Folk Dance Ensemble Sanok
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Folk Dance Ensemble Sanok (in Polish: Zespół Tańca Ludowego "Sanok") - is one of the regional Polish folk ensembles. It is based in Sanok
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The group was formed in 1993 as a part of then Folk Dance Ensemble Autosan (e. 1960s) and Cultural House in Sanok.
Today the group directed now by Janusz Podkul, still works in a close cooperation with the Sanocki Dom Kultury and promotes regional culture in Poland.
Folk Dance Ensemble is gathering people; schoolchildren, students, and workers who care for their ancestors traditions and who enjoy passing the riches of the cultural heritage of Polish people to younger generations - therefore all of them willingly participate in cultivating these important values.
For more than 50 years of its continuous artistic activity the group Sanok has participated in many international folk feasts and has given a lot of concerts both in Poland or Europe without frontiers and Community in Culture festivals and abroad in the USA, Slovak Republic, Germany, Bulgaria), always presenting the richness of Polish culture and tradition.
Repertoire of Sanok group comprises folk songs and dances mainly from the Pogorzans
and the Lachy Sądeckie
homelands, but there are some songs and dances from Carpathian Mountains
, the Masovians
country and other parts of Poland as well.
Sanok
Sanok is a town in south-eastern Poland with 39,110 inhabitants, as of 2 June 2009. It's the capital of Sanok County in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship. Previously, it was in the Krosno Voivodeship and in the Ruthenian Voivodeship , which was part of the Lesser Poland province...
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The group was formed in 1993 as a part of then Folk Dance Ensemble Autosan (e. 1960s) and Cultural House in Sanok.
Today the group directed now by Janusz Podkul, still works in a close cooperation with the Sanocki Dom Kultury and promotes regional culture in Poland.
Folk Dance Ensemble is gathering people; schoolchildren, students, and workers who care for their ancestors traditions and who enjoy passing the riches of the cultural heritage of Polish people to younger generations - therefore all of them willingly participate in cultivating these important values.
For more than 50 years of its continuous artistic activity the group Sanok has participated in many international folk feasts and has given a lot of concerts both in Poland or Europe without frontiers and Community in Culture festivals and abroad in the USA, Slovak Republic, Germany, Bulgaria), always presenting the richness of Polish culture and tradition.
Repertoire of Sanok group comprises folk songs and dances mainly from the Pogorzans
Pogórzanie
Pogórzanie , also known as Western Pogorzans and Eastern Pogorzans, are a distinctive subethnic group of Poles that mostly live in the Central Beskidian Range of the Podkarpacie highlands....
and the Lachy Sądeckie
Lachy Sądeckie
Lachy Sądeckie are a group of ethnic Poles who live in southern Lesser Poland. They are associated with the territory of Sądecczyzna , especially Nowy Sącz County, Kotlina Sądecka, and parts of Pogórze Karpackie and Beskid Sądecki.Lachy is the plural of Lach, a term for ethnic Poles...
homelands, but there are some songs and dances from Carpathian Mountains
Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc roughly long across Central and Eastern Europe, making them the second-longest mountain range in Europe...
, the Masovians
Masovians
The Masovians or Mazovians are a Lechitic tribe or an ethnic group associated with the region of Mazovia. They were first referenced by Nestor the Chronicler in the 11th century. Originally, their main settlements were in the area of Płock, Łomża, Wizna, Czersk, Ciechanów, Płońsk, Zakroczym and...
country and other parts of Poland as well.