After a one-year break, Cracovians will again be able to admire the great dragon show in the bend of the Vistula River. The jubilee Great Parade of Dragons will take place on September 11 in a new, environmentally friendly formula. “Radically reduced noise, biodegradable, low and medium pyrotechnics that will not affect the environment” – says Adolf Weltschek, director of the Groteska Theater.
The traditions are coming back, even in COVID times
The colorful march of dragons and the evening pyrotechnic, light, and laser dragon spectacle is a tradition that has been attracting not only the youngest to Wawel for two decades. For 20 years, the Groteska Theater project has been enriched with new attractions and effects, picnics and competitions have joined the Great Dragon Parade.
During this period, the show was watched by over a million people, states Adolf Weltschek, the originator and director of the Great Dragon Parade.
The pandemic postponed the Jubilee by 1 year
Last year, the 20th-anniversary “Dragons” was to be the largest parade that took place so far – “the best of Parada”, where the most spectacular creatures were to appear with an extraordinary pyrotechnic, light and laser spectacle. These plans were thwarted by a pandemic, but after a year-long break, the dragons will not return to the Vistula until September, but, as the director of the show announces, it should be spectacular.
“Usually, the Great Parade of Dragons was held in 2 parts, this year there will be no day part, i.e. the great march of dragons through the streets of Krakow. We regret it very much, but the pandemic has prevented schools and kindergartens from being able to take part in the parade, explains Adolf Weltschek. On another hand, we managed to organize a great show on the Vistula. In a traditional shape, providing great effects and a spectacular experience as usual, albeit with some changes”.
Adolf Weltschek
The Jubilee will be celebrated on 11th September
The jubilee screening will take place on September 11 at 22.00. The most important attraction of the evening will be, as every year, huge flying dragons, animated on barges and ships by actors of the Groteska Theater. In addition to the flying and floating creatures known from previous editions, new ones, specially prepared for this occasion, will appear on the Vistula during the show.
This year’s dragon show will be environmentally friendly, thanks to a new type of pyrotechnics used in the show, which is completely biodegradable.
“At least 75 percent pyrotechnics, which we will use during the show on the Vistula, is the so-called “Silence pyrotechnics”, which does not emit as many decibels as traditional explosive pyrotechnics – so the nuisance when it comes to noise will be radically reduced. It will be low and medium pyrotechnics, not significantly influencing the space where the show will take place”
explains the director of Groteska
Vaccinated people only?
The dragon show will take place in a sanitary regime, in line with the current restrictions.
“People who want to watch the show in the space designated for the public will be asked to voluntarily declare to the security staff that they have been vaccinated – explains the director of Groteska. “It doesn’t mean, of course, that other people won’t be able to see the Dragons.” Unvaccinated viewers or those who do not want to declare will be able to take their seats in the part that is not the area of the mass spectacle.
explains the director of Groteska
Originally the Great Dragon Parade was announced for September 4, the date change, Weltschek explains, was dictated by technical conditions.
Read here the article in Gazeta Krakowska, in the Polish language.
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