"Master - Student" - ministerial project
In May, Master Piotr Kulka and his student Filip Laskowski began implementing the scholarship program of the National Institute of Rural Culture and Heritage “Master – Student”.
The key assumption of this project is to preserve the cultural heritage of the inhabitants of the former villages of the city of Poznań, its current districts, which is created by traditional customs, rituals, songs, music, dances and costumes. A heritage that, despite its quantitative and qualitative richness, has not been widely popularized so far, both in Greater Poland and outside of it. Hence the desire to save it from oblivion and present it in an accessible, easy-to-reproduce form, showing the richness of its forms and content.
The May project meetings began with familiarizing the Student with the subregional history, the arrival of German settlers to Poznań, and traditional culture in Poznań. Together with the Master, Filip Laskowski visited the Poznań Bamber Museum, the Cemetery of Górczyn district, saints’ chapels, the Jeżyce district and many other places in Poznań associated with the culture of German settlers.
The next stage of the May meetings was to learn about the systematics of Poznań dances, divided into native and imported ones.
The group of native dances includes:
– wiwaty,
– chodzone,
– marches,
– dances with mazurka rhythms: round, even, kujawiaks, mazurs, etc.,
– ritual dances, including: dance for high len, for urodzaj or dziadk wielki,
– polkas.
A large group of dances performed in the areas of former villages are “newcomers”.
They include:
– wałcerki,
– lendry,
– szocze,
– tyrolinki,
– krakowiaks,
– other dance forms, including dance games, in which in the first part the dancers perform dance movements or gestures related to the text of the song, and the second part is a dance form: wałcerki, szocza or polka.
In May, the Student also became familiar with the most characteristic Poznań dances, which are the wiwaty. Together with the dancers on whom he practiced his skills, he learned the steps and figures characteristic of these dances based on walking, running and jogging.
We invite you to see photos from the implementation of the first stage of the project, as well as a short video summarizing the first month of work of the Master and the Apprentice:
Implemented as part of the scholarship program of the National Institute of Rural Culture and Heritage “Master – Student” from the funds of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
