Lublin Dance Theatre was established in 2001 by Hanna Strzemiecka, the Theatre's first choreographer and artistic director, and Anna Żak, Ryszard Kalinowski and Wojciech Kaproń, members of the Contemporary Dance Group of Lublin University of Technology. This Group has been one of the first, independent contemporary dance theatres in Poland, and after several years from the start of its operation the Group developed its own original style and started to be recognised in Poland and abroad. Thanks to the consistent implementation of their artistic mission a professional dance theatre was established at the Culture Centre in Lublin.

The artistic shape of particular performances is being worked out in the process of individual exploration of each of the theatre's members, who build their own, specific dramaturgy and estetics. In this way the Theatre's repertory is going to consist of works different in style, technique and philosophy.

Lublin Dance Theatre has been undertaking numerous artistic and educational initiatives aiming at promotion of the contemporary dance art, as a means of expression full of intellectual and emotional potency. Special attention is being paid to the cooperation with cultural institutions in Poland and abroad focusing on creating a net of centres promoting contemporary dance through stage presentations,  workshops, lectures, exhibitions, video projections, as well as dance events organised in "non-theatrical" places.