The premiere of the Polish Dance Theatre - Poznań Balet, "Battle between Carnival and Lent", evokes respect. At a time of the cutting down of funds for culture, of impossibility and of shocking with scandal - something that is simple and beautiful about man, ordinary, average, entangled in his weaknesses, fears, imperfections, and rather not prone to remorse for his sins, jointly created by the Poznań artists and jointly organized by the Academy of Music and the National Museum. The imagination, courage and tenacity of Ewa Wycichowska made possible the realisation of this enterprise. (...) The unseating of the audience from comfortable chairs, the placing of it within the field of play and the mixing of it with the dancers results in the spectator turning from voyeur and viewer into co-participant. We must make choices about what to watch, whether to stand in one place or to walk about amongst the platforms on which the dancers battle with their own bodies and their partners; attempt to see while remaining in a state of constant uncertainty as to whether something vital has not escaped us. (...) The dancers give way to each other on the four metal platforms, enter into the crowd and emerge from it; they are with us, they are one with the mass of humanity - sinful, funny, threatening, fettered by passions, bounded by what appears to them to be happiness and freedom of choice, and what excess, covetousness, uncleanliness, laziness. (...) This performance is not so much about sin and God as about giving up the effort of inner voyaging. We are not looking for the truth about ourselves. "Too frequently, to paraphrase words spoken in the performance, we take the easy and familiar road. After all many roads lead to truth and this is understood by the creators of the Battle between Carnival and Lent for they avoid simple moralisation. Life is after all an eternal dance of Lent with Carnival.

Izabela Przyłuska, "Gazeta Malarzy i Poetów", I/2002.