Janusz Prusinowski Kompania

Students and continuators of the work of village musicians – Jan Lewandowski, Kaziemierz Meto, Józef Zaraś, Piotr and Jan Gaca, and many others – and an avant-garde formation with a characteristic sound and their own language of improvisation. They combine music with dance, concert tours in Poland and abroad with educational activities. The band was started in 2007.

Kompania’s style, recognizable from the very first sound, is an attempt at a personal reading of the key elements of village music from Central Poland. The core of their repertoire are the mazurkas and obers – sung, played, improvised, and still topical. It also includes chodzonys, kujawiaks, kujons, wiwats, polkas, powolniaks, waltzes, and various “figure” dances. Dances makes music visible, tangible, and understandable, so having dancers around is a natural situation for the band. Apart from concerts (which often also include dancing), the band plays at village dances and at city Dance Clubs.

They released the following records: Mazurki (2008), Serce (2010), Po kolana w Niebie (2013), Kujawska Atlantyda (2016) – with the band Warszawa Wschodnia, Po śladach (2018). In the years 2023-2024, as part of the publishing cycle Cztery Domy Słońca (four homes of the Sun) they released four records for kids and their families – Zima, Wiosna, Lato, Jesień (winter, spring, summer, autumn). Janusz Prusinowski and Piotr Piszczatowski were among the founders of the dance house movement in Poland, they also co-created the Mazurkas of the World Festival.