This exhibition is a core event of Performing Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe, a performing arts festival marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of Communism in Europe, presented by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in partnership with key New York City cultural organizations and academic institutions, November 2009 - March 2010. It examines how performances attempted to break boundaries set by the communist state's cultural politicians and censors, and focuses on theater, music, and dance events that contested the prevailing totalitarian regime and anticipated the forthcoming political and social changes. As the revolutions in most Soviet bloc countries were not the result of a violent overtherow of power, art was one of the main arenas where "the revolution" started to happen.
Poland is represented with materials from the 1980s that document activities of the Theatre of the Eighth Day, Provisorium Theatre, Orange Alternative happenings, performances by Kazimierz Braun, the role of the church in alternative theatre, as well as music groups like Dezerter and Kult, and other important phenomena such as the Jarocin Festival.
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