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Texas became a home to the first Polish settlers in the United States of America who came to Panna Maria (Karnes County, TX), a settlement founded by Franciscan, Father Leopold Moczygemba in 1854. Over the years, Polish immigrants and their descendants spread to many other places in Texas such as Houston, Bremond, and many others. Some of the most recent immigrants – including the ones who came to the States in the 80s and later, settled in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex area.

Polish choreographers Magdalena Ptasznik and Janusz Orlik will be in residence at Dance/UP Philadelphia and at Chez Bushwick in Brooklyn, NY, continuing an exchange launched in 2012 between Art Stations Foundation by Grazyna Kulczyk at Stary Browar in Poznan in western Poland and Dance/USA in Philadelphia.

May 3, 2013 at the Castle Square in Warsaw, over 200 people were dancing the polonaise with the dancers of the Song and Dance Band from the Warsaw School of Economics.

The folk culture – cheerful dances and familiar songs, provincial anachronism or perhaps the way of emphasizing national identity in a globalized world?