For the evening performance "No One Can Hold Us Back" we have invited the renowned Irish choreographer Marguerite Donlon, who served as the ballet director of Saarländisches Staatstheater for 12 years; Anne Jung from Germany, the 2021 Dysart Prize winner for promising choreographers; and Katarzyna Kozielska, a Polish artist who has been successfully creating choreographies for prominent ballet stages worldwide for over a decade.

Donlon will present her choreography "To the Moon and Back," inspired by the heroines of Helmut Newton's photographs—tall, slender, and confident. The other two choreographers will create new works specifically for the Poznań Opera Ballet.

"No One Can Hold Us Back" offers a vision of femininity encompassing strength and freedom, courage and emotion, subtlety and dynamism. The title, a paraphrase of a quote from a poem by Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917–1944), intuitively unites the diverse choreographic creations of Donlon, Jung, and Kozielska, inspiring audiences to explore the broadest possible contexts.

„To the Moon and Back”

Marguerite Donlon – Choreography and Concept

Paul Calderone – Assistant Choreographer

Thomas Lempertz – Costumes

Jürgen Franz Kirner – Set Design

Mariella von Vequel-Westernach – Lighting Designer

Arkadiusz Gumny - Assistant Choreographer

„Self”

Katarzyna Kozielska – Choreography

Diana Marszałek – Costumes and Set Design

Mariella von Vequel-Westernach – Lighting Designer

Agnieszka Wolna, Arkadiusz Gumny -  Assistant Choreographers

„Ashes”

Anne Jung – Choreography

Diana Marszałek – Costumes and Set Design

Wiktor Kuźma – Lighting Designer

Agnieszka Wolna - Assistant Choreographer

The Poznań Opera House is carrying out the project titled "Production of the ballet premiere "No One Can Hold Us Back" using innovative equipment and graphic software in the theater’s painting studio – technical facilities of the Poznań Opera House,” as part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, funded by the European Union’s NextGenerationEU program.