LDT was established at the Culture Centre in Lublin in 2001. During 5th International Lublin Dance Theatres Festival they presented their first premiere “Optical treaty” (chor. Hanna Strzemiecka), which was also awarded with a special prize on XIV International Festival of Contemporary Choreography in Vitebsk (Belarus) in 2001.
Lublin Dance Theatre took part in international festivals in Graz, Eisenhuettenstadt, Kaunus, Yaroslavl, Kalisz, Bytom and Cracow.
The Theatre also received a prize on Łódzkie Spotkania Teatralne 2002.
CONTEMPORARY DANCE GROUP OF LUBLIN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITYCDGLTU has performed at dance festivals in Poland (Bytom, Warszawa, Sanok, Zielona Góra, Gdańsk, Białystok, Poznań, Kraków, Łódź) and abroad (Switzerland, France, Holland, Lithuania, Hungary, Tunisia, Belarus, Finland, Germany, Austria).
The Group was a recipient of the main awards of the International Presentations of Contemporary Dance Forms in Kalisz for five subsequent years. In 2000 the Group was awarded for the aspects of theatre research in their choreographies at the International Festival of University Theatres in Monastir, Tunisia and in 2001 they got a prize on Łódzkie Spotkania Teatralne.
Since 1997 CDGLTU has been a co-organiser of annual International Lublin Dance Theatres Festival.
MISSION STATEMENTIn their artistic research Lublin Dance Theatre and Contemporary Dance Group of Lublin Technical University concentrate on two domains.