Art supports health

Białystok Cultural Centre and the Cicho Echo Foundation invite you to an event on the occasion of the International Day of Mental Health!

ART SUPPORTS HEALTH

October 9, 2026, 12:00

Forum Cinema, 5 Legionowa Street

Tickets: PLN 20/normal, PLN 10/reduced (pupils and students) — at the box offices of the Forum Cinema and the Ludwik Zamenhof Center and online: bilety.bok.bialystok.pl

In the program of the event:

— dance performance Diptych about health: New biology and C.u.d.fm

— discussion on mental health with psychologist and therapist Julita Śliwińska

Duration of the meeting: 90 min

About the performance:

The cancer cell is not so “new” at all. It remains extremely isolated in its existence. Singleplayer...

The game is in progress. A game about human health.

Who is the man? Is this the oldest, philosophical question really nothing to do with health? What if he has?

Health Diptych: New Biology and C.U.D.FM is a dance talk about health — seen from a different perspective.

A diptych that broadens the view of the human condition.

A diptych that invites reflection.

A diptych that moves.

A diptych that gives hope.

On stage, the body becomes a living ecosystem, and the motif of the cancer cell — a metaphor for loss of balance, rupture of relationships and separation from the whole.

The show invites us to look at health differently — not as a struggle, but as a process of restoring harmony.

The minimalist form, the intensity of movement and sound, and the philosophical narrative create a multidimensional experience that stays with the viewer for a long time.

Creators and creators:

cast: Antonina Maria Dąbrowska, Julia Dondziło, Magdalena Kiszko-Dojlidko, Jarosław Pietka, Szymon Tur

choreography: Julia Dondziło with Antonina Maria Dąbrowska, Jarosław Pietka, Szymon Tur

music: MARMØ Franciszek Jackowski

poster design: Thomas Comby

Realizers and implementers:

coordination: Kasia Kruszewska

lighting design: Bogumił Oleński

sound design: Paweł Mikš

Organizer:

CICHO ECHO Foundation

Partners:

City of Bialystok, Bialystok Cultural Center

Media patrons:

Polskie Radio Białystok, Morning Courier, Gazeta Wochowa, nasasto.pl

The performance was produced as part of the “Art Spaces 2023” program funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance and the artistic scholarship of the Marshal of the Podlaskie Voivodeship awarded to Julia Dondziło for 2023.

The performance received the Robert Paluchowski Award — a team award for the dancers of the performance “Dyptyk o wiu” for “a perfectly performed and suggestive dance, which gave it a hypnotic character and for reflecting philosophical ideas in the movement” (FAMA Festival/August 2025).