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PAST SIMPLE
Dates
26.06.26 / Friday, 20:00
27.06.26 / Saturday, 20:00
Dates
26.06.26 / Friday, 20:00
27.06.26 / Saturday, 20:00
Venue
Duration
45 min.
Trigger warnings
Haze and strobe lighting effects
Contexts
We invite you to the premiere of Past Simple, a project created by residents Alicja Cieryt and Zuzanna Jeglorz at the Polish Dance Theatre as part of the National Institute of Music and Dance programme Dancer in Residence 2025/2026.
Two figures immerse themselves in a space of memories, where objects, gestures, and emotions return like echoes of moments past. The performance is a story about what once was – and what still refuses to leave. The creators examine the nature of sentiment – its strength, its weight, and its fleetingness. They ponder whether clinging to what was allows us to preserve it forever – or whether it instead robs us of space for what is yet to come. „PAST SIMPLE” invites the audience to pause in the fragile moment between holding on and letting go.
✶ 26 June 2026, 8:00 PM PREMIERE
✶ 27 June 2026, 8:00 PM SECOND PERFORMANCE
✶ Polish Dance Theatre, 8 S. Taczaka Street, Poznań
Tickets are now available at bilety24.pl and at the Theatre box office, open Monday to Friday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and one hour before each event.
Polish Dance Theatre
Alicja Cieryt is a dancer and performer working in the field of contemporary dance. She graduated from the BA programme in Contemporary Dance at PERA – School of Performing Arts (Girne American University) in Cyprus (2021–2025). She has taken part in numerous stage productions created within PERA School of Performing Arts, including “Totem” by Daniel Abreu, “Furthest Point” by Jean Abreu, “Memory of Tomorrow” by Marco Di Nardo, “The Far Away People” by Marion Sparber and Alan Fuentes Guerra, and “Puzzle Work” by Anton Lachky. She also appeared in the dance film “The Currency of Time”, choreographed by Brandon Lagaert, and in the performance “Today is Yesterday’s Tomorrow”.
Zuzanna Jeglorz is a dancer, choreographer and dance educator. She graduated from the Acting and Dance Department of the Dance Theatre Faculty in Bytom. She was awarded an Erasmus+ scholarship at Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. As a dancer, she has collaborated with Cracovia Danza Court Ballet, the transmedia collective Transtopia, Eryk Makohon and Olga Bury, among others. Her choreographic works include the dance films “Feeling” and “Vibrations”, as well as the solo projects “Abstraction No. 1” (Special Mention at SoloDuo 2024), “Ashes” (presented at Solo Dance Contest 2025), and the performance “Shadow Side”, developed together with Karolina Stępień.
Choreography, performance: Alicja Cieryt, Zuzanna Jeglorz
Costumes: Alicja Cieryt, Zuzanna Jeglorz, Adriana Cygankiewicz
Music: Robert Chmielowski
Lighting design: Filip Agaciński
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