Academy of Cultural Arts in New York City. Soon, they began to perform at a stage. They performed as a pair to 1932. They appeared many times at the stage of Broadway and the stage of London.

After Adele's leaving Fred started to build his own success. He's continuing to act at the Broadway's stage and start to consider many offers from Hollywood. His Hollywood debut was the successful musical film Dancing lady, where he appeard as himself dancing with Joan Crawford. After that he played roles in movies like Flying Down to Rio with Ginger Rogers, The Gay Divorcee, Swing Time, Shall We Dance which gave him the status of a star.

Fred Astaires is mostly known as an actor and dancer. His dance style is a combination of step, ballet and ballroom dancing. His very early practise helped him to be one of the best-known dancer in the history. His movement was very natural and comes to him without an effort. It was prized for its elegance, grace, originality, and precision. He took an inspiration from variety of influences, even black rhythms. Fred always prepared his choreography very precisely, he was practising for a long time, even a shorter act. He could retake the set even for 100 times to be satisfied with it. The most important for him was a technique of dance.

He was a great inspiration for a lot of noted dancers like Sammy Davis, Jr., Michael Jackson and Mikhail Baryshnikov. He is also remembered for his unique style. He's a remarkable artist. (check out his video click :))

Positive impact of dance

Hi ! Now something totally diffrent from the first post. I want to talk about DANCE.
So, mainly I want to focus on a positive impact which dance can provide. But I can share here also some of my experience.

I have been dancing for 6 years now and I have to say this is my big hobby. I love dancing, and I can't  exactly tell you why, it's some king of internal call which cause that I have to dance, I just need it :)
What does dance give me ? Firstly, it helps me to relax, I just switch off the mode 'thinking about life's matters' and change it to 'listen to music and rest' (sounds quite strange) I'm entering a new world which is filled with music. Secondly, feeling the music! A lot of people who practise dancing saying things like 'I love dancing because in that way I can show and express my emotions' Well, this is not my sense of feeling. When I say 'I feel the music' I really feel it! I forget about what emotions I express or what I look like, I'm just dancing and let my body forget about limits (perhaps I can say that emotion I show is pure happiness!) The third thing I love about dancing is that this is a discipline of sport, and I do like sport. I like moving, I can't sit in one place. I have to tire myself to be happier and dance is perfect to me in that way because it connects music, art and sport in one discipline (brilliant!)

So, coming back to the statement: Positive impact of dance. It is said that dance is very very very healthy for the whole body. Starts from the muscles, which we develop through dancing  (we are in a good shape, we are slim) and finish at our brain ! Yes, this is true, because when we're dancing we have to use our brain to remember a lot of steps which our sometimes very complicated. That's how we stimulate it and develop it ! It is said that dance prevents from fall ill on many diseases like for example Alzheimer disease ! And what is the most important, dance just make us happy :)


So, LET' DANCE !

Roman Polański

Hi! Till now I haven't found any interesting topic which I can show here so I decided to do some kind of warm-up and start up with post about Roman Polański, the great director, artist and a person.

Roman Polański was born in 18 August 1933 in Paris.
When he was 4 his parents ( both jewish) decided to come back to Kraków to protect the family from anti-Semitic moods which rised in Paris because of the fascism. Roman lived in Poland when the World War II began. He deeply experienced the Holocaust, he spent some time in the ghetto, next in the Auschwitz. He survived, but he had lost his mother and his family and life never look the same.

He attended National Film School in Łódź and he made progress very qucikly. Soon, still being a student, he directed his first great movie Knife in the water. He was very talented and always 
very interested in movies and acting.

He was married three times. Currently with Emmanuelle Seigner, a singer and actress, with whom he has two children. His most recognisable movies are The pianist, for which he won the Oscar for Directing, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby and Frantic.
Nowedays he lives in Paris with his wife and children and despite his age he still works and produces films. There is a gossip that he's going to direct a movie set in Kraków... We will see !

Roman Polański is such an interesting person and he had so many plots in his life that I should write a book to might say everything. Personally I think he's a great person, who experienced a lot in his life. I'm always impressed by him when I look what person he is and how much he achieved despite his past. I think that polish and Poland can be very proud of him. He's a star and legend in one person.

Thanks for reading !