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WHY A MUSICAL? “ <strong>THE</strong> DANCING” PHENOMENON<br />
The story as well as the characters created a natural environment for a musical. The entire<br />
movie is set in a world of music, in a vibrating rhythm of dance halls called “dancings” in<br />
Poland in 1980ies and the life of our protagonists concentrates around music and singing. The<br />
Polish title of the film is “The daughters of the dancing” and the word “dancing” in Polish<br />
referred to a special kind of dance hall-restaurants back in the80ies. Live acts were playing<br />
Boney M, Donna Summer and Bee Gees covers, people used to gather in two rounds, after 5 and<br />
10 pm. To have a snack, to drink vodka or both. Office secretaries, engineers, managers, you<br />
name it. It was a sort of entertainment that disappeared instantly once Poland welcomed<br />
capitalism.<br />
The music and lyrics were written for this film by the sisters Zuzanna and Barbara Wronski<br />
who are actually two big personalities of the Polish independent music scene. Their aim was to<br />
recreate the atmosphere of entertainment in the 80ies in Poland but also show it through the<br />
eyes and sensitivity of a child.<br />
The biggest challenge that dance halls back then set for themselves was to create the perfect<br />
cover of a well-known song hence in the film we can hear the biggest Polish hits as well as the<br />
evergreen “I feel love” by Donna Summer. In the movie we can also hear the punk-rock tune<br />
“Colours” by the legendary band Post Regiment as well as “Chronus” by Billy Chase.<br />
This makes the film set even more in the reality of the 80ies and 90ies and builds a more<br />
credible atmosphere of the music scene back then.
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