MEMENTO MORI DANCE CLUB

In the phrases of the devotional songs sung until recently in the Polish lowlands resonate polonaises and mazurs. These musical forms used to accompany dancing and later became the musical layer of religious texts of more or less known poets. Many of the songs were arranged by folk artists, now anonymous, who composed melodies that reveal the idiom characteristic for dance-orientated music-making. The Memento Mori Dance Club project seeks out contexts and circumstances in which both, seemingly contradictory, layers – instrumental dancing music and contemplative religious texts – can coexist.