A few steps across the road, Warsaw Ballet School provides the National Ballet with fodder in the form of eager students. Earning – and retaining – a place at the school is tough.
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Symbol of Soviet Stalinist power, of the reconstruction of the city following the devastation of the uprising, and the most iconic building in Warsaw. The Palace of Culture.
From the ashes of the Warsaw Uprising, there was built the largest theatre in the world. The Grand Theatre, a monumental reconstruction project, became home to the Warsaw Ballet, today renamed the Polish National Ballet. The influence of the Soviet Union in the rebuilding at the same time as the Stalinist style Palace of Culture,…